Economic history

This book presents an account of the relationship between state and capital in India from independence to the liberalization episodes of the 1980s and after.

Oil Revolution chronicles the rise and fall of anti-colonial oil elites who forged a new international culture of economic dissent from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Oil Revolution chronicles the rise and fall of anti-colonial oil elites who forged a new international culture of economic dissent from the 1950s to the 1970s.

This text interrogates the role of experts in governing and proposes a viable alternative: governing by democratic discussion.

This text interrogates the role of experts in governing and proposes a viable alternative: governing by democratic discussion.

Explores the impact of social standing on the careers of senators and knights in the Roman Empire.

Explores the impact of social standing on the careers of senators and knights in the Roman Empire.

Vividly reconstructs economic conditions in ancient Roman cities and the socio-economic strategies of artisans who lived in them.

Vividly reconstructs economic conditions in ancient Roman cities and the socio-economic strategies of artisans who lived in them.

This book explores how rise of NGOs in developing countries has affected service provision, governance, state-society relations, and state development.

An innovative new study of the Canton trade networks that helped to shape the modern world.

This book explores how rise of NGOs in developing countries has affected service provision, governance, state-society relations, and state development.

An innovative new study of the Canton trade networks that helped to shape the modern world.

Marking the 250th anniversary of his birth, this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study reassesses Thomas Malthus''s contested achievements and legacies.

A provocative new book calling into question everything we thought we knew about capitalism and what makes it unique.

A provocative new book calling into question everything we thought we knew about capitalism and what makes it unique.

An examination of macroeconomic policy, focusing on the relationship between free-market policies and government intervention.

The studies in this volume reflect the author's interest in history as it was lived: not only the social and economic structures, but the men and women, collectively and individually, who made them function.

This book examines how European farmers responded to the economic and political challenges created by the First World War and the Great Depression.

An examination of macroeconomic policy, focusing on the relationship between free-market policies and government intervention.

This book theorizes the structural transformation of the Indian economy in the twenty-first century.

A rich empirical account of China''s post-war foreign economic policy towards Japan, drawing on recently declassified Chinese sources.

A rich empirical account of China''s post-war foreign economic policy towards Japan, drawing on recently declassified Chinese sources.

The first long-term analysis of the process of structural change and productivity growth in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the USA.

The first long-term analysis of the process of structural change and productivity growth in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the USA.

An accessible introduction to global economic development since 1500, complete with case studies of key themes, individuals, processes and events.

An accessible introduction to global economic development since 1500, complete with case studies of key themes, individuals, processes and events.

This book discusses the role of central banks and draws lessons from examining their evolution over the past two centuries.

An analysis of the policy-making lessons that can be learned from the period of economic expansion that preceded the financial crisis.

The first discussion of Aztec economy to include cross-cultural comparisons with other ancient and premodern societies around the world.

This book discusses the role of central banks and draws lessons from examining their evolution over the past two centuries.

An analysis of the policy-making lessons that can be learned from the period of economic expansion that preceded the financial crisis.

The first discussion of Aztec economy to include cross-cultural comparisons with other ancient and premodern societies around the world.

Charts the advance of the state in contemporary China through an analysis of state-market relations in the reform era.

Charts the advance of the state in contemporary China through an analysis of state-market relations in the reform era.

Using luxury goods as a conduit, Luxury in Global Perspective enriches our understanding of global history.

Using luxury goods as a conduit, Luxury in Global Perspective enriches our understanding of global history.

This book explores the way that forms of economic policymaking are sustained and challenged by everyday practices across Southeast Asia.

The first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000–30 BCE.

Major account of the fourteenth-century crisis which saw a series of famines, revolts and epidemics transform the medieval world.

Leading academics and senior policy makers provide an international perspective on the changing role of the US Federal Reserve System.

This book offers a new theory of state growth, based on the creation of credible and prudent state budgets.

Leading academics and senior policy makers provide an international perspective on the changing role of the US Federal Reserve System.

This book offers a new theory of state growth, based on the creation of credible and prudent state budgets.

In the eighteenth century Genoese merchants thrived in the changing Atlantic market.

Major account of the fourteenth-century crisis which saw a series of famines, revolts and epidemics transform the medieval world.

In the eighteenth century Genoese merchants thrived in the changing Atlantic market.

This book explores the way that forms of economic policymaking are sustained and challenged by everyday practices across Southeast Asia.

The first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000–30 BCE.

The Law of the Whale Hunt examines how property law was created in the absence of legal institutions regulating whaling in early America.