In this book, Altamura analyses the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979, considering their impact on the world economy and subsequent reactions to the global instability.
This thoroughly revised second edition of Dynamics of International Business provides an in-depth comparative historical analysis of the structural and strategic evolution of international enterprises.
Most contemporary economists understand markets as purely price-making systems, ignoring the role of markets as relational systems that frame our way of life and determine the kind of society we live in.
This thoroughly revised second edition of Dynamics of International Business provides an in-depth comparative historical analysis of the structural and strategic evolution of international enterprises.
Most contemporary economists understand markets as purely price-making systems, ignoring the role of markets as relational systems that frame our way of life and determine the kind of society we live in.
Manchester and the Age of the Factory (originally published in 1988 and now with a new preface by the authors) focuses on Manchester, the world's first industrial city, and its transformation into 'Cottonopolis.
Manchester and the Age of the Factory (originally published in 1988 and now with a new preface by the authors) focuses on Manchester, the world's first industrial city, and its transformation into 'Cottonopolis.
The creation of the Yugoslav state at the end of the First World War brought together the half-assimilated remains of several societies in various stages of development, each with centuries of rule by foreign powers.
The creation of the Yugoslav state at the end of the First World War brought together the half-assimilated remains of several societies in various stages of development, each with centuries of rule by foreign powers.
Publishers Weekly Top 10 Fall Release in Business and EconomicsA consumer credit industry insider-turned-outsider explains how banks lure Americans deep into debt, and how to break the cycle.
Worker Cooperatives in America maps the past, present, and possible futures of democratic enterprise in the United States, arguinga "e;against the grain of corporate inevitabilitya "e;that firms owned and governed by workers can address stubborn problems of unemployment, productivity, and workplace alienation.
Worker Cooperatives in America maps the past, present, and possible futures of democratic enterprise in the United States, arguinga "e;against the grain of corporate inevitabilitya "e;that firms owned and governed by workers can address stubborn problems of unemployment, productivity, and workplace alienation.
A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2025NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York Times'Superb.
Publishers Weekly Top 10 Fall Release in Business and EconomicsA consumer credit industry insider-turned-outsider explains how banks lure Americans deep into debt, and how to break the cycle.
In this book, Altamura analyses the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979, considering their impact on the world economy and subsequent reactions to the global instability.
Set in the American Century from 1814 to 2003, An American Family Sampler is a chronicle of five generations who built and ultimately destroyed a great company.
For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative that it was known as white gold.
'An inspiring, rip-roaring read - like the astonishing story it describes' Liam Halligan, Daily TelegraphWhere does prosperity come from, and how does it spread through a society?
A study of the changes in wealth and its distribution in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Paris that maps the interplay among wealth, inequality, and welfareSuccessful economies sustain capital accumulation across generations, and capital accumulation leads to large increases in private wealth.
A study of the changes in wealth and its distribution in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Paris that maps the interplay among wealth, inequality, and welfareSuccessful economies sustain capital accumulation across generations, and capital accumulation leads to large increases in private wealth.
'A gripping, behind-the-curtain story of the men and women who rebuilt the world after the carnage of World War II and, in the process, engineered an age of unprecedented peace and prosperity.
** A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2025**A sweeping history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest criticsAt a time when we are faced with fundamental questions about the sustainability and morality of the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from colonialism and the Industrial Revolution to the ecological crisis and artificial intelligence.
Japan, although now listed as the world's third-largest economy after that of the United States and China, has been too readily dismissed in the late 20th century as a spent force.
It is commonplace to assume that the twentieth-century British economy has failed, falling from the world's richest industrial country in 1900 to one of the poorest nations of Western Europe in 2000.
A timely and vivid look at Scotland's long and difficult road to nationhood, re-exploring some cherished myths and unearthing a wealth of fascinating new detail.
Selected writings from one of the most important commentators of our generation covering the wreckage of Labour's 10 year love affair with the RightBY THE SUMMER of 2007, Britain was close to crashing.
