Economic history

In the eight pieces that make up Land Without History, first published in Portuguese in 1909, Euclides da Cunha offers a rare look into twentieth century Amazonia, and the consolidation of South American nation states.

The amazing true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich - told for the first time ever.

Tanto las crisis financieras —la asiática de 1997 y de 2008, que sacudieron el sistema económico mundial— como los virajes políticos —las victorias electorales de la izquierda en Latinoamérica, la llamada "marea rosa" desde finales de los años noventa —, incluso la controversial elección del empresario y político Donald Trump como presidente de los Estados Unidos, facultaron con regularidad, en el discurso teórico y en la opinión pública, la pregunta por el fin de la era del neoliberalismo.

El señorío, como base material de la hegemonía social de la aristocracia, ha constituido uno de los temas de estudio centrales del medievalismo europeo.

¿Es posible que estemos retrocediendo a los niveles de desigualdad previos a la Primera Guerra Mundial?

No hay dudas de que los economistas adquirieron, en las últimas décadas, una influencia social y política decisiva.

En el marco de la apertura económica en América Latina, iniciado desde finales de la década de los años ochenta, la inversión extranjera directa (IED) se ha constituido como un indicador macroeconómico de transcendencia.

"El Magdalena es un territorio conocido por la importancia estratégica de sus ecosistemas y su riqueza cultural.

The Princess Must Marry.

Populism of the right and left has spread like wildfire throughout the world.

Populism of the right and left has spread like wildfire throughout the world.

First published in 1923, Labour and the Industrial Revolution is an examination of opinions (1760-1832) on the right place of wage-earner under the State.

First published in 1923, Labour and the Industrial Revolution is an examination of opinions (1760-1832) on the right place of wage-earner under the State.

Nineteenth-century globalization made America exceptional.

This is the first modern publication of ten essays published in the popular Boston newspaper The Independent Chronicle, a significant intellectual event in Massachusetts politics.

The Liberty Fund edition is a modernized translation of Richard Cantillon's Essai sur la nature du commerce en general (1755) with a new introduction by Antoin E.

The present volume is devoted to some of Mises's earliest writings.

In the turbulent years between passage of the Federal Reserve Act (1913) and the Bretton Woods Agreement (1945), the peoples of the Western world suffered two world wars, two major and several minor international financial panics, an epidemic of currency devaluations and debt repudiations, civil wars, and revolutions.

The seventy years since the end of the Second World War have seen dramatic changes in Britain's cultural, intellectual and political climate.

The ebook of the critically acclaimed popular history book: the story of the South Sea Bubble which in Balen's hands becomes a morality tale for our times.

A pesar de su creciente importancia, nadie sabe hoy en día qué se entiende exactamente por sector informal ni que lo determina.

Quienes esperen encontrar en estas páginas el antiperonismo por el que todos conocen a Iglesias no se sentirán defraudados.

Esta obra es una pieza clave para la comprensión del universo weberiano.

Las respuestas de esta moderna ciencia social a las grandes preguntas sobre la actividad económica en la sociedad.

'The Brussels Commission has just suspended its senior economist, Bernard Connolly, for writing a book savaging the prospects for a common currency.

An engagingly written account of textile engineering in its key northern centres, rich with historical narrative and analysis.

In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed.

What happens when a leading conservative economist goes mano a mano with todays most influential exponent of left-liberal economics, over free markets versus government interventionism?

An engagingly written account of textile engineering in its key northern centres, rich with historical narrative and analysis.

This study, first published in 1990, explores the ways in which institutions can succeed or fail at environmental improvement.

According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America's most acclaimed business journalists, no-one has put all the pieces of the financial crisis together.

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The 19th-century MP John Burns described the Thames as 'liquid history' and ever since the Romans founded Londinium in 43 AD, the river has played a key cultural and economic, political and social role in the history of England.

One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written Thomas Piketty'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect Polanyi s revolutionary work is a must-read Mariana MazzucatoKarl Polanyi's landmark 1944 work is one of the earliest and most powerful critiques of unregulated markets.

The controversy over inequality has gathered steam with the publication of Thomas Pikettys new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, a dense work of economic history that documents the rise of income inequality in recent decades and sets forth an agenda of taxation to deal with it.

The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Deborah CadburyIn 'Chocolate Wars' bestselling historian and award-winning documentary maker Deborah Cadbury takes a journey into her own family history to uncover the rivalries that have driven 250 years of chocolate empire-building.

Unveiling the Global Reach and Evolution of the Modern Stock MarketThe Equity Culture by B.

This study, first published in 1990, explores the ways in which institutions can succeed or fail at environmental improvement.

A fascinating exploration of the relationship of competition and assimilation between the Netherlands and England during the 17th century, revealing the ways in which Dutch tolerance, resilience and commercial acumen effectively conquered Britain by reshaping its intellectual landscape, long before Dutch monarchs sat on the English throne.

La consideración de los factores económicos no ha ocupado hasta hoy el lugar que merece en la literatura histórica latinoamericana.

En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX en Colombia, la disminución del nivel de ingresos, los cambios en la tendencia de la tierra y la caída de la producción artesanal de los conflictos ideológicos y militares que afectaron proyectos de bienestar y desarrollo e hicieron precaria la consolidación de un Estado nacional fundamentado en el bienestar social y la integración territorial.

Este libro ofrece la primera vision general de la historia empresarial de America Latina escrita por reconocidos investigadores internacionales.

Ugo Pipitone analiza las politicas economicas y las circunstancias nacionales e internacionales que permitieron a ciertos paises alguna vez atrasados, como Dinamarca, Suecia, Italia y Japon, recuperar el terreno perdido cuando otros como Brasil, Mexico, Nigeria e India, a pesar de avances economicos cuantitativos, no logran superar sus problemas.

La economía ocupa una parte importante de nuestras vidas y preocupaciones actuales, así como la ocupó en el pasado.

Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire"e;On a warm Monday morning in 1932, just two days after leaving school, fourteen-year-old Madge was about to join her nine brothers and sisters at Rowntree's.

After a year of trading colorful barbs with the American president and significant achievements in North Korea's decades-long nuclear and missile development programs, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared mission accomplished in November 2017.

After a year of trading colorful barbs with the American president and significant achievements in North Korea's decades-long nuclear and missile development programs, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared mission accomplished in November 2017.