Economic history

Despite widespread interest in the trade union movement and its history, it has never been easy to trace the development of individual unions, especially those now defunct, or where name changes or mergers have confused the trail.

The origins of the modern, Western concept of money can be traced back to the earliest electrum coins that were produced in Asia Minor in the seventh century BCE.

Aluminium was one of most cartelised industries in the international economic panorama of the 20th century.

This introduction to institutional economics, follows the history of the field since the early 20th century until the present day.

This book assesses developmental experience in different countries as well as British expansion following the industrial revolution from a developmental perspective.

By bringing together and critically engaging with accounts of certain themes in business and labour history, and utilizing original research, this book aims to widen understanding of industrial society and provide a background to further study and research in the area management and labour relations history.

Modern macroeconomics is in a stalemate, with seven schools of thought attempting to explain the workings of a monetary economy and to derive policies that promote economic growth with price-level stability.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

Colonial Planning (1958) breaks new ground in its study of colonial development plans on a comparative basis.

Economic growth has extraordinarily increased the availability of market goods to satisfy people's need for comfort, but at the same time it has also raised great challenges to their working and family life.

This collection of essays identifies a neglected but significant component of Britain's maritime and labour history, that of ethnic labour drawn from Britain's colonies in West Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Published in 1963: The object of this monograph is to trace the beginnings of Protectionism in England.

A fascinating and comprehensive history, this book explores the most important transformation in twentieth century economics: the creation of econometrics.

First published in 1938 this Routledge Revival is a reissue of the autobiography of influential economist J.

Between the Civil War and World War I the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history.

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The narrative of China's history in this book is 'theme-led' rather than conventionally chronicle-based.

THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and that assigning responsibilities to the people best able to discharge them really is better than the time-honoured customs of corruption, patronage, nepotism and hereditary castes' Steven PinkerMeritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth.

This book traces the historical emergence of modern consumer lending in America and France.

This is an innovative study of the techniques of domination, based on financial markets, judicial systems, academia and international relations, across North America and post-Soviet Russia.

First published in 1962.

Although the results of colonial expansion have been described in other general studies of the region, this is the first book to take a close look at the case of the Swazi in Swaziland.

'A system is just like truth's tail, but the truth is like a lizard.

This book is an introduction to the history of - and current measurement practice of - inflation for the United Kingdom.

In recent decades, there has been many attempts to describe, explore, and explain the new 'post-modern' capitalism of the twenty-first century.

This book draws together international contributors to analyse a wide range of aspects of mining history across the globe including mining archaeology, technologies of mining, migration and mining, the everyday life of the miner, the state and mining, industrial relations in mining, gender and mining, environment and mining, mining accidents, the visual history of mining, and mining heritage.

The articles in the first part of this volume, two being a revised English version of an article originally in Spanish, examine the place of the city in the historical development of Castile.

The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world.

Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers?

This book explores the identity of the 'French disease' (alias the 'French pox' or 'Morbus Gallicus') in the German Imperial city of Augsburg between 1495 and 1630.

Originally published in 1940, this book traces the development of theories concerning currency and credit from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth.

Manias, Panics and Crashes was first published in 1978, and dealt with financial crises that were, for the most part, before World War II.

This comprehensive and versatile reference source will be a most important tool for anyone wishing to seek out information on virtually any aspect of British affairs, life and culture.

John Mills provides a critical survey of the way economics has developed.

This book intends to renovate the view of social sciences in the German-speaking world.

This study combines in one volume a history and sociopolitical analysis of the group now called the Ralliement des Creditistes, and thus explores the dynamics of a contemporary social and political phenomenon - right-wing protest.

Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty examines the beginning of Canada's aerial war against forest insects and how a tiny handful of officials came to lead the world with a made-in-Canada solution to the problem.

The purpose of this volume, first published in 1925, is to provide the historical account of the regime whereby the State, in different countries, has sought to control economic life in the interests of political and national strength and independence.

Originally published in 1967, this was the first book to discuss why agricultural supply became more 'responsive' and to provide broadly based evidence of the ways in which that 'responsiveness' may have influenced the growth of the economy.

Eighteenth-century Sweden was deeply involved in the process of globalisation: ships leaving Sweden's central ports exported bar iron that would drive the Industrial Revolution, whilst arriving ships would bring not only exotic goods and commodities to Swedish consumers, but also new ideas and cultural practices with them.

This text blends economic theory with empirical evidence to chart business development over the last two centuries in the UK, the United States, Japan and Australia.

Samuel Hollander's work has been provoking debate for over four decades.

This book examines the economic circumstances in which films were produced, distributed, exhibited, and consumed during the spoken era of film production until 1970.

Towards Economic Freedom (1937) presents the fundamentals of economics in their historical perspective, and reduces economic theory to its simplest terms.

The Invisible Hand?

The volume gathers together seventeen articles dedicated to the monetary history of medieval Italy, most of them newly translated into English.

This volume brings together a set of classic essays by Domenico Sella in which he reassesses the economic fortunes of Northern Italy, in particular Lombardy and Venice, during the 16th and 17th centuries.