Ekonomisk historia

A New York Times #1 Bestseller An Amazon #1 Bestseller A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Sunday Times Bestseller A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Ye...

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**THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** The most recognisable economist on the planet, Yanis Varoufakis, puts forth his case to reform an EU that currently fails it weakest citizens. In this startling account of Europe's economic rise and catas...

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Under de senaste tre hundra åren har världen förändrats på ett genomgripande sätt. Fattiga bondesamhällen har blivit rika industri- och tjänstesamhällen. Tidigare var hunger och för tidig död en del av vardagen, men i dag är livsvillkoren bättre ä...

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RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this ...

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Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history within a global context, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianisation, t...

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George Louis Beer Prize Winner Wallace K. Ferguson Prize Finalist A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year "A groundbreaking contribution?Intellectual history at its best." -Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? I...

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¿ Under 1900-talet blev Sverige världens jämlikaste land. Inkomstfördelningen var jämn, klassresorna många och det politiska deltagandet stort och relativt jämnt fördelat i befolkningen. Sverige var ett föregångsland som debatterades över hela vär...

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Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands o...

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A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powers When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center the moment of i...

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Continuing the thematic strand of the successful and proven British Library '100 Maps' series, this new volume traces the fully international history of railways from their beginnings in the north-west of England through to the inter-continental l...

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Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and international bestselling author of Principles -¿whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide -¿shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well. T...

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From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone We are living in an age when economic failings have...

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Historien om Sidenvägen, den viktiga länken mellan öst och väst, speglar människans drömmar om rikedom och välstånd. Genom heta öknar och över farliga bergspass färdades karavaner med mängder dyrbara varor. Främst eftertraktat var siden, det legen...

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A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND FORTUNE MAGAZINE. The epic story of how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest financial heists in history. In 2015, rumours began circulating that billions of dollars had ...

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Den 12 mars 1932 hittades Ivar Kreuger liggande död på sängen i sin Parisvåning. Han var fullt påklädd och han höll en automatpistol i sin vänstra hand. Ivar Kreuger var ägare till en världsomspännande koncern och rankades som en bland världens ri...

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In the Eighth Edition of this classic text on the financial history of bubbles and crashes, Robert McCauley joins with Robert Aliber in building on Charles Kindleberger's renowned work. McCauley draws on ¿his central banking experience to introduc...

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A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in the field "A whistle-stop introduction to the great works and thinkers of each age, this is a clear...

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It's rare that a book appears with a fresh perspective on world affairs, but renowned economist Ha-Joon Chang has some startlingly original things to say about the future of globalization. In theory, he argues, the world's wealthiest countries and...

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In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its h...

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När drygt en miljon svenskar emigrerade till USA under decennierna kring sekelskiftet 1900 öppnade sig nya affärsmöjligheter för driftiga entreprenörer. I New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Seattle och många andra storstäder grundade affä...

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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 Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free...

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A provocative new theory of "the economy," its history, and its politics that better unites history and economics What is the economy, really? Is it a "market sector," a "general equilibrium," or the "gross domestic product"? Economics today has b...

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