The Best Economic History Books 2025

1. Sciences Sociales: Peluches Et Velours: Tarare, Roanne, Metz, Pont--Mousson, Meyzieu, Paris Et Lyon: Expos (Paperback)

Peluches et velours J.-B. Martin: Tarare, Roanne, Metz, Pont-à-Mousson, Meyzieu, Paris et Lyon: exposé, organisation, développements depuis 1867 / signé A. Dubu Date de l'édition originale: 1873 Appartient à l'ensemble documentaire: RhoneAlp1 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande. Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables. Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique. Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr

Sciences Sociales: Peluches Et Velours: Tarare, Roanne, Metz, Pont-À-Mousson, Meyzieu, Paris Et Lyon: Exposé (Paperback)

2. 1929: The Year of the Great Crash [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The year 1929 saw both the peak of roaring-'20s prosperity and the stock market collapse that led to the Great Depression, when a third of the U.S. work force was unemployed. With vivid narrative and anecdotal profiles of such diverse characters as Herbert Hoover, Al Capone, Joseph P. Kennedy, the Marx Brothers, F. Scott Fitzgerald and J. P. Morgan, Klingaman ( 1919 ; 1941 ) shows that the same "mob psychology" that "had borne the bull market to irrational heights" eventually dragged stock prices far below inherent value. RCA, for example, plunged from 110 to 26. Ostentatious wealth, Prohibition gang wars, deadly labor suppression, political corruption, bank and brokerage wipeouts and margin-loan suicides: all are seen here as part of an economic and government failure that preceded the rise of Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1929: The Year of the Great Crash, Used [Paperback]

3. The Great Depression, 1929 - 1938 : Lessons for the 1980's, Used [Hardcover]

Economists as diverse in approach as Lord Keynes and Milton Friedman have analyzed the causes of the Great Depression, and their answers have ranged from underconsumption to failings in monetary policy. In Part 1 of "The Great Depression," Christian Saint-Etienne compares these theories with economic statistics for the interwar period and adds a further explanation: a collapse in international trade initiated by the Hawley-Smoot Tariff in the United States. Part 2 studies the economic history of the 1970s and the early 1980s to assess the likelhood of a depression in the 1980s. Among the author's recommendations for preventing a recurrence are free trade, reform of the international banking system, and coordination of the monetary policies of the major industrial nations.

The Great Depression, 1929 - 1938 : Lessons for the 1980's, Used [Hardcover]

4. Hope Among Us Yet: Social Criticism and Social Solace in Depression America [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Hope Among Us Yet: Social Criticism and Social Solace in Depression America by David P. Peeler

Hope Among Us Yet: Social Criticism and Social Solace in Depression America, Used [Hardcover]

5. Break up the Banks! : A Practical Guide to Stopping the Next Global Financial Meltdown, Used [Paperback]

Break Up The Banks! is a sensible, actionable and totally accessible call to arms from an acclaimed financial journalist. It's been seven years since the financial crisis, but has anyone taken real action to prevent the next one? Former Economist reporter David Shirreff thinks not, and in Break Up The Banks!, he gives us a short but essential guide to what exactly we can do. With great clarity and a keen sense of humour, Shirreff argues that banks have gotten far too big and far too powerful - and shows how they can be reined in.

Break up the Banks! : A Practical Guide to Stopping the Next Global Financial Meltdown, Used [Paperback]

6. Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. In 1964, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a momentous policy decision. In response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Union, a top-secret massive military industrial complex in the mountains of inland China was built, which the CCP hoped to keep hidden from enemy bombers. Mao named this the Third Front. The Third Front received more government investment than any other developmental initiative of the Mao era, and yet this huge industrial war machine, which saw the mobilization of fifteen million people, was not officially acknowledged for over a decade and a half. Drawing on a rich collection of archival documents, memoirs, and oral interviews, Covell Meyskens provides the first history of the Third Front campaign. He shows how the militarization of Chinese industrialization linked millions of everyday lives to the global Cold War, merging global geopolitics with local change.

Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China, Used [Hardcover]

7. Pre-Owned The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World), 9780691175805, 0691175802, Paperback, Revised edition

9780691175805. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Revised ed. Language: English. Pages: 784. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 784 p. Contains: Illustrations. Princeton Economic History of the Western World, 70. In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, The Rise and Fall of American Growth challenges the view that economic growth will continue unabated, and demonstrates that the life-altering scale of innovations between 1870 and 1970 cannot be repeated. Gordon contends that the nation's productivity growth will be further held back by the headwinds of rising inequality, stagnating education, an aging population, and the rising debt of college students and the federal government, and that we must find new solutions. A critical voice in the most pressing debates of our time, The Rise and Fall of American Growth is at once a tribute to a century of radical change and a harbinger of tougher times to come.

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8. Modern Capitalism: The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power (Royal Institute of International Affairs) [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Modern Capitalism: The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power (Royal Institute of International Affairs) by Shonfield, Andrew

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9. George Washington, Entrepreneur: How Our Founding Father's Private Business Pursuits Changed America and the World [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. A business biography of George Washington, focusing on his many innovations and inventions. George Washington: general, statesman...businessman? Most people don't know that Washington was one of the country's first true entrepreneurs, responsible for innovations in several industries. In George Washington, Entrepreneur , John Berlau presents a fresh, surprising take on our forefather's business pursuits. History has depicted Washington as a gifted general and political pragmatist, not an intellectual heavyweight. But he was a patron of inventors and inveterate tinkerer, and just as intelligent as Jefferson or Franklin. His library was filled with books on agriculture, history, and philosophy. He was the first to breed horses with donkeys to produce the American mule. On his estate, he grew countless varieties of trees and built a greenhouse full of exotic fruits, herbs, and plants. Unlike his Virginia neighbors who remained wedded to tobacco, Washington planted seven types of wheat. His state-of-the-art mill produced flour which he exported to Europe in sacks stamped G. Washington--one of the very first branded food products. Mount Vernon was also home to a distillery and became one of the largest American whiskey producers of the era. Berlau's portrait of Washington, drawn in large part from his journals and extensive correspondence, presents a side of him we haven't seen before. It is sure to delight readers of presidential biography and business history.

George Washington, Entrepreneur: How Our Founding Father's Private Business Pursuits Changed America and the World, Used [Hardcover]

10. Economics and History: Surveys in Cliometrics, Used [Paperback]

Economics and History presents six state-of-the-art surveys from some of the leading scholars in cliometrics. The contributions are all written at an accessible level for the non-specialist reader and consider a broad range of issues from this highly topical area. Written clearly and comprehensively, allowing easy accessibility for the non-specialist reader Brings together the very latest research in this highly topical subject from leading scholars Contributions cover a broad range of areas within this subject The latest publication in the highly successful Surveys of Recent Research in Economics Book Series

Economics and History : Surveys in Cliometrics, Used [Paperback]