Economic history

This book reveals the surprising role that credit, money created ex nihilo by financiers, played in raising the British government's war loans between 1793 and 1815.

This book reveals the surprising role that credit, money created ex nihilo by financiers, played in raising the British government's war loans between 1793 and 1815.

This volume explores the changes that occurred during the Viking Age, as Scandinavian societies fell in line with the larger forces that dominated the Insular world and Continental Europe, absorbing the powerful symbiosis of Christianity and monarchy, adapting to the idea of royal lineage and supremacy, and developing a buzzing urbanism coupled with large-scale trade networks.

This volume explores the changes that occurred during the Viking Age, as Scandinavian societies fell in line with the larger forces that dominated the Insular world and Continental Europe, absorbing the powerful symbiosis of Christianity and monarchy, adapting to the idea of royal lineage and supremacy, and developing a buzzing urbanism coupled with large-scale trade networks.

Heterodox economics can provide a more complete and robust explanation of economic realities than orthodox (or mainstream) economics.

It would be difficult to examine interest- free alternative fi nancial systems without reviewing the evolution of debt; thus, this book offers a chronological account of the development of interest- bearing debt and contributors offer their take on how the issue of interest has been addressed throughout medieval and modern civilizations.

It would be difficult to examine interest- free alternative fi nancial systems without reviewing the evolution of debt; thus, this book offers a chronological account of the development of interest- bearing debt and contributors offer their take on how the issue of interest has been addressed throughout medieval and modern civilizations.

This book explains the role of formal labour market institutions in keeping the labour utilisation in Central and Eastern Europe above the level characteristic for Western European states.

This book explains the role of formal labour market institutions in keeping the labour utilisation in Central and Eastern Europe above the level characteristic for Western European states.

Heterodox economics can provide a more complete and robust explanation of economic realities than orthodox (or mainstream) economics.

Manila, 1645 reconstructs what the city of Manila was like before the earthquakes of the mid-seventeenth century.

Manila, 1645 reconstructs what the city of Manila was like before the earthquakes of the mid-seventeenth century.

Culture is a priceless inheritance and source of wellbeing that is of immense value to humankind.

Culture is a priceless inheritance and source of wellbeing that is of immense value to humankind.

This is the first comprehensive study of loans and debts in Central European countries in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.

This is the first comprehensive study of loans and debts in Central European countries in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.

Banking historiography often does not sufficiently take into account bankers' deliberations of their decision making, but rather limits investigation to considerations of profit maximisation.

Banking historiography often does not sufficiently take into account bankers' deliberations of their decision making, but rather limits investigation to considerations of profit maximisation.

This book examines Shanxi piaohao-private financiers from the Chinese hinterland-in the economic and business history of late imperial China, forming the original theory of Chinese hinterland capitalism.

This book examines Shanxi piaohao-private financiers from the Chinese hinterland-in the economic and business history of late imperial China, forming the original theory of Chinese hinterland capitalism.

Urban history is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field of research.

Urban history is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field of research.

This edited volume examines the relationship between economic ideas, economic policies and development institutions, analysing the cases of 11 peripheral countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The book examines how the outgrowth of the financial industry has contributed to the recent tendencies towards inequality and stagnation.

This volume brings together important articles from the Cambridge historian A.

This volume brings together important articles from the Cambridge historian A.

In the decade and a half before his untimely death at 46, Philip Lawson had already achieved more than many historians.

In the decade and a half before his untimely death at 46, Philip Lawson had already achieved more than many historians.

Incorporating a broad range of economic approaches, Understanding Financial Crises explores the merits of various arguments and theories which have been used to explain the causes of financial crises.

Incorporating a broad range of economic approaches, Understanding Financial Crises explores the merits of various arguments and theories which have been used to explain the causes of financial crises.

Many consider Foundations of Economic Method to be Lawrence Boland's best work.

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

Modern Britain focuses on two major periods of British history; the interwar period, and postwar Britain.

This book presents a comprehensive history of the political economy of Cuba from 1492 to the present day.

An examination of the varied paths of the American inter-city bus industry from its origins in the second decade of the 20th century to deregulation in 1982.

This book presents a comprehensive history of the political economy of Cuba from 1492 to the present day.

This new edition has been rewritten to provide an up-to-date, clear and comprehensive account of the most important developments currently taking place in the world economy.

Originally published in 1954.

Originally published in 1993.

Originally published in 1952.

Many consider Foundations of Economic Method to be Lawrence Boland's best work.

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

Originally published in 1954.

Originally published in 1993.

Originally published in 1952.

Maurice Potron (1872-1942), a French Jesuit mathematician, constructed and analyzed a highly original, but virtually unknown economic model.

An examination of the varied paths of the American inter-city bus industry from its origins in the second decade of the 20th century to deregulation in 1982.

Modern Britain focuses on two major periods of British history; the interwar period, and postwar Britain.

This new edition has been rewritten to provide an up-to-date, clear and comprehensive account of the most important developments currently taking place in the world economy.

Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well recognised, yet scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works.