Economic history

Since the early 1980s, governments worldwide have taken many measures to expand the role of markets.

Surveys the contributions that economic theory has made to the debate over the government''s use of power of eminent domain.

First Published in 2005.

La historia económica de España y muchos de los problemas actuales no se entienden sin la influencia de los grupos de presión y los pactos de sangre de las élites con el poder político.

Money travels the modern world in disguise.

First Published in 1968.

Individualism has been one of the driving forces in the rise of modern capitalism, and methodological individualism has been dominant in social science for many years.

A popular myth about the travails of Africa holds that the continent's long history of poor economic performance reflects the inability of its leaders and policymakers to fulfill the long list of preconditions to be met before sustained growth can be achieved.

First published in 1996, this book seeks to establish Gabriel A.

This book discusses the economics of transport infrastructure and the economic theorizing around transport infrastructure from 1850 to today.

This book provides a historical economic analysis of two key issues relating to township and village enterprise (TVE) development in China.

This study broadens the conventional focus of the Great Depression to include its impact on the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

This book is a study in economic geography, treated historically.

First published in 1919, this book traces the growth of War Debt during the First World War, examines the real meaning of the Debt and discusses the proposals for clearing it.

A clear and readable account of the development of the European economy and its infrastructure from the second century to 1500.

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry.

This title was first published in 2000.

First published in 1985, this book presents the first detailed account of the relationship between the farmworkers, trades unionism, and political and social radicalism.

Over the course of the 19th century, European societies started thinking of themselves as "e;civilisations of work.

The book examines the history of co-operation in the broad context of the history of consumerism and consumption; of internationalism and the development of international organisations; and debates about international trade during the inter-war period.

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

This book accounts for the work done around the two central aspects of Piero Sraffa's contribution to economic analysis, namely the criticism of the neoclassical theory of value and distribution and the construction of economic theory along the lines of the Classical approach.

Knut Wicksell is acknowledged to be the precursor and prophet of modern macroeconomic theory and he provided some of its chief elements a generation before their power and significance were properly recognized.

Modern Money and the Rise and Fall of Capitalist Finance examines the true nature of modern money and seeks ideas for an alternative economic system for a just society.

In Der Fiat-Standard wirft der weltbekannte Wirtschaftsexperte Saifedean Ammous seinen einzigartigen analytischen Blick auf das Fiat-Geldsystem und erklärt es als eine Meisterleistung der Ingenieurskunst und Technologie, genau wie er es für Bitcoin in seinem internationalen Bestseller Der Bitcoin-Standard getan hat.

The concern of this volume is to explain why in some countries the relative decline in imports was smaller than the relative decline in exports, while in others it was greater, and why it was much smaller, or much greater, in some countries than in others, in the period following the Second World War.

Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics.

Whilst the actual origins of English consumer culture are a source of much debate, it is clear that the nineteenth century witnessed a revolution in retailing and consumption.

This edited collection provides an in-depth analysis of the imperial, colonial, and postcolonial history of tobacco from 1780 to 1960, which was one of the major periods of change in the global tobacco economy.

First published in 1966, this revealing study looks closely into the lives of the men, women and children working in mines, workshops, factories and farms during the industrial revolution.

Concerns over affordability and accountability have tended to direct focus away from the central aims of liberal learning, such as preparing minds for free inquiry and inculcating the habits of mind, practical skills, and values necessary for effective participation in civil society.

The continued history of Beaufort County, South Carolina, during and following the Civil WarIn Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861-1893, the second of three volumes on the history of Beaufort County, Stephen R.

Student communities are without doubt a strategic resource for urban development and students are the citizens and the high-skilled working class of tomorrow.

Jacob Henry Schiff (1847-1920), a German-born American Jewish banker, facilitated critical loans for Japan in the early twentieth century.

Sweeping changes have taken place in the financial sector during the twentieth century.

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

Focuses on the economic history of the community of Rome from the Iron Age to the early Republic.

Michael Dintenfass provides a challenging account of Britain's economic performance since 1870.

This report, first published in 1996, argues that radical changes in industrial organization and its relationship to society tend to arise in rapidly industrializing countries, and that new principles of sustainable production are more likely to bear fruit in developing than in developed countries.

This ground-breaking work traces developments in poor relief from the mid-fourteenth century to the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601.

Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and international bestselling author of Principles -whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide -shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well.

Subsistence crops - the grains and other food items necessary to a people's survival - were a central preoccupation of the early modern state.

The Origins of the Consumer Revolution in England explores the rise of consumerism from the end of the medieval period through to the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Research on late nineteenth and early twentieth century German society has concentrated overwhelmingly on life in the cities.

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Europe's critical infrastructure is a key concern to policymakers, NGOs, companies, and citizens today.

First published in 1979, this fourth part of Principles of Political Economy applies the tools of economic analysis to the distribution of income and property.

The year 2019 marks 30 years since the fall of the Berlin wall.

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