Economic history

Huge losses very nearly destroyed Lloyd's, a revered British institution, the world's largest insurance market.

This book provides both a retrospective and prospective look at Turkey on the occasion of the country's centenary.

Globalization is not an external force but a result of concrete business decisions made by millions of entrepreneurs and managers across the world.

The proceedings of the Development Studies Association conference held in Dublin on the 150th anniversary of the Great Irish Famine examine the historical background and the reasons why the spectre of famine continues to haunt much of the developing world today.

Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation provides a brand-new perspective on academic discussions of globalisation through exploring urban development outside of select global cities including Paris, Tokyo, and London, and instead focuses on medium-sized cities in the context of a globalising world.

In this important new book, the authors explore how production was organized in the context of the economic development of modern Japan.

This book argues that intellectual stability causes recurrent market instability, tracing crises from the Great Crash to the Global Financial Crisis.

This edited volume studies the relationship between big business and the Latin American dictatorial regimes during the Cold War.

Written by fifteen leading academics from the Japan Society for International Development (JASID), this book undertakes a review of Japan's economic development over the last 150 years, and seeks to clarify Japanese priorities in domestic and foreign policy for the coming decades.

This book presents economic statistics of Korea in the past three centuries, focusing on the century following 1910.

"e;Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought.

Lester Knox Little kept a detailed journal of his time in China and Taiwan.

George Rublee (1868-1957), was an eastern establishment lawyer and corporate liberal who made a significant contribution to economic reform legislation on the state and national levels during the progressive era.

This title was first published in 2003.

Originally published in 2002, this is the first of three volumes in a history of finance in America.

Seven Moralities of Human Resource Management analyses morality of HRM from the perspective of American psychologist Laurence Kohlberg.

The marginalization of women in economics has a history as long as the discipline itself.

Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy is an important study of the contribution of Austrian Enlightenment economist Ludwig Zinzendorf to the political economy of the Habsburg monarchy in the mid eighteenth century.

This book contends that various forms of regulation have costs as well as benefits and it examines the impact of government regulation on the innovativeness of 'monopolies' - in this book meaning firms with the power to affect market price.

In the twelfth century, Pisa was a powerhouse of global trade, a city that stood at the centre of Medieval Europe.

Globalization and the shifting tectonic plates of the international system have led to an increasingly competitive world.

An authoritative study that covers the social and economic history of Central and Eastern Europe since 1973.

Most scholarship on the nineteenth and early twentieth century Constitutional Revolution in Iran has focused on the role of two groups, intellectuals and the clergy.

The Kuwaiti population includes around 100,000 people - approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals -whose legal status is contested.

This book examines the economy of sharing in a variety of social and political contexts around the world, with consideration given to the role of sharing in relation to social order and social change, political power, group formation, individual networks and concepts of personhood.

After a century and a half of efforts at constructing arrangements and rules for international monetary interaction, present-day national authorities do not seem to have come much closer to achieving the aim of enduring exchange rate stability combined with a good macroeconomic performance.

First published in 1987, International Capitalism and Industrial Restructuring counters the idea that industrial restructuring is a relatively problem-free stage in the evolution to a post-industrial society.

An earlier book in this series told the story of the Industrial Revolution which took place between the years 1760 and i860.

This interdisciplinary edited volume explores the political economy of regionalism in Latin America.

In recent years, many disciplines have become interested in the scientific study of morality.

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.

The corporation - an immortal collective bound to act for the common good - was developed in the seventeenth century, but comparatively little attention has been paid to its literary ramifications.

Contrary to existing economic analyses of the Weimar Republic, this book looks beyond the explanations of the individual events that characterized it - in particular hyperinflation, Bruning's fiscal policy, and the 1931 crisis.

America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige.

Assembled in Japan investigates one of the great success stories of the twentieth century: the rise of the Japanese electronics industry.

This book provides an introduction and overview to nine applied financial studies on the theme of transport.

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality?

Homeworkers in Global Perspective documents the lives of homeworkers, exploring state policies towards them, and describing the innovative ways in which homeworkers organize.

This volume historicizes the use of the notion of self-interest that at least since Bernard de Mandeville and Adam Smith's theories is considered a central component of economic theory.

How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on creditEven before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world.

Around the year 1000 Rodulfus Glaber described France as being in the throes of a building boom.

In 1935, a bridge was opened across the Zambesi delta in Portuguese East Africa.

This biography presents the interaction between his socialist ideals, scientific aspirations and work as an economic expert.

This book examines how contemporary financial economy evolved as the predominant economic system, and why unabated accumulation of financial capital takes place in such systems.

This book analyses business cycles synchronization in the Euro Area (EA), one of the 3 criteria that define Optimal Currency Areas (OCAs).

Explores Britain''s most prominent armaments firms and their relationships with the British Government and foreign states from 1855 to 1955.

In Gaining Currency, leading China scholar Eswar S.

Macht der Kapitalismus wenige reich und viele arm – oder immer mehr immer weniger arm?

Over the last three decades, inflation targeting (IT) has become the most popular monetary policy framework among larger economies.

Mit dem "Anschluss" Österreichs an das Deutsche Reich erhofften sich weite Teile der österreichischen Industrie, vom wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung des Dritten Reiches durch dessen Aufrüstung am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs zu profitieren.