Economic history

This book is about where to go and what to do in China's reform.

What is the exact nature of the consumption function?

This unique study into the roots of Max Weber's Political Economy, is an intriguing read and a valuable contribution to the Weberian literature.

This book studies the economic history of India and traces the Indian path of development from a Latin American framework and perspective.

An innovative new study of the Canton trade networks that helped to shape the modern world.

Securing the World Economy explains how efforts to support global capitalism became a core objective of the League of Nations.

It's Our Research: Getting Stakeholder Buy-in for User Experience Research Projects discusses frameworks, strategies, and techniques for working with stakeholders of user experience (UX) research in a way that ensures their buy-in.

This edited collection seeks to advance thinking on money and the monetary nature of the economy, macroeconomic analysis and economic policy, setting it within the context of current scholarship and global socioeconomic concerns, and the crisis in the economics discipline.

In 1914, the notion of statutory regulation of trading in shares was anathema to both the Government and the London Stock Exchange.

First published in 1981, this book concerns itself with the different ways in which money is used, the relationships which then arise, and the institutions concerned in maintaining its various functions.

This volume comprises twelve papers written by Chinese scholars on various aspects of the history of ancient Chinese economic thought.

This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century.

This volume brings together a group of scholars to consider the rituals of eating together in the Byzantine world, the material culture of Byzantine food and wine consumption, and the transport and exchange of agricultural products.

Banking in Scotland has a long and distinguished history - to this day Scotland is served by its own banks which form a distinct regional group within the wider British banking system.

At the start of the Industrial Revolution, it appeared that most scientific instruments were made and sold in London, but by the time of the Great Exhibition in 1851, a number of provincial firms had the self-confidence to exhibit their products in London to an international audience.

This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe.

This book presents an original interpretation of the building history of London in terms of its evolving political economy.

This title was first published in 2003.

Though Cuba was among the first countries in the world to utilize rail transport, the history of its railroads has been little studied.

This monograph examines the failure of the Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone and the birth of new monetary and financial systems in Portuguese-speaking African countries.

Every school and public library should update its resources on Spain with this lively and succinct narrative of Spain's long and rich historical experience.

At the end of the Second World War Germany was devastated; her cities lay in ruins, industrial output was minimal, the economy was in tatters and her territories divided into four zones, each governed by one of the main Allied powers.

This book explores the twists and turns in Argentina's modern economic history and the debates that raged there around a problem common to all former colonies: how to achieve a level of economic growth for its population in a world characterized by unequal economic relations between the industrialized nations of the north and the commodity producers of the south.

There are two ways people coordinate their actions: through cooperation, exercised by economic power, and through control, exercised by political power.

This book offers an alternative view of the economy - and indeed, society - that does not rely on an ever-expanding government to address the problems which individuals typically face during their lives.

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

Volume 40C of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on the work of the controversial French economist Francois Perroux, edited by Katia Caldari and Alexandre Mendes Cunha, and a collection of book reviews of David M.

Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869) is today a largely unknown figure, sometimes considered to be a forerunner of Karl Marx.

First Published in 2017.

Covering the period from the publication of Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers' Director (1754) to the Great Exhibition (1851), this book analyses the relationships between producer retailers and consumers of furniture and interior design, and explores what effect dialogues surrounding these transactions had on the standardisation of furniture production during this period.

This book is an edited collection by leading insurance historians, examining the historical role of reinsurance (the insurance of insurers) in the insurance markets of eight countries: USA, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Spain, Italy, Mexico and Japan.

Variation in market orientation in individual regions and the weakening of government intervention in regional income redistribution have been mainly responsible for the changes in China's regional economic disparities since 1978.

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

This book studies the process of fiscal centralization in the Latin American federations.

A concise survey of the economy of the Byzantine Empire.

Over the past few years, Marx's Capital has received renewed academic and popular attention.

In this innovative book, Stephen P.

2010 marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of Leon Walras, the brilliant originator and first formaliser of general equilibrium theory - one of the pillars of modern economic theory.

Based on archival research covering more than two centuries and most former British colonies (West Indies, India, Singapore, Malaya, West Africa and East Africa), this book is a revisionist history of the British imperial manipulations of colonial currency systems to facilitate the rise of sterling to world supremacy via the gold standard, and to slow its eventual decline after World War II.

America's expansion to one of the richest nations in the world was partly due to a steady increase in labor productivity, which in turn depends upon the invention and deployment of new technologies and on investments in both human and physical capital.

The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) encompassed the largest sustained surge of worker organization in American history.

The Essay on the Nature of Trade in General was written in the early 1730s by Richard Cantillon, a speculator and banker who had made a vast fortune during the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719-20.

This book is the 6th volume of the Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan.

Throughout history human beings have formed communities spontaneously with residences constructed haphazardly.

As a food, milk has been revered and ignored, respected and feared.

This book examines European history and politics between two very well-known but flawed treaties: The Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Maastricht.

The relationship of economics, capitalism and wealth to the ethics and morality of religion has intrigued and challenged policymakers, pressure groups, theologians, sociologists, economists and historians for centuries.

In this unique anthology, Steckel and Floud coordinate ten essays that bring a new perspective to inquiry about standard of living in modern times.

"e;This volume challenges those who see gender inequalities invariably defining and constraining the lives of women.