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Dominic Frisby
The Secret History of Gold

'Essential reading'Rory Sutherland, author of Alchemy'Possibly the best-timed book ever' Merryn Somerset Webb, BloombergGold (noun): A precious, yellow metal, prized for its beauty. Inert, immune to corro…

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Matthias Beimler
Betriebliche Stiftungen in Bayern im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert

Die ältesten heute noch existierenden bayerischen Stiftungen entstanden bereits im Mittelalter. Während der staatlichen Verwaltungsreformen des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts erfolgte eine Dreiteilung in Wohltät…

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Christoph Links
Verschwundene Verlage

Warum verschwanden in der DDR so viele Verlage?Zum Ende der DDR gab es nur noch 78 zugelassene Verlage, obwohl von der Sowjetischen Militäradministration nach 1945 mehr als 200 eine Genehmigung erhalten h…

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Nadia Almasalkhi, Daniel Egel, Aaron B Frank
U.S.-China Economic Competition

U.S.-China competition, including economic competition, has come to define U.S. foreign policy since 2017. This report, the first of a four-part series, includes economic and institutional analyses of U.S…

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Michael Hiltzik
Golden State

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation."---Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring RevolutionFrom…

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Daniel Cohen
A Brief History of the Economy

Economic growth is the religion of the modern world. It promises a solution to the most basic drama of our human existence: wanting what we don't have. But we live in a time when the frenzied pursuit of e…

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Gijs Dreijer
Private Entrepreneurship and European Imperialism

Palgrave Studies in Economic History

This open access book presents a groundbreaking new perspective on European imperialism in Africa, by focusing on the role of Dutch private entrepreneurs in colonial activities during the so-called 'Scram…

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Bronwen Everill
Africonomics

'A historically insightful read' Financial Times'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic impe…

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Rémy Herrera
A People's History of Cuba, 1492-Present

This book presents a comprehensive history of the political economy of Cuba from 1492 to the present day. It chronologically analyses the major economic, social and political transformations that have occ…

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Melvin John
Preisfreiheit als Bedingung der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft

Rechtsordnung und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, wbv Publikation

The monetary and economic reform of June 1948 is considered the birth of the social market economy in Germany. Melvin John examines the history of ideas that led to the liberalisation of consumer goods pr…

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Irina España-Eljaiek
Historic Racial Exclusion and Subnational Socio-economic Outcomes in Colombia

This book examines the geo-racialized order of the Colombian state and its consequences for Afro-descendant territories. To do so, it employs a historical institutional approach tracing racial exclusion a…

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Stefan Schäfer, Cory S. Wanek, Ann-Stephane Schäfer
The Euro and its history

With their common currency, the Europeans embarked on an experiment in 1999 that is unique in the history of money. It was preceded by numerous attempts to complement the advancing political integration s…

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Brendan Greeley
The Almighty Dollar

In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money---and the people and nations who h…

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Jon Roberts
The Cost of Cool

The city of Austin consistently leads lists of fastest-growing and most-desirable places to live---a simultaneous source of pride and anxiety for residents. In The Cost of Cool: Austin's Tech Growth and t…

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The Economics of Economists

The profession of academic economics has been widely criticized for being excessively dependent on technical models based on unrealistic assumptions about rationality and individual behavior, and yet it r…

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Dominic Frisby
The Secret History of Gold

Revealing the sweeping saga of the world's oldest---and most treasured---currency, this is the first definitive history of gold.The Secret History of Gold tells the sparkling, eye-opening, and definitive …

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Partha Dasgupta
On Natural Capital

From the man that the New York Timescalls "the most important person you've never heard of," renowned Cambridge University economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, comes a paradigm shifting treatise, aski…

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Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson
Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

The role of slavery in driving Britain's economic development is often debated, but seldom given a central place. In their remarkable new book, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson 'follow the money' to document in…

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Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
The Hidden Globe

'This book did nothing less than make me re-see the world . . . Original, and very clever' - Sathnam Sanghera, author of EmpirelandBorders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist's ri…

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Madeleine Lynch Dungy
Order and Rivalry

The First World War transformed the legal and geopolitical framework for international trade by decentring Europe in global markets. Order and Rivalry traces the formation and development of multilateral …

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