Economic history

The essays reproduced in this volume analyze the guild system in Byzantium and the West, and investigate for the first time the process of price formation in Byzantium.

Originally published in 1970, this book examines the origins of social organizations, the development of Robinson Crusoe economies and the conception of property or rightful ownership, as well as the origins of agriculture, race and class.

Revealed Biodiversity: An Economic History of the Human Impact aims to show that for several centuries environmental conditions have been substantially the product of economic fluctuations.

China has become deeply integrated into the world economy.

This book will take the reader on a journey through the economic thought of Europe, spanning from ancient Greece to the modern day.

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

The "e;self-made"e; man is a familiar figure in nineteenth-century American history.

From an award-winning financial historian comes the gripping, character-driven story of venture capital and the world it madeInnovations rarely come from "e;experts.

The Guangdong province is the forerunner of China's economic reform, it has developed rapidly in the last twenty years since opening up its economy to the outside world.

Global climate change and the war in Ukraine have put energy back on the agenda for Europe in a way that has not been seen since the oil crisis of the 1970s.

The book presents the life of Louis Wolowski (1810 1876).

This two-volume collection analyses the evolution of wine production in European regions across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This title presents an historical survey of the American business corporation from the colonial era to the present day.

In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century.

Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well recognised, yet scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works.

Under the Reagan presidency, the United States saw a period of strong economic growth.

This book was first published in 1981.

Economic Methodology explores the status and character of economics as a social science and introduces students to philosophical issues underlying modern science.

This book examines trademarks and brands, and their historical role in national competitive and comparative advantage and in overall economic growth.

After the end of the Second World War businessmen and economists throughout the world feared that the American postwar inflationary boom would end in a serious slump.

Sixteenth-century Europe was powered by commerce.

Relying on a broad range of printed and secondary sources, Wage Labor and Guilds charts the history of guilds from their antecedents in the Roman Empire to their 'crisis' in the fourteenth century.

In 2012, Britain and the Commonwealth celebrate the 60th anniversary of Elizabeth II's accession to the throne.

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This book studies nineteenth-century American individualism and its relationship to the simultaneous rise of the market economy as articulated in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William Graham Sumner.

Looking especially at widows of master craftsmen in early modern Paris, this study provides analysis of the social and cultural structures that shaped widows' lives as well as their day-to-day experiences.

This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century.

A world-renowned economist offers cogent and powerful reflections on one of the great avoidable economic catastrophes of the modern era The economic crisis in Greece is a potential international disaster and one of the most extraordinary monetary and political dramas of our time.

This book is a textual criticism of modern ideas about the work of Adam Smith that offers a new perspective on many of his famous contributions to economic thought.

This revised and updated book provides unique insight into cross-border labor mobility, from the ancient forms of slavery to the present day.

This is the first serious history of merchant banking, based on the archives of the leading houses and the records of their activities throughout the world.

Social Opulence and Private Restraint is a study of the place of the consumer and consumption in the political economy of British socialism, from its early-nineteenth-century origins, through 'New Times' Marxism, to the consumer-focused New Labourism and political economies critical of consumerism that can be found in the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Left.

This is an important and unparalleled work which situated Marx's economic theory in relation to the economic theories that predate him - from mercantilism to John Stuart Mill.

The middle class is often viewed as the heart of American society, the key to the country's democracy and prosperity.

This unique survey of the environmental history of the southern United States explores the ecological, social, and economic interaction between humans and the environment in the South over the last 20,000 years.

Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development of agriculture, transportation, labour movements and the factory system, foreign and domestic commerce, technology and the ramifications of slavery.

Management and organizational history has grown into an established field of research with competing and contrasting approaches and methods that are relevant for management and organization studies.

Selling under the Swastika is the first in-depth study of commercial advertising in the Third Reich.

For most of the twentieth century, tin was the site of new forms of international regulation which became a model for other commodities.

Using historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.

Demonstrates how economics can explain the transformation of human society from mobile foraging bands to the first city-states.

This volume focuses on the life of Joseph Rowntree of York, a renowned Quaker businessman from 1836 to 1925.

The rise to dominance of marginalist economics coincided with a major increase in the spread of socialist ideas.

Manuscripts, Market and the Transition to Print in Late Medieval Brittany surveys the production and marketing of non-monastic manuscripts and printed books over 150 years in late medieval Brittany, from the accession of the Montfort family to the ducal crown in 1364 to the duchy's formal assimilation by France in 1532.

The survival of Edmund Harrold's diary for the years 1712-1715 is a remarkable piece of luck for historians.

Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development demonstrates the importance of one of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics winners Elinor Ostrom's research program.