Economic history

This book examines the U.

From Oil to Gas and Beyond chronicles the history of the petroleum industry in Trinidad and Tobago and appraises major policy decisions impacting its economy.

Beer and food pairing can be as much an art form as wine and food pairing.

How the US military origins of global capitalism facilitated both South Korea's "e;economic miracle"e; and the decline of US industrial might The US military has become a ubiquitous part of modern economic life.

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics.

Through this book's roughly 50 reference entries, readers will gain a better appreciation of what life during the Industrial Revolution was like and see how the United States and Europe rapidly changed as societies transitioned from an agrarian economy to one based on machines and mass production.

This unique encyclopedia enables students to understand the myriad ways that the Columbian Exchange shaped the modern world, covering every major living organism from pathogens and plants to insects and mammals.

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

Covering figures, events, policies, and organizations, this comprehensive reference tool enhances readers' appreciation of the role economics has played in U.

Through a diversity of primary source resources that include works by politicians and literary figures, book reviews, and interviews, this book enables student readers to better understand literature of the Great Depression in context through original documents.

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics.

EU Cohesion policy, along with support for agriculture and rural development, is one of the main items of EU spending.

A riveting look at the financial cycles in American economic history from colonial times to the present day, with an eye on the similarities and differences between past and present conditions as analyzed by leading economic historians.

This volume critically explore and extend Hayek's Nobel Prize-winning work on knowledge and social interconnectedness from the disciplines of law, economics, philosophy, anthropology, political science, and history.

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Market process theory illustrates how the market is the most effective institution for overcoming the knowledge problem.

The political process focuses on the ways that people come together to engage in collective decision making in a variety of contexts.

A Washington Post and Strategy+Business Book of the Year.

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The economy of the United States is constantly evolving in response to wars, technological innovations, cultural revolutions, and political maneuverings.

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.

From the price of a candy bar to the price of a house, Woirol's book demystifies prices and markets.

While trying to solve a family mystery, Dave Dyer uncovered a massive stock market scandal that had been forgotten by history.

Covering events such as banking crises, economic bubbles, natural disasters, trade embargoes, and depressions, this single-volume encyclopedia of major U.

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.

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Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of General Motors to resign his position and take the reins of a great national enterprise.

The consensus on Alan Greenspan's performance as Fed chair used to be extremely positive, but more and more it's been called into question.

In Raving at Usurers, Dwight Codr explores the complex intersection of religion, economics, ethics, and literature in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.

Although it eventually became a regrettably profitable business for enslavers and their partners, a successful slave economy in the American South was no foregone conclusion.

Although it eventually became a regrettably profitable business for enslavers and their partners, a successful slave economy in the American South was no foregone conclusion.

In Raving at Usurers, Dwight Codr explores the complex intersection of religion, economics, ethics, and literature in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.

Although many white southerners chose to memorialize the Lost Cause in the aftermath of the Civil War, boosters, entrepreneurs, and architects in southern cities believed that economic development, rather than nostalgia, would foster reconciliation between North and South.

In Earnestly Contending, Dickson Bruce examines the ways in which religious denominations and movements in antebellum America coped with the ideals of freedom and pluralism that exerted such a strong influence on the larger, national culture.

Although Thomas Jefferson's status as a champion of education is widely known, the essays in Light and Liberty make clear that his efforts to enlighten fellow citizens reflected not only a love of learning but also a love of freedom.

In its more than 65 years of existence, the International Monetary Fund has evolved from a small, obscure international agency, with new and uncertain responsibilities, into a powerful institution that today has assumed center stage in the international monetary system.

Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone.

This book examines the U.

From Oil to Gas and Beyond chronicles the history of the petroleum industry in Trinidad and Tobago and appraises major policy decisions impacting its economy.

Every price is set by someone; this is where economics begins.

Oblivion or Utopia: the Prospects for Africa explains that most of the problems on the continent stem from the fact that, although the continent may be politically independent, it is not economically independent.

Beer and food pairing can be as much an art form as wine and food pairing.

Too often, says Jennifer L.

This is the first full history of Operation Breadbasket, the interfaith economic justice program that transformed into Jesse Jackson's Operation PUSH (now the Rainbow PUSH Coalition).

Little has been written about the economic history of Egypt prior to its incorporation into the European capitalist economy.

While trying to solve a family mystery, Dave Dyer uncovered a massive stock market scandal that had been forgotten by history.

This is the first full history of Operation Breadbasket, the interfaith economic justice program that transformed into Jesse Jackson's Operation PUSH (now the Rainbow PUSH Coalition).

The award-winning biography of William Pitt the Younger by William Hague, the youngest leader of the Tory Party since Pitt himself.

An essential history of a taste that shaped the world.

'The best memoir by a senior politician for years.

The history of Renaissance France is rich and varied.