The open sea

The economic life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome

A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean world In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of ...

A brief natural history of civilization

why a balance between cooperation & competition is vital to humanity

Offering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, noted ecologist Mark Bertness argues that human beings and their civilization are the products of the same self-organization, evolutionary adaptation, and natural selection processes that have created ...

Bankers and Bolsheviks

international finance and the russian revolution

Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the largest sovereign default in history. In Bankers and Bolsheviks, Hassan Malik tells the story of this boom and bust, chronicling the experiences of leading financiers of the day as they navigated ...

The ages of globalization

geography, technology, and institutions

Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale. In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs, renowned economist and expert ...

El cáncer de la economía

la usura

Outsourcing empire

how company-states made the modern world

From Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states—not sovereign states—drove European expansion, building the world’s first ...

The industrialists

how the National Association of Manufacturers shaped American capitalism

Founded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers—NAM—helped make manufacturing the basis of the US economy and a major source of jobs in the twentieth century. The Industrialists traces the history of the advocacy group from its origins to today, examining its role ...

Bread winner

an intimate history of the Victorian economy

Nineteenth century Britain saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation’s wealth. Unable to earn a sufficient income themselves, working-class women were reliant on the ‘breadwinner wage’ of their husbands. When income failed, or was ...

El misterio del dinero

En este conciso y ameno opúsculo, el prestigioso economista José Antonio de Aguirre propone un acercamiento de corte histórico, sin dejar de lado el análisis económico, a la cuestión del dinero. Empieza acercándonos al origen del mismo, para acto seguido detallarnos cómo la plata y ...

Poder, sociedad y fiscalidad en el Señorío de Vizcaya durante la Baja Edad Media

El objetivo de este trabajo se centra fundamentalmente en analizar la conformación de los sistemas fiscales operantes en el Señorío de Vizcaya durante la Baja Edad Media. Partiendo de la premisa de que la fiscalidad es una más de las esferas o ámbitos que conforman ...

La economía y el bienestar público

historia financiera y económica de los Estados Unidos (1914-1946)

Economía y bienestar público (n.º 60 de la Nueva Biblioteca de la Libertad), de Benjamin Anderson, es una obra maestra publicada en 1949 que no podía faltar en la colección dirigida por Jesús Huerta de Soto —quien se encarga de prologar la propia obra ...

4000 años de controles de precios y salarios

Esta obra constituye un valioso y oportuno aporte tanto para nuestro conocimiento como para el debate sobre cómo no combatir a la inflación. A pesar de los ejemplos que brinda la historia, muchos gobiernos y funcionarios públicos sostienen que el control de precios es una ...

Siervos liberados

los movimientos campesinos medievales y el levantamiento inglés de 1381

Los movimientos campesinos que agitaron periódicamente la Edad Media no fueron meros brotes inconexos de violencia. Tuvieron sus raíces en las condiciones políticas y económicas comunes, y en un persistente conflicto entre los campesinos y sus grupos aliados, por una parte, y los terratenientes y ...

La esclavitud a finales del Antiguo Régimen

Madrid, 1701-1837. De moros de presa a negros de nación

"La esclavitud a finales del Antiguo Régimen" nos relata un episodio bastante desconocido de la Historia de España. José Miguel López García reconstruye las peripecias vitales de unos seres humanos que fueron marginados en vida y a los que la historia oficial ha relegado al ...

A history of the world in seven cheap things

a guide to capitalism, nature, and the future of the planet

How has capitalism devastated the planet—and what can we do about it? Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed ...

The fall of the house of Speyer

The story of a banking dynasty

The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the 20th century, Speyer was the third largest investment banking firm in the United States, behind ...

Going the distance

Eurasian trade and the rise of the business corporation, 1400-1700

A historical look at the early evolution of global trade and how this led to the creation and dominance of the European business corporation Before the seventeenth century, trade across Eurasia was mostly conducted in short segments along the Silk Route and Indian Ocean. Business ...

The deals of Warren Buffett

Vol.2: The making of a billionaire

In this second volume of The Deals of Warren Buffett, the story continues as we trace Warren Buffett's journey to his first $1bn. When we left Buffett at the end of Volume 1, he had reached a fortune of $100m. In this enthralling next ...

The stock market boom and crash of 1929 was not a bubble

a book of readings

In the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1929, Yale University Economics Professor Irving Fisher remained steadfast in his view that the boom in prices had been warranted, pointing to the myriad innovations of the 1920s, including the introduction of the electric unit drive ...

El Dólar

Historia de una moneda argentina (1930-2019)

En 2019 con Mauricio Macri, en 1955 con Juan Domingo Perón, en 1976 con la dictadura cívico-militar del Proceso, en 1989 o en 2001 con las presidencias radicales de Raúl Alfonsín y Fernando de la Rúa, en cada punto de inflexión histórica en la Argentina ...