Economic history

During the nineteenth century Britain's maritime, commercial and colonial interests all depended upon a regular and reliable flow of seaborne information from around the globe.

This book argues that mainstream economics cannot explain the underdevelopment and poverty of Nepal, neither can it be explained in terms of economics alone nor capital inadequacy even, as is conventionally believed.

This book provides a concise history of economic thought for readers of all ages.

Modern Britain focuses on two major periods of British history; the interwar period, and postwar Britain.

This book examines qualitatively and quantitatively the exploitation of Africa through six centuries of colonialism and imperialism.

From afar, Latin America looks like a blurry tableau: devoid of defining lines, particularities and nuances.

Economic Trends in Soviet Russia (1930) examines the economic position of the USSR a decade after the Revolution.

The annual Monetary Surveys published in the Midland Bank Review have become an established and authoritative source of reference for all students of money and banking and related topics, and for those concerned with general economics and current affairs.

This reissue of the authoritative Royal Economic Society edition of Essays in Persuasion features a new introduction by Donald Moggridge, which discusses the significance of this definitive work.

This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time.

A call to transform the way we think about property, this book examines how capitalism has from its origins sought to enclose or privatize the commons, or land and other forms of property that had been viewed as communally owned, and argues that neoliberal economic policies and the corporate takeovers of urban spaces, prisons, schools, the mass media, farms, and natural resources have failed to serve the public interest.

Fire had always been one of the greatest threats to an early modern British society that relied on the naked flame as the prime source of heating, lighting and cooking.

'This is essential reading for anybody interested in global history.

This book bringstogether leading experts to assess how and whether the Nazis were successful infostering collaboration to secure the resources they required during World WarII.

This book - the second of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective.

Capitalism and Colonial Production (1982) examines the ways in which capitalism has transformed the societies it came to dominate, and the link between colonialism and capitalism.

Since the latter half of the 20th century, the economics departments of American universities were internationally renowned for providing competitive and advanced levels of education.

A surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomesHow much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents?

While paramount to the modern economy, understanding how the banking system works has been usually cast aside from overall economic education.

By drawing on the experiences of Danone, Nestle, Coca-Cola and SABMiller, this book provides an insight into why and how the managing a Chinese Partner can deliver value for a joint venture in China, a goal shared by many but achieved by few.

Hans Vaihinger (1852-1933) was an important and fascinating figure in German philosophy in the early twentieth century, founding the well-known journal Kant-Studien.

The first comprehensive study of Pliny the Elder's economic thought-and its implications for understanding the Roman Empire's constrained innovation and economic growthThe elder Pliny's Natural History (77 CE), an astonishing compilation of 20,000 "e;things worth knowing,"e; was avowedly intended to be a repository of ancient Mediterranean knowledge for the use of craftsmen and farmers, but this 37-book, 400,000-word work was too expensive, unwieldy, and impractically organized to be of utilitarian value.

This volume explores the role of women in business in nineteenth-century Northern French textile centers.

This collection of essays aims to form a focused, original and constructive approach to examining the question of convergence and divergence in Europe.

In Pope Pius XII on the Economic Order, economist Rupert J.

Are human beings motivated exclusively by self-interest?

This book offers a chronological account of the development of interest-bearing debt and how the issue of interest has been addressed throughout medieval and modern civilizations.

This book explores students' consumer practices and material desires in nineteenth-century Oxford.

The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology provides an extensive and insightful overview of how economic conditions affect human well-being and how human health influences economic outcomes.

The literature on early-modern monetary history is vast and rich, yet overly Eurocentric.

One of the first volumes to explore the intersection of economics, morality, and culture, this collection analyzes the role of the developing monetary economy in Western Europe from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.

With contributions from world-renowned figures such as Niall Ferguson and Adair Turner, this volume investigates how financial institutions and markets have undergone or reacted to past pressures, and the regulatory responses that emerged as a result.

This first part of a 2-volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on the 19th-century Academia and Trade presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century.

Poverty in Contemporary Economic Thought aims to describe and critically examine how economic thought deals with poverty, including its causes, consequences, reduction and abolition.

The conventional received opinion of Adam Smith as an isolated figure, the founder of 'modern' economics, is thoroughly mistaken and misleading.

Are profits and sustainability compatible?

In the half millennium of their existence, guilds in the Low Countries played a highly significant role in shaping the societies of which they were a part.

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

In the critical decades following the First World War, the Canadian political landscape was shifting in ways that significantly recast the relationship between big business and government.

This book discusses Samuel Pufendorf and his contributions to the development of the European Enlightenment and the emergence of economics as a social science.

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.

This edited collection examines the evolution of regional inequality in Latin America in the long run.

Economical questions indisputably occupy a central place in everyday life.

Penury into Plenty: Dearth and the Making of Knowledge in Early Modern England is an original examination of cultural meanings of dearth and famine in England at the turn of the sixteenth century.

An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade.

The first full scale survey of the demographic history of America in one volume.