In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power.

A video livestream will be available on this page starting at 4 PM on Friday, October 29th. Please scroll down to view. On October 29, a panel of experts discussed “Commerce and Manners in Edmund ...

Editor’s note: For our centennial issue, our reviewers each selected a set of books essential to understanding the past century and another set essential for imagining the century ahead. The pivotal ...

A scholarly examination of market’s power toll on American workers, the collected works of a pioneering economic thinker, an ambitious narrative of US economic history, a first-hand account of how the ...

The book focuses on the process of making and taking property within the great transformations of the 19th and 20th centuries and examines how large-scale asset transfers have been a vital force in ...

PROFESSOR WALKER'S “Text-Book,” for the most part an abridgment of the larger work published in 1883, deserves to be received with the highest commendation as supplying a much-felt want in English ...

"The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century" presents policy proposals from discussions convened among 50 of the world’s leading economists and policy experts at the London School ...

In this conversation, the New York Times Opinion columnists Carlos Lozada, a former book critic, and Pamela Paul, previously the editor of The Times’s Book Review, each share one book that, in their ...

Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian's new book ‘A Sixth of Humanity’ inquires into the conditions under which India has tried to develop in the past 75-plus years ...