Samuelson, First American Nobel Prize Winner in Economics "The best book there is about the stock market and all that goes with it." —The New York Times Book Review "Anyone whose orientation is toward where the action is, where the happenings happen, should buy a copy of The Money Game and read it with due diligence." —Book World " 'Adam Smith' is a veteran observer and commentator on the events and people of Wall Street.... His thorough knowledge of financial affairs gives his observations a great degree of authenticity. But the joy of reading this book comes from his delightful sense of humor. He is a lively and ingeniously witty writer who never stoops to acerbity. None of the solemn, sacred cows of Wall Street escapes debunking." —Library Journal

    He combines a historical retrospective and a review of current discussions on each of the subjects and problems central to Marxist economic theory. He traces the development of the concept of "alienation" in Marx, and its fate in the hands of succeeding generations, down to the present discussion in East and West Europe, summarizes the fascinating debates over the "Asiatic mode of production," and discusses labor theory of value, the problem of periodic crises, the theory of wages and the polarization of wealth and poverty, and the problem of progressive "disalienation" through the building of socialist society.

    

    Thompson’s massively influential text, Time, Work-discipline and Industrial Capitalism, draws direct relationships between socio-economic changes and clock time. The paper raises and attempts to answer a string of questions about the role(s) played by clock time in the modernization of western European (and especially British) society. Attaching particular importance to the period from the late eighteenth century, it is arguably one of the most influential historical papers of the late twentieth century, being influential not just among historians but within many other disciplines as well (as its prominence in citation indices across the humanities and social sciences makes clear).

    Utilizing a range of documentary sources, the author defines the nature of financial problems faced in the period and analyzes in detail the methods adopted to overcome them. Topics covered include government short- and long-term borrowing, the emergence of public creditors and the development of the market in securities - including the origins of the Stock Exchange. This Gregg Revivals reprint of the book includes a new introduction written by the author, which updates his original study.

    This detailed study of the Jewish banking community in Italy is therefore of special value and interest. Poliakov's classic account of the rise and fall of the Jewish bankers is at the same time the story of medieval finance in general, its decline, and the birth of 'modern' finance. The author traces the economic and theological implication of each stage in the ambiguous relationship that developed between the Jewish money trade and the Holy See. He shows that the protection enjoyed by the Jews from the Holy See had not only theological, but also economic roots. The study ends with an account of the introduction of modern, 'capitalist' techniques and of the consequent inevitable decline of the Jewish money trade.