Economic history

Today, consumer credit, employee stock options, and citizen investment in the stock market are taken for granted--fundamental facts of American economic life.

The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt.

Today, consumer credit, employee stock options, and citizen investment in the stock market are taken for granted--fundamental facts of American economic life.

Le peuple des poètes et des penseurs, qui a été deux fois victime de terribles guerres mondiales dans l’histoire récente, est à nouveau en crise profonde ces jours-ci et se trouve à un carrefour.

From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.

The story of Britain's colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth.

In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state.

'If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make .

Taxation is crucial to the functioning of the modern state.

Taxation is crucial to the functioning of the modern state.

Russia today is as prominent in international affairs as it was at the height of the Cold War.

Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too.

Russia today is as prominent in international affairs as it was at the height of the Cold War.

Why are some countries rich and others poor?

Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too.

Why are some countries rich and others poor?

When the railroad stretched its steel rails across the American West in the 1870s, it opened up a vast expanse of territory with very few people but enormous agricultural potential: a second Western frontier, the garden West.

Companies that Changed the World tells the fascinating stories of 50 joint-stock companies - or companies based on that model - that have exerted a critical influence on the social and economic history of the past four hundred years.

The story of the 19th-century ice trade, in which ice from the lakes of New England - valued for its incredible purity - revolutionised domestic life around the world.

Max Arthur, bestselling author of the hugely popular 'Forgotten Voices' series, recaptures the day-to-day lives of working people in the Edwardian era.

Your morning flat-white helped shape the modern world'Elegantly written, witty and so wide in scope, so rich in detail and so thought provoking' Joanna BlythmanIt may seem like just a drink, but coffee's dark journey from the highlands of Ethiopia to the highstreets of every town in the country links alchemy and anthropology, poetry and politics, science and slavery.

In No Turning Back, Paul Addison takes the long view, charting the vastly changing character of British society since the end of the Second World War.

A pesar de la importancia de la empresa y su rol social en el desarrollo de nuestro país, no existe una tradición que permita acceder a su historia y evolución.

Desde el desempleo masivo de trabajadores hasta la consumación de golpes militares, La Gran Depresión en América Latina presenta una serie de artículos que analizan las consecuencias que tuvo la crisis económica de 1929 en los países de esta región del planeta.

"Esta es una explicación del origen y formación de empresas rurales en Antioquia y toma como casos las haciendas y hacendados en la ganadería vacuna de leche en el Oriente y sus pares en la ganadería vacuna de carne en el Magdalena Medio.

Este libro es un reconocimiento y homenaje a la trayectoria cientifica y academica del profesor Paulino Iradiel, asi como a su importante contribucion a la historia economica y social de la Edad Media, justo cuando llega a los 75 anos de edad y se cumplen tambien 40 de su llegada a Valencia.

Geld und Gene haben viel gemeinsam – jedenfalls wenn das Geld als Kapital auftritt.

El capitalismo no es ni una consecuencia inevitable de la naturaleza humana, ni una mera ampliación de antiguas prácticas comerciales cuyos orígenes se pierden en la noche de los tiempos.

Este es un libro fascinante sobre desigualdad e impuestos en Chile.

Este libro es un reconocimiento y homenaje a la trayectoria cientifica y academica del profesor Paulino Iradiel, asi como a su importante contribucion a la historia economica y social de la Edad Media, justo cuando llega a los 75 anos de edad y se cumplen tambien 40 de su llegada a Valencia.

Recordamos la utopía desde una sola mirada: sociedades paritarias y felices sin diferencias ni clases sociales.

'A very important book about one of the last social taboos - with fascinating implications for us all' Helena Kennedy, QCA groundbreaking book in which Dorothy Rowe brings her insight and wisdom to the fascinating subject of money and its place in our lives.

Sylvia Nasar, the author of the phenomenal bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through the epic story of the making of modern economics, and how it rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands, rather than in Fate.

Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.

The Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America's most mysterious institutionsthe Federal Reserveto show how its policies spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our country's economic stability at risk.

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Why do some countries succeed while others fail?

First published in 1998, this volume is a contribution to the economic analysis of post-communist transformation in an evolutionary-institutionalist approach.

First published in 1998, this volume is a contribution to the economic analysis of post-communist transformation in an evolutionary-institutionalist approach.

'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong KongThe Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi Jinping, the man who presides over 1.

Throughout the twentieth century, Wales underwent rapid and far-reaching economic upheavals on such a scale that few avoided their impacts - from recessions, war, changing fortunes within the iconic steel and coal industries, the rise and decline of manufacturing, as well as the gradual rise to dominance of the service sector - the changes were as dramatic as was the intensity of attempts to deal with their consequences.

Can capitalism promote effective philanthropy and altruism?

The author of the Horrible Histories series tells the unpleasant truth about what the poor have endured in this sharp-witted, pull-no-punches book.

'A well-reported and researched history of the ways in which plucky economists helped rewrite policy in America and Europe and across emerging markets.

Britain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century owed as much to the vision and creativity of traders, industrialists and bankers as it did to wars of conquest fought by military men.

How the West was Lost charts how over the last 50 years the most advanced and advantaged countries of the world have squandered their dominant position through a sustained catalogue of fundamentally flawed economic policies.

Throughout the twentieth century, Wales underwent rapid and far-reaching economic upheavals on such a scale that few avoided their impacts - from recessions, war, changing fortunes within the iconic steel and coal industries, the rise and decline of manufacturing, as well as the gradual rise to dominance of the service sector - the changes were as dramatic as was the intensity of attempts to deal with their consequences.

'A magnum opus, an accessible and genuinely global history .