Economics & Finance
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award
How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapse
New, practical approaches to confronting today鈥檚 most daunting global issues
Two leading economists reveal why today鈥檚 personal finance markets are rigged against us and offer practical steps to fix them
Over one million copies sold worldwide
The international and #1 New York Times bestseller
The anniversary edition of the acclaimed book that reveals why bullshit is more dangerous than lying
A 2,500-year history of international currencies that reveals new insights about the future of the U.S. dollar鈥攁s well as crypto and central bank digital currencies
Beneath the Wage retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated
An empirically powerful account of why interpersonal violence across the globe exacts a far greater cumulative cost on society than war and terrorism combined
A comprehensive look at inequalities and why they matter
How the social organization of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millennium
What happens when children become investment projects and child-rearing becomes exhausting labor
A radical revision鈥攁nd worker鈥檚-eye view鈥攐f everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economy
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE
How a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capital
A new interpretation of the American Revolution as a transformative monetary contest
Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award
A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world
The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peace
How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun鈥攆rom lower test scores to higher crime rates鈥攁nd how we might tackle them today
How the development of legal and financial institutions transformed Britain into the world鈥檚 first capitalist country
How the antitax fringe went mainstream鈥攁nd now threatens America鈥檚 future
How the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the right