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Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. But historian Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What's more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind...
2) The state must provide: why America's colleges have always been unequal--and how to set them right
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"Presents a definitive chronicle of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher education, weaving through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States." --
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"Robert J. Shiller, Co-Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics" "Winner of the 2012 Business Book Award in Finance & Economics, 800-CEO-READ" "Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award in Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers" "Winner of the 2013 Bronze Medal Book Award in Economics, Axiom Business" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012" "Shortlisted for the 2012 Best Finance Books in China, Caijing Magazine"...
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"Winner of the 2013 Spear's Book Award in Financial History" "Co-Winner of the 2014 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards" "One of The Motley Fool's (John Reeves) 10 Great Books on American Economic History 2014" "One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best History Books of 2013" "One of Bloomberg News' Top Business Books of 2013" "One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Nonfiction Books of the Year for 2013 in Business and Economics" "One of Bloomberg/Businessweek...
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A leading international finance expert reveals how our national security depends on our financial security. America's first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, identified the Revolutionary War debt as a threat to the nation's creditworthiness and its very existence. In response, he established financial principles for securing the country--principles that endure to this day. Here, one of America's leading experts on international finance...
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W.W. Norton & Company
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[2016]
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"The best-selling author of Naked Statistics and Naked Economics explores the colorful world of money and banking to answer such questions as how money creation is used to counter financial crises, why the shared European currency has caused so much trouble and how Bitcoin will impact the future." --
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"The global financial system has enormous influence on the day-to-day lives of billions, yet is shrouded in mystery and poorly understood. Through narrative-driven reporting, vivid storytelling, and perceptive analysis Michael Casey brings to light the distorted, dysfunctional global economic system that benefits a tiny elite but leaves the rest of the world's population powerless. In ways that wonkish tomes cannot, this anecdote-rich account of the...
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"From investors and monetary authorities to governments and policy makers, almost everyone had assumed inflation was dead and buried. But now people the world over are confronting a poisonous new economic reality and, with it, the prospect of vast and increasing wealth inequality. How have we arrived in this situation? And what, if anything, can we do about it? Celebrated economist Stephen D. King--one of the few to warn ahead of time about the latest...
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For the entire history of human civilization, gold has enraptured people around the globe. The Nazis were no less enthralled by it and felt gold was the solution to funding Hitler's war machine. Gold was also on the mind of FDR across the Atlantic, as he worked with Europe's other leaders to bring the United States and the rest of the world out of a severe depression. FDR was hardly the first head of state to turn to gold in difficult times. Throughout...
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Oxford University Press
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2019.
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"Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce--the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. Drawing...
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Chimerica Media Limited
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[2009]
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Bestselling author, economist and historian Niall Ferguson takes a look at how money evolved, from the concept of credit and debt in the Renaissance to the emergence of a global economy and the subprime crisis we face today.
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Carol Pub. Group
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[1991]
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Marvin Miller was the first executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. The story of his experiences in baseball is a compelling one. No one else can take fans into the conference room where headline-making deals of the past quarter century were hammered out. Many can cite the career statistics of such stars as Willie Mays, Tom Seaver and Reggie Jackson; no one but Miller can reveal how these players and other greats behave...
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