Economic history

This book reconstructs the origins and spread of precious metal money in the Iron Age eastern Mediterranean (1200–600 BCE).

An accessible, intuitive outline of key developments in central banking practice and thinking.

The novelty-narrative hypothesis is used to understand stock market instability using big data textual analytics of financial news.

The novelty-narrative hypothesis is used to understand stock market instability using big data textual analytics of financial news.

An accessible, intuitive outline of key developments in central banking practice and thinking.

A history of the cross-border Central African copperbelt, integrating the region''s social history with knowledge production about it.

This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking explores how a new concept of the future emerged in Renaissance Italy - and its consequences.

Nine leading scholars discuss the nine main ideas that, according to Luigi Pasinetti, characterize the Classical-Keynesian approach.

Nine leading scholars discuss the nine main ideas that, according to Luigi Pasinetti, characterize the Classical-Keynesian approach.

An authoritative guide to the transformation of the Bank of England into a modern inflation-targeting independent central bank.

In this provocative account, Karl Gerth argues that consumerism rather than communism explains the history of China since 1949.

This volume revisits the history of welfare economics, showing that economists have regularly drawn on ethical values for practical issues.

Studies pitfalls in value added accounting of sectoral growth in real terms in the context of liberalisation of the Indian economy.

In this provocative account, Karl Gerth argues that consumerism rather than communism explains the history of China since 1949.

This history of sterling shows how the Bank of England defended the pound and managed foreign exchange.

A contribution to the history of the institutional evolution of the market that finances the US government in war and peace.

Explains how the French state and its fiscal system were transformed in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789.

This history of sterling shows how the Bank of England defended the pound and managed foreign exchange.

A contribution to the history of the institutional evolution of the market that finances the US government in war and peace.

Explains how the French state and its fiscal system were transformed in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789.

A distinctive new account of why markets focus on short-term goals, while government needs to concentrate on society''s long-term interests.

This biography presents the interaction between his socialist ideals, scientific aspirations and work as an economic expert.

A multi-faceted look at what global central bank cooperation has - and has not - achieved over the past half century.

A new framework for measuring the evolution of human development and wellbeing in the modern world.

There is no inevitable logic of capitalism.

There is no inevitable logic of capitalism.

A distinctive new account of why markets focus on short-term goals, while government needs to concentrate on society''s long-term interests.

This biography presents the interaction between his socialist ideals, scientific aspirations and work as an economic expert.

A multi-faceted look at what global central bank cooperation has - and has not - achieved over the past half century.

In examining the key merchant group in late imperial China this book provides a framework for understanding China''s path to modernity.

This history of GATT explains how trade was implicated in foreign policy and international relations and connected to global order.

This history of GATT explains how trade was implicated in foreign policy and international relations and connected to global order.

A new framework for measuring the evolution of human development and wellbeing in the modern world.

By bridging the gap between linguistics and economics, this book sheds light on a range of mutually valuable topics.

International capital flow and domestic financial market structures explain why some countries are more vulnerable to banking crises.

An environmental history and political ecology of palm oil in colonial Brazil, the African diaspora, and the Atlantic World.

Reveals the relationship between social spending and economic growth and which countries have got it right and wrong.

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

By bridging the gap between linguistics and economics, this book sheds light on a range of mutually valuable topics.

Centering the experiences of women, this vivid social history examines Baltimore''s prostitution trade and its evolution throughout the nineteenth century.

Reveals the relationship between social spending and economic growth and which countries have got it right and wrong.

Reveals how political change and economic development led to the collapse of democracy and the origins of the Spanish Civil War.

Root shows how the tools of network analysis can be used to understand great transitions in global economic history.

International capital flow and domestic financial market structures explain why some countries are more vulnerable to banking crises.

This volume examines the Meiji Restoration through a global history lens to re-interpret the formation of a globally-cast, Japanese nation-state.

Challenges dominant interpretations of colonialism''s impact on the economy and social structuring of a US-owned Caribbean colony.

Centering the experiences of women, this vivid social history examines Baltimore''s prostitution trade and its evolution throughout the nineteenth century.

Root shows how the tools of network analysis can be used to understand great transitions in global economic history.

Challenges dominant interpretations of colonialism''s impact on the economy and social structuring of a US-owned Caribbean colony.

This book explores Edmund Burke''s economic thought through his understanding of commerce in wider social, imperial, and ethical contexts.