These works on economics are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World” by Liaquat Ahamed The author explores how a mid-19th-century global bond market boom fueled by a wealthy banking family ultimately dissolved into a speculative bubble, causing the devastating crash of 1873 and igniting decades of deflation, geopolitically destructive populism and widespread antisemitic scapegoating.