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| 2006 |
| 1 |  |
Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century
by Sheri Berman Aug 2006
 (2 reviews)
List: $23.99
238 pages, Paperback
Cambridge University Press
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| Business & Investing
Economics
History
Europe
Germany
Nonfiction
Politics
Social Sciences
Political Science
International Institutions
Political Doctrines
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|
| 2002 |
| 2 |  |
Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946
by Robert Skidelsky Nov 2002
 (2 reviews)
List: $20.00
608 pages, Paperback
Penguin (Non-Classics)
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| Biographies & Memoirs
Arts & Literature
Authors
Historical
British
Professionals & Academics
Business
Social Scientists & Psychologists
History
Europe
England
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|
| 2001 |
| 3 |  |
Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
by William Easterly Jul 2001
 (54 reviews)
List: $29.95
400 pages, Hardcover
The MIT Press
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| Business & Investing
Biographies & Primers
Policy & Current Events
Economics
Development & Growth
Economic Policy & Development
Theory
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| 4 |  |
by H. N. Turteltaub Jul 2001
 (8 reviews)
List: $25.95
381 pages, Hardcover
Forge
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| Literature & Fiction
Contemporary
Genre Fiction
Historical
Sea Adventures
World Literature
United States
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| 5 |  |
On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich May 2001
 (981 reviews)
List: $23.00
221 pages, Hardcover
Metropolitan Books
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| Business & Investing
Biographies & Primers
Labor Policy
Business Life
Workplace
Economics
Economic Conditions
Labor & Industrial Relations
Nonfiction
Current Events
Poverty
Politics
Labor & Industrial Relations
U.S.
Social Sciences
Sociology
Social Theory
Women's Studies
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| 6 |  |
History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial
by Richard J. Evans Mar 2001
 (41 reviews)
List: $27.00
336 pages, Hardcover
Basic Books
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| History
Europe
England
Western
World
Jewish
Holocaust
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|
| 2000 |
| 7 |  |
Free Markets, Sound Money, and a Bit of Luck
by Rudiger Dornbusch Oct 2000
 (2 reviews)
List: $55.00
369 pages, Hardcover
The MIT Press
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| Business & Investing
Biographies & Primers
Policy & Current Events
Economics
Development & Growth
Economic History
Economic Policy & Development
International
Theory
Nonfiction
Politics
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| 8 |  |
Finding the Words that Defined the Clinton Presidency
by Michael Waldman Oct 2000
 (8 reviews)
List: $25.00
287 pages, Hardcover
Simon & Schuster
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| History
Americas
United States
Nonfiction
Current Events
Conspiracy Theories
Government
Federal Government
Politics
Leadership
U.S.
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| 9 |  |
The New Upper Class and How They Got There [BARGAIN PRICE]
by David Brooks May 2000
 (182 reviews)
List: $25.00
288 pages, Hardcover
Simon & Schuster
|  (my rating)
Trying to Celebrate the Rise of a New Upper Class...
| Entertainment
Humor
History
Historical Study
Social History
Nonfiction
Current Events
Politics
Social Sciences
Popular Culture
Sociology
Culture
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| 10 |  |
by Alan Furst Apr 2000
 (44 reviews)
List: $13.00
400 pages, Paperback
Trafalgar Square Publishing
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| Literature & Fiction
Contemporary
Genre Fiction
Historical
Mystery & Thrillers
Thrillers
Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue
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| 11 |  |
China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
by Kenneth Pomeranz Feb 2000
 (15 reviews)
List: $65.00
392 pages, Hardcover
Princeton University Press
|  (my rating)
China's Advocate
| Business & Investing
Economics
Economic History
International
History
Asia
China
World
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| 12 |  |
by Richard J. Evans Jan 2000
 (9 reviews)
List: $15.95
287 pages, Paperback
W. W. Norton & Company
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| History
Historical Study
Historiography
Study & Teaching
World
Nonfiction
Education
Instruction Method
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|
| 1999 |
| 13 |  |
The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright Dec 1999
 (88 reviews)
List: $27.50
448 pages, Hardcover
Pantheon
|  (my rating)
Belief in Progress Cloaked in the Rhetoric of Game Theory
| History
World
Nonfiction
Social Sciences
Anthropology
Sociology
Social Theory
Science
Evolution
Organic
Mathematics
History
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| 14 |  |
Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
by Charles Petzold Nov 1999
 (49 reviews)
List: $27.99
393 pages, Hardcover
Microsoft Press
|  (my rating)
Best Book I've Read This Year
| Computers & Internet
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Vision
Programming
Coding Theory
Languages & Tools
Science
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| 15 |  |
A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars
by Charles H. Ferguson Oct 1999
 (42 reviews)
List: $27.50
400 pages, Hardcover
Crown Business
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| Biographies & Memoirs
Professionals & Academics
Business
Business & Investing
Biographies & Primers
Company Histories
Finance
Finance & Investing
Industries & Professions
High-Tech
Management & Leadership
Management
Small Business & Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Computers & Internet
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Manager's Guides to Computing
Databases
Specific Databases
Oracle
History
Americas
United States
State & Local
California
Professional & Technical
Accounting & Finance
Finance
Science
Technology
History of Technology
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| 16 |  |
And Other Progressive Causes
by David Horowitz Sep 1999
 (84 reviews)
List: $24.95
300 pages, Hardcover
Spence Publishing Company
|  (my rating)
*Sigh*
| Nonfiction
Current Events
Civil Rights & Liberties
Politics
U.S.
Social Sciences
Discrimination & Racism
Political Science
United States
Civil Rights
Sociology
Race Relations
America
Social Groups
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| 17 |  |
Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance
by Peter Gowan Aug 1999
 (5 reviews)
List: $20.00
280 pages, Paperback
Verso
|  (my rating)
Sorry I Bought It...
| History
Americas
United States
20th Century
1945 - Present
Nonfiction
Government
Democracy
Politics
International
Relations
U.S.
Social Sciences
Political Science
Levels of Government
Federal Government
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| 18 |  |
by Paul R. Krugman May 1999
 (54 reviews)
List: $23.95
176 pages, Hardcover
W. W. Norton & Company
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| Business & Investing
Economics
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| 19 |  |
Against the Tyranny of the Market
by Pierre Bourdieu Apr 1999
 (7 reviews)
List: $12.95
108 pages, Paperback
New Press
|  (my rating)
Missing the Mark...
| History
Europe
France
Nonfiction
Social Sciences
Political Science
International Institutions
Sociology
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| 20 |  |
by Philip Greenspun Apr 1999
 (234 reviews)
List: $54.95
608 pages, Paperback
Morgan Kaufmann
|  (my rating)
Great, thoughtful book...
| Computers & Internet
Databases
Database Design
Graphic Design
Desktop Publishing
Networking
Internet, Groupware, & Telecommunications
Internet Publishing
Networks, Protocols & APIs
Programming
Web Programming
HTML
Web Development
Internet Commerce
Web Site Design
Multimedia
Electronic Publishing
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| 21 |  |
Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
by Michael A. Hiltzik Mar 1999
 (41 reviews)
List: $26.00
480 pages, Hardcover
Collins
|  (my rating)
My Mileage Was Low...
| Business & Investing
Biographies & Primers
Company Histories
Industries & Professions
High-Tech
Computers & Internet
Computer Science
Research
Software Engineering
Databases
Specific Databases
Oracle
History
Americas
United States
State & Local
California
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| 22 |  |
by Marc Trachtenberg Feb 1999
 (1 review)
List: $27.95
448 pages, Paperback
Princeton University Press
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| History
Europe
World
20th Century
Nonfiction
Current Events
War & Peace
Politics
International
Relations
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| 23 |  |
A Practical Post-Asia Agenda
by Barry Eichengreen Feb 1999
 (1 review)
List: $25.00
200 pages, Paperback
Institute for International Economics
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| Business & Investing
Economics
International
Money & Monetary Policy
Finance
Finance & Investing
International
Professional & Technical
Accounting & Finance
Finance
|
| 24 |  |
Europe's Twentieth Century
by Mark Mazower Jan 1999
 (18 reviews)
List: $30.00
512 pages, Hardcover
Knopf
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| History
Europe
World
20th Century
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|
| 1998 |
| 25 |  |
A Novel
by Erik Tarloff Dec 1998
 (26 reviews)
List: $23.00
249 pages, Hardcover
Crown
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| Literature & Fiction
Contemporary
Genre Fiction
Political
Women's Fiction
Single Women
World Literature
United States
Romance
Contemporary
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| 26 |  |
Lessons from the Halls of Power
by Lawrence B. Lindsey Dec 1998
 (3 reviews)
List: $24.95
215 pages, Hardcover
AEI Press
|  (my rating)
Larry Lindsey Looks at the Limits of Policymakers' Power
| Business & Investing
Biographies & Primers
Policy & Current Events
Economics
Development & Growth
Economic Policy & Development
International
International
Management & Leadership
Production & Operations
Nonfiction
Government
Public Affairs & Administration
Social Sciences
Political Science
Levels of Government
Federal Government
Public Policy
Reference
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| 27 |  |
Lessons From Netscape & Its Battle with Microsoft
by Michael A. Cusumano, David B. Yoffie Nov 1998
 (23 reviews)
List: $26.00
361 pages, Hardcover
The Free Press
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| Business & Investing
Industries & Professions
High-Tech
Management & Leadership
Management
Production & Operations
Computers & Internet
Databases
Specific Databases
Oracle
Hardware
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| 28 |  |
The Imperial Global Economy Explains Itself to the Membership in Davos, Switzerland
by Lewis H. Lapham Nov 1998
 (6 reviews)
List: $15.00
84 pages, Hardcover
Verso
|  (my rating)
Worth Reading, But Too Short to Be Worth Buying...
| Business & Investing
Economics
Economic Conditions
International
International
Economic Conditions
History
Europe
Switzerland
Nonfiction
Politics
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| 29 |  |
Editor: Miles Kahler Nov 1998
 (1 review)
List: $23.50
288 pages, Paperback
Cornell University Press
|
| Business & Investing
Economics
Development & Growth
Economic Policy & Development
Exports & Imports
International
Finance
Finance & Investing
International
Professional & Technical
Accounting & Finance
Finance
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| 30 |  |
A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy
by Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian Nov 1998
 (68 reviews)
List: $35.00
352 pages, Hardcover
Harvard Business School Press
|
| Business & Investing
Biographies & Primers
Strategy & Competition
Economics
Industries & Professions
MIS
Management & Leadership
Management
Computers & Internet
Business & Culture
Culture
Manager's Guides to Computing
Certification Central
Networking
Computer Science
Software Engineering
Information Systems
Networking
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| 31 |  |
The Radical Assault on America's Future
by David Horowitz Oct 1998
 (42 reviews)
List: $25.00
224 pages, Hardcover
The Free Press
|  (my rating)
How little has changed...
| Nonfiction
Politics
History & Theory
Social Sciences
Political Science
Political Doctrines
Conservatism
Radicalism
Political Theory
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| 32 |  |
10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World
by Kevin Kelly Oct 1998
 (45 reviews)
List: $19.95
192 pages, Hardcover
Viking Adult
|
| Business & Investing
Economics
Theory
Management & Leadership
Management Science
|
| 33 |  |
by John F. Helliwell Sep 1998
List: $16.95
120 pages, Paperback
Brookings Institution Press
|
| Business & Investing
Economics
Comparative
Exports & Imports
International
Nonfiction
Politics
International
Relations
|
| 34 |  |
by Barry Eichengreen Jul 1998
 (3 reviews)
List: $29.95
240 pages, Paperback
Princeton University Press
|
| Business & Investing
Economics
Economic History
International
Money & Monetary Policy
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| 35 |  |
Responsive Democracy and Changing Expectations
by C. Eugene Steuerle, Edward M. Gramlich, Edward M. Gramlich, Hugh Heclo, Hugh Heclo, Demetra Smith Nightingale May 1998
 (1 review)
List: $18.95
205 pages, Paperback
Urban Institute Press
|
| Nonfiction
Politics
History & Theory
Reference
|
| 36 |  |
And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science
by Paul R. Krugman May 1998
 (33 reviews)
List: $25.00
204 pages, Hardcover
W W Norton & Co
|
| Business & Investing
Economics
Theory
|
| 37 |  |
by Saskia Sassen May 1998
 (5 reviews)
List: $25.00
253 pages, Hardcover
New Press
|
| Business & Investing
Economics
Econometrics
International
Theory
Finance
Finance & Investing
Nonfiction
Politics
International
Relations
Social Sciences
Political Science
Sociology
Professional & Technical
Accounting & Finance
Finance
|
| 38 |  |
Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
by David Brin May 1998
 (28 reviews)
List: $17.75
378 pages, Hardcover
Perseus Books
|  (my rating)
A honorable follow-on to Orwell's 1984
| Law
Constitutional Law
Human Rights
Nonfiction
Current Events
Civil Rights & Liberties
Social Sciences
Political Science
Political Theory
Rights
Sociology
Culture
Science
Technology
Futurology
|
| 39 |  |
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
by James C. Scott Mar 1998
 (16 reviews)
List: $60.00
464 pages, Hardcover
Yale University Press
|  (my rating)
Not Seeing One's Intellectual Parents
| Business & Investing
Biographies & Primers
Policy & Current Events
Economics
Development & Growth
Economic Policy & Development
Management & Leadership
Production & Operations
Health, Mind & Body
Psychology & Counseling
Nonfiction
Current Events
Poverty
Social Services & Welfare
Government
Constitutions
Philosophy
Politics
Social Sciences
Anthropology
Cultural
Political Science
Levels of Government
Federal Government
Sociology
Social Theory
Urban
Urban Planning & Development
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| 40 |  |
Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
by David S. Landes Mar 1998
 (156 reviews)
List: $30.00
650 pages, Hardcover
W. W. Norton & Company
|
| Business & Investing
Biographies & Primers
Policy & Current Events
Economics
Development & Growth
Economic Conditions
Economic History
Economic Policy & Development
International
Theory
International
Economic Conditions
History
Europe
Western
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| 41 |  |
Confronting Fears About Open Trade
by Gary Burtless, Robert Z. Lawrence, Robert E. Litan, Robert J. Shapiro Feb 1998
 (5 reviews)
List: $19.95
162 pages, Paperback
Brookings Institution Press
|
| Business & Investing
Biographies & Primers
Strategy & Competition
Economics
Exports & Imports
International
Nonfiction
Politics
History & Theory
International
Relations
U.S.
|
| 42 |  |
Richard Nixon vs Helen Gahagan Douglas-Sexual Politics and the Red Scare, 1950
by Greg Mitchell Jan 1998
 (5 reviews)
List: $25.00
316 pages, Hardcover
Random House
|  (my rating)
Why You Should Hate Richard Nixon Too
| History
Americas
United States
20th Century
1950s
State & Local
California
Mystery & Thrillers
Nonfiction
Government
Elections
Politics
History & Theory
Leadership
Social Sciences
Political Science
Elections
|
|
| 1997 |
| 43 |  |
A History of U.S.-Japan Relations
by Walter Lafeber Sep 1997
 (1 review)
List: $29.95
508 pages, Hardcover
W W Norton & Co
|
| Business & Investing
Economics
Macroeconomics
History
Americas
United States
Asia
Japan
Nonfiction
Politics
International
Relations
|
| 44 |  |
The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point
by Haynes Johnson, David S. Broder Apr 1997
 (9 reviews)
List: $26.99
704 pages, Paperback
Back Bay Books
|
| Health, Mind & Body
Medicine
Administration & Policy
Health Care Delivery
Nonfiction
Current Events
Poverty
Social Services & Welfare
Government
Constitutions
Politics
History & Theory
U.S.
Social Sciences
Political Science
Levels of Government
Federal Government
Professional & Technical
Medical
Administration & Medicine Economics
Health Care Delivery
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| 45 |  |
by Dani Rodrik Mar 1997
 (4 reviews)
List: $25.00
128 pages, Paperback
Institute for International Economics
|
| Business & Investing
Economics
Economic Policy & Development
Exports & Imports
International
Nonfiction
Politics
Globalization
International
Relations
Social Sciences
Sociology
|
|
| 1996 |
| 46 |  |
by Andrew S. Grove Oct 1996
 (35 reviews)
List: $27.50
224 pages, Hardcover
Currency
|
| Business & Investing
Industries & Professions
High-Tech
Management & Leadership
Decision-Making & Problem Solving
Management
Computers & Internet
Business & Culture
Manager's Guides to Computing
Databases
Specific Databases
Oracle
Literature & Fiction
Contemporary
|
| 47 |  |
The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done About It
by Edward N. Wolff Sep 1996
 (3 reviews)
List: $7.95
Paperback
New Press
|  (my rating)
Very Nice Survey of Wealth Inequality
| Business & Investing
Economics
Macroeconomics
Law
Taxation
Nonfiction
Social Sciences
Sociology
|
| 48 |  |
A History of the World, 1914-1991
by Eric Hobsbawm Feb 1996
 (40 reviews)
List: $17.00
672 pages, Paperback
Vintage
|
| History
World
20th Century
|
|
| 1995 |
| 49 |  |
Toward Clarity and Grace
by Joseph M. Williams Jun 1995
 (22 reviews)
List: $13.00
226 pages, Paperback
University Of Chicago Press
|  (my rating)
Best Book on Writing English...
| Reference
Words & Language
Linguistics
Writing
Writing Skills
|
|
| 1994 |
| 50 |  |
The Economist As Saviour, 1920-1937
by Robert Skidelsky Aug 1994
 (1 review)
List: $26.31
731 pages, Paperback
Trans-Atlantic Publications
|
| Biographies & Memoirs
Historical
British
Professionals & Academics
Business
Scientists
Business & Investing
Economics
Theory
|
| 51 |  |
Hopes Betrayed 1883-1920
by Robert Skidelsky Jan 1994
 (7 reviews)
List: $23.00
496 pages, Paperback
Penguin (Non-Classics)
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| Biographies & Memoirs
Historical
British
Professionals & Academics
Business
Social Scientists & Psychologists
Business & Investing
Economics
Economic History
History
Europe
England
|
|
| 1992 |
| 52 |  |
Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism
by Robert B. Reich Feb 1992
 (15 reviews)
List: $15.00
352 pages, Paperback
Vintage
|
| Business & Investing
Economics
International
Nonfiction
Politics
Social Sciences
Sociology
|
|
| 1990 |
| 53 |  |
War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783
by John Brewer Oct 1990
 (2 reviews)
List: $22.95
320 pages, Paperback
Harvard University Press
|  (my rating)
A true work of real genius!
| Business & Investing
Economics
Economic History
History
Europe
England
18th Century
19th Century
Tudor & Stuart
Ireland
World
|
|
| 1980 |
| 54 |  |
by Karl Polanyi Jun 1980
 (11 reviews)
List: $19.00
315 pages, Paperback
Beacon Press
|
| Business & Investing
Economics
Economic History
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
History
|
|
| 1971 |
| 55 |  |
by Milton Friedman, Anna Jacobson Schwartz Nov 1971
 (8 reviews)
List: $60.00
888 pages, Paperback
Princeton University Press
| argued that the Depression was far from inevitable, but brought about by an "inept" Federal Reserve
| Business & Investing
Economics
Economic History
Money & Monetary Policy
Public Finance
History
|