Economic history

Culture is a priceless inheritance and source of wellbeing that is of immense value to humankind.

How do market participants construct stable markets?

First published in 1986, The Economics of Alfred Marshall is concerned with the theories of demand, supply, market structure and income distribution which the celebrated author of the Principles of Economics developed while standing on the shoulders of giants.

Though understandably preoccupied with the immediate problems of the Great Depression, the generation of economists that came to the forefront in the 1930s also looked ahead to the long-term consequences of the crisis and proposed various solutions to prevent its recurrence.

A history that reframes the Bolsheviks' unprecedented attempts to abolish private property after the revolutions of 1917 The revolutions of 1917 swept away not only Russia's governing authority but also the property order on which it stood.

Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Yemeni port of Aden grew to be one of the medieval world's greatest commercial hubs.

Departing from the category of 'peripheral socialism', this book offers an economic history of the Cuban revolution between 1959 and 2019, with a focus on the period that ranges between 2008 and 2018.

Economics is often referred to as "e;the queen of social sciences.

Volume I of the Oxford History of the British Empire explores the origins of empire.

First published in 1932, Indian Caste Customs is an explication on how caste system operates in everyday life.

Development Economics has been identified as a homogeneous body of theory since the 1950s, concerned both with the study of development issues and with the shaping of more effective policies for less advanced economies.

Neoliberalism is a doctrine that adopts a free market policy in a deregulated political framework.

First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the text of Rawlinson MS.

This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns.

From the 12th century onwards merchants from the north Italian and southern French towns were able to take advantage of Christian conquests in southern Italy, Sicily and the Levant to penetrate and dominate the markets of these regions and of North Africa.

First published in 1979, this richly documented study of French development from the early nineteenth century to the present day is of particular importance to students both of history and economics.

This book examines the role of financial institutions in the financial markets during normal times, as well as during the global financial crisis.

An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became "e;a great engine of state"e;The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders-and yet came to be considered, as Adam Smith described it, "e;a great engine of state.

In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man.

The number of studies discussing the labour relationship under industrial capitalism is overwhelming, but the literature on labour and its concrete, day-today shop-floor practices is much less abundant.

This book analyzes the economic impact of the early development of railways in different Asian countries, linking the inlands with port cities and with a global network of connections.

This book, first published in 1982, provides a thorough analysis of the Stockholm School's contribution to the development of dynamic methods.

Vilfredo Pareto is a key figure in the history of economics and sociology.

Following its foundation in 1957, the European Economic Community set about establishing itself as a major player on the world stage.

From Dreams to Disillusionment is the first book to cover the planning experiment of the 1960s in full historical detail.

The four sections of the book deal in succession with Marshall's key ideas on the subject, the wider context of his thought in which they are to be read, their later development by some of his pupils, and their revival in contemporary economics.

Much has been written about the trilateral relationship between Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and the free trade agreements that this relationship has spawned.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the Union financial policies during the American Civil War.

This book investigates the policies of the Thatcher, Major and Blair governments and their approaches towards concentration of economic and political power.

This book examines the link between innovation and economic crises through a systemic philosophy of economic history.

The essays in this book discuss human behavior and the institutions of capitalism.

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A sweeping look at the evolution of commercial banks over the past two centuriesCommercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions.

The New York Times bestseller'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric SchmidtWhat if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong?

Jerry Evensky''s analysis walks the reader through The Wealth of Nations, highlighting the work''s relationship to Smith''s larger moral philosophy.

Why we need to heed the lessons of high inflationToday's global economy, with most developed nations experiencing very low inflation, seems a world apart from the "e;Great Inflation"e; that spanned the late 1960s to early 1980s.

Drawing extensively from agency records, newspaper accounts, sociological studies and court documents, Hough explores the experiences of rural white unwed mothers in Maine and Tennessee.

Although many white southerners chose to memorialize the Lost Cause in the aftermath of the Civil War, boosters, entrepreneurs, and architects in southern cities believed that economic development, rather than nostalgia, would foster reconciliation between North and South.

Crime, Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka (1987) examines Sri Lanka's justice system under British rule, and concentrates on two of its aspects: the effectiveness of the administration of law and order, and the relationship between crime and social change.

The Englishwoman's Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women.

First published in 1948, Malaya and its History is a history of Malaya ranging from the thousand years of Hindu influence to the eras of Portuguese and Dutch rule, and from the establishment of the British protectorate to Malayan independence in 1957.

This book traces the diffusion trajectory of the second and third generation of British steam engines, the Watt and high-pressure models, covering the period 1774 to 1870.

In 1979, Margaret Thatcher's new government was faced with rampant double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and flatlining economic growth.

Few aspects of the history of modern empires are of such significance as their economics and politics.

EU Cohesion policy, along with support for agriculture and rural development, is one of the main items of EU spending.

Railway workers were a uniformed and respectable section of the Victorian and Edwardian working class.

This book explores peripheral visions on economic development, both in the sense that it deals with specific issues of economic development and underdevelopment in countries at the periphery of the world economy, and in terms of its exploration of the economic thinking developed in those regions, particularly in Latin America.