Social forces are important determinants of how people behave, how economies work at the macroeconomic level, and the effectiveness of economic policies.
Drawing in particular on the work of Sraffa, Smith, Ricardo and Marx, the essays in this volume explore the characteristic features of the Classical economists' approach to economic problems, and the renewal of interest in that approach in modern times.
Piracy and the English Government, 1616-1642, explodes the myth that England was 'a nation of pirates', arguing that the English people were far more often victims of piracy.
Originally published in 2002, this volume focuses on the growth of derivatives, the savings and loan crisis, the merger mania of the 1980s, the accompanying insider trading scandals, and the battle with inflation.
This book contains commentaries from the series "e;Klassiker der Nationalokonomie"e; (classics of economics), which have been translated into English for the first time.
This book is an ethnographic case study, based on first hand observation, of family businesses in the northern Vietnamese village of Ninh Hiep along the Red River Delta, which became a major hub for textiles in the wake of the country's shift towards market socialism.
Resisting Financialization with Deleuze and Guattari aims to provide a contribution in relation to three main areas: the understanding of contemporary capitalism and financialization from a critical perspective; the analysis of resistance to financialization; and the better understanding of the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari.
Although economists have long recognised industrial districts as one of the key features of many economies, it is only recently that attention has been focused on the region as an effective means of generating accurate insights into the larger picture of economic performance.
This book seeks to understand how the economic construction of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) evolved, shaped by the formulation and execution of various economic management systems spanning the years 1949 to 2023, in response to numerous challenges faced by the country.
Between Brexit, efforts to 'Make America great again', and ongoing appeals for patriotic consumption to boost economies, the intersection between national identity, marketing campaigns, and consumer choices has been brought to the fore.
The Routledge Companion to Accounting History presents a single-volume synthesis of research in this expanding field, exploring and analysing accounting from ancient civilisations to the modern day.
Since the end of the Cold War, the human face of economics has gained renewed visibility and generated new conversations among economists and other social theorists.
This book brings together world-renowned experts and rising scholars to provide a collection of chapters examining the long-term impact of historical events on modern-day economic and political developments in Latin America.
Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean (1986) is a comparative and systematic study of the legacies bequeathed by British and French colonial rule in the Caribbean.
This book provides detailed systematic micro-level analysis of the historical development of the Chinese banking industry, focusing in particular on the development of the Bank of China (BOC) in the period 1905 to 1949.
This book explores the Italian stock exchange through its construction and consolidation while examining and criticizing the birth of the capital city.
During the past decade, the role of Germany's economic elites under Hitler has once again moved into the limelight of historical research and public debate.
Kenneth Boulding was a prolific writer across so many different fields that not only is he often much referred to and cited, he is considered a core member of many of these fields.
Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy addresses the intellectual foundations of modern economic growth and European industrialization.
How the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequalityEconomic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often turning to questions of whether it is an inevitable outcome of economic systems and what, if anything, can be done about it.
The book analyses the Spanish financial system from the turn of the last century to the present day and the economic, social and political backdrop to this history.
This re-incorporation of economics into political economy is one (small, but not insignificant) element in a larger project: to place all of the resources of present-day social-scientific research at the service of increasing democracy, in an ultimate direction toward socialism in the classic sense.
Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the "e;middling sort,"e; the group falling between the mass of yeoman farmers and the planter class that dominated the political economy of the antebellum South.
The study of modern Chinese history has developed rapidly in recent decades and has seen increased exploration of new topics and innovative approaches.
A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern worldIn the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes-an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan-grew dramatically, eventually making them the busiest in the world.
