Economic history

Rejects the perception of Engels as perpetuator of a ''tragic deception'' of Marx, and the body of opinion treating him as ''his master''s voice''.

This book paints a vivid picture of daily life and rural economy in Russia before the 1861 abolition of serfdom.

Rejects the perception of Engels as perpetuator of a ''tragic deception'' of Marx, and the body of opinion treating him as ''his master''s voice''.

This fascinating and groundbreaking book by an eminent team of scholars provides an accessible introduction to anthropometric history.

This history of the Bank of England takes its story from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s.

This history of the Bank of England takes its story from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s.

This fascinating and groundbreaking book by an eminent team of scholars provides an accessible introduction to anthropometric history.

A magisterial new history of commercial institutions developed through the study of merchant guilds.

Provides a new intellectual, economic and legal history of capitalism from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century.

This book on Russia examines historical reforms and interventions affecting agriculture and assesses their impact on the rural economy.

A magisterial new history of commercial institutions developed through the study of merchant guilds.

Provides a new intellectual, economic and legal history of capitalism from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century.

This book on Russia examines historical reforms and interventions affecting agriculture and assesses their impact on the rural economy.

This book provides a uniquely comprehensive explanation of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis and resulting scholarly research in the context of building an agenda for reform.

This book explores how steam engine technology was transferred into nineteenth-century China in the second half of the nineteenth century by focusing on the transmission of knowledge and skills.

This book deals with the economics of establishing a frontier by conquest or by peaceful settlement, the costs involved, and the optimum extension of the territory.

This book proposes that price volatility and speculation in the oil market originate from a decades-long process of financialisation.

The book investigates the many ways thateconomic and moral reasoning interact, overlap and conflict both historicallyand at present.

This book examines Portugal's transition from dictatorship to democracy by focusing on Lourinha's urbanization and economic development since 1966.

This book is a theoretical and empirical analysis of institutional foundation of long-term economic growth from the perspective of state-market and central-local relations.

Shakespeare is a cultural phenomenon and arguably the most renowned playwright in history.

This book revisits the economic relationship that ties the UK andIreland to the United States in the aftermath of the greatest economic crisisof the past fifty years.

This enlightening text analyses the origins of Western complaints, prevalent in the late nineteenth century, that Japan was characterised at the time by exceptionally low standards of 'commercial morality', despite a major political and economic transformation.

In this narrative history, David E.

During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history.

This book explores the diversity of restructuring instruments applied to financial institutions in EU countries during the Global Financial Crisis.

This volume explores the role of women in business in nineteenth-century Northern French textile centers.

Since its establishment in 1965, Business Economics has been an essential resource for those who use economics in the workplace.

This Palgrave Pivot explores the social and cultural impact of global trade at a micro-level from around 1600 to 1950.

This text offers an accessible guide to the ways in which our growing knowledge of development in early-modern and modernising Japan can throw light on the paths that industrialisation was eventually to take across the globe.

This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire.

This book pinpoints continuities and changes in U.

This book provides the first wide-ranging account of the Maltese economy in the modern era, from colonialism to European Union membership.

This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean, from the late first to the fifth century.

The state and entrepreneurs are two players that have shaped both economic activity and economic history throughout the world since the Industrial Revolution.

This volume of original essays considers how the International Labour Organization has helped generate a set of ideas and practices, past and present, transnational and within a single nation, aimed at advancing social and economic reform in the Pacific Rim.

This book examines, in greater depth than the existing literature, the history of Islamic economic thought.

'Jha is the right scholar and economist to take readers through the development of the Indian economy.

Paul Auerbach's Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century.

Thomas Malthus identified a crucial tension at the heart of a market economy: While an accumulation of wealth is necessary to provide the capital investment needed to generate growth, too much accumulation will cause planned saving to exceed profitable investment, which will result in secular stagnation, a condition of low growth and underemployment of resources.

This book presents detailed case studies of the first commercial internet digital currency systems developed between 1996 and 2004.

This book tells the untold story of the fight to defend slavery in the British Empire.

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

In The Financial Crisis Reconsidered, Aronoff challenges the conventional view that reckless credit produced the US housing boom and the financial crisis, explaining how the large current account deficit, and its mercantilist origin, was a more fundamental cause.

This book examines why the differences in comparative economic development across the world have a geographical pattern.

This second part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America's major wars from the Spanish-American War to the Vietnam War.

Greece's economy symbolizes in many ways the Eurozone's economic problems and divergent interests as it amasses most of the economic disadvantages characterizing the Eurozone's economy itself.

Islahi explores the state of Arab Muslim economic thinking in the 19th century.

In the quarter century since its emergence from military rule and integration into the global economy, Bangladesh's economy has achieved high growth, reduced aid dependence and made remarkable improvement in social indicators while at the same time it continues to suffer from increasing inequality.

This book explores the challenges faced by the Japanese economy and the Japanese banking industry following the financial crisis that emerged around the turn of the last millennium.