Discusses the irrational, risk-taking decisions of overconfident leaders which led to a seminal turning point in world history that shaped the twentieth century.
This study of shipping makes visible a sector that has led European economic growth for centuries, yet rarely appears in business or economic histories.
Argues that workers'' compensation laws created new employment discrimination against disabled people and a new injury culture that treated employees and their injuries instrumentally.
This study of shipping makes visible a sector that has led European economic growth for centuries, yet rarely appears in business or economic histories.
Illustrated with historical analysis, case studies, and accessible economic concepts, this book explains what financial crises are, how they are caused and what we can learn from them.
Probes historical relationships between banks and religious beliefs, exploring urban geographies and architectural forms that reveal moral attitudes toward money during the early onset of capitalism.
Studies the ties between America and Bremen in the nineteenth century, illuminating the role of merchant capital in making an industrial-capitalist world economy.
This work explains the underfunding of early insurance and annuity schemes, and proposes a new view of how actuarial science developed as a discipline.
This work explains the underfunding of early insurance and annuity schemes, and proposes a new view of how actuarial science developed as a discipline.
Highlights the interactions between institutions and policy choices, as well as the importance of historical constraints on Britain''s relative economic decline.
Highlights the interactions between institutions and policy choices, as well as the importance of historical constraints on Britain''s relative economic decline.
Explores the failure of Romantic critiques of political economy, and the diminishing importance of aesthetic consciousness across the nineteenth century.