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Penguin Putnam Inc Americas Bank
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Great Degeneration How Institutions Decay and
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, a searching and provocative examination of the widespread institutional rot that threatens our collective futureWhat causes rich countries to lose their way? Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations, antisocial behavior. But what exactly has gone wrong? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues in The Great Degeneration, is that our institutions—the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail—are degenerating. With characteristic verve and historical insight, Ferguson analyzes the causes of this stagnation and its profound consequences for the future of the West. The Great Degeneration is an incisive indictment of an era of negligence and complacency—and to arrest the breakdown of our civilization, Ferguson warns, will take heroic
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OUP India Shrimp to Whale
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The University of Chicago Press Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical
Book SynopsisThe role of the housing market in the recent recession raised questions about similar episodes in economic history. Were the underlying causes of housing and mortgage crises the same in earlier episodes? This volume provides context for understanding events by examining how historical housing and mortgage markets worked - and sometimes failed.
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The University of Chicago Press Hayek on Mill 16
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University of Chicago Press Shareholder Democracies
Book SynopsisOffers an account of the development of corporate governance in Britain and Ireland during its earliest stages highlights the role of political factors in shaping the evolution of corporate governance as well as the important debates that arose about the division of authority and responsibility.
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University of Chicago Press Capital and Interest
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The University of Chicago Press The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy
Book SynopsisSynthesizing a range of scholarship, this work traces the history of Japanese trade over four centuries and locates the sources of Japan's commercial and financial strengths in events that began in the 16th century.
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The University of Chicago Press Selling Power Economics Policy and Electric
Book SynopsisWe remember Thomas Edison as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, but he deserves credit for something much larger, an even more singular invention that profoundly changed the way the world works: the modern electric utility industry. Edison's light bulb was the first to work within a system where a utility generated electricity and distributed it to customers for lighting. The story of how electric utilities went within one generation from prototype to an indispensable part of most Americans' lives is a story about the relationships between political and technological change. John L. Neufeld offers a comprehensive historical treatment of the economics that shaped electric utilities. Compared with most industries, the organization of the electric utility industry is not and cannot be economically efficient. Most industries are kept by law in a state of fair competition, but the capital necessary to start an electric company generators, transmission and distribution systems, and
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The University of Chicago Press Sovereign of the Market
Book SynopsisWhat should serve as money, who should control its creation and circulation, and according to what rules? For more than two hundred years, the money question shaped American social thought, becoming a central subject of political debate and class conflict. Sovereign of the Market reveals how and why this happened. Jeffrey Sklansky's wide-ranging study comprises three chronological parts devoted to major episodes in the career of the money question. First, the fight over the innovation of paper money in colonial New England. Second, the battle over the development of commercial banking in the new United States. And third, the struggle over the national banking system and the international gold standard in the late nineteenth century. Each section explores a broader problem of power that framed each conflict in successive phases of capitalist development: circulation, representation, and association. The three parts also encompass intellectual biographies of opposing reformers for each p
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The University of Chicago Press The Transformation of Authorship in America
Book SynopsisMost critics and historians consider that the emergence of a free press liberated 18th century American authors. In this study, the author seeks to overturn this view, arguing that the emergence of economic liberalism transformed American authorship into a market-oriented profession.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Pt. I: The Transformation of Authorship 1: The World Turned Upside Down: Sociopolitical Criticism in Puritan America 2: The Rise of a Free Press and the Erosion of a Public Sphere: The Zenger Case Reconsidered 3: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Republican Print Rationality 4: Liberalism and Republication: The Problem of Copyright for Authorship in America Pt. II: The Aesthetic Response 5: Crevecoeur and Strategies of Accommodation 6: Brackenridge and the Resistance to Textual Authority Pt. III: The Rhetoric of Fiction 7: Authorial Coquetry and the Early American Novel Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press In Hock
Book SynopsisReveals that pawnshops have long played an integral role in Americans' economic lives. Presenting the history of pawn-broking in the United States from the nation's founding through the Great Depression, this title demonstrates that the practice was inextricably intertwined with the rise of capitalism.
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University of Illinois Press The Samuel Gompers Papers vol.9
Book SynopsisPresents the documentary history of Samuel Gompers, the nation's premier labor leader. This book tells of Gompers' successful efforts to secure passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act and the La Follette Seamen's Act, which underscored his effectiveness as a labor lobbyist.Trade Review"A distinguished and invaluable collection. Labor historians would be well advised to clear shelf space for it." -- Bruce Laurie, Industrial and Labor Relations Review
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MO - University of Illinois Press Metropolitan Resilience in a Time of Economic
Book SynopsisCities, counties, school districts and other local governments have suffered a long-lasting period of fiscal challenges since the beginning of the Great Recession. This book looks at the capacity of local governments to mobilize resources efficiently and effectively, and the overall effects of the long-term economic downturn on quality of life.Trade Review"Particularly important at a time when cities and metros are compelled to innovate and problem-solve on their own, given the absence of federal and often state leadership."--Bruce Katz, coauthor of The Metropolitan Revolution"This book reveals the potential of metropolitan regions to cure, but also to transcend, endemic impasses beyond their respective borders. This well-written and insightful book is a must-read for scholars as well as policy makers."--Political Studies Review "In this book, Michael A. Pagano brings together a stellar set of multidisciplinary and multigenerational scholars to reconsider the urban agenda in the post–Great Recession era. They offer a coherent focus on local capacities for adaptation and change in dealing with core issues such as infrastructure, pensions, economic vitality, social safety nets, and collaborative initiatives."--Susan E. Clarke, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook on Urban Politics
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Zondervan The House of Zondervan Celebrating 75 Years
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St Martin's Press Merchant Kings
Book SynopsisCommerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern worldIt was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their territories as business interests, treating their subjects as employees, customers, or competitors. The leaders of these trading enterprises exercised virtually unaccountable, dictatorial political power over millions of people.The merchant kings of the Age of Heroic Commerce were a rogue''s gallery of larger-than-life men who, for a couple hundred years, expanded their far-flung commercial enterprises over a sizable portion of the world. They include Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the violent and autocratic pioneer of the Dutch East India Company; Peter Stuyvesant, the one-legged governor of the Dutch West India Company, whose narrow-minded appr
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Little, Brown & Company New World Inc The Making of America by Englands
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Back Bay Books The Economists Hour
Book Synopsis In this 'lively and entertaining' history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four decades of economic revolution. Before the 1960s, American politicians paid little attention to economists. But as the post–World War II boom began to sputter, economists gained influence and power. Binyamin Appelbaum traces the rise of the economists, first in the United States and then around the globe, as their ideas reshaped the modern world, curbing government, unleashing corporations, and hastening globalization. Some leading figures in the field are relatively well-known, such as Milton Friedman and Arthur Laffer, while others stayed out of the limelight but left a lasting impact on modern life: Walter Oi, a blind economist who persuaded President Nixon to end military conscription; Alfred Kahn, who rejoiced in the crowded cabins on com
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Random House USA Inc The Undercover Economist
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc My Years with General Motors
Book SynopsisMy Years with General Motors became an instant bestseller when it was first published in 1963. It has since been used as a manual for managers, offering personal glimpses into the practice of the discipline of management by the man who perfected it. This is the story no other businessman could tell—a distillation of half a century of intimate leadership experience with a giant industry and an inside look at dramatic events and creative business management.Only a handful of business books have reached the status of a classic, having withstood the test of over fifty years' time. Even today, Bill Gates praises My Years with General Motors as the best book to read on business, and Business Week has named it the number one choice for its bookshelf of indispensable reading.
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WW Norton & Co Double Entry How the Merchants of Venice Created
Book Synopsis“Lively history. . . . Show[s] double entry’s role in the creation of the accounting profession, and even of capitalism itself.”—The New Yorker Trade Review"Entertaining and informative." -- The Economist"Lucidly presented. . . . An accessible introduction to this key development in the history of capitalism." -- Edward Chancellor - Wall Street Journal"Stimulating. . . . Fascinating." -- Drew DeSilver - Seattle Times"A timely, topical, readable, and thought-provoking look at the history and legacy of double-entry bookkeeping." -- Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed"Elegantly written . . . charts the epic journey of the humble device that showed how to count the cost of everything, from the Doge’s Palace to the acrobatics of John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory." -- Nicholas Wapshott, author of Keynes Hayek"A stimulating approach that presents a compelling outline for further detailed review." -- Kirkus Reviews"Starred review. Lively and elegantly written account of the history of double-entry bookkeeping.... This dynamic examination of the impact and legacy of double-entry bookkeeping is sure to appeal to those in the accounting profession, business leaders, and history buffs, and will likely become required reading in business school curricula." -- Publishers Weekly
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WW Norton & Co The End of Alchemy
Book Synopsis“If [The End of Alchemy] gets the attention it deserves, it might just save the world.” —Michael Lewis, Bloomberg ViewTrade Review"An outstandingly lucid account of postwar economic policymaking and the dilemmas we now face. . . . It is rare to encounter a book on economics quite as intellectually exhilarating as The End of Alchemy—a dazzling performance indeed." -- John Plender - Financial Times"I have read umpteen books about the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and its lessons. This is the cleverest one, brimming over with new ideas. While other ‘lords of finance’ publish memoirs, King has produced a brilliant analysis not only of what went wrong in the global financial system but also of what went wrong in economics itself." -- Niall Ferguson"A sophisticated and highly approachable study of how modern finance has lost its way. Few individuals are more qualified than Lord Mervyn King to imagine the banking of the future. His book should be required reading." -- Henry Kissinger"Mervyn King asks, ‘Why has almost every industrialized country found it difficult to overcome the stagnation that followed the financial crisis in 2007–2008, and why did money and banking, the alchemists of a market economy, turn into its Achilles heel?’ He addresses these questions, and much more. For those endeavoring to understand the greatest financial crisis of our time and the future of finance, this highly provocative book is a must-read." -- Alan Greenspan"Drawing on years of scholarly study of banking history and his real world experience in fighting financial panic, Mervyn King has set out a new framework for monetary and financial reform. Seemingly simple in concept, it challenges prevailing banking and market practice. The End of Alchemy demands debate and a well-reasoned response." -- Paul A. Volcker
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Random House USA Inc The Economy of Cities BY Jacobs Jane on 1970
Book SynopsisIn this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of goods and the ever-changing tide of imports. Using case studies of developing cities in the ancient, pre-agricultural world, and contemporary cities on the decline, like the financially irresponsible New York City of the mid-sixties, Jacobs identifies the main drivers of urban prosperity and growth, often via counterintuitive and revelatory lessons.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Code
Book SynopsisOne of New York Magazine''s best books on Silicon Valley!The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O''Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw firsthand how deeply intertwined Silicon Valley was with the federal government--and always had been--and how shallow the common understanding of the secrets of the Valley''s success actually was. Now, after almost five years of pioneering research, O''Mara has produced the definitive history of Silicon Valley for our time, the story of mavericks and visionaries, but also of powerful institutions creating the framework for innovation, from the Pentagon to Stanford University. It is also a story of a community that started off remarkably homogeneous and tight-knit and stayed that way, and whose belief in its own mythology has deepened into a collective hubris that has led to astonishing triumphs as well as devastating second-order effects.Deploying a wonderfully rich and diverse cast of protagonists, from the justly famous to the unjustly obscure, across four generations of explosive growth in the Valley, from the forties to the present, O''Mara has wrestled one of the most fateful developments in modern American history into magnificent narrative form. She is on the ground with all of the key tech companies, chronicling the evolution in their offerings through each successive era, and she has a profound fingertip feel for the politics of the sector and its relation to the larger cultural narrative about tech as it has evolved over the years. Perhaps most impressive, O''Mara has penetrated the inner kingdom of tech venture capital firms, the insular and still remarkably old-boy world that became the cockpit of American capitalism and the crucible for bringing technological innovation to market, or not. The transformation of big tech into the engine room of the American economy and the nexus of so many of our hopes and dreams--and, increasingly, our nightmares--can be understood, in Margaret O''Mara''s masterful hands, as the story of one California valley. As her majestic history makes clear, its fate is the fate of us all.
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The University of Michigan Press Understanding Economic Recovery in the 1930s
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Law and Transaction Costs in the Ancient Economy
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Honor Among Thieves
Book SynopsisExamines associations of craftsmen inthe framework of ancient economics and transaction costs. The analysis presented here concentrates on how craftsmen, merchants, and associations interacted with each other and with elite and non-elite constituencies; managed economic, political, social, and legal activities; represented their concerns to the authorities; and acquired and used social capital.
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Random House USA Inc The Velvet Rope Economy
Book SynopsisFrom New York Times business reporter Nelson D. Schwartz comes a bold and urgent investigation of division between the wealthy and the middle class n every arena of American life.In nearly every realm of daily life--from health care to education, highways to home security--there is an invisible velvet rope that divides how Americans live. On one side of the rope, for a price, red tape is cut, lines are jumped, appointments are secured, and doors are opened. On the other side, middle- and working-class Americans fight to find an empty seat on the plane, a place in line with their kids at the amusement park, a college acceptance, or a hospital bed. We are all aware of the gap between the rich and everyone else, but when we weren''t looking, business innovators stepped in to exploit it, shifting services away from the masses and finding new ways to profit by serving the privileged. And as decision-makers and corporate leaders increasingly
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Penguin Putnam Inc Golden Gates The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning
Book SynopsisA Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction • Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism • Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post • Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune • Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment Therapy • Runner-Up General Nonfiction: San Francisco Book Festival • A Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice“Tells the story of housing in all its compl
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Penguin Putnam Inc Shutdown
Book SynopsisThis book’s great service is that it challenges us to consider the ways in which our institutions and systems, and the assumptions, positions and divisions that undergird them, leave us ill prepared for the next crisis.—Robert Rubin, The New York Times Book ReviewFull of valuable insight and telling details, this may well be the best thing to read if you want to know what happened in 2020. --Paul Krugman, New York Review of BooksDeftly weaving finance, politics, business, and the global human experience into one tight narrative, a tour-de-force account of 2020, the year that changed everything--from the acclaimed author of Crashed.The shocks of 2020 have been great and small, disrupting the world economy, international relations and the daily lives of virtually everyone on the planet. Never before has the entire world economy contracted by 20 percent in a matter of weeks nor in the historic record of modern ca
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Irish Academic Press Ltd The Restoration Land Settlement in County Dublin
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Four
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLERAmazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all that’s been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway. Instead of buying the myths these companies broadcast, Galloway asks fundamental questions. How did the Four infiltrate our lives so completely that they’re almost impossible to avoid (or boycott)? Why does the stock market forgive them for sins that would destroy other firms? And as they race to become the world’s first trillion-dollar company, can anyone challenge them? In the same irreverent style that has made him one of the world’s most celebrated business professors, Galloway deconstructs the strategies of the Four that lurk beneath their shiny veneers. He shows how they manipulate the fundamental emotional needs that have driven us since our ancestors lived in caves, at a speed and scope others can’t match. And he reveals how you can apply the lessons of their ascent to your own business or career. Whether you want to compete with them, do business with them, or simply live in the world they dominate, you need to understand the Four.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Four
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Johns Hopkins University Press Silver Trade and War Spain and America in the
Book SynopsisSilver, Trade, and War is about men and markets, national rivalries, diplomacy and conflict, and the advancement or stagnation of states.Trade ReviewAll serious students of Spain's national tragedies should find room for the book on their shelves. -- Eric Rust History: Reviews of New Books Sets a new standard for the writing of Spanish imperial history. -- Michael J. Schreffler Sixteenth Century Journal [The authors'] ability to synthesize a broad and disparate historiography on economic, political, and diplomatic developments in early modern Europe as they related to the new opportunities created by the opening of American territories represents a significant achievement and contributes to our understanding of the relationship between economic trends and political formation. -- Ida Altman American Historical Review This book is highly recommended to a broad array of scholars... The authors make a compelling case for the centrality of the Spanish Empire in the emergence of Europe's economic and political hegemony. -- Jeremy Baskes Historian This is a brilliant and pioneering study packed with research and is original in both its presentation and its conclusions... While communicating concrete historical information, the study stimulates the reader to speculate more widely on the fundamental problem of economic growth and the specific case of Spain. The authors inevitably take account of the evolution of the whole Atlantic world; in choosing so vast a canvas on which to execute their magisterial composition, they encourage scholars to take a more global vision of the problems of empire. -- Henry Kamen Economic Society This is a magisterial work from two scholars who have spent a lifetime investigating the economic history of Spain's overseas empire. It will be impossible for the next generation of scholars not to cite the Steins' latest book when writing about the early imperial economies of Europe. Choice What could one say of the beginnings of a Chaunu-like magnum opus other than to highlight its demonstration of a great depth of reading and research and the profound learning behind it? This is perhaps the most comprehensive, detailed examination in English of Spain and empire since Haring took up the subject during World War I. -- David Weiland Hispanic American Historical Review This book presents a compelling vision of the role of American silver in the making of Spain, the Americas, and Europe, and it merits a wide readership. -- Kenneth J. Andrien The Americas The authors survey and comment on the complex historiography of Spain's rise and fall in the Atlantic world and Western Europe. This work is also deeply grounded in archival research... that allows ample insight into the functioning of the Spanish court and colonial bureaucracy. -- Christopher Schmidt-Nowara Latin American Research Review 2004Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: The LegacyChapter 1. Spain, Europe, and The Atlantic System, 1500–1700Chapter 2. Financing Empire: The European Diaspora of Silver by War Chapter 3. Westphalia: The Legacy of Unequal TreatiesChapter 4. Conjunctural Crisis: War and the Utrecht Settlement Part II: Toward a Spanish-Bourbon ParadigmChapter 5. Conditions of Growth, 1700–1759Chapter 6. Changing Patterns in the Transatlantic System: Flotas and Registros, 1720–1759Chapter 7. Critical Voices, 1720–1759Chapter 8. Toward the Mid-Century Crisis: Ensenada, 1743–1754Chapter 9. By Way of ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Between Crown and Commerce
Book SynopsisIn doing so, the book highlights the conjoined history of broad transnational processes and local political change.Trade Review"A superb work of historical investigation and analysis in every respect - an important and well-conceived topic, thoroughly and expertly researched, and organized and presented in an effective and memorable fashion." (Kent Wright, Arizona State University)"Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Commerce, State-Building, and Republicanism in Old Regime France1. Louis XIV, Marseillais Merchants, and the Problem of Discerning the Public Good2. Between Republic and Monarchy: Debating Commerce and Virtue3. France and the Levantine Merchant: The Challenges of an International Market4. Plague, Commerce, and Centralized Disease Control in Early Modern France5. Virtue without Commerce: Civic Spirit During the Plague, 1720– 17236. Civic Religiosity and Religious Citizenship in Plague- Stricken Marseille7. Postmortem: Virtue and Commerce ReconsideredNotesBibliographyIndex
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Random House USA Inc Money for Nothing
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The University of Alabama Press Yucatan in the Era of Globalization
Book SynopsisDescribes the changes to Yucatan's society and economy following the 1982 debt crisis that prostrated Mexico's economy. This work charts the accelerated change in Yucatan from a monocrop economy to a beneficiary and victim of rampant globalization.Trade ReviewThis painstakingly researched volume engagingly details Yucatan's evolving encounter with the multi-stranded process that is globalization. In the best tradition of scholarship on the region published herein, the collection works across several disciplines and is informed by analysis at different levels of the world system. In the process, it addresses the historical determinants of globalization, the diverse ways in which global processes are experienced in urban and rural contexts, and the dilemmas and opportunities that globalization portends for the region. - Gilbert M. Joseph, Farnam Professor of History and International Studies, Yale University
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. American Exceptionalism in a New Era Rebuilding
Book SynopsisPresents thirteen essays by Hoover fellows that discuss the unique factors that have historically set America apart from other nations and how these factors shape public policy. The authors show how America and its people have prospered and emerged as global leaders by prizing individuality and economic freedom and explore key factors in America's success.
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University of Exeter Press The History Of Honiton Lace Industry SouthWest
Book SynopsisHoniton lace is one of the world's great laces and this book for the first time tells the full story of the industry that produces it, from its beginnings in the sixteenth century to its demise in the twentieth. Over 100 photographs illustrate the history of design in Honiton lace as well as the technical aspects of manufacture.Trade Review “This is a satisfying study, provoking much thought on domestic industries of the past, and perhaps of the future too." (Business History) "I highly recommend it not only to lacemakers . . . But also to anyone interested in textiles or the social and historical aspects of cottage industries." (Canadian Lacemaker Gazette) "Dr Yallop's book is a treasure chest filled with new clues for those who approach lace as a fascinating puzzle." (The Lace Collector) Table of ContentsPreface, ix; Foreword by Santina M. Levey, xi; Introduction, 1; Part 1-The rise and decline of an industry, 7; Chapter 1 The origin of the industry, 9; Chapter 2 1617-1707, an age of legislation, 27; Chapter 3 The English lace industry in 1698, 48; Chapter 4 1617-1707, the products of the industry, 61; Chapter 5 1707-1816, continuation and contraction, 73; Chapter 6 1768-1820, the machine revolution, 87; Chapter 7 1820-1940, the years of decline, 94; Chapter 8 1820-1940, attempts to halt the decline, 112; Part 2-The people of the industry, 133; Chapter 9 The manufacturers, 135; Chapter 10 The lacemakers-at work, 157; Chapter 11 The lacemakers-at play, 186; Chapter 12 Designs and designers, 205; Chapter 13 Distribution and sales, 220; Postscript, 240; Appendices, 239; Bibliography, 273; Illustrations, 287; Index, 349.
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WW Norton & Co One Nation Under Gold
Book SynopsisOne Nation Under Gold examines the countervailing forces that have long since divided America—whether gold should be a repository of hope, or a damaging delusion that has long since derailed the rational investor.Trade Review"The book is wildly entertaining as well as informative. …Ledbetter is a first-rate reporter with a nose for unearthing great stories. He delivers great and often outré stories in abundance…Ledbetter has written a delightful book, one that succeeds in capturing, among other things, much of the loopiness that has undeservedly tarnished the reputation of the true gold standard." -- Ralph Benko - Forbes"[A] chronicle of the American people’s fascination with gold. . . . [Ledbetter’s] well-spun narrative spans the better part of four centuries." -- James Grant - Wall Street Journal"A surprisingly readable history of U.S. fiscal policy. Starting with America’s earliest currencies . . . the book traces the chaotic end of the gold standard and dissects our modern obsession with trying to bring it back . . . . [Ledbetter’s] measured, persuasive conclusion after surveying two centuries of haphazard fiscal decision making is that a return to a gold standard would be a deeply bad idea. Consider this a must read for the gold bugs in your life" -- Anne VanderMey - Fortune"Everyone is familiar with gold but few know of its complex history—until now, thanks to James Ledbetter’s skillful storytelling." -- Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Prize–winning economist and best-selling author of The Great Divide"What an original, imaginative book! Bristling with ideas, this lucid history reveals the economic, cultural, and political dimensions of gold’s role in the American experience. So doing, it illuminates, informs, and provokes." -- Ira Katznelson, author of the Bancroft Prize–winning Fear Itself"I learned an interesting new fact on nearly every page of One Nation Under Gold, but I also learned more than facts: James Ledbetter shows us how men have been transfixed by this metal and the folly that has resulted from that obsession. A gripping story, and a history that has had far more influence over policy in the United States than you might think." -- Michael Tomasky, editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas"The material on the gold crisis of the 1960s is really superb—without question the best treatment I have seen of this issue. This was the issue Johnson faced, combined with Vietnam and racial backlash." -- Julian Zelizer, author of The Fierce Urgency of Now"[This] is the first book to really make sense of the tumultuous and entertaining history of Americans’ obsession with gold, brilliantly illuminating how our fascination with the precious metal has shaped our national psyche, sparked political turmoil, and exerted a powerful and often malignant influence on economic policy." -- James Surowiecki
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University of Michigan Press Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age A
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The University of Michigan Press Studies in the Economic History of Late Imperial
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Ivan R Dee, Inc Businessmen and Reform A Study of the Progressive
Book SynopsisIn this perceptive, influential study of the Progressive movement, Mr. Wiebe shows how businessmen helped to shapeâand were shaped byâsocial reform in the early years of the 20th century. âœGracefully written, thoroughly researched, and imaginative.â âAmerican Historical Review.Trade ReviewA perceptive study.... Because of his work, historians will have less reason than ever to treat business as an indivisible interest group. * Journal of American History *Gracefully written, thoroughly researched, and imaginative. * American Historical Review *
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Economic Modeling in the Post Great Recession Era
Book SynopsisReality-based modeling for today''s unique economic recovery Economic Modeling in the Post Great Recession Era presents a more realistic approach to modeling, using direct statistical applications to address the characteristics and trends central to current market behaviors. This book''s unique focus on the reality of today''s markets makes it an invaluable resource for students and practitioners seeking a comprehensive guide to more accurate forecasting. While most books treat the economy as if it were in a vacuum, building models around idealized or perception-biased behaviors, this book deals with the economy as it currently standsin a state of recovery, limited by financial constraints, imperfect information, and lags and disparities in price movements. The authors identify how these characteristics impact various markets'' behaviors, and quantify those behaviors using SAS as the primary statistical tool. Today''s economy bears a number of unique attrTable of ContentsPreface/Justification xiii Acknowledgments xxi Chapter 1 Setting the Context 1 The Problem with Uncritical Assumptions in a Less-Than-Perfect Economy 2 The Problem with Models in an Imperfect Economy 3 Four Characteristics of a Less-Than-Perfect Economy 4 Economic Policy Inconsistencies—The Parable of Strange Bedfellows 13 Chapter 2 Dynamic Adjustment in an Economy: Frictions Matter 15 Introduction 16 Quantifying Frictions: Is the Long-Run Average a Useful Guide for the Future? 32 Modeling Dynamic Adjustment due to Economic Frictions: Decision Making in an Evolving World 49 Dynamic Economic Adjustment: An Evolution unto Itself 67 Appendix 68 A Case for the Multiple Markets: 1983–2008 68 The Labor Market: 1983–2008 70 Chapter 3 Information: Past Imperfect, Present Incomplete, Future Uncertain 73 Story Behind the Numbers 76 Conclusion 103 Chapter 4 Price Adjustment and Search for Equilibrium 105 What Barriers Are There to Perfectly Flexible Prices? 107 Implications 112 Finding Dynamic Adjustment in the Data 116 Conclusion 121 Chapter 5 Business Investment: This Time Is Different 123 Drivers of Business Spending 125 Putting It All Together: Explaining Slow Recovery in Capital Investment 134 Chapter 6 Corporate Profits: Reward, Incentive, and That Standard of Living 135 Introduction: Profits as Essential Partner 136 The Role of Profits in the Economic Cycle: Five Drivers 137 The Role of Profits: Incentives and Rewards 140 Concluding Remarks: Modeling Profits 167 Chapter 7 Labor Market Evolution: Implications for Private-Sector and Public-Policy Decision Makers 169 Part I: Labor Market Imperfections 171 Part II: Heterogeneity in the Labor Market 182 Part III: How Do Secular Labor Market Trends Impact Economic Policy? 196 Chapter 8 Inflation: When What You Get Isn’t What You Expect 205 Introduction 206 What Is Inflation? 207 Why Does Inflation Matter? 208 What Determines Inflation? 212 Inflation after the Great Recession 219 Application: Predicting if Central Banks Can Achieve Price Stability 230 Chapter 9 Interest Rates and Credit: Capital Markets in the Post–Great Recession World 235 Imperfect Guidance in an Uncertain World 236 A Look at Actual History over the Long Run 247 Credit and Administered Rates 250 Imperfect Information and Credit 255 Conclusion: Shift from Historical Benchmarks 280 Chapter 10 Three-Dimensional Checkers: Open Economy, Capital Flows, and Exchange Rates 281 Newton’s Third Law 282 Introducing a New Price to the Analysis: The Role of Exchange Rates 289 Three-Dimensional Checkers on an International Playing Field 295 A Perfect Model in an Imperfect World 298 Concluding Remarks: Future Looks Different 330 Chapter 11 Assessing Economic Policy in an Imperfect Economy 331 Generalized Policy Model 333 Rules and Reputation: Beyond Economic Benchmarks 338 Confronting Our Three Market Imperfections 340 Economic Policy in the Context of an Imperfect Economy 359 About the Authors 361 Index 363
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Griffin Publishing Markets of Provence
Book SynopsisProvence is justly famous for its dazzling light, vibrant colours, rich history, and flavourful foods and wines. In Markets of Provence, Marjorie Williams whisks you away to 30 of the best. This pocketable guide, complete with detailed maps and organised by days of the week, gives you all the information you need for your visit.
£14.99
Henry Holt and Co. CrackUp Capitalism
Book SynopsisA Fortune best nonfiction book of 2023In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free marketeers are realizing their ultimate goal: an end to nation-states and the constraints of democracy.Look at a map of the world and you'll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. Over the last decade, globalization has shattered the map into different legal spaces: free ports, tax havens, special economic zones. With the new spaces, ultracapitalists have started to believe that it is possible to escape the bonds of democratic government and oversight altogether.Crack-Up Capitalism follows the most notorious radical libertariansfrom Milton Friedman to Peter Thielaround the globe as they search for the perfect space for capitalism. Historian Quinn Slobodian leads us from Hong Kong in the 1970s to South Africa in the late days of a
£17.09
Johns Hopkins University Press Signs Streets and Storefronts
Book SynopsisA must-read for city planners, town councils, architects, sign designers, concerned citizens, and anyone who cares about the appearance and vitality of America's commercial streets, this heavily illustrated book is equally appealing to armchair historians, small-town enthusiasts, and lovers of Americana.Trade ReviewA must-read for any fan of architecture -- and for city planners. It is a thorough dissection of the trends and clashes that continue to shape and regulate our nation's commercial corridors. -- Mark A. Vernarelli American RoadTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. The Making of Main Street: Transformation and Invention on the Commercial Frontier, 1700s–18992. The Great Blight Way: Electricity and Reform from Main Street to City Center, 1900–19173. Visions and Velocity: The Expansive Age of the Automobile, 1918–19284. Sign as Storefront: America Discovers Modernism, 1929–19455. Landscapes of More and Less: Consequences of Commercial Freedom and Restraint, 1946–19646. Rediscovering Main Street: Retrenchment, Repair, and Reinvention, 1965–2010ConclusionNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£54.22
Johns Hopkins University Press Beatlemania
Book SynopsisRefreshing and insightful, Beatlemania offers a deeper understanding the days of the Fab Four and the band's long-term effects on the business and culture of pop music.Trade ReviewAny interested in either the Beatles of the undercurrents of the music industry as a whole will find this a thought-provoking discussion especially suitable for college-level music collections strong in popular music! Midwest Book Review [Beatlemania] is well-written, clearly argued, presents a different interpretation of a much-studied topic, and places the story into the broader historical context. -- Douglas Karsner Essays in Economic and Business HistoryTable of ContentsPreface1. The Record2. Beatlemania3. Liverpool4. The Promised Land5. Skiffle6. Rock'n'roll Comes to Britain7. The Look8. The Fans9. Convergence10. Technology11. In the Recording Studio12. The Beatles and the SixtiesNotesIndex
£45.50
