Economic history

In this provocative account, Karl Gerth argues that consumerism rather than communism explains the history of China since 1949.

Since the Global Financial Crisis, economics has been under greater public scrutiny, revealing a crisis in the discipline.

This study, originally published in 1990, seeks to address several important policy questions associated with the ongoing depletion of forested wetlands.

Austrian economics is known for extensive-and many economists would say excessive-ruminations on methodology.

We live in a dynamic economic and commerical world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power.

Governments in developed and developing economies have increasingly turned to entrepreneurship and small businesses for economic growth, dynamism and economic and social inclusion.

This book offers a novel understanding of money by moving away from the dominant lens of economics through which it is usually seen.

The changes that Central European cities have undergone since 1989 deserve a complex, interdisciplinary analysis that offers deep insight into the specific nature of the transformation taking place in the region.

This book, the first of two volumes, explores India's economic development from 5000BC through to the India's independence period from 1947AD to 2022AD.

The eleven articles in this volume examine controversial subjects of central importance to medieval economic historians.

This research presents a rigorous investigation of US companies' financial resilience within the S&P 500 index from the year 2000 onward.

From the three perspectives of geography, economic policy, and ideology, this work examines corporate capitalism under the tsarist and late Soviet regimes.

This book explains how and why the state-socialist regime in Hungary used technology and propaganda to foster industrialization and the conservation of natural resources simultaneously.

Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development of agriculture, transportation, labour movements and the factory system, foreign and domestic commerce, technology and the ramifications of slavery.

Samuel Hollander is widely recognized as one of the most important and controversial historians of economic thought.

South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the on-going Greek debt crisis.

Poiesis brings together archaeological finds, ancient texts and inscriptions, recent scholarly analysis, and the expertise of modern craftsmen to investigate every known facet of Athens' manufacturing activities.

This book provides historical and analytical perspectives on the different phases of the postwar dollar standard in order to better understand its resilience in spite of the great volatility in today's global monetary system.

How a vast network of shadow credit financed European growth long before the advent of bankingPrevailing wisdom dictates that, without banks, countries would be mired in poverty.

Americans' belief in their economic, political, and cultural superiority launched them on a mission to transform Latin America that has evolved into a global process of Americanization.

First Published in 1978.

This monograph explores the economic consequences of the Cold War, a polarised world order which politicised technology and shaped industrial development.

Perhaps more than any other European country, Spain has undergone a remarkable transformation in the post-war period.

In the first part of the book, Professor Kolb provides a clear historical narrative of the political, social, economic and cultural developments of the Weimar Republic, setting it within the international context of the inter-war period.

The economic and social problems of modern Scotland are at the centre of current debate about regional economic growth, social improvement and environmental rehabilitation.

Why economics needs to focus on fairness and not just efficiencyOne of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand.

In the course of the twentieth century, Italy succeeded in establishing itself as one of the world's preeminent fashion capitals, despite the centuries-old predominance of Paris and London.

South Korea has the tenth largest economy in the world and is one of only two Asian members of the OECD.

Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geographers has been much less conspicuous.

In this unique contribution to economic sociology, Jeffrey Hass examines the impact of culture, norms and political authority on Russia's post-socialist transition.

This book offers a new theory of state growth, based on the creation of credible and prudent state budgets.

For many financial market professionals worldwide, the era of high finance is over.

The Emergence of the Global Political Economy challenges the assumption that the international political economy is a recent phenomenon.

Emphasizing the diversity of regional and national models, this book explores the history of transformation of family businesses around the world during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Originally published in 1933, this volume From Chaos to Control represents the expansion of notes used in the delivery of the Halley Stewart Lectures for 1932-1933.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century the landed estate represented the largest and most clearly defined type of business organisation in existence in pre-industrial England.

The intercity electric railway industry in Canada, which began in 1887, ended in 1959.

For too long radical political economy has suffered for lack of a coherent alternative to formal Marxian economic theory.

This book examines how contemporary financial economy evolved as the predominant economic system, and why unabated accumulation of financial capital takes place in such systems.

Economics is a broad and diverse discipline, but most economics textbooks only cover one way of thinking about the economy.

First published in 1930, New Zealand in the Making is an economic history of the democratic experiments in New Zealand.

This book pinpoints continuities and changes in U.

The Sensory Order, first published in 1952, sets forth F.

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

Challenges the myth that the American national state was weak in the early days of the republic and provides a new narrative of American expansionism.

First published in 1937, What is Ahead of Us?

A history of the struggle for debtors' rights from the Civil War to the Great Depression What can be taken from someone who has borrowed money and cannot repay?