1. An overview of the 'Gold Bubble' companies -- 2. Getting started : the company promoters -- 3. Forming the companies -- 4. Government policies and mining laws -- 5. Operations in California -- 6. Operations in Australia -- 7. Shareholder activists -- 8. The only success story -- 9. The last...

This book revisits the economic relationship that ties the UK and Ireland to the United States in the aftermath of the greatest economic crisis of the past fifty years. When considering recent developments to these economic links, it appears that oppositional forces are at work. On one hand,...

In 1863 black communities owned less than 1 percent of total U.S. wealth. Today that number has barely budged. Mehrsa Baradaran pursues this wealth gap by focusing on black banks. She challenges the myth that black banking is the solution to the racial wealth gap and argues that black...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Earliest Americans -- Chapter 3. The Development of European Colonies -- Chapter 4. The Revolution -- Chapter 5. Focus on Economists: Adam Smith, Ricardo, von Thünen, and Dupuit -- Chapter 6. The Third Founding Document and the Land Deals That Created...

Mention of the American West usually evokes images of rough and tumble cowboys, ranchers, and outlaws. In contrast, The Not So Wild, Wild West casts America's frontier history in a new framework that emphasizes the creation of institutions, both formal and informal, that facilitated cooperation...

This book explores the British Labour Party and the trade unions and how their relationship with the Jews of Palestine and Israel has evolved over the past one hundred years. It also reflects the changing attitudes of the Labour Party and the unions towards the persecution of the Jews, a Jewish...