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Former Fed Chair Paul Volcker quipped in 2009 that “the only thing useful banks have invented in twenty years is the ATM.” Similarly, the early history of finance and economics in book collecting is well-developed. Deceased great collectors enrich our lives with indispensable bibliographies such as the Catalogue of the Goldsmith’s Library of Economic Literature and the Kress Library of Business and Economics. Their analyses ended with works published in 1850, which is roughly where this catalogue picks up to take readers on a journey from the latter nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century.

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 0n an age-old subject.

If your interests veer orthodox over heterodox, please peruse the list of Nobel laureates. We are privileged to offer several dozen books inscribed by recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences during the twentieth century. Our intent is to juxtapose the offbeat with the best of the best that established economics and finance has to offer.

This catalogue contains two hundred fifty items printed between 1821 and 2020 in a largely text-based format.

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