Economic history

An innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, charting the emergence of a trans-oceanic contractual culture.

An innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, charting the emergence of a trans-oceanic contractual culture.

Reconceptualizes economic theory as a tool for understanding the Roman monetary system and its social and cultural contexts.

This book provides a practitioner''s foundation for the process of explanatory model building that deconstructs the process into five stages.

Reconceptualizes economic theory as a tool for understanding the Roman monetary system and its social and cultural contexts.

Reveals how commodity failure, as much as success, can shed light on aspirations, environment, and economic life in colonial societies.

Reveals how commodity failure, as much as success, can shed light on aspirations, environment, and economic life in colonial societies.

Revised, updated and expanded, this second edition analyzes the structures and practices of European economies within a global context.

Detailed introduction explaining how ancient Greek economies functioned, and why they were stable and successful over long periods of time.

This book argues that if we are to think differently about management, we must first rewrite management history.

This book argues that if we are to think differently about management, we must first rewrite management history.

Detailed introduction explaining how ancient Greek economies functioned, and why they were stable and successful over long periods of time.

An innovative account of how thousands of acts of parliament sought to improve economic activity during the early industrial revolution.

An innovative account of how thousands of acts of parliament sought to improve economic activity during the early industrial revolution.

Analyzes the labor experience of Israeli Palestinian women, arguing that state policies and widespread discrimination hinder their labor force participation and success.

Aimed at political sciences students and teachers, Ferreras presents the new idea of ''economic bicameralism'' to redefine firms as political entities.

Monnet analyzes monetary and central bank policy during the mid-twentieth century through close examination of the Banque de France.

This edition of a Greek papyrus land survey presents a detailed picture of landholding in Upper Egypt under the Ptolemies.

This book describes the rise of the Swiss Franc to its current status as a strong currency of international importance.

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

Anthony Hotson reassesses the development of London''s money and credit markets since the great currency crisis of 1695.

The collapse of political and economic order in World War One prompted Germany to turn to empire in Eastern Europe.

The first history of the German multinational''s resounding failure in its global development project of a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon.

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

Draws on archival research to tell the story of the nineteenth and twentieth-century development of commercial law through practice.

Anthony Hotson reassesses the development of London''s money and credit markets since the great currency crisis of 1695.

The collapse of political and economic order in World War One prompted Germany to turn to empire in Eastern Europe.

The first history of the German multinational''s resounding failure in its global development project of a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon.

The first history of Chinese cities from their early origins to becoming the largest urban society in the world.

The first history of Chinese cities from their early origins to becoming the largest urban society in the world.

This volume presents essays that take a historical look at aspects of the finance-growth nexus.

This volume presents essays that take a historical look at aspects of the finance-growth nexus.

This book devises an innovative way to analyse Babylonian commodity price data in its historical context using formal statistical analysis.

This book devises an innovative way to analyse Babylonian commodity price data in its historical context using formal statistical analysis.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the historical experiences of monetary policymaking of the world''s largest central banks.

A systematic analysis of legal practice in a sharia court in the Ottoman Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

A systematic analysis of legal practice in a sharia court in the Ottoman Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

This book presents the ideas of some of the most outstanding economists of the past half century.

This book presents the ideas of some of the most outstanding economists of the past half century.

This book traces the history of international news agencies and associations around the world from 1848 to 1947.

This book traces the history of international news agencies and associations around the world from 1848 to 1947.

Explains why China grew differently in the 1980s than in the 1990s and beyond, and what consequences this has today.

This book covers the main developments in the social sciences after World War Two.

This book systematically explains why some countries are democracies while others are not.

This 2005 book traces the history of economic thought from its prehistory to the present day.

Examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth.

In this study, first published in 2004, Nobel laureate Robert Fogel examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries.

This book, first published in 1999, gives a balanced, enlightening account of how KKR has approached leveraged buyouts.

This book takes stock of where we are in the practice of central banking and considers implications arising from the ongoing crisis.

This book provides the why, who, and how of international migration, explaining how it affects the jobs, wages, and welfare of people.