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Capital Rules : The Construction of Global Finance
Rawi Abdelal
Hardcover - $102.95
Author Interview Podcast"Rawi Abdelal speaks about his new book in a feature hosted and produced by Heron & Crane (right-click or option-click to download the 8.5 min., 7.7mb MP3 file)."
The rise of global financial markets in the last decades of ...
A Place of Their Own : Family Farming in Eastern Finland
Ray Abrahams
Paperback - $88.95
Based on field research in eastern Finland not far from the Russian border, this book is an account of the main features of rural society in the area. It pays detailed attention to the adaptability of farming families in a rapidly changing world. Sub ...
A Mediterranean Emporium
David Abulafia
Paperback - $92.95
The Catalan kingdom of Majorca was established under the will of King James I of Aragon, who conquered Majorca in 1229, but it was ruled from 1276 to 1343 by a cadet dynasty. The kingdom included the key business centers of Montpellier and Perpignan, ...
Minted : The Story of the World's Money
Johnny Acton
Hardcover - $27.95
Ever wonder who the famous figures are on various banknotes and how the concept of "paying the bearer" first originated? This monetary miscellany of unusual banknotes tells the story of different nations' notes (like the unusual Faroese Krona) and th ...
Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West
Jeffrey S. Adler
Paperback - $88.95
In 1850 St. Louis was the commercial capital of the West. By 1860, however, Chicago had supplanted St. Louis and became the great metropolis of the region. This book explains the rapid ascent and the abrupt collapse of the Missouri city. It devotes p ...
A Japanese Approach to Political Economy : Unoist Variations
Sekkine Albritton
Hardcover - $285.95
Kozo Uno influenced a whole generation of marxian political economists in post World War II Japan. Thomas Sekine worked closely with Uno in Japan and later came to York University in Toronto, where he introduced Uno's ideas to Canadian scholars. Seki ...
Specters of Capitalism : A Critique of Current Intellectual Fashions
Samir Amin
Paperback - $33.95
Amin, one of the most influential economists today, examines the changing notion of crisis in capitalism; misconceptions of the free market model; the various distortions of Marx's method; the role of culture in revolutions; the decline of the "law o ...
Explaining Long-Term Economic Change
J. L. Anderson
Paperback - $41.95
This book provides an introduction to, and critical review of, the competing models that have been developed to explain long-term and large-scale economic change. An acquaintance with these models is necessary for an understanding of the processes th ...
Banking and Business in the Roman World
Jean Andreau
Paperback - $72.95
This is the first book to present a synthetic view of Roman banking and financial life from the fourth century BC to the end of the third century AD. It describes the business deals of the elite and the professional bankers and the interventions of t ...