Auf Basis bislang nicht herangezogener Quellen aus privaten und öffentlichen Archiven legt Uwe Balder eine umfassende Geschichte des deutschen Textileinzelhandels vor.
Die Frage nach dem Verhältnis von "Ordnung und Chaos" betrifft die Organisation von Gesellschaft, Staat und Wirtschaft, der Verbände und Institutionen, aber auch das persönliche, individuelle Leben und den Alltag des Einzelnen.
Als 1955 die ersten "Gastarbeiter" in die Bundesrepublik Deutschland kamen, fanden viele von ihnen eine Anstellung in der Montanindustrie des Ruhrgebiets.
Die deutsche Börsenlandschaft ist seit Jahrzehnten Schauplatz von tiefgreifenden Veränderungen, Strukturbrüchen und innovativen Anpassungen der Handelsmodelle.
Existe acuerdo entre los especialistas en que la primera edición de este libro "representa un hito en la historiografía de España" (Richard Herr, Berkeley) y en que es una obra «magistral» (Joseph Harrison, Universidad de Manchester).
Mitte der 1970er Jahre geriet die Kernenergie in der Bundesrepublik vor dem Hintergrund wachsender gesellschaftlicher Widerstände in eine tiefgreifende Krise.
Arbeitsteilige Organisation der Produktion in einem nationalstaatlich strukturierten Wirtschaftsraum kennzeichnet die Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte Europas seit mindestens dem späten 19.
Die jüngste Finanzkrise verdeutlicht die immense Bedeutung der Großbanken für die gesamte Wirtschaft und die gegenseitige Abhängigkeit von Banken und ihren Kunden.
From Nobel Prizewinning economist Joel Mokyr, a revealing look at why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe.
From Nobel Prizewinning economist Joel Mokyr, a revealing look at why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe.
'A historically insightful read'Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata, authors of It's A ContinentWe need to think differently about African economics.
Previous wage studies of the period before World War I found that real wages remained stable from 1890 to 1914 despite the continued growth of the economy.
A sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War, this book by Bray Hammond focuses on how Washington struggled financially to settle the Civil War and how its measures spurred the growth of federal government.
Uprooted by the war, exposed to the full brunt of economic dislocation, and fearful of losing status in face of the growing might of big business and organized labor, the middle classes in Weimar Germany longed for a solution to their plight that neither the capitalism nor the socialism of their day could offer.
This study indicates that the agricultural production of Japan from 1873 to 1922 was higher than official records indicate, and that this higher rate of Japanese production was partially responsible for the swift economic growth of Japan.
This study of Albert Ballin, a powerful member of the banking and commercial elite in Imperial Germany and manager of the Hamburg-American Line from 1899-1918, illuminates the political and social structure of the aristocracy and the upper middle class in the German Empire.
This comprehensive account of the economic development of Spain, available for the first time in English, is generally regarded as a major achievement in Spanish historiography.
Raymond Goldsmith's book provides annual estimates of national wealth and its components for the period 1945-1958 in current and in constant (1947-1949) prices, and on a gross (undepreciated) and net (depreciated) basis.
A picture of a relentless drive for industrialization at the expense of living standards is presented in this authoritative comparison of the economic development of China in the Communist and pre-Communist periods.
In a remarkably lucid and flowing style, Loren Okroi analyzes the ideas of three leading reformer-critics in the United States and places their main arguments in the context of the economic, social, and political history of postwar America.
Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool.
The influential economist and philosopher Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was one of the most original and penetrating critics of American culture and institutions, and his work attracted and still attracts the attention of scholars from a wide range of political viewpoints and scholarly disciplines.
If any single characteristic differentiates current, neoclassical economics from the classical economics of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, it is the use of mathematics.
In 1900 the manufacture of rubber products in the United States was concentrated in several hundred small plants around New York and Boston that employed low-paid immigrant workers with no intervention from unions.
Changing consumer choices have built microchip factories where cotton fields used to be and have doomed cities from New Bedford to Detroit, while the impact of these choices on jobs and tax revenues has stimulated the creation of models of consumer behavior.
El turismo es uno de los sectores con mayor importancia en la economia espanola desde la decada de los cincuenta y ha contribuido en buena medida desde entonces al crecimiento y la modernizacion economica del pais.
In Gold We Trust is a historical and sociological account of how, by the late 1960s, three small Italian towns had come to lead the world in the production of gold jewelry--even though they had virtually no jewelry industry less than a century before, and even though Italy had western Europe's most restrictive gold laws.
An Economist Biggest Book of the YearHow commerce determines whether America preserves the peace or goes to warWhen the Cold War ended, many believed that expanding trade would usher in an era of peace.
An Economist Biggest Book of the YearHow commerce determines whether America preserves the peace or goes to warWhen the Cold War ended, many believed that expanding trade would usher in an era of peace.
In War, Wine, and Taxes, John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs-notably on French wine-as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and to respond to pressure from local brewers and others.
