Economic history

During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history.

Scholars attribute the collapse of the Soviet Union in part to the militarization of its economy.

This unique encyclopedia enables students to understand the myriad ways that the Columbian Exchange shaped the modern world, covering every major living organism from pathogens and plants to insects and mammals.

The purpose of this book is three-fold.

Upon its initial publication in 1973 this was the first textbook to present a unified view and comprehensive treatment of the economic development of Europe from a continental rather than a British perspective.

A striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised and Asia did not.

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This book explores the Italian stock exchange through its construction and consolidation while examining and criticizing the birth of the capital city.

The twentieth century has been popularly seen as "e;the American Century,"e; a long period in which the United States had amassed the economic resources, the political and military strength, and the moral prestige to assume global leadership.

This book provides a reassessment of Keynes' theory of liquidity preference.

The ability to communicate with people from diverse cultural backgrounds is becoming increasingly important.

This book examines the development of social support systems in the Modern age in the rural areas of the city-states of Northern Italy.

Historians have long recognized epidemics to be a significant, though sometimes hidden, factor in the fortunes of societies and civilizations.

This book presents a positive account of Aristotle's theory of political economy, arguing that it contains elements that may help us better understand and resolve contemporary social and economic problems.

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Incorporating political, economic, and environmental factors, this book explores the evolution of health and living standards in Brazil in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

■Geschichtliche EinleitungUrsprung und Bedeutung der Worte ‹Konjunkturen› und ‹Krisen› / Geschichte der ersten Krisen / Internationale ‹Konjunkturzyklen› / Die Weltwirtschaftskrise■Konjunkturtheorie(Die wichtigsten Deutungsversuche)‹Exogene› Ursachentheorien / ‹Endogene› Ursachentheorien / Monetäre Konjunkturtheorien / Konjunkturtheorie als ‹dynamische› Wirtschaftstheorie / Die psychologische Deutung des Konjunkturgeschehens■Konjunkturbeobachtung und KonjunkturforschungStatistische Methoden / ‹Konjunkturbarometer› / Konjunkturforschung■Konjunkturpolitik und KrisenbekämpfungDie monetäre Lösung / Konjunkturpolitik mit nichtmonetären Mitteln / Von der Krisenpolitik zu einer Konjunkturpolitik des stabilen Wachstums■Ungelöste ProblemeAusschaltung der Konjunkturschwankungen / Natur und Ursachen des Konjunkturzyklus / Der Rhythmus der ökonomischen Aktivität / Das Problem der Konjunkturdiagnose und -prognose■Enzyklopädisches Stichwort: Staats- und Sozialwissenschaften■Erklärung einiger Fachausdrücke■Literaturhinweise■Namen- und Sachregister

This fourth collection by David Jacoby focuses on Western economic expansion the Eastern Mediterranean during the 11th-15th centuries.

Wellbeing, resilience and sustainability are three of the most popular ideas in current usage and are said to represent a much-needed paradigm shift in political and policy thinking.

Attitudes and methods derived from the hard sciences have become increasingly commonplace in the human and social sciences.

Until recently, the historiography of Middle Eastern economic elites during the first globalization has ignored the significant role played by Muslim tujjar (big merchant-entrepreneurs).

Kenwood and Lougheed's classic book has been the benchmark introduction to the development of the global economy for decades.

Originally published in 2014, The Shaping of London chronologically examines the likely impact of wars, dynastic struggles, demographic change and economic growth on the physical fabric of London.

This book explores the neglected contribution of the American and English "e;psychological"e; school to economic theory, especially to the development and refinement of the Austrian school of economics.

Capitalism is historically pervasive.

This comprehensive and lucid study, first published in 1985, reconstructs the history of Western Marxist theories of the breakdown of capitalism.

This volume investigates the use of mortgages in the European countryside between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries.

Few would dispute that many Western industrial democracies undertook extensive deregulation in the 1970s and 1980s.

Provides for a new interpretation of the agrarian economy in late Tudor and early modern Britain.

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

The role of the German Historical School and of Carl Menger (founder of the Austrian School) is appraised in this new book.

As a medical, economic, spiritual and demographic crisis, plague affected practically every aspect of an early modern community whether on a local, regional or national scale.

This book describes the history of the IMF from its birth, through the Bretton Woods era, and in the aftermath.

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

This book examines the development of peace research and explores its present challenges, focusing on the contribution made by the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute.

While America's relationship with Britain has often been deemed unique, especially during the two world wars when Germany was a common enemy, the American business sector actually had a greater affinity with Germany for most of the twentieth century.

Within the theoretical framework of the trade-growth and structural transformation-growth nexuses, the book examines the evolution of African (goods and service) trade in terms of value and share of global commerce relative to other regions during the period 1948-2017.

Studies pitfalls in value added accounting of sectoral growth in real terms in the context of liberalisation of the Indian economy.

First published in 1956, The Post-War Condition of Britain measures the extent of changes in Britain since the thirties.

In this book, Justin Pack proposes a genealogy of the traditional suspicion of money and merchants.

This book is a political history of economic life.

This book explores the post-war Greco-German relationship and asks how this relationship fits into, and changes, the narrative of European integration.

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey's latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more "e;human"e; science.

This book presents the results of extensive international comparative research into the effects of the economic and financial crisis on democratic institutions and social cohesion policies.

Attitudes and methods derived from the hard sciences have become increasingly commonplace in the human and social sciences.

The author builds two macro foundations which lead to an understanding of the economic conditions a society must satisfy in order to exist, survive, and develop.

This book uses 'politics of urban knowledge' as a lens to understand how professionals, administrations, scholars, and social movements have surveyed, evaluated and theorized the city, identified problems, and shaped and legitimized practical interventions in planning and administration.