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 concise and rigorous introduction to widely used approaches in structural econometric modeling
A cutting-edge introduction to key topics in modern economic theory for first-year graduate students in economics and related fields
The most authoritative and up-to-date core econometrics textbook available
A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world
A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the mathematics that all economics students need to know
An essential introduction to one of the most timely and important subjects in economics
An introductory finance textbook for the healthcare industry
An innovative advanced-undergraduate and graduate-level textbook in urban economics
An authoritative and comprehensive graduate textbook on the modern insurance sector
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 the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the right
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
How financial crises are inherent features of macroeconomic dynamics
From the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of U.S. economic policy from Kennedy to Biden—filled with lessons for today
Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-being
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 classic history of economic thought through the ages—now fully updated and expanded
An incisive guide that helps up-and-coming economists become successful scholars
How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economy
The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s—and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions today
The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free markets
From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today’s intangible economy
An authoritative economic history of Israel from its founding to the present
What all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and beyond
An authoritative guide to federal democracy from two respected experts in the field
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 New York Times Bestseller
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020
How medieval Dutch society laid the foundations for modern capitalism
A historical look at the early evolution of global trade and how this led to the creation and dominance of the European business corporation
How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit
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
Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970s
A comprehensive introduction to mathematical and agent-based modeling of social behavior
An invaluable primer on the role economic reasoning plays in campus debate and decision making
An integrated approach to the economics of sovereign default
The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independence
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
A history of the extraordinary society that has touched all aspects of British life
An indispensable investigation into the American unemployment system and the ways gender and class affect the lives of those looking for work