The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money’s Prophets: 1798-1848 – $195
Founded in the late 18th century by expatriate German Jews, the London-based House of Rothschild was within decades the largest banking enterprise in the world. Its principals controlled a vast portion...
View ArticleThe End of Money and the Future of Civilization – $285
Like the proverbial fish who doesn’t know what water is, we swim in an economy built on money that few of us comprehend, and, most definitely, what we don’t know is hurting us.Very few people realize...
View ArticleThe Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism – $275
For over forty years, David Harvey has been one of the world’s most trenchant and critical analysts of capitalist development. In The Enigma of Capital, he delivers an impassioned account of how...
View ArticleDebt: The First 5,000 Years – $425
Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem...
View ArticlePaper Promises: Debt, Money, and the New World Order – $325
For the past forty years western economies have splurged on debt. Now, as the reality dawns that many debts cannot be repaid, we find ourselves again in crisis. But the oncoming defaults have a...
View ArticleThe Money Laundry: Regulating Criminal Finance in the Global Economy – $495
A generation ago not a single country had laws to counter money laundering; now, more countries have standardized anti-money laundering (AML) policies than have armed forces. In The Money Laundry, J....
View ArticleThe Lovely Horrible Stuff – $245
Money makes the world go round, as they say… but how, exactly? Award-winning graphic novelist Eddie Campbell (From Hell, Alec) presents a fascinating journey into the wilderness of personal finance....
View ArticleThe Making of the Indebted Man: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition...
The Making of the Indebted Man. The debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of this book, sharpens mechanisms of exploitation and domination indiscriminately, since, in it, there is no...
View ArticleThe Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created...
The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America’s political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America’s enormous wealth ought to be “distributed more evenly.”...
View ArticleAll the Presidents’ Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power –...
Who rules America? All the Presidents’ Bankers is a groundbreaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and...
View ArticleFlash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt – $285
Four years after his #1 bestseller The Big Short, Michael Lewis returns to Wall Street to report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets. Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street...
View ArticleHow to Worry Less about Money Paperback – $195
Our relationship with money is one that lasts a lifetime. It can be as important as family life, as competitive as work, and as exciting and secretive as love. Yet books about money tend to take one of...
View ArticleInequality and the 1% – $325
Since the great recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich have...
View ArticleThe Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy...
In this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis explodes the myth that financialization, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed, and globalization were the causes of the global economic...
View ArticleThe Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the...
Bitcoin became a buzzword overnight. A cyber-enigma with an enthusiastic following, it pops up in headlines and fuels endless media debate. You can apparently use it to buy anything from coffee to...
View ArticleProfiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All – $395
Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy during the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is. Profiting...
View ArticleInequality: What Can Be Done? – $475
Inequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World War II, it has recently returned with a vengeance. We all know the scale of the problem―talk about the 99% and...
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