Economic history

Don't fly blind.

This book explores the historical interconnections between Bengal, Burma, and Yunnan (China), and views the corridor as a transregion that exhibits mobility, connectivity and diversity as well as place-based ecogeological uniqueness.

The first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000–30 BCE.

This book brings together analysis on the conditions of agricultural sectors in countries and regions of the world's peripheries, from a wide variety of international contributors.

Located in central Ethiopia, the Arssi region is one of the most productive in Ethiopia yet it has so far been neglected by scholars.

This Element reviews what we know about parental investments and children''s human capital in low-to-middle-income countries.

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

The Economics of Alfred Marshall brings together a number of leading international scholars for a timely reappraisal of Marshall's contribution to the development of economics.

An analysis of how Britain developed a superb supply system for the navy, with beneficial consequences both for victory in war and for Britain's economic development.

Exploring the ways in which transatlantic relationships functioned in the nineteenth century to unsettle hierarchical models of gender, race, and national and cultural differences, this collection demonstrates the generative potential of transatlantic studies to loosen demographic frames and challenge conveniently linear histories.

What did Protestants in America think about capitalism when capitalism was first something to be thought about?

Utilising new methodological approaches to understanding not only the poor as a social and economic group but also of the internal means of stratification which informed social organisation within local communities, this book looks at the place of the poor within the multi-layered hierarchies of Byzantine society using evidence from archaeology, art, architecture, as well as narrative, theological, and legal texts.

This first of three volumes starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of acient and modern measurement systems of all kind, scientific measures, units of time, weights, currencies etc.

Joan Robinson is widely considered to be amongst the greatest economists of the 20th Century.

Ranking among the most distinguished economists and scholars of his generation, Jacob Viner is best remembered for his work in international economics and in the history of economic thought.

World watch production today is concentrated in three countries: Switzerland, Japan and China.

A dynamic social history of shadow capitalism spanning the late nineteenth and twentieth centuriesObservers see free markets, the relentless pursuit of profit, and the unremitting drive to commodify everything as capitalism's defining characteristics.

Is inclusiveness in the commons and sustainability a paradox?

A major new history of classical Greece-how it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from itLord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew.

The Economics and Politics of European Integration offers a comprehensive history of European integration, from the conceptualization of a United States of Europe, to the present day.

The University of Oxford has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for economics.

This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world.

This edited volume explores the interplay between political, economic, and financial development in twentieth-century European authoritarian regimes.

This is the first history of finance - broadly defined to include money, banking, capital markets, public and private finance, international transfers etc.

An important rereading of the Cold War as an economic struggle shaped by the global economy.

Early Records of British India (1972) is an important collection of source material deriving from official documents which now form part of the India Office Records.

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on different forms of organising British industry.

A portentous tale of rural rebellion unfolds in Bruce Gilley's moving chronicle of a village on the northern China plains during the post-1978 economic reform era.

This book offers a detailed analysis of the key sectors in the Italian economy, with the focus especially on areas in which the economy excels, such as the automatic packaging machinery sector, pharmaceutical production, the food and wine industry, and tourism.

Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era explores a fascinating connection between two seemingly unrelated Romantic-era discourses, outlining the extent to which eighteenth and early nineteenth century theories of sympathy were generated by crises of state finance.

This book is the first quantitative description of Europe's economic development at a regional level over the entire twentieth century.

The first book of the next crisis.

This book analyses the economic history of the nuclear program in Spain, from its inception in the 1950s to the nuclear moratorium in the early 1980s, and investigates the economic, financial and business origins of atomic energy in Spain.

In this work, Rutherford reviews why Adam Smith, Hayek, Mises and others praised economic markets, with a view to understanding, in contrast, historical attacks on markets dating as far back as Aristotle.

The first discussion of Aztec economy to include cross-cultural comparisons with other ancient and premodern societies around the world.

Diese Sozialgeschichte untersucht am Beispiel einer repräsentativen Unternehmergruppe das Berliner Bürgertum.

This volume reviews the goals, operation, and history of American antidumping laws coupled with a strategy for using those laws to promote U.

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

Tanzania in the 1970s was at the forefront of policy innovation.

This study offers a distinctive new account of British economic life since the Second World War, focussing upon the ways in which successive governments, in seeking to manage the economy, have sought simultaneously to 'manage the people': to try and manage popular understanding of economic issues.

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive synthesis of the literature on growth-linked securities, which are an equity-like method of financing for sovereigns.

The purpose of this book is to describe the intellectual process by which Real Business Cycle models were developed.

Este estudio ha sido preparado con la intención de servir de guía a profesores y alumnos de los primeros cursos de los grados de Economía y de Administración y Dirección de Empresas.

This book examines Portugal's transition from dictatorship to democracy by focusing on Lourinha's urbanization and economic development since 1966.

Engaging conventional arguments that the persistence of plantations is the cause of economic underdevelopment in the Caribbean, this book focuses on the discontinuities in the development of plantation economies in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century.

In this sixth volume contributors examine Hayek's neoliberal economics and politics in the 20th century, and the demise of the socialist system.

'This is a desperately needed book.