Economics & Finance
How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didn’t help) their communities in times of crisis
How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun—from lower test scores to higher crime rates—and how we might tackle them today
A novel perspective on monetary and fiscal policy that views money as the equity capital of a nation
A Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek Book of the Year
Why our banking system is broken—and 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
A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the mathematics that all economics students need to know
How the development of legal and financial institutions transformed Britain into the world’s first capitalist country
A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era
How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment—and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globe
Why most Americans’ finances improved during the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression—and the policy choices that made this possible
An incisive overview of the macroeconomics of financial crises—essential reading for students and policy experts alike
From the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of U.S. economic policy from Kennedy to Biden—filled with lessons for today
Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics
A renowned economic historian traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home
An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages
From a Nobel Prize–winning pioneer in environmental economics, an innovative account of how and why “green thinking” could cure many of the world’s most serious problems—from global warming to pandemics
A pioneering account of the surging global tide of market power—and how it stifles workers around the world
How the “First State” has enabled international crime, sheltered tax dodgers, and diverted hard-earned dollars from the rest of us
From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive
How the greatest thinkers in finance changed the field and how their wisdom can help investors today
An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became “a great engine of state”
The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s—and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions today
From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today’s intangible economy
What all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and beyond
A Nobel Prize–winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuries
A historical look at the early evolution of global trade and how this led to the creation and dominance of the European business corporation
From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic economic effects
From award-winning economic historian Sanford M. Jacoby, a fascinating and important study of the labor movement and shareholder capitalism
Economics professor and amateur detective Henry Spearman tackles a mystery where the price of art is murder
Professor and amateur detective Henry Spearman trails a killer in the UK, using economics to try to solve the case
Professor and amateur sleuth Henry Spearman uses economics to try to solve a murder while on a Caribbean vacation
An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval Europe
How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithms
An indispensable investigation into the American unemployment system and the ways gender and class affect the lives of those looking for work
A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policy
A pioneering exploration of the defining traits and contradictions of our relationship to the future through the lens of discounting
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 Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path” between laissez-faire capitalism and communism
The geopolitics of American law enforcement and how it changed corporate criminal accountability in other countries
How China’s economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of surveillance over all aspects of life
An account that challenges the conventional views of African merchants under colonialism, examining the emergence and changing fortunes of indigenous entrepreneurs in Lagos, Nigeria
A remedy for the gap between micro and macro data, making measures of inequality and national income consistent with each other
Why “aporophobia”—rejection of the poor—is one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight it
A practical guide to effective grant writing for researchers at all stages of their academic careers
Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’t
A remarkable look at how the growth, technology, and politics of high-frequency trading have altered global financial markets
A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature—and what can be done to fight it
How redesigning your syllabus can transform your teaching, your classroom, and the way your students learn
Financial econometrics is a great success story in economics. Econometrics uses data and statistical inference methods, together with structural and descriptive modeling, to address rigorous economic problems. Its development within the...
In War, Wine, and Taxes, John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs—notably on French wine—as a mercantilist tool to...
In the Cold War, "development" was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development...
An in-depth look at how employers today perceive and evaluate job applicants with nonstandard or precarious employment histories
A tidyverse edition of the acclaimed textbook on data analysis and statistics for the social sciences and allied fields
An ideal textbook for complete beginners—teaches from scratch R, statistics, and the fundamentals of quantitative social science
How new parents in low-wage jobs juggle the demands of work and childcare, and the easy ways employers can help
A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern world
A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink him—and why he matters
A comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America—and how it continues to divide the haves from the have-nots
A behind-the-scenes look at how the rich and powerful use offshore shell corporations to conceal their wealth and make themselves richer
An up-close account of how Nigerians’ self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state power
The first comprehensive study of Pliny the Elder’s economic thought—and its implications for understanding the Roman Empire’s constrained innovation and economic growth
How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
"This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement."—Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes
A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present
A radical new approach to economic policy that addresses the symptoms and causes of inequality in Western society today
How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world’s first genuinely global order
A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern China
Slicing through blunt theories of supply and demand, Callon presents a rigorously researched but counterintuitive model of how everyday market activity gets produced.
An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations
A groundbreaking study that shows how countries can create innovative, production-based economies for the twenty-first century