Economic history

The complex relationships between ethno-nationality, rights to land, and territorial sovereignty have long fed disputes over territorial control and landed rights between different nations, ethnicities, and religions.

This book applies an economic approach to examine the driving forces behind the dynamic behaviors of developing nations.

First Published in 2005.

This book explores Eastern European consumer cultures in the twentieth century, taking a comparative perspective and conceptualizing the peculiarities of consumption in the region.

A rich empirical account of China''s post-war foreign economic policy towards Japan, drawing on recently declassified Chinese sources.

An in-depth look at Japan's economic malaise and the steps it must take to compete globally In Japanization, Bloomberg columnist William Pesek based in Tokyo presents a detailed look at Japan's continuing twenty-year economic slow-down, the political and economic reasons behind it, and the policies it could and should undertake to return to growth and influence.

How the booming Islamic finance industry became an ultramodern hybrid of religion and marketsIn just fifty years, Islamic finance has grown from a tiny experiment operated from a Volkswagen van to a thriving global industry worth more than the entire financial sector of India, South America, or Eastern Europe.

For too long there has been an unquestioning acceptance that Britain's economic decline began long before the First World War.

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of Friedrich List's economic and political thinking.

References to the economy are ubiquitous in modern life, and virtually every facet of human activity has capitulated to market mechanisms.

Despite some diversification modern economics still attracts a great deal of criticism.

An accessible examination of Indonesia''s economic history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century from a comparative perspective.

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.

The Nine Years' War with France was a period of great institutional innovation in public finance and of severe monetary turmoil for England.

This is an important and unparalleled work which situated Marx's economic theory in relation to the economic theories that predate him - from mercantilism to John Stuart Mill.

Standard histories of European integration emphasize the immediate aftermath of World War II as the moment when the seeds of the European Union were first sown.

This book provides historical, theoretical, and biographical perspectives on two giants of contemporary economics, Jacques Rueff (1896-1978) and John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946).

This edition brings together the most important English language tracts and pamphlets and other material on the origins and development of private banking, joint stock banking, central banking and other important related questions.

Trade across the Pacific will be one of the dominant forces in the economy of the next century.

Sure to be controversial and spur debate, this book presents a powerful analysis of rural change to marketization and globalization.

This collection brings together leading economists from around the world to explore key issues in economic analysis and the history of economic thought.

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First published in 1965.

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 surveys the economy of Wales from the first Norman intrusions of 1067 to the Act of Union of England and Wales in 1536.

It is well-known that the Swedish experiment in practical economic control was inspired by a simultaneous development of economic thought in Sweden.

This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds.

In arguably his most important book to date, Hodgson calls into question the tendency of economic method to try and explain all economic phenomena by using the same catch-all theories and dealing in universal truths.

Although Latin America weathered the Great Depression better than the United States and Europe, the global economic collapse of the 1930s had a deep and lasting impact on the region.

The original book published with the IZA, this work presents and analyzes the work of one of the most important economists of the 20th century - Jacob Mincer.

Over the last two centuries, artists, critics, philosophers and theorists have contributed significantly to such representations of "e;the economy"e; as sublime.

The Cash Nexus is the controversial history of money's central place in the world, from Niall Ferguson, bestselling author of Empire and CivilizationGenerations of historians have shied away from the truth behind the cliche: money makes the world go around.

Many statements made by historians are quantitative statements, involving the use of measurable historical evidence.

Southern cotton planters and Northern textile mill owners maintained what has been called "e;an unholy alliance between the lords of the lash and the lords of the loom.

This is a major study of economic policy making in Britain between the wars.

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A history of the rise of industrialism in modern Europe, containing a description of the revolutionary changes which transformed industry, commerce and agriculture at the beginning of the last century, with an account of their reactions on the political and economic condition of the chief European nations.

This book explores the lure of market capitalism and the beginnings of industrialization in the United States.

This book contains original essays on various aspect of the Han's political economy and its legacy, written by leading Chinese and Western scholars whose collective expertise spans Economic History, History of Economic Thought and Sinology.

The Levant Company in England was first established in 1592 to help regulate trade with Turkey and the Levant area.

Atlantic slavery represents one of the blackest pages of human history.

This book was first published in 1967.

First Published in 2005.

Integrating a focus on gender with Marx's surplus-based notion of class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in the United States.

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

Henry Heller's short account of the history of capitalism combines Marx's economic and political thought with contemporary scholarship to shed light on the current capitalist crisis.