Economic history

This volume focuses on Chinese economic statecraft during the first decade of Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening-up policies, from 1978 to 1989.

This book is a continuation of Corporate Law and the Theory of the Firm: Reconstructing Corporations, Shareholders, Directors, Owners, and Investors.

This book analyses ancient Greek federalism by focusing on one of the most organised and advanced Greek federal states, the Achaean Federation Sympoliteia.

Early Modern Debts: 1550-1700 makes an important contribution to the history of debt and credit in Europe, creating new transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives on problems of debt, credit, trust, interest, and investment in early modern societies.

This book examines the role of institutions and law on the economic performance of the Ottoman Empire between 1500 and 1800.

In 1865, William Buck Dana, working a bold new departure in American journalism, established the nation's first business weekly, the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, in the country's commercial nerve center, New York City.

Teresa Healy here examines resistance within Mexican society during a period of sustained crisis at the regional and national level, as well as at the level of world order.

This collection of essays covers the representation and practice of drinking a variety of beverages across eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and North America.

First Published in 2005.

This book provides substantial background on what Adam Smith did during his stay in Toulouse and the Languedoc region of France during the 18th century.

This book presents a new economic history of London construction in the early modern period.

Understanding the drivers and inhibitors of economic growth is critical for promoting development in less developed countries, including India.

A previously unpublished collection of manuscripts by or relating to T.

War, Power and the Economy contains a comparative history of Great Britain, France and Spain, the three rival empires of the 1700s.

First Published in 2005.

Adopting a view of utilitarian ethics in which motivation in the public interest takes on greater weight than is generally appreciated, this book explores the extent to which the philosophy of Immanuel Kant is consistent with this nuanced version of utilitarianism.

This 2007 book examines the significance of ancient trade using ecological and cultural, as well as economic, perspectives.

Volume 36A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology featuresa symposium on Bruce Caldwell s BeyondPositivism after 35 years.

Based on archival research undertaken in Japan, Britain and the United States, Mihalopoulos offers a new perspective on the relations between gender hierarchies and the political economy in a newly modernized Japan.

The second half of the nineteenth century is correctly known to have culminated in the emergence of the gold standard as the first truly international monetary regime.

This book, first edited with an introduction by F.

Populism and Neoliberalism argues that the roots of populism lay in the contradiction between the democratic ideal, which implies that the people should decide, and neoliberal governance, which seeks to make markets and competition the arbiters of major social developments.

The Industrial Revolution (1958) examines the various interpretations of early industrialization in Britain.

This volume explores several notable themes related to the economy in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives to understand national, regional, and global issues in the continent since the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.

This volume reclaims Mumbai's legacy as a global financial centre of the 19th to the first half of the 20th century.

Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies researches the development of knowledge economies in Early Modern Europe.

'Early Modern' is a term applied to the period which falls between the end of the middle ages and the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Economics and History presents six state-of-the-art surveys from some of the leading scholars in cliometrics.

This book deals with the prime movers of socio-economic development, innovations and technical change, their origins, forms and effects.

In How Economics Became a Mathematical Science E.

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders, with a lifetime prevalence rate of roughly 20%.

This book explores the Kuki uprising against the British Empire during the First World War in Northeast frontier of India (then Assam-Burma frontier).

Recent developments in the global economy, such as the Greek budget crisis, have led to new focus on the role of Europe, and in particular on the countries in Europe's south-eastern region.

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

This book has a dual purpose.

Why did the Soviet economic system fall apart?

The massive inflation and oil crisis of the 1970s damaged Jimmy Carter's presidency.

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The political manoeuvres which brought about the collapse of Britain's last Liberal government in May 1915 have already been the subject of much scholarly debate.

Indias caravan trade with central Asia was at the heart of the complex web of routes making up the Silk Roads.

Integrating a focus on gender with Marx's surplus-based notion of class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in the United States.

Drawing upon an impressive range of international sources, this book explores the late-nineteenth century partnership between Bradford worsted manufacturers the Briggs brothers and the German merchant Ernst Posselt, and their subsequent foreign direct investment in a modern factory and workers' community at Marki, near Warsaw in Poland.