Economic history

Discusses the irrational, risk-taking decisions of overconfident leaders which led to a seminal turning point in world history that shaped the twentieth century.

Zanasi argues that notions of market and consumption linked to economic liberalism emerged earlier in China than in Europe.

A study of the power struggle between Germany''s central bank and the West German government to control monetary policy in the post-war era.

Examines how the democracies shifted from monetary war to peace during the Great Depression with the Tripartite Agreement of 1936.

Zanasi argues that notions of market and consumption linked to economic liberalism emerged earlier in China than in Europe.

A concise and clear introduction to the new institutional economics that summarizes current knowledge whilst addressing its gaps and weaknesses.

A study of the power struggle between Germany''s central bank and the West German government to control monetary policy in the post-war era.

Highlights how West Germany leveraged its economic power to become a key pillar of the global order in the 1960s and 1970s.

Surveys the field of defense, peace, and war economics with particular emphasis on the contributions made by Austrian economists.

The first comprehensive account of revolutionary and socialist thought after the 1871 Paris Commune, France''s last nineteenth-century revolution.

This study of shipping makes visible a sector that has led European economic growth for centuries, yet rarely appears in business or economic histories.

Ireland''s experience of Europe''s most spectacular financial bubble, bust and recovery is narrated and dissected by a central banking insider.

Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India''s changing political economy.

Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India''s changing political economy.

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.

Surveys the field of defense, peace, and war economics with particular emphasis on the contributions made by Austrian economists.

A new account of economic performance and state development in African countries across the long twentieth century.

The first comprehensive account of revolutionary and socialist thought after the 1871 Paris Commune, France''s last nineteenth-century revolution.

Almost no one knew what a potato was in 1500.

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.

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The contributors to this volume consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts.

Studies the ties between America and Bremen in the nineteenth century, illuminating the role of merchant capital in making an industrial-capitalist world economy.

Shows how thinking in evolutionary terms enhances our understanding of the economic and social change taking place at all levels.

This book gives a detailed account of how two major Austrian banks profited from their service to the Nazi regime.

Focuses on the British Russia Company, revealing how commercial competition between the British and Russian empires became entangled.

Focuses on the British Russia Company, revealing how commercial competition between the British and Russian empires became entangled.

This exploration of the statistical evidence on Germany''s post-war reconstruction sheds new light on the foundations of German economic power.

An interdisciplinary history of the campaign to secure international protection of indications of geographic origin, including ''Made in …'' slogans.

Reveals how global trade shaped early modern economic, social and political development, and inaugurated the first era of globalization.

A comprehensive survey of Chinese economic history from the pre-imperial era to 1800 from an international team of leading experts.

Highlights how West Germany leveraged its economic power to become a key pillar of the global order in the 1960s and 1970s.

This book uses economic theory to argue that labor-managed firms are rare due to market failures rather than any inherent organizational defects.

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 book investigates the intersection between consumption, identity and Jewish history in Europe.

This book uses economic theory to argue that labor-managed firms are rare due to market failures rather than any inherent organizational defects.

This book investigates the intersection between consumption, identity and Jewish history in Europe.

This work explains the underfunding of early insurance and annuity schemes, and proposes a new view of how actuarial science developed as a discipline.

Represents the largest recorded dataset based on human skeletal remains from archaeological sites across the continent of Europe.

Represents the largest recorded dataset based on human skeletal remains from archaeological sites across the continent of Europe.

Reveals why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society.

This book sets the record straight on why the Federal Reserve failed to rescue Lehman Brothers during the financial crisis.

A sweeping historical account of the crises of income inequality and crony capitalism from a world-renowned public economist.

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.

Focuses on the intense struggle over human and material resources between armies and civilians in the Civil War South.

Focuses on the intense struggle over human and material resources between armies and civilians in the Civil War South.

Explores the failure of Romantic critiques of political economy, and the diminishing importance of aesthetic consciousness across the nineteenth century.