Economic history

An excellent insight, using the example of the Chesapeake Bay fur trade, into how the different elements of transatlantic trade in the seventeenth century fitted together.

This is the most in-depth analysis of economic inequality and social polarization ever attempted for a preindustrial society.

Shows how thinking in evolutionary terms enhances our understanding of the economic and social change taking place at all levels.

This book is a theoretical and empirical analysis of institutional foundation of long-term economic growth from the perspective of state-market and central-local relations.

Metaphors in the History of Economic Thought: Crises, Business Cycles and Equilibrium explores the evolution of economic theorizing through the lens of metaphors.

First published in 1976, this book provides an interdiciplinary study fo the thoughts of Adam Smith, showing it particular how the link between economic basis and social superstructure was central to his work.

The China Development Research Foundation is one of the leading economic and social think tanks in China, where many of the theoretical underpinnings and policy details of economic reform were formulated.

This book is concerned with the causes and consequences of the evolving political ties and growing economic openness in modern China.

A major source of financing for the poor and no longer a niche industryOver the past four decades, microfinance the provision of loans, savings, and insurance to small businesses and entrepreneurs shut out of traditional capital markets has grown from a niche service in Bangladesh and a few other countries to a significant global source of financing.

Every time the economy goes through a period of crisis, Keynes' name is called upon by economists and politicians from diverse backgrounds.

This monograph aims to analyze the economic and business history of colonial India from a corporate perspective by clarifying the historical role of institutional developments based on archival evidence of a representative enterprise.

From the earliest times, people have striven to turn their houses into homes through the use of decoration and furnishings, stimulating in turn a major commercial sector dedicated to offering the products and services essential to feed the ever-changing dictates of domestic fashion.

To provide an understanding of financial globalization from a historical point of view, this book sheds light on international banking in Asia before World War II.

An examination of how the patent system works, imperfections and all, to incentivize innovation Do patents facilitate or frustrate innovation?

Surveying the transition to modern economic growth since 1700, this textbook sets European economic development within a pan-European framework.

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of monetary policy, banking supervision and financial stability in the euro area.

From antiquity to our own time those interested in political economy have with almost no exceptions regarded the natural physical environment as a resource meant for human use.

Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan's prewar political history.

This study argues that businesswomen were central to urban society and to the operation and development of commerce in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

This collection of essays, written by former bankers, practising central bankers, government advisers and historians, celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the National Bank of Hungary.

First Published in 2003.

A transnational survey of the economic development of Europe, exploring why some regions advanced and some stayed behind.

WINNER - SILVER MEDAL, AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2018'Something of a modern classic in its own right.

Come to Texas urged countless advertisements, newspaper articles, and private letters in the late nineteenth century.

Through a diversity of primary source resources that include works by politicians and literary figures, book reviews, and interviews, this book enables student readers to better understand literature of the Great Depression in context through original documents.

Euro on Trial looks back - to the aspirations of the founders - and forward - to the possibility of reform or splitting up.

Frontier society in nineteenth-century Canada was hungry for all the information and entertainment it could get.

First published in 1998, this book analyses and reconsiders one of the great economic dramas of Western history, the march to capitalism in Russia, Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic.

Rosa Luxemburg, Oskar Lange and Micha?

The book consists of eleven of the most important writings of Anders Chydenius, an eighteenth century pioneer of freedom and democracy.

Despite recent corporate scandals, the United States is among the world's least corrupt nations.

Healing Multicultural America (1993) looks at a group of Mexican immigrants who managed to understand and use the US democratic system to gain access to the 'American Dream'.

Is it possible to generate "e;capitalist spirit"e; in a society, where cultural, economic and political conditions did not unfold into an industrial revolution, and consequently into an advanced industrial-capitalist formation?

A 2017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award winnerThis book is an introduction to the history of alcoholic drink in England from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day.

The Christian churches have frequently pioneered educational advances - from the seventh century down to the nineteenth.

Drawing on largely unexplored nineteenth- and twentieth-century sources, this book offers an in-depth study of Britain's presence in Argentina.

The book presents a high-impact re-reading of core topics in the Marx and Marxist debates including: value theory, the commodity nature of money, complex or skilled labour, the determination of the value of labour-power and the nature of extraordinary surplus-value.

This book is the culmination of a major research programme on the monetary history of the United Kingdom.

The Global Financial Crisis has reshuffled the cards for central banks throughout the world.

This powerful selection of essays proposes practices of reading and criticism to make the field of postcolonial studies more fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions.

Firms are a ubiquitous feature of the economic landscape, with much of the activity undertaken within an economy taking place within their boundaries.

'A classic' - Simon Kuper, Financial Times'Brilliant' - James O'Brien, author of How to be RightThe five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world.

Analyses how and why financial crises stopped being treated as crimes and started being thought of as natural disasters.

Although Otto Neurath left his mark across an array of fields in the first half of the twentieth century, he was trained as an economist and wrote extensively about economics.

A book which covers the key period in the history of actuarial science from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century.

Im Zentrum der zweiten Ausgabe des Jahrbuchs HealthCapital Berlin-Brandenburg steht als Schwerpunkt der Gesundheitsregion Berlin-Brandenburg das Thema Ernährung.

How do terrorists become politicians?