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  • Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective

    Edited by Eugene N. White, Kenneth Snowden, Price Fishback ...
    Series series National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    The central role of the housing market in the recent recession raised a series of questions about similar episodes throughout economic history. Were the underlying causes of housing and mortgage crises the same in earlier episodes? Has the onset and spread of crises changed over time? How have previous policy interventions either damaged or improved long-run market performance and stability?This ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Economic History of War

    Edited by Jari Eloranta, Jeremy Land, Elina Kuorelahti, Price Fishback ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Economic History
    The Routledge Economic History of War presents a broad overview of the latest research on the long‑lasting changes and effects that collapsing security in international relations has had on the world’s economies and societies.Arranged around five key themes – Fiscal and Military Capacity, Military Spending, Economic Effects of War, War and Institutions, and Business and War – this handbook ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The New Lombard Street

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  • Slouching Towards Utopia

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    by J. Bradford DeLong ...
    **This instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world’s leading economists offers a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, but left us unsatisfied.“A magisterial history.” —Paul KrugmanNamed a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times * Economist * Fast Company**Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset ... Read more

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  • The Financial Crisis of Our Time

    by Robert W. Kolb ...
    Series series Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis
    In 2006 residential real estate prices peaked and started to fall, then threatened the world's financial institutions in 2007, and confronted the global economy with disaster in 2008. In the past few years, millions of people have lost very substantial portions of their wealth. And while the markets have rebounded considerably, they are still far from a full recovery. Now, professional economists, ... Read more

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  • The Commanding Heights

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    by Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw ...
    The Commanding Heights is about the most powerful political and economic force in the world today -- the epic struggle between government and the marketplace that has, over the last twenty years, turned the world upside down and dramatically transformed our lives. Now, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize joins with a leading expert on the new marketplace to explain the revolution in ... Read more

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    Why Europe's Markets Will Outperform the US in the Coming Years

    by David R. Kotok, Vincenzo Sciarretta ...
    An insider's guide to investing in EuropeWith the U.S. market in shambles, investors are looking for other places to put their money. Europe has become the destination of choice, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.Using the different perspectives of an author who lives in Europe and an author who lives in the United States, Invest in Europe Now! is one the most informative guides ... Read more

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  • Kicking Away the Ladder

    Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

    by Ha-Joon Chang ...
    How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. Adopting a historical approach, Dr Chang finds that the economic evolution of now-developed countries differed dramatically ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Housing Bubbles

    The Role of Household and Bank Balance Sheets in Modeling Economic Cycles

    by Steven D. Gjerstad, Vernon L. Smith ...
    In this highly original piece of work, Steven D. Gjerstad and Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith analyze the role of housing and its associated mortgage financing as a key element of economic cycles. The authors combine data from both laboratory and real markets to provide insight into the bubble propensity of real-world economic actors and use novel historical analysis on the Great Recession, the ... Read more

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    by Stephen D. King ...
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  • What Caused the Financial Crisis

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Consequently, one might think that uncovering the origins of subprime lending would make the root causes of the crisis obvious. That is essentially where public debate about the causes of the crisis began—and ended—in the month following the ... Read more

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