Deflation

Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance....

The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle....

From Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, to Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes, to the top economic thought leaders of today, The Economics Book is the essential audio reference for students and anyone else with an interest in how economies work....

Macroeconomics takes a broad perspective on the economy of a country or region; it studies economic changes in the aggregate, collecting data on production, unemployment, inflation, consumption, investment, trade, and other aspects of national and international economic life....

Consider the $20 bill. It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity....

Gold and silver have served as the ultimate safe haven from financial chaos throughout history, and today is no exception....

As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore the balance to economies gone awry....

Hundreds of books have been written about the financial crisis that engulfed the world after Lehman Brothers went bankrupt....

In The End of Alchemy, Mervyn King offers us an essential work about the history and future of money and banking, the keys to modern finance....

Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles—whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide—shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well....

In this enriching volume, Chancellor explores the history of interest and its essential function in determining how capital is allocated and priced....

Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse....

In The Euro, Nobel Prize-winning economist and best-selling author Joseph E. Stiglitz dismantles the prevailing consensus around what ails Europe, demolishing the champions of austerity....

A coruscating, brilliantly insightful exegesis of where capitalism went wrong, how it was corrupted, and how it might be restored....

A critical examination of economics' past and future and how it needs to change, by one of the most eminent political economists of our time....

Inflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It explains what’s behind the worst inflationary storm in more than forty years—one that is dominating the headlines and shaking Americans by their pocketbooks....

The ideas of John Maynard Keynes have never been more timely....

The dramatic story of the great economic thinkers, their lives, quirks, and ideas as told by a free-market economist, now in its second edition.....

Backed by a wealth of historical and economic data, Mr. Pento examines how the policies followed by both the Federal Reserve and private industry have led, inexorably, to the impending disaster, and he exposes alarming parallels between the US and European debt crises....

This is a rare chance to gain an understanding of our monetary and financial systems, to grasp the vital elements of finance that directly affect our way of life....