Economic history

Robert Owen (1771-1858) was the founder of British socialism, and one of the most influential reformers in Britain and America in the first half of the 19th century.

Understanding the Great Depression has never been more relevant than in today's economic crisis.

This book provides an impressive account of the pioneering technical achievements of the German economic theorist Friedrich List (1789-1846) during his exile in the USA.

The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the latest work on economic theory and policy from a 'pluralistic' heterodox perspective.

Takahashi reconstructs the key blocks of one of the founders of the institutional school, John R.

In light of demographic change and the growing problems of traditional old-age security systems, this book discusses two essential instruments in connection with privately providing for old-age security: (1) savings in private pension schemes and (2) building up equity for home-ownership.

Jamaican Migrant (1965) is the honest and moving recollection of a Jamaican cabinet-maker who emigrated to a new life in Britain.

The Sociology of Greed examines crises in financial institutions such as banks from the vantage point of the greed of the people at their helm.

Based on bank and official archives, this book focuses on Japan's financial activities abroad - in particular, Japan's borrowings.

The common understanding of physiocracy - the school of eighteenth-century political economy associated with thinkers such as Boisguillebert and Quesnay - is often confined to the view that it considered agriculture the only source of wealth, and manufacture, trade and export as unproductive.

While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery - with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications - gave rise to the sectional rift.

The second edition of this Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "e;buying power"e; and the impact this myth has had on understanding media, race, class and economics in the United States.

Published in the year 1989, Marx and Engels and the English Workers is a valuable contribution to the field of Economics.

Asia's Population Problems (1967) features papers written by specialists - demographers, economists and sociologists - examining the various population issues facing different Asian countries in the decades following the Second World War.

This collection brings together leading economists from around the world to explore key issues in economic analysis and the history of economic thought.

As the second volume of a two-volume set on the Chinese economic history, this book investigates Chinese economic development since 1949, uncovering the momentum, unique models, and general laws of economy in China.

Originally published in 1919, A primer of National Finance discusses elements of financial principles with reference to facts and figures of British National Finance, Britain's financial position and general outline of where finances stood at the time of publication.

Volume 38C of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium guest-edited by Rebeca Gomez Betancourt on the economic thought of Sir James Steuart, author of perhaps the first English-language treatise on political economy.

This book explores the reactions to the Manchurian crisis of different sections of the state, and of a number of different groups in Japanese society, particularly rural groups, women's organizations and business associations.

This study examines the manner in which Gunnar Myrdal's intellectual style left an impact on the shaping of Sweden's welfare state, on race relations in the United States, on post-World War Two economic cooperation in Europe, and on the analysis of Third World economic development.

This book, set out over four-volumes, provides a comprehensive history of economic thought in the 20th century.

It was only in the sixteenth century that texts began to refer to the significance of "e;economic activity"e; -- of sustaining life.

An interdisciplinary study of the nature of money and its impact on our economic, social, political, legal and spiritual lives.

The book reviews the finance, economics, and history of tontines, and argues that they should be resurrected in the twenty-first century.

This book is about the objects people owned and how they used them.

Shibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931) was a Japanese banker and industrialist who spearheaded the modernization of Japanese industry and finance during the Meji Restoration.

This book, first published in 1987, is an attempt to explain Adam Smith's theory of property.

This volume focuses on the issues involved in securing an internal common market within Canada.

The Fictions of American Capitalism: Working Fictions and the Economic Novel introduces a new way of thinking about fiction in connection with capitalism, especially American capitalism.

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

This highly original work offers an intellectual history of four central theories underlying the market economic system, focusing on their conception, evolution, and applications.

A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first presidentby far the best, most readable study of Herbert Hoovers presidency to date (Publishers Weekly) that draws on rare and intimate sources to show he was temperamentally unsuited for the job.

The toy industry and its close relationship with children's artefacts and equipment, made a huge contribution British ascendancy in light industry, after decline of heavy industry.

Foundations of Organisational Economics: Histories and Theories of the Firm and Production delves into a range of key topics to do with the history of the mainstream approach to the theory of production and the theory of the firm.

This book offers a socio-historical analysis of migration and the possibilities of regional integration in Southern Africa.

What was life like in England before the Industrial Revolution?

Companies that have acquired other enterprises through mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have in essence become entities that are akin to the global "e;empires"e; of history.

One of the foremost writers of her time, Harriet Martineau established her reputation by writing a hugely successful series of fictional tales on political economy whose wide readership included the young Queen Victoria.

This book, the first of two volumes, explores the legacy of Trevor Winchester Swan, often described as Australia's greatest ever economist.

Jesse Ramsden was one of the most prominent manufacturers of scientific instruments in the latter half of the eighteenth century.

How did Britain transform itself from a nation of workhouses to one that became a model for the modern welfare state?

The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now.

The Derbyshire Miners (1962) examines the development of the Derbyshire coalfield and the growth of trade union organization among the miners.

A fresh look at Austrian economists and the dynamic intellectual and political context in which they lived and worked.

Capitalism and Colonial Production (1982) examines the ways in which capitalism has transformed the societies it came to dominate, and the link between colonialism and capitalism.

How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money-in other words, participating in the modern financial system-come to seem likeroutine activities of everydaylife?

Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Ghana (1978) examines Ghana's integration into the world economic system, and the effects which such integration had on its development.