Imperial San Francisco
by Gray Brechin · first published 2001
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…HISTORY Arrighi, Giovanni (1994) Long Twentieth Century Braudel, Fernand (1979) Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century, vol. 3: Perspective of the World, trans. Siân Reynolds Brechin, Gray (2006) Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin Heilbroner, Robert (1999) Worldly Philosophers: Lives, Times & Ideas of Great Economic Thinkers, 7E Marx, Karl (1867) Capital, vol. 1 Stiglitz, Joseph (2003) Roaring Nineties:…
on “Ask HN: What are the must-read books about economics/finance?” ↗Don't underestimate the possibility of a death spiral. It's already happened once. Read Gray Brechin's excellent book Imperial San Francisco. SF used to be the undisputed capital of the entire North American West Coast, and arguably even the entire Pacific. In the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake, it lost that position to LA. I lived in SF…
on “San Francisco braces for commercial real estate crash” ↗Imperial San Francisco is a great book. Years after reading it, I’m still shocked by the book’s account of how badly the environment was damaged by the gold rush. It was so damaging that billions in taxpayer money are still…
on “An Account of Human Costs: The reservoirs that provide water to New York City” ↗