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
What people believe about the economy鈥攁nd why it matters
A study of the changes in wealth and its distribution in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Paris that maps the interplay among wealth, inequality, and welfare
A new theory of prejudice reduction, supported by rigorous evidence, arguing that public institutions and the people within them can improve intergroup relations in conflict-ridden societies
An empirical analysis and new theoretical framework for understanding economic expectations and decision-making in different historical settings.
A foundational treatment of discrete choice models, with a focus on random utility models
A graduate-level, mathematically rigorous introduction to the tools, methods, and approaches used in contemporary quantitative finance
An authoritative textbook based on the legendary economics course taught at the University of Chicago鈥攏ow fully updated and expanded
A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policy
The new path for economic development that India must create
Marx for the twenty-first century
The first new English translation in fifty years鈥攁nd the only one based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself
Featuring extensive original commentary, including a foreword by acclaimed political theorist Wendy Brown
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A novel perspective on monetary and fiscal policy that views money as the equity capital of a nation
How the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequality
The geopolitics of American law enforcement and how it changed corporate criminal accountability in other countries
Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-being
An authoritative economic history of Israel from its founding to the present
The untold story of the role of humanitarian NGOs in building the neoliberal order after empire
A bold new conception of the republic for a planet in crisis
How large American retailers outgrew the capacity of government to regulate them
When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significance
A timely new critique of capitalism鈥檚 persistent failure to value nature
A new account of how Haiti under French colonial rule became a violent sugar plantation state
How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state鈥檚 desire to control its citizens
An innovative introduction to economic behavior that uses interactive experiments to promote experience-based discovery
An incisive overview of the macroeconomics of financial crises鈥攅ssential reading for students and policy experts alike
A masterful history of the queer workforce in America
A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era
From award-winning economic historian Sanford M. Jacoby, a fascinating and important study of the labor movement and shareholder capitalism
The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality鈥攁 critically important examination of poverty around the world
Tools from macroeconomics and finance to incorporate the central role that data plays in the economy
How new technology is rapidly changing the nature of money and the way we pay
Why Britain鈥檚 attempt at small government proved unable to cope with the challenges of the modern world
A staggering new account of the civilian death toll of the world wars鈥攁nd what it reveals about the true nature and cost of modern war
From the world鈥檚 leading expert on negotiation, an essential guide to negotiating in any situation鈥攚hether over Zoom, across political and cultural divides, or during a supply chain crisis
A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalized and appalled his contemporaries鈥攁nd made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth century
How Chile became home to the world鈥檚 most radical free-market experiment鈥攁nd what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globe
A Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek Book of the Year
Why our banking system is broken鈥攁nd what we must do to fix it
A cutting-edge introduction to key topics in modern economic theory for first-year graduate students in economics and related fields
The most authoritative and up-to-date core econometrics textbook available
A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the mathematics that all economics students need to know
An essential introduction to one of the most timely and important subjects in economics
An introductory finance textbook for the healthcare industry
An innovative advanced-undergraduate and graduate-level textbook in urban economics
A comprehensive account of how government deficits and debt drive inflation
An authoritative and comprehensive graduate textbook on the modern insurance sector
Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today鈥檚 economy?
How financial crises are inherent features of macroeconomic dynamics
A unified framework for understanding monetary policy, including recent unprecedented interventions by central banks
How the creation of a new banking infrastructure in the early twentieth century established the United States as a global financial power
A provocative new theory of 鈥渢he economy,鈥� its history, and its politics that better unites history and economics
How the creation of money and monetary policy can be more democratic
An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became 鈥渁 great engine of state鈥�
"In this masterly book, [Alfani] offers an insightful long-run perspective and fascinating lessons for the future. A must-read!"鈥擳homas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A sweeping narrative that shows how the rich historically justified themselves by...
From the Nobel Prize鈥搘inning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist鈥檚 craft
Why 鈥渁porophobia鈥濃�攔ejection of the poor鈥攊s one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight it
A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink him鈥攁nd why he matters
A comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America鈥攁nd how it continues to divide the haves from the have-nots
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War
How the euro survived a series of crises, and how to make it more resilient
The strange and contested evolution of the management of banking risk
An invaluable guide for scholars stifled by the traditional academic route