Ekonomisk historia

Hur stor betydelse har egentligen dramatiska ekonomiska händelser i vår egen tid? Är de långsamma förändringarna i samhällets struktur mer avgörande för samhällsutvecklingen? I Sveriges ekonomiska historia belyser Lars Magnusson båda dessa rörelse...

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THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire generation and set the stage for the horrors of the Se...

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I Kapitalismens dynamik sammanfattar den franske historikern Fernand Braudel resultaten av sin mångåriga forskning om kapitalismens framväxt. Han skildrar köpmännens verksamhet i städerna, i fjärrhandeln, på de framväxande kapitalmarknaderna och h...

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'This book is an excellent explanation of why capitalism is not just successful, but morally right' Elon Musk 'A joyful counterblast... packed with vivid examples... decisive' The Economist 'Compelling... Masterful' D...

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A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist. Creativity is one of American societys signature value...

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How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didnt help) their communities in times of crisis The rich have always fascinated, sometimes in problematic ways. Medieval t...

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If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is. From the industrial revolution and the rise of China, to urbanisation and the bi...

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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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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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Lucid and damning an absorbing and infuriating tale of complicity, coverup and denial PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third ...

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A comprehensive and profoundly relevant history of interest from one of the world's leading financial writers, The Price of Time explains our current global financial position and how we got here The tradition of charging interest on l...

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WINNER OF THE 2015 BANCROFT PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2015 PHILIP TAFT PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 CUNDHILL PRIZE IN HISTORICAL LITERATURE Economist BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 'Knowledgeable and stunn...

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The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley. Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology ...

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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts's approach to leveraged buyouts was an important aspect of the corporate restructuring and governance reforms in the American economy from the mid-1970s through 1990. During that period, KKR crafted a series of progressivel...

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Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and revolution, its members seemed more intent on negotiating contracts with the Kerensky government, and...

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A sweeping intellectual history of the concept of economic scarcityits development across five hundred years of European thought and its decisive role in fostering the climate crisis. Modern economics presumes a particular view of scarcity, in whi...

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The rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of entrepreneurs, users, and workers. The early Internet was a lawless place, populated by scam artists who made buying or selling anything online risky business. Then Amazon...

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A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year An intellectual excursion of a kind rarely offered by modern economics. Foreign Affairs Thomas Pikettys Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent years. But...

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The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, ageing populations. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer, Niall Ferguson ar...

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The history of nations is a history of haves and have-nots, and as we approach the millennium, the gap between rich and poor countries is widening. In this engrossing and important new work, eminent historian David Landes explores the complex, fas...

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One of TIME magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books One of Times Literary Supplement's Hundred Most Influential Books Since the War One of National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century One of Intercollegiate Studi...

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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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Ekonomisk kulturhistoria Bildkonst, konsthantverk och scenkonst 1720-1850 Det svenska 1700-talets kulturhistoria var inte bara estetisk, den var också materiell. Boken fokuserar på en förbisedd men central aspekt av 1700-talets kulturella guldålde...

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No, this isn't a book about joining some fringe cult. It's a book by LEGO fans, for LEGO fans, and you and your kids will love it. In The Cult of LEGO , Wired 's GeekDad blogger John Baichtal and BrickJournal founder Joe Meno take you on a magnifi...

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Thoughtful, probinga worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China. William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lead? It is tempting to attribute the rise of China to D...

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A behind-the-scenes look at Wall Street's top banker Following the eleventh-hour rescue of Bear Stearns by JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon's profile reached stratospheric levels. And while the deals and decisions he's made have usually turne...

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For the first time the complete financial history of Berkshire Hathaway is available under one cover in chronological format. Beginning at the origins of the predecessor companies in the textile industry, the reader can examine the development of ...

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Glasbruksregionen med den populära benämningen glasriket är belägen i östra Kronobergs och sydvästra Kalmar län. Den etablerades under andra hälften av 1800-talet och nådde sin blomstring under 1900-talets första hälft. Som mest fanns bortåt fyrti...

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Paperback edition of the history of bureaucracy, from the author of "Debt: The First 5,000 Years". A powerful work of social theory in the tradition of Foucault and Marx, it reveals how bureaucracy shapes our lives in ways we may not eve...

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Not long after the death of his father, whose heart gave out suddenly in November 1967, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter his father had written when his four sons were small. "My dear boys," it began when you are ...

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