Economic history

Though Cannan, in his early years as an economist, was a critic of classical economics and an ally of interventionists, he moved sharply to the side of classical liberalism in the early 20th century.

The coal industry has been and continues to be of critical importance for China's economic modernization.

In the three or four decades before the first world war British industry was subject to increasing foreign competition particularly from America and Germany.

First Published in 2005.

Transportation Network Companies and Taxis: The Case of Seattle is a modern economic case history and thorough analysis of the devastating impact of the transportation network company (TNC) industry (Uber and Lyft) on the taxicab industry in Seattle, Washington, beginning in 2014.

This sweeping sociological analysis traces the emergence of intellectual property as a new type of legal property.

Originally published in 1972.

Offers a distinctive history of money as an everyday social technology in the Dutch Republic from 1600 to 1850.

Human Capital and Institutions brings to the fore the role of political, social, and economic institutions in human capital formation and economic growth.

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Toute expansion porte en elle la tentation du repli.

Covering the period 1943-45, these diaries cover issues such as the Bretton Woods UN Monetary Conference in 1944 and loan negotiations and the ITO, as recorded by Meade and Robbins.

As the banking crisis and its effects on the world economy have made plain, the stock market is of colossal importance to our livelihoods.

This is a book about the discovery of macroeconomic ideas and concepts long before the term macroeconomics had been coined.

This book puts the illegal economy of the German capital during and after World War II into context and provides a new interpretation of Germany's postwar history.

This volume, first published in 1971, brings together eleven essays and articles on the history of the industrial revolution.

This succinct overview of Marshall's life and work as an economist sets his major economic contributions in perspective, by looking at his education, his travel, his teaching at Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol, his policy views as presented to government inquiries and his political and social opinions.

There has been much discussion about the origin of marketing and marketing thought, and whether it was truly American in origin.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers.

This book provides a concise and accessible history of the relationship between the individual and capitalism in the United States.

Ugandan Asians in Great Britain (1975) examines the impact of the 1972 immigration of 28,000 Asians expelled from Uganda, looking at the impact on both the immigrants themselves and the British host community.

This book focuses on slave ownership in Virginia as it was practiced by a variety of institutions.

Incorporating a broad range of economic approaches, Understanding Financial Crises explores the merits of various arguments and theories which have been used to explain the causes of financial crises.

This fourth volume examines his time in Vienna and Chicago (1931-1950), when Hayek held the prestigious University of London Tooke Professorship of Economic Science and Statistics.

First published in 2000.

Slavery in the Twentieth Century, first published in 1986, draws together all the forms of slavery in their modern guises - in the far recesses of Africa and Arabia, in the industrial towns of Italy, the factories and mines of South America, and in the prison farms of the United States.

As the first volume of the two-volume Industrial Development in Modern China: Comparisons with Japan that studies the different paths of industrialization and economic modernization between China and Japan, this book analyzes the relationship between technological innovation and economic development in Japan before World War II.

The early decades of the sixteenth century were a turbulent time for the Italian peninsula as competing centres of power struggled for political control.

This book examines the problem of constitutional change in times of crisis.

Local Authority Borrowing (1985) sets out the history of local authorities' activities as borrowers.

Monetary law is essential to the functioning of private transactions and international dealings by the state: nearly every legal transaction has a monetary aspect.

Since the successful first edition of The Gold Standard in Theory and History was published in 1985, much new research has been completed.

This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century.

The book examines how the outgrowth of the financial industry has contributed to the recent tendencies towards inequality and stagnation.

The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership.

New York is often described as the greatest city in the world.

An account of the situation which brought about the privatization of JNR in 1987, the processes of privatization, break-up and deregulation, and the new private railway companies.

For both contemporaries and later historians the Industrial Revolution is viewed as a turning point' in modern British history.

This edited collection demonstrates how economic history can be analysed using both quantitative and qualitative methods, connecting statistical research with the social, cultural and psychological aspects of history.

This volume consists of lectures and articles by Maurice Dobb selected from among those delivered or written by him during the 1950s and 60s.

This is the first book to describe the early English woollens' industry and its dominance of the trade in quality cloth across Europe by the mid-sixteenth century, as English trade was transformed from dependence on wool to value-added woollen cloth.

First published in 1971 this volume applies the tools of static and of dynamic analysis (outlined in The Stationary Economy and The Growing Economy) to the control of a dynamic economy.

'A historically insightful read'Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata, authors of It's A ContinentWe need to think differently about African economics.

Westra explores a nuanced literature on post-capitalism which claims that instead of constituting the end of history or ending in its supplanting by socialism, capitalism has transmuted into something else.

After the 1854 abolition of slavery in Peru, a new generation of plantation owners turned to a system of peasant tenantry to maintain cotton production through the use of cheap labor.

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This volume examines the experiences of Sao Paulo's working class during Brazil's Old Republic (1891-1930), showing how individuals and families adapted to forces and events such as urbanization, discrimination, migration, and World War I.

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

First published in 1955, A History of the Scottish Miners recounts the peculiar circumstances of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the laws that placed the miners under conditions unique in Europe.