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In early modern Europe, and particularly in the Netherlands, commercial empires were held together as much by cities as by unified nation states.David Ormrod here takes a regional economy as his preferred unit of analysis, the North Sea economy: an interlocking network of trades shaped by public and private interests, and the matrix within which Anglo-Dutch competition, borrowing and collaboration took shape.He shows how England''s increasingly coherent mercantilist objectives undermined Dutch commercial hegemony, in ways which contributed to the restructuring of the North Sea staplemarket system. The commercial revolution has rightly been identified with product diversification and the expansion of long-distance trading, but the reorganization of England''s nearby European trades was equally important, providing the foundation for eighteenth-century commercial growth and facilitating the expansion of the Atlantic economy.With the Anglo-Scottish union of 1707, the last piece of a national British entrepot system was put into place.

The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powerful companies dominate key industries that affect our daily lives. Digital monopolies like Google, Facebook and Amazon act as gatekeepers to the digital world. Amazon is capturing almost all online shopping dollars. We have the illusion of choice, but for most critical decisions, we have only one or two companies, when it comes to high speed Internet, health insurance, medical care, mortgage title insurance, social networks, Internet searches, or even consumer goods like toothpaste. Every day, the average American transfers a little of their pay check to monopolists and oligopolists. The solution is vigorous anti-trust enforcement to return America to a period where competition created higher economic growth, more jobs, higher wages and a level playing field for all. The Myth of Capitalism is the story of industrial concentration, but it matters to everyone, because the stakes could not be higher. It tackles the big questions of: why is the US becoming a more unequal society, why is economic growth anemic despite trillions of dollars of federal debt and money printing, why the number of start-ups has declined, and why are workers losing out.

Finance serves the rich and powerful We need to democratize it

The New York Times bestseller by business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America s most mysterious institutions the Federal Reserve to show how its policies over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our country s economic stability at risk

Distinguished British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) set off a series of movements that dramatically altered the ways in which economists view the world. In his most important work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936), Keynes critiqued the laissez faire policies of the day, particularly the proposition that a normally functioning market economy will bring full employment. Keynes' forward-looking work transformed economics from merely a descriptive and analytic discipline to one that is policy-oriented. For Keynes, enlightened government intervention in a nation's economic life was essential to curbing what he saw as the inherent inequalities and instabilities of unregulated capitalism.

John Maynard Keynes is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the 20th century He ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx and his impact on how economics was practiced from the Great Depression to t

Explore the key milestones in the field of economics broken down clearly and simply with The Economics Book Learn about economics in this overview guide to the subject which is brilliant for novices looking to learn more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format The Economics Book brings a fresh vibrant take on the topic breaking it down in a visual way through images and diagrams This book will broaden your understanding of Economics with Some of the greatest ideas in economics Facts charts timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts A visual approach to big subjects with illustrations and graphics throughout Easy to follow text making topics accessible for people at any level of understanding The Economics Book is a captivating introduction to historically important and emerging ideas in a field of science that often confuses newcomers aimed at adults interested in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview Discover some of the greatest ideas from the earliest development of private property to the cutting edge development of modern game theory

A particular narrow way of thinking about the economy is dominant in society today This book explores how this came to be why the system cannot continue and how to build a better future

Our democracy has gone profoundly wrong Economists have failed us Politicians have lied to us Things must change This fearless new book will help make it happen Owen Jones An explosive call for change packed with original research a case study for the question we should all be asking since the crash how have the elites in Westminster in the City in economics stayed in charge Aditya Chakrabortty Guardian Utterly compelling and sobering Ha Joon Chang A century ago the idea of the economy didn t exist Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time with its own rules and language The trouble is most of us can t speak it This is damaging democracy Dangerous agendas are hidden inside mathematical wrappers controversial policies are presented as proven by the models of economic science Government is being turned over to a publicly unaccountable technocratic elite The Econocracy reveals that economics is too important to be left to the economists and shows us what we can do about it A rousing wake up call from a collective of dissident graduate students technically assured well argued and informative Robert Skidelsky If war is too important to be left to the generals so is the economy too important to be

Human beings are the only species in nature to have developed an elaborate division of labor between strangers. Even something as simple as buying a shirt depends on an astonishing web of interaction and organization that spans the world. But unlike that other uniquely human attribute, language, our ability to cooperate with strangers did not evolve gradually through our prehistory. Only 10,000 years ago - a blink of an eye in evolutionary time - humans hunted in bands, were intensely suspicious of strangers, and fought those whom they could not flee. Yet since the dawn of agriculture we have refined the division of labor to the point where, today, we live and work amid strangers and depend upon millions more. Every time we travel by rail or air we entrust our lives to individuals we do not know. What institutions have made this possible? In The Company of Strangers, Paul Seabright provides an original evolutionary and sociological account of the emergence of those economic institutions that manage not only markets but also the world's myriad other affairs