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  • Beyond Banks

    A Global History of Credit Markets and Intermediation

    Edited by Christiaan van Bochove, Juliette Levy ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Scholars of credit markets have long focused on banks, but pre-modern as well as modern economies often relied on non-bank credit. This edited volume brings together international examples from across history that highlight how guilds, innkeepers, moneylenders, notaries, networks of family members and friends, and religious institutions – among others – mobilized credit before and even along banks ... Read more

    $197.09 USD

  • The Making of a Market

    Credit, Henequen, and Notaries in Yucatán, 1850–1900

    by Juliette Levy ...
    During the nineteenth century, Yucatán moved effectively from its colonial past into modernity, transforming from a cattle-ranching and subsistence-farming economy to a booming export-oriented agricultural economy. Yucatán and its economy grew in response to increasing demand from the United States for henequen, the local cordage fiber. This henequen boom has often been seen as another regional ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • The Ascent of Money

    A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    **The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency"[An] excellent, just in time guide to the history of finance and financial crisis." —The Washington Post"Fascinating." —Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek**In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Great Leveler

    Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

    by Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Money Changes Everything

    How Finance Made Civilization Possible

    by William N. Goetzmann, William N. Goetzmann ...
    "[A] magnificent history of money and finance."—New York Times Book Review"Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."—Financial TimesIn the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something that destroys fortunes and jobs, and undermines governments and banks. In Money Changes Everything, leading financial historian ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • As Gods Among Men

    A History of the Rich in the West

    by Guido Alfani ...
    **"In this masterly book, [Alfani] offers an insightful long-run perspective and fascinating lessons for the future. A must-read!"—Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyA sweeping narrative that shows how the rich historically justified themselves by helping their societies in times of crisis, why they no longer do, and what that may mean for social stability**The rich have ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • The Great Wave : Price Revolutions And The Rhythm Of History

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling an astonishing array of historical facts in lucid and compelling prose to outline a history of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Reckoning

    Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations

    by Jacob Soll ...
    A “brilliant” (Los Angeles Review of Books) history of accounting, showing how financial and political accountability has shaped the rise and fall of nations and empiresWhether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state's assets and guide its policies. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue

    Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages

    by Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod ...
    An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the agesGovernments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts—and, in repressing it, ended ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Money Beyond Borders

    Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto

    by Barry Eichengreen ...
    A 2,500-year history of international currencies that reveals new insights about the future of the U.S. dollar—as well as crypto and central bank digital currenciesDoubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction, and fraying international alliances. Will the dollar continue to reign supreme? In Money Beyond Borders, the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Great Wave

    Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling an astonishing array of historical facts in lucid and compelling prose to outline a history of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Evolution of Money

    by David Orrell, Roman Chlupatý ...
    The sharing economy's unique customer-to-company exchange is possible because of the way in which money has evolved. These transactions have not always been as fluid as they are today, and they are likely to become even more fluid. It is therefore critical that we learn to appreciate money's elastic nature as deeply as do Uber, Airbnb, Kickstarter, and other innovators, and that we understand ... Read more

    $35.99 USD