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Economic history. --- Economic policy. --- Economic development. --- Global financial crisis, 2008-2009. --- Political science / economic conditions.

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Crackdowns on local democracy are accelerating, as corporate and state interests continue efforts to repress social movements. In this well-timed book, Ben Price presciently reveals structures of power and law that facilitate blatant corporate supremacy in the United States. Price uses his years of experience as a community organizer and a careful reading of history to show how a legal paradigm that facilitated slavery and the fossil fuel economy has endured and adapted over time – today barricading our communities and squelching dissent. Many books have been written about wealth, power and politics in the United States. Most of them make intuitive sense. Wealthy people use their power to influence and control politics. But Ben Price's new book is often counterintuitive as he explores how wealth itself is imbued with power. He answers questions such as: How is the American Legislative Exchange Council – a modern states' rights, free market capitalist group – the intellectual and political descendant of George Washington's Federalist Party? How was the Fourteenth Amendment that emancipated African American slaves from their status as property used by a reactionary Supreme Court to grant legal “personhood” to private corporations? How are cities seen under our legal doctrine as “public corporations,” devoid of real governing authority? Further, Price identifies key counterrevolutions in U.S. history that squelched the transformative potential of the Civil War and American Revolution, and traces the roots of colonial and imperial systems of control. He links them to modern “free trade” agreements and other antidemocratic structures used to supersede democracy to this day. For some, this will come as no surprise. For others, it will be a rude, though necessary, awakening. “The white man's municipalities are just reservations, like ours,” said a resident of Pine Ridge Reservation, who Price spoke with. "The difference is, we know we live on reservations. The white man doesn't.” Crucially, Price shares insight into how social movements can plant seeds of a new legal system that makes the liberty, civil rights and dignity of humans and ecosystems its ultimate purpose. In fact, he introduces the reader to people who are doing just that.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions. --- LAW / Housing & Urban Development. --- Wealth --- Right of property --- Economic liberties (U.S. Constitution) --- United States.

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"What is money, where does it come from, and who controls it? In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor explains in straightforward terms history's most misunderstood invention: the money system. Pettifor argues that democracies can, and indeed must, reclaim control over money production and restrain the out-of-control finance sector so that it serves the interests of society, as well as the needs of the ecosystem. The Production of Money examines and assesses popular alternative debates on, and innovations in, money, such as "green QE" and "helicopter money." She sets out the possibility of linking the money in our pockets (or on our smartphones) to the improvements we want to see in the world around us"-- "Money makes the world go around; but what is it really? And where does it come from? The rich know how to become richer, but do the poor have inevitably to suffer as a result. In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor shows us how wrong we are about this most misunderstood invention in history. Money is never a neutral medium of exchange. Nor is finance just a mechanism that connects borrower and lender. Pettifor shows us how to reclaim control of money from those who presume to be in control: the banks. She shows how we can use money to build economies that are both just and meet society's - and the ecosystem's - needs. She also looks at the latest alternative debates on, and innovations in money: Positive Money, Goldbugs to explore what kind of economic future they offer. She sets out the possibilities of discovering the link between the money in our pockets and the change we want to see in the world around us"--

Money. --- Banks and banking. --- Finance. --- Social change. --- Business & economics / money & monetary policy. --- Political science / economic conditions. --- Political science / public policy / economic policy.

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A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present--and argues that we've reached yet another turning point that will define the era ahead. Today, in the midst of a new economic crisis and severe political discord, the nature of capitalism in the United States is at a crossroads, but it has seen such moments of transformation before. In an ambitious single-volume history of the United States, award-winning economic historian Jonathan Levy reveals how, from the beginning of U.S. history to the present, capitalism in America has evolved through four distinct ages and how the country's economic evolution is inseparable from American life itself. The Age of Commerce spans the colonial era through the outbreak of the Civil War. It was a period in which economic growth and output largely depended on enslaved labor and were limited by what could be drawn from the land and where it could be traded.

History of North America --- anno 1800-1999 --- United States --- E-books --- Capitalism --- Economic history. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. --- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions. --- Capitalism. --- Economic conditions. --- History --- United States. --- United States of America

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In contrast to research on elites or “history from below,” this study offers an approach that can be called “mesohistory” – a collective social biography of the Balkan merchants. In foregrounding the voices of traders, this study sheds fresh light on multiethnic networks of social actors navigating multiple social, political, and economic systems – supporting and opposing various aspects of nationalist ideologies. Personal accounts humanize features of these “faceless” socially mediating groups. Merchants’ generation-specific perspectives on the economy, society, and state, both in times of war and peace, are analyzed against the backdrop of Balkan, Ottoman, and European history. The study captures a dialogue between primary and secondary sources and the major debates regarding nationalism, modernity, and the Ottoman legacy.

Balkan Peninsula -- Economic conditions. --- Balkan Peninsula -- Politics and government. --- Balkan Peninsula -- Social conditions. --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Balkan Peninsula --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Politics and government. --- Balkan States --- Balkans --- Europe, Southeastern --- Southeastern Europe --- E-books --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Comparative --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions