Economic history

This book deals with risk management and the organisation of banking in Swedish savings banks alongside the development in other European countries.

A comprehensive account of the everyday lives of the keelmen of Tyneside, and their struggles and industrial disputes.

From Crisis to Crisis examines the impact of the harsh conditions of the interwar economy on the British merchant banks.

This three volume series of intellectual biography considers the life, work and impact on economic, social and political theory of the Italian economist, sociologist and political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923).

Since it first appeared in 1975, Ben Fine's introductory account of Capital has become the most popular text of its kind, used widely across the social sciences and also read by a wider audience.

This book sheds new light on the critical importance of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), a remarkably successful central bank that is a model for developing oil exporters worldwide.

One of China's top education scholars, Zhu Yongxin provides never-before-tried methods for promoting literacy throughout ChinaAs China steps up to power in a modern world, creating a literate population is critical.

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An insightful collection of essays focused on American men, women, and children from a range of economic classes and ethnic backgrounds during the Great Depression.

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.

This book presents a concise yet detailed analysis of China's agricultural economy and food security in historical perspective.

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

Emphasizing the important social relationships that form among people who participate in small-scale economic transactions, contributors to this volume explore often-overlooked networks of intimate and shadow economies-terms used to describe trade that takes place outside formal market systems.

This book examines the Irish experience of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic through a detailed study of the disease in the most industrialised region of the country, the province of Ulster.

This book shows how inflation can disrupt politics and society.

This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the organisation and operations of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the oldest existing stock exchange in the African continent.

Food crises have always tested societies.

This book examines the interrelations between Russian and European economics from the early 19th century to the present.

A highly readable account of the collision between sovereign states and global economic forces for the control of money.

Including 11 essays published over the last 15 years, this volume by Dennis O.

The period from 1957 to 1988 was transformative for the international oil industry.

Provides a new intellectual, economic and legal history of capitalism from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century.

This history of coiffure in modern France illuminates a host of important twentieth-century issues: the course of fashion, the travails of small business in a modern economy, the complexities of labour reform, the failure of the Popular Front, the temptations of Petainism, all accompanied by a parade of waves, chignons, and curls.

A team of international leading experts provide a much needed re-examination of the theoretical claims and the empirical foundation of developmental state theory.

This wide-ranging book focuses on the economic and political changes that have taken place between the advent of globalization and the COVID-19 pandemic and assesses how this may bring about a profound reconfiguration of the global political system.

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

Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a dramatic increase in its town population, as a hitherto largely rural economy transformed itself into an urban one.

First published in 1937, What is Ahead of Us?

The Canadian tariff has been a singularly faithful mirror of economic and political change in this country, but it is a glass through which much has been seen darkly.

First published in 1907, this substantial volume emerged as guidance to those involved in international trade at the time of the British Empire, with a focus on seafaring commerce and its hazards.

This book compares the evolution of the household refuse business in Britain and Germany since 1945.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Wüstungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters" verfügbar.

This book focuses on worldwide historical experiences of monetary reforms and the reformist minds behind them: the money doctors.

Das Buch schließt nicht nur eine Lücke in den Forschungen zur jüdischen Unternehmerelite im Deutschen Kaiserreich, sondern leistet darüber hinaus einen Beitrag zur Erforschung des großbürgerlichen Mäzenatentums im 19.

This book explores Russian synthesis that occurred in Russian economic thought between 1890 and 1920.

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Although historians usually trace its origins to the Haitian Revolution of the late 18th Century, Latin American political, economic and cultural emancipation is still very much a work in progress.

The South African economy has largely performed below its potential.

Study of the impact in Britain when the East India Company acquired a South Asian ''empire'' .

A great deal has been written about the acceleration of English agriculture in the early modern period.

This title was originally published in 1974.

This book hinges upon ideas and discourses variously known under labels such as "e;Mercantilism"e; and "e;Cameralism"e;.

How colonial governments in Asia and Africa financed their activities and why fiscal systems varied across colonies reveals the nature and long-term effects of colonial rule.

This book establishes a chronological trace of the entrepreneur as treated in economic literature in order to give a more wholesome perspective to contemporary writings and teachings on entrepreneurship.

The concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) - creating 'economic' value in a way that also creates value for the whole of society - has risen in prominence as a corporate policy and a strategy in recent years, mainly for third sector or development organisations.

This is the very first book to explicitly both detail the core general principles of institutional and evolutionary political economy and also apply the principles to current world problems such as the coronavirus crisis, climate change, corruption, AI-Robotics, policy-governance, money and financial instability, terrorism, AIDS-HIV and the nurturance gap.

This is the first study of the development of economic thought in Latin America.

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Despite widespread interest in the trade union movement and its history, it has never been easy to trace the development of individual unions, especially those now defunct, or where name changes or mergers have confused the trail.