"From the American Revolution to the present day, our financial institutions and financial practices--from banks to the stock market to tariffs to bailouts--remain at the core of our behaviors, our politics, and even our beliefs. The documents in this set discuss the political and social...

"In An Extraordinary Time, acclaimed economic historian Marc Levinson recounts the global collapse of the postwar economy in the 1970s. While economists struggle to return us to the high economic growth rates of the past, Levinson counterintuitively argues that the boom years of the 1950s and...