BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History

The Invention of Scarcity

Malthus and the Margins of History

Yale Agrarian Studies Series

by Deborah Valenze

We Need to Talk About Inflation

Six Urgent Lessons from the Last Two Thousand Years

by Stephen D. King

The Coming of the Railway

A New Global History, 1750-1850

by David Gwyn

Seven Crashes

The Economic Crises that Shaped Globalization

by Harold James

Adventurers

The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650

by David Howarth

Mao and Markets

The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise

by Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao

The Long Shadow of Default

Britain’s Unpaid War Debts to the United States, 1917-2020

by David James Gill

Time for Socialism

Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021

by Thomas Piketty

The Economic Weapon

The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

by Nicholas Mulder

The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War

by Alexander J. Field

The Rise and Decline of Nations

Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

Veritas Paperbacks

by Mancur Olson

Introduction by Edward L Glaeser

Global Calvinism

Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800

by Charles H. Parker

The Overseas Trade of British America

A Narrative History

by Thomas M. Truxes

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul

Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America

by Samuel Evan Milner

Merchants

The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650

by Edmond Smith

Trade Wars Are Class Wars

How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

by Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis