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1st Industrial Nation Economic History 1700 1914by MathiasISBN 0416029108 (0-416-02910-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Age of Empire 1875-1914by Eric HobsbawmISBN 0679721754 (0-679-72175-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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America's Great Depressionby Murray N. RothbardISBN 0836206479 (0-8362-0647-9)
Softcover, Richardson & Snyder
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The Atlantic Slave Tradeby Herbert S. KleinISBN 0521465885 (0-521-46588-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Basic Concepts in Sociologyby Max Weber, H.P. SecherISBN 0806503041 (0-8065-0304-1)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Capitalism, Socialisby J. SchumpeterISBN 0613913434 (0-613-91343-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracyby Joseph A. Schumpeter, Tom BottomeISBN 0844660272 (0-8446-6027-2)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350by Robert S. LopezISBN 0521290465 (0-521-29046-5)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350by Robert Sabatino LopezISBN 0521211115 (0-521-21111-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Condition of the Working Class in Englandby Friedrich EngelsISBN 0804706344 (0-8047-0634-4)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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The Condition of the Working Class in England: From Personal Observation and Authentic Sourcesby E. J. Hobsbawm, Friedrich EngelsISBN 0897331370 (0-89733-137-0)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar Americaby Lizabeth CohenISBN 0375707379 (0-375-70737-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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After a decade and a half of hard times resulting from the Great Depression and the war, the embrace of mass consumption, with its supposed far-reaching benefitsgreater freedom, democracy, and equalitytransformed American life. The extensive suburbanization of metropolitan areas (propelled by such government policies as the GI Bill), the shift from downtowns to shopping centers, and the advent of targeted marketing all fueled the consumer economy, but also sharpened divisions among Americans along gender, class, and racial lines. At the same time, mass consumption changed American politics, inspiring new forms of political activism through the civil rights and consumer movements and prompting politicians to apply the latest marketing strategies to their political campaigns.
Cohen traces the legacy of the Consumers Republic into our time, demonstrating how it has reshaped our relationship to government itself, with Americans increasingly judging public servicesas if one more purchased goodby the personal benefits they derive from them.
Brilliantly researched and reasoned, A Consumers Republic is a starkly illuminating social and political history. [via]More editions of A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America:
Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New Englandby Stephen InnesISBN 0393035840 (0-393-03584-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Dark Age Economics: The Origins of Towns and Trade A.D. 600-1000by Richard HodgesISBN 0715616668 (0-7156-1666-8)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing Inc
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Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britainby Keith WrightsonISBN 0300094124 (0-300-09412-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Economic Development of France and Germany 1815-1914by J. H. ClaphamISBN 0521046645 (0-521-04664-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Economic Development of Medieval Europeby Robert-Henri BautierISBN 0500320217 (0-500-32021-7)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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English Medieval Industries: Craftsmen, Techniques, Productsby John Blair, Nigel RamsayISBN 0907628877 (0-907628-87-7)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The European Economy Since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyondby Barry J. EichengreenISBN 0691127107 (0-691-12710-7)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Maniasby Peter M. GarberISBN 0262571536 (0-262-57153-6)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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The First Industrial Nation: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1914by Peter MathiasISBN 0415266726 (0-415-26672-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industryby Martin Campbell-KellyISBN 026253262X (0-262-53262-X)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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From Versailles to Wall Streetby Derek AldcroftISBN 0520045068 (0-520-04506-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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From Versailles to Wall Street, 1919-1929by Derek H. AldcroftISBN 0844659681 (0-8446-5968-1)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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The Growth of Economic Thoughtby Henry William SpiegelISBN 0822309734 (0-8223-0973-4)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World Historyby E.L. JonesISBN 0472067281 (0-472-06728-1)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debtby John C. B. GordonISBN 0802713238 (0-8027-1323-8)
Hardcover, Walker & Company
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History of Capitalism, 1500-1980by Michel BeaudISBN 0853456275 (0-85345-627-5)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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A History of Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Centuryby Roger Owen, Sevket PamukISBN 0674398319 (0-674-39831-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Financeby Ron ChernowISBN 0802138292 (0-8021-3829-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance'Book summary:The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal as "brilliantly researched and written," the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned. It is the definitive account of the rise of the modern financial world. A gripping history of banking and the booms and busts that shaped the world on both sides of the Atlantic, The House of Morgan traces the trajectory of the J. P. Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the private saga of the Morgans and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved. Based on extensive interviews and access to the family and business archives, The House of Morgan is an investigative masterpiece, a compelling account of a remarkable institution and the men who ran it, and an essential book for understanding the money and power behind the major historical events of the last 150 years.[via]More editions of The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance:
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The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker, 1849-1999by Niall FergusonISBN 0670887943 (0-670-88794-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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This book, the second of two volumes, is an authorised history. While members of the family read the manuscript, Ferguson said they did not censor his work. Ferguson details the Rothschilds' creation of the international bond market in the 1800s, through offices that stretched from London to Naples, and their eventual eclipse by American bankers like J. P. Morgan. He also explores the family's relationship to others in the Jewish community, the Rothschilds' climb up the social ranks and their role as adviser to kings and politicians during times of war and peace. The House of Rothschild is primarily an academic work with its footnotes, bibliography and quotations from Rothschild correspondence. The book is perhaps of most interest to fans of European political and economic history. But in the epilogue, where he describes the current resurgence of the House of Rothschild, Ferguson draws lessons about international finance that should interest those in the field today. --Dan Ring, Amazon.com [via]
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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performanceby Douglass Cecil NorthISBN 0521397340 (0-521-39734-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance'Book summary:Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction; they are the constraints devised to structure that interaction. Yet, institutions vary widely in their consequences for economic performance; some economies develop institutions that produce growth and development, while others develop institutions that produce stagnation. North first explores the nature of institutions and explains the role of transaction and production costs in their development. The second part of the book deals with institutional change. Institutions create the incentive structure in an economy, and organizations will be created to take advantage of the opportunities provided within a given institutional framework. North argues that the kinds of skills and knowledge fostered by the structure of an economy will shape the direction of change and gradually alter the institutional framework. He then explains how institutional development may lead to a path-dependent pattern of development. In the final part of the book, North explains the implications of this analysis for economic theory and economic history. He indicates how institutional analysis must be incorporated into neo-classical theory and explores the potential for the construction of a dynamic theory of long-term economic change. Douglass C. North is Director of the Center of Political Economy and Professor of Economics and History at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a past president of the Economic History Association and Western Economics Association and a Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written over sixty articles for a variety of journals and is the author of The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History (CUP, 1973, with R.P. Thomas) and Structure and Change in Economic History (Norton, 1981). Professor North is included in Great Economists Since Keynes edited by M. Blaug (CUP, 1988 paperback ed.) [via]
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John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1920, Hopes Betrayedby Robert Jacob SkidelskyISBN 0333115996 (0-333-11599-6)
Hardcover, Nelson Canada
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John Maynard Keynes Vol. 1 : Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920by Robert SkidelskyISBN 033357379X (0-333-57379-X)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
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Man's Worldly Goodsby Leo HubermanISBN 0853450706 (0-85345-070-6)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Medieval England: Towns, Commerce and Crafts 1086-1348by John Hatcher, Edward MillerISBN 0582485495 (0-582-48549-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Medieval Machineby Jean GimpelISBN 0575021357 (0-575-02135-7)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Merchant Class of Medieval London: 1300-1500by Sylvia L. ThruppISBN 0472060724 (0-472-06072-4)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Middlemen in English Business: Particularly between 1660 and 1760by Ray Bert WesterfieldISBN 0715343289 (0-7153-4328-9)
Hardcover, David & Charles
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Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1600-1775: A Handbookby John J. McCuskerISBN 0807843679 (0-8078-4367-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly: A Study in Economic Ambivalenceby Ellis W. HawleyISBN 0823216098 (0-8232-1609-8)
Softcover, Fordham Univ Pr
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A New Economic View of American History: From Colonial Times to 1940by Susan Lee, Peter Passell, Jeremy AtackISBN 0393963152 (0-393-96315-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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This book asks such questions as: did mercantilism cause the American Revolution?; was slavery profitable?; and what were the causes of the Great Depression? Illustrated [via]More editions of A New Economic View of American History: From Colonial Times to 1940:
Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Societyby Gareth Stedman JonesISBN 0394725476 (0-394-72547-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumphby Albert O. HirschmanISBN 0691015988 (0-691-01598-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Political Economy of Slavery : Studies in Economy and Society of the Slave Southby Eugene D. GenoveseISBN 0819562084 (0-8195-6208-4)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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The premodern quality of the Southern world was imparted to it by its dominant slaveholding class. Slavery has existed in many places, side by side with other labor systems, without producing anything like the civilization of the South. Slavery gave the South a special way of life because it provided the basis for a regional social order in which the slave labor system could dominate all others. Southern slavery was not mere slavery to recall Louis Hartzs luckless term but the foundation on which rose a powerful and remarkable social class: a class constituting only a tiny portion of the white population and yet so powerful and remarkable as to try, with more success than our neo-abolitionists care to see, to build a new, or rather to rebuild an old, civilization.
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The Prizeby Daniel YerginISBN 0671799320 (0-671-79932-0)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prize'Book summary:Daniel Yergin's first prize-winning book, Shattered Peace, was a history of the Cold War. Afterwards the young academic star joined the energy project of the Harvard Business School and wrote the best-seller Energy Future. Following on from there, The Prize, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, is a comprehensive history of one of the commodities that powers the world--oil. Founded in the 19th century, the oil industry began producing kerosene for lamps and progressed to gasoline. Huge personal fortunes arose from it, and whole nations sprung out of the power politics of the oil wells. Yergin's fascinating account sweeps from early robber barons like John D. Rockefeller, to the oil crisis of the 1970s, through to the Gulf War. [via]
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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalismby Max Weber, Talcott Parsons, Anthony GiddensISBN 041525406X (0-415-25406-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Softcover, Unwin Hyman - Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: ISBN 0684164892 (0-684-16489-2)
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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalismby Talcott Parsons, Max WeberISBN 048642703X (0-486-42703-X)
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The Rise of the Atlantic Economiesby Ralph DavisISBN 0801491436 (0-8014-9143-6)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise of the Atlantic Economies'Book summary:The Rise of the Atlantic Economies surveys the economic history of Spain, the Netherlands, France, and England and of the colonies they established, or had dealings with, in North and South America from the beginnings of Portuguese exploration in the fifteenth century to the American Revolution. [via]
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The Road to Serfdomby F. A. HayekISBN 0415253896 (0-415-25389-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Road to Serfdom: The Condensed Version As It Appeared in the April 1945 Edition of Reader's Digestby Friedrich A. Hayek, Edwin J. Feulner, John BlundellISBN 0255365306 (0-255-36530-6)
Softcover, Inst of Economic Affairs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road to Serfdom: The Condensed Version As It Appeared in the April 1945 Edition of Reader's Digest'Book summary:In the last years of World War II, Friedrich Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom. He warned the allies that policy proposals which were being canvassed for the post-war world ran the risk of destroying the very freedom for which they were fighting. On the basis of 'as in war, so in peace', economists and others were arguing that the government should plan all economic activity. Such planning, Hayek argued, would be incompatible with liberty, and had been at the very heart of the movements that had established both communism and Nazism.
On its publication in 1944, the book caused a sensation. Neither its British nor its American publisher could keep up with demand, owing to wartime paper rationing. Then, in 1945, Reader's Digest published The Road to Serfdom as the condensed book in its April edition. For the first and still the only time, the condensed book was placed at the front of the magazine instead of the back. Hayek found himself a celebrity, addressing a mass market.
The condensed edition was republished for the first time by the IEA in 1999 and has been reissued to meet the continuing demand for its enduringly relevant and accessible message. [via]
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Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Countryby William GreiderISBN 0671675567 (0-671-67556-7)
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Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages : Social Change in England C. 1200-1520by Christopher DyerISBN 0521272157 (0-521-27215-7)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England, C. 1200-1500by Christopher DyerISBN 0521251273 (0-521-25127-3)
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Studies in the Development of Capitalismby M. DobbISBN 0717801977 (0-7178-0197-7)
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Theory of the Leisure Classby Thorstein VeblenISBN 0486280624 (0-486-28062-4)
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Softcover, New Amer Library - The Theory of the Leisure Class: With an Introd. by John Kenneth Galbraith: ISBN 0395140080 (0-395-14008-0)
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The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Presentby David S. LandesISBN 052153402X (0-521-53402-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Wldy Plilosby HeilbronerISBN 0671634828 (0-671-63482-8)
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The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschildby Niall FergusonISBN 0297815393 (0-297-81539-3)
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The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkersby Robert L. HeilbronerISBN 068486214X (0-684-86214-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers'Book summary:What is economics? It is the science of how man satisfies his unlimited wants and needs with limited resources. This science has had many great innovators, and this book introduces the lives and ideas of several of them: namely Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, John Maynard Keynes and Joseph Schumpeter. Written at a level accessible to laymen with a high school reading ability, this makes a great introductory work to the history of economic thought. Largely void of equations and graphs; this is not the book to learn about this curve or that curve. However, this is the book to learn about the development of capitalism, financial markets, socialism, globalization, employment policies, welfare economics, etc... Specifically, the six individuals covered in this book span the 1700s thru the 1900s, and contributed mightily to how governments, businesses, and intellectuals thought about the way people and nations make a living. Each of these economist lived in a different age with unique sets of challenges that faced the prevailing world order at that time. Each would produce works of thought that influenced millions of people. This book shows this relationship between each individual, their times, and their contributions to the body of economic thought. The book is laid out in chronological order, so the reader can see how as history changed, man's view of economics change, and likewise, how each economist's publications in turn changed history. Overall a good book; though somehow incomplete. This book deals solely with six economists of the Anglo-Saxon tradition; Europe and the US from the Industrial Revolution onwards. Other parts of the world such as Asia and the Middle East have contributed just as much to world economics; yet they are fully excluded from this book [via]
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