Economic history

The Marginal Productivity Theory of Distribution (MPTD) claims that in a free-market economy the demand for a factor of production will depend upon its marginal product - where "e;marginal product"e; is defined as the change in total product that is caused by, or that follows, the addition or subtraction of the marginal unit of the factor used in the production process, with all other inputs held constant.

Barnett presents the first in-depth analysis in English of the pioneer of long cycle analysis, N.

First published in 1986, Financial Reporting in India provides a comprehensive review of Indian financial reporting and makes a comparison with the United Kingdom.

Originally published in 1931, this book was written at a time when the utility and value of gold was under great scrutiny.

These unique papers were originally read at a conference on the new economic history of Britain at Harvard in 1970, and each is accompanied by a summary of the discussion that followed it.

This book is a political history of economic life.

Volume 37B of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on the work of Ludwig Lachmann, edited by Giampaolo Garzarelli.

Economic Elites, Crises, and Democracy analyzes critical topics of contemporaneous capitalism.

First Published in 1970.

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things.

This volume examines the leading professional societies since World War II - those in the free market economies of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Japan, and those in the collapsed command economies of East Germany and the Soviet Union.

London became an international center for import and export trade in the late Middle Ages.

In Search of Stability seeks to understand the economics of money through a narrative on the history of the rupee.

One of the first long-term studies of the Catalonian city of Manresa during the late medieval crisis.

Originally published in 1925.

This thought-provoking volume presents essays on the foundations of non-equilibrium economics, i.

Focusing on the interactions of producers, sellers and consumers of meat across the world, Richard Perren elucidates aspects of the evolution of the international economy and the part played by the investment of capital and the enterprise of individuals.

'This book makes an important contribution to the history of household labour relations in two contrasting societies.

With World War II still raging, nations came together to create a new international monetary order, the Bretton Woods system.

In 150 years Italy transformed itself from a poor and backward country into one where living standards are among the highest in the world.

This book reconsiders the nature and formation of Asia's economic order during the 1930s and 1950s in light of the new historiographical developments in Britain and Japan.

Essays from the 2010 centenary conference of the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of American financiers and the US Treasury.

This book explores the economic development of the northern Chinese city of Qingdao, which was held by Germany as a colony from 1898 to 1914.

The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy.

Using Thai-language archival material, this book examines a crucial element in the dismantling of the traditional government structure and the installation of a Western-style administration - the creation of a modern Ministry of Finance.

Bernard Alford reviews the changing role, and diminishing influence, of Britain within the international economy across the century that saw the apogee and loss of Britain's empire, and her transformation from globe-straddling superpower to off-shore and indecisive member of the European Community.

First published in 1913, this Routledge Revivals title reissues J.

Cultural Conflict and Adaptation (1990) examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by the children of a small group of Hmong who have settled in La Playa, California.

This volume surveys transnational encounters and entanglements between Germany and East Asia since 1945, a period that has witnessed unprecedented global connections between the two regions.

This book focuses on the role of the state in promoting a country's long-term technological progress and industrial leadership.

A century ago, John Maynard Keynes entered the Treasury to serve his country during the First World War, but as is well known, appalled by the terms of the end-of-war Treaty of Versailles, he abandoned the British delegation, outlining the predictable adverse results in the Economic Consequences of the Peace, published in 1919.

An Economic History of the United States is an accessible and informative survey designed for undergraduate courses on American economic history.

Research on late nineteenth and early twentieth century German society has concentrated overwhelmingly on life in the cities.

This book provides an in-depth account of the politics of the Eurozone crisis in Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta, mapping the positions expressed by the governments of Southern EU countries during the Eurozone crisis negotiations, including Greece's bailout deal, the so-called "e;Six Pack"e; and the "e;Fiscal Compact"e; and exploring the process of domestic preference formation.

Various explanations have been put forward as to why the Keynesian Revolution in economics in the 1930s and 1940s took place.

First published in 1967, this superb collection of essays on trade in the Middle Ages has been a major contribution to modern medieval studies.

The wealth of Tudor England was the object of much envy to less fortunate states in Europe.

Volume compiles studies of the production and reproduction of market-supporting social infrastructures through the prism of knowledge commons.

This controversial book shows that there is more to economics than dry models and esoteric equations.

The revolutionary movements of 1905-1907 formed the first stage of the Russian Revolution, followed by an interval of peace and economic prosperity, but the outbreak of WWI and social unrest led to further revolutionary action in 1917 resulting in the abdication and murder of Tsar Nicholas II and the creation of the Soviet Union.

This book offers a detailed account, based on primary source materials from Britain, Canada, and Australia, of the process by which the Empire settlement programme and the Ottawa Agreements were devised.

Exploring the interplay of politics and commerce in one of the most dynamic periods of British history, this book traces the fortunes of the India and Eastern Trading Company Limited, established in 1906 to finance a jute plantation in Assam, north-east India.

This text challenges the traditional view of the history of econometrics and provides a more complete story.

The political ideas that resulted from confronting the crisis of the Great Depression and the New Deal of the early 20th century reshaped America.

The Englishwoman's Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women.

A groundbreaking new historical analysis of how global capitalism and advanced democracies mutually support each otherIt is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism, in turn explaining rising inequality and mounting populism.

The economics of the movie industry has been curiously neglected by scholars, especially given the material circumstances in which film has been produced, distributed and exhibited in capitalist economies and its central importance in the lives of the huge numbers attracted to it as a commodity.

"e;Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought.