Economic history

Each year nearly 30,000 Britons emigrate to Australia under the Assisted Passages Scheme.

Economic warfare during the Napoleonic era transformed international commerce; redirecting trade and generating illicit commerce.

Here, Richard Lachmann offers a new answer to an old question: Why did capitalism develop in some parts of early modern Europe but not in others?

Lectures in Macroeconomics: A Capitalist Economy Without Unemployment provides a systematic account of the principle of aggregate demand based on the work of Polish economist Michal Kalecki, best known as one of the originators of the Keynesian Revolution in macroeconomics.

This book provides a unique historical perspective on expectations in economic theory, and applications of expectations models in economic history.

"e;Once-in-a-lifetime"e; financial crises have been a recurrent part of life in the last three decades.

The chapters in this book reflect on people's relationships with past financial crises - from public opinion to business leaders and policy makers.

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Samuel Pufendorf's work on natural law and political economy was extensive and has been cited by several important figures in the history of economic thought.

Global history of the 1918-20 Influenza Pandemic (Spanish Flu) that delivers insights into the socio-economic implications of the COVID-19.

The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt lawArgentina's 2001 default on $100 billion in bonds and the messy litigation that followed has had an outsized impact on sovereign debt markets, sovereign debt law, and the International Monetary Fund's policies.

First Published in 1966.

Providing a 'short take' on the long history of political economy, this book examines both the stories about and those within economics.

Cameralism and the Enlightenment reassesses the relationship between two key phenomena of European history often disconnected from each other.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Volume II of The Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire.

Adam Smith and the Classics analyses the influence of classical culture--the work of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and the Stoics--on Adam Smith's thought.

Presents the latest research on the causes and consequences of British population change from the medieval period to the eve of the Industrial Revolution, in both town and countrysidePopulation, Welfare and Economic Change presents the latest research on the causes and consequences of British population change from the medieval period to the eve of the Industrial Revolution, in both town and countryside.

Long before Citizens United and modern debates over corporations as people, such organizations already stood between the public and private as both vehicles for commerce and imaginative constructs based on groups of individuals.

A book which covers the key period in the history of actuarial science from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century.

First published in 1904, this important economic work explores some of the leading principles underlining the development of international trade.

Voulant à tout prix éliminer la dévastation de la Grande dépression, gagner la guerre et construire un monde meilleur après-guerre, les académiciens et leaders canadiens appliquèrent les idées de Keynes et de Kuznets à la situation canadienne : une nation très régionalisée désirant bâtir une société recrutant les secteurs privé et public afin d'atteindre la stabilité économique et d'accroître les richesses du pays.

Mapping Mainstream Economics: Genealogical Foundations of Alternativity seeks to establish a definition of the mainstream economics, and by extension the alternatives to it, by adopting a genealogical approach: tracing the methodological development of the economic mainstream through its ancestry, which allows for a definition of the mainstream that is separate from politically charged categories or gridlocked academic arguments between received schools of thought.

Amongst intellectuals and activists, neoliberalism has become a potent signifier for the kind of free-market thinking that has dominated politics for the past three decades.

A prominent British conservative warns Americans to stop President Obama from leading their country down the path to European-style socialism.

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

Why do critics and celebrants of globalization concur that international trade and finance represent an inexorable globe-bestriding force with a single logic?

The Marginal Productivity Theory of Distribution (MPTD) claims that in a free-market economy the demand for a factor of production will depend upon its marginal product - where "e;marginal product"e; is defined as the change in total product that is caused by, or that follows, the addition or subtraction of the marginal unit of the factor used in the production process, with all other inputs held constant.

In the English language World War I has largely been analysed and understood through the lens of the Western Front.

The authors of this book argue that post-war fiscal and monetary policies in the U.

During the boom years of the 1980s, the massed oil wealth of the princes of Dubai and Saudi Arabia were pitted against British millionaire Robert Sangster in a battle for control of one of the world's rarest, most precious and most unpredictable commodities: top-pedigree thoroughbred racehorses.

This book uses a series of high-profile case studies to examine the processes by which auto companies fail or survive.

A History of the Georgian People (1971) begins with an account of the early history and ethnographic background of Georgia, and goes on to cover the country's political history from 1000 to 1800 and Russian conquest.

This ambitious book provides a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative assessment of Jamaica's ties to the International Monetary Fund, focusing on Jamaica's historical relationship with the IMF and reflecting on the domestic and international discourse surrounding the evolution of this relationship.

Some goods are freely traded as commodities without question or controversy.

A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting.

Volume 26 of "e;Research in Economic History"e; includes six papers, evenly divided between European and North American topics.

When John Kenneth Galbraith passed away on April 29, 2006, the economics profession lost one of its true giants.

Contrary to the image of Korea as a largely self-contained country until its economy became global during the 1990s, this book shows that transnationalism has firmly been part of modern Korea's national experience throughout its existence.

First Published in 2005.

It is often asserted that the ruling elite in Western capitalist economies now consists of liberal intellectuals and their media sympathisers.

This book examines economic inequality and social disparity in Iran, together with their drivers, over the past four decades.

The book responds to the need for greater clarity regarding the relationship between descriptive, evaluative and prescriptive approaches within positive and normative economics.

Until the end of the early 1970s, from a history of economic thought perspective, the mainstream in economics was pluralist, but once neoclassical economics became totally dominant it claimed the mainstream as its own.

World exhibitions have been widely acknowledged as important sources for understanding the development of the modern consumer and urbanized society, yet whilst the function and purpose of architecture at these major events has been well-studied, the place of food has received very little attention.

The fertility of Adam Smith's work stems from a paradoxical structure where the pursuit of economic self-interest and wealth accumulation serve wider social objectives.

Purity condemns filth; piety disparages corruption.