Modern Finance & Economics

Our new catalogue contains two hundred fifty items on finance and economics printed between 1821 and 2020. We were inspired by a 2016 article by Ingham, Coutts & Konzelmann in the Cambridge Journal of Economics to rethink money and banking by studying modern era “cranks and brave heretics” of economic history. In these pages you will find authors such as Silvio Gesell, who invented negative interest rates, and Frederick Soddy, who based his economic system on the laws of thermodynamics. We look to pamphlets, newspapers, comic books, self-published tracts, and other obscure material to ferret out new dimensions on an age-old subject.

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Seventeenth Century Fresh Sheet

Our latest “Fresh Sheet” showcases a selection of forty-three new arrivals of seventeenth century books offered at accessible price points of $125 to $750.

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At mark funke, bookseller we buy and sell rare and fine books, archives, manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and other assorted paper. Our customers include private collectors as well as libraries and research institutions around the world.

Books, photo albums, diaries, and other paper objects are the very essence of history. We believe in the value of these physical objects. For many artifacts with cultural and historical significance, there is no digital substitute. We source our material worldwide, with an emphasis on paper from continental Europe.

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