finance

A guide for kids ages ten through thirteen, designed to help them decide what careers they would like to pursue, featuring activities, profiles of fifteen professions, and resources for further research.

Explores the role the Money Men, public and private officials who battled for control of America's currency, impact the political, social, and economic atmosphere of the United States from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War.

Provides an overview of economics and money, including earning, spending, saving, checks and credit cards, banks, and the history of money.

Collects essays in which Robert Frank explains a number of economic principles, such as taxes, job creation, health care, borrowing, and saving, in a straightforward, easily understandable manner.

An introduction to the stock market and the world of financial investing including an explanation of stocks and bonds, the various trading that is done and how profits and losses are accrued.

The Green$treet$ Kid$ find out how money is earned, saved, and spent.

Presents a guide on how world finances work, focusing on how countries cope with debt, the mechanics behind interest rates, the roles played by the IMF World and Central Banks, and other topics.

A selection of more than fifty pieces of journalism on recent financial crises. Articles by Michael Lewis, Lester Thurow, Paul Krugman, and other journalists focus on the crash of 1987, the Russian default, the Asian currency crisis of 1999, the Internet bubble, and the subprime mortgage crisis.

Chronicles the political struggles that led to an American financial crisis when the stock market collapsed in 1987.

Examines how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the government did to fight it, and what happens now.