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  • Financial Politics in the United States in the 1890s

    The Golden Web

    by Wyatt Wells ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In the 1890s, the choice between the gold standard and the free coinage of silver upended American politics. The gold standard linked the United States to the larger international financial system, in which gold was the common denominator. The free coinage of silver would effectively sever these ties by devaluing the dollar. The gold standard allowed the U.S. to secure vast amounts of foreign ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Antitrust and the Formation of the Postwar World

    by Wyatt Wells ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History
    Today antitrust law shapes the policy of almost every large company, no matter where headquartered. But this wasn't always the case. Before World War II, the laws of most industrial countries tolerated and even encouraged cartels, whereas American statutes banned them. In the wake of World War II, the United States devoted considerable resources to building a liberal economic order, which ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Permanent Revolution

    Reflections on Capitalism

    by Wyatt Wells ...
    Permanent Revolution concisely describes the development and workings of capitalism and its influence on the broader society. In the developed world—Europe, North America, and parts of East Asia—capitalism is ubiquitous, and as such, often taken for granted. Discussion usually focuses on specific aspects of the system that individuals appreciate or dislike, ignoring the larger picture. The notion ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Olfaction in Animal Behaviour and Welfare

    by Dr Luisa Amo, Dr Raimund Apfelbach, Dr J. Elizabeth Bolhuis, Dr Vincent Bombail, Dr Roisin Campbell-Palmer, Dr Caroline Clouard, Dr Laurent Dormont, Dr Markus Fendt, Dr Peter Hepper, Dr Tadeusz Jezierski, Dr Olivia Le Moëne0, Dr Frédéric Levy1, Dr Nicolas Meunier2, Dr Raymond Nowak3, Dr Marije Oostindjer4, Dr Olivier Rampin5, Dr Frank Rosell6, Dr Roland Salesse7, Dr Burton Slotnick8, Dr Deborah Wells9, Dr Tristram D. Wyatt0, Birte L Nielsen2 ...
    Evidence-based, yet entirely practical, this important new text builds upon the basics of neuroscience to describe the links between olfaction and animal behaviour, and the effects of odours in animal welfare. Animals use smells in a multitude of ways: to orientate themselves, to create social bonds, to recognise food, to initiate reproduction, and to avoid predators and imminent threats such as ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

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  • The Battle of Bretton Woods

    John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

    by Benn Steil ...
    When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization. The ... Read more

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  • And the Weak Suffer What They Must?

    Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future

    by Yanis Varoufakis ...
    A #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK]A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and malice, promoting inequality and austerity. The whole world has a stake in a victory for rationality, liberty, democracy, and humanism.In January 2015, Yanis Varoufakis, an economics professor teaching in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • FDR's Folly

    How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

    by Jim Powell ...
    The Great Depression and the New Deal. For generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for masterfully reining in the Depression’s destructive effects and propping up thecountry on his New Deal platform. In fact, FDR has achieved mythical status in ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Populist Temptation

    Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era

    by Barry Eichengreen ...
    Populism of the right and left has spread like wildfire throughout the world. The impulse reached its apogee in the United States with the election of Trump, but it was a force in Europe ever since the Great Recession sent the European economy into a prolonged tailspin. In the simplest terms, populism is a political ideology that vilifies economic and political elites and instead lionizes 'the ... Read more

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  • Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century

    by Jeffry A. Frieden ...
    "Magisterial history...one of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written." —Michael Hirsh, New York Times Book ReviewIn 1900 international trade reached unprecedented levels and the world's economies were more open to one another than ever before. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. Yet the entire edifice collapsed in a few ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Land of Promise

    An Economic History of the United States

    by Michael Lind ...
    Michael Lind's Land of Promise is "[an] ambitious economic history of the United States . . . rich with details" ( New York Times Book Review).How did a weak collection of former British colonies become an industrial, financial, and military colossus?From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the American economy has been transformed by wave after wave of emerging technology: the steam ... Read more

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  • The Great Depression And The New Deal: A Very Short Introduction

    by Eric Rauchway ...
    The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures. Rauchway first describes how the roots of the Great Depression lay in America's post-war economic policies--described ... Read more

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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal

    by Robert P. Murphy ...
    In this timely new P.I. Guide, Murphy reveals the stark truth: free market failure didn't cause the Great Depression and the New Deal didn't cure it. Shattering myths and politically correct lies, he tells why World War II didn t help the economy or get us out of the Great Depression; why it took FDR to make the Depression Great; and why Herbert Hoover was more like Obama and less like Bush than ... Read more

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