America’s present economy, understood through its past. Rich in both quantitative techniques and economic theory, American Economic History demonstrates how an understanding of our past can illuminate economic issues that face society today and in the future. In simple, elegant language, this text walks readers through four centuries of political, social, and economic history, focusing on laws and institutions and emphasizing current economic topics. The eighth edition has been updated and revised, and includes expanded discussions on population, health, and labor; education; the automobile industry; income and taxes; social security; unemployment; regulation and the financial industry; and the history of economic recessions.

American Economic History (8th Edition)

Business & Money

Hughes, Jonathan

Cain, Louis

Economics

Pearson

The Vital Few, a study of the contribution of entrepreneurs to the American economy, provides portraits of the men and women whose individual enterprise has helped to establish the character of the American businessperson and to carry our economy forward from colonial times. Examining such legendary figures as William Penn, Eli Whitney, Henry Ford, and J. Pierpont Morgan in their social and economic environment, Jonathan Hughes illuminates each period of American economic history and provides insights into the workings of American business and the special qualities required of its super-achievers. Taking into account such dramatic changes in the economy as the explosive growth of government and the puzzling effects of "stagflation," Hughes has now expanded his original volume. The new edition includes two additional biographies and a short essay on the nature of bureaucracy in both the government and the private sector. Both biographies are of "bureaucratic entrepreneurs", whose work in the federal government represents the two most prominent trends in government economics. Mary Switzer's 48-year career demonstrates the ways in which the modern welfare state has developed. First a catalyst then a major force in establishing social programs and institutions, she is in large part responsible for the existence of the American welfare state. Marriner Eccles's career, on the other hand, shows the evolution of "compensatory" fiscal and monetary policies from the New Deal to the Korean War. A self-made millionaire who was appointed to a high-level job in the federal government, Eccles quit his post after 1950, convinced that American economic policy was hopelessly inflationary and economically destructive. With these new additions, The Vital Few, long a source of inspiration and economic interest, is more accessible and useful than ever.

The Vital Few: The Entrepreneur and American Economic Progress (Galaxy Books)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Oxford University Press

THE VITAL FEWIs the American economy the product of vast, impersonal forces of history, or is it the result of the genius and driving passions of outstanding individuals? Arguing for the second point, Professor Hughes has found a new way of dramatizing the influence of the human element in economic history. With his brilliant portraits of the eight men whose careers best typify the essential elements which combined to make the American economy, he has made a unique contribution to the understanding of the forces which have shaped this nation's way of life.

Vital Few: American Economic Progress and Its Protagonists (Galaxy Books)

Oxford

The Sixth Edition of American Economic History offers a non-technical presentation of U.S. economic history rich in both quantitative techniques and economic theory. While retaining previous editions' hallmark readability and elegant writing style, as well as a focus on laws and institutions, the Sixth Edition brings the study of American economic history into the twenty-first century through updated coverage reflective of the latest scholarship. An expanded emphasis on current economic topics demonstrates the importance of viewing economic events as intricately connected to their historical context.

American Economic History (6th Edition)

Cain, Louis P.

Addison-Wesley

In simple, elegant language, Hughes and Cain walk students through four centuries of political, social, and economic history, with a focus on laws and institutions and an emphasis on current economic topics that reflects the latest scholarship. Rich in both quantitative techniques and economic theory, American Economic History demonstrates how an understanding of our past can illuminate economic issues that face society today and in the future.

American Economic History (7th Edition)

Ecology and Historical Materialism (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory)

This book presents a systematic challenge to the widely-held view that Marxism is unable to deal adequately with environmental issues. Jonathan Hughes responds to criticisms of Marx's theory of history from environmental theorists, and offers an interpretation and reconstruction of key Marxian concepts, designed to show that the theory need not have harmful ecological consequences. He argues that the communist principle "to each according to his needs" must rest on a conception of needs that may be satisfied by a modest and ecologically-feasible expansion of productive output.

Cambridge University Press

In this controversial new study, Hughes (history and English, Edward's School, Oxford) argues that although Richard was indeed guilty of, or implicated in, most, if not all of the crimes of which he has been accused, he was also a very religious man, an austere practitioner of a chivalric code of ethics, a public benefactor and protector of the Church, a founder of chantries, and one who in his public pronouncements upheld a strict, puritanical code of sexual morality. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The Religious Life of Richard III: Piety and Prayer in the North of England

Historical

Sutton Publishing

This is a controversial new study of the life of one of the most charismatic and neglected late medieval English kings. Everyone seems to have heard of Richard III, but here for the first time Jonathan Hughes reveals reveals the emotional and spiritual life of his elder brother Edward.

Arthurian Myths and Alchemy: The Kingship of Edward IV

Sutton Publishing+ltd

This controversial study argues that although Richard was indeed guilty of, or implicated in, most, if not all of the crimes of which he has been accused, this ruthless, inscrutable man was also very religious, an austere practitioner of a chivalrous code of ethics, a public benefactor and protector of the Church, a founder of chantries and a follower of a strict, puritanical code of sexual morality. He emerges in part a conventional figure of his time, but also, in part, a very unusual, little-understood man, as compelling and yet more complex than Shakespeare's mythical anti-hero.

The Religious Life of Richard III: Piety & Prayer in the North of England

Sutton Pub Ltd

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American Economic History (8th Edition)

The Vital Few: The Entrepreneur and American Economic Progress (Galaxy Books)

Vital Few: American Economic Progress and Its Protagonists (Galaxy Books)

American Economic History (6th Edition)

American Economic History (7th Edition)

Ecology and Historical Materialism (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory)

Ecology and Historical Materialism (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory)

The Religious Life of Richard III: Piety and Prayer in the North of England

Arthurian Myths and Alchemy: The Kingship of Edward IV

The Religious Life of Richard III: Piety & Prayer in the North of England