Economic history

Historically, commerce has existed in Assam in different forms.

This book analyzes nine Supreme Court decisions that dealt primarily with money, monetary events and monetary policy.

Danger Sound Klaxon!

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Denmark's solitary experiment with Indian indentured labor on St.

This is an engaging study of the place occupied by the City of London within British cultural life during the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

The business of birth control is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities in Britain before the pill.

Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850-1940 is a history of the gendered corporation, a study that examines how ideas and ideals about domesticity and the cultures of sewing and embroidery, being gender-specific, shaped the US-headquartered Singer Sewing Machine Company's operations around the world.

This book explains why contemporary liberal democracies are based on historical templates rather than revolutionary reforms.

To properly understand the nature of the digital economy we need to investigate the phenomenon of a "e;ubiquitous computing system"e; (UCS).

Today people all over the globe invoke the concept of culture to make sense of their world, their social interactions, and themselves.

Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial—a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growth Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development.

This book is the second of three volumes that uses the theory of Optimal Currency Areas (OCAs) and applied econometric techniques to provide the reader with a compact analysis of the Euro area, its evolution and future perspectives.

Origins of Globalization draws widely on ancient sources and modern economic theory to detail the concept of "e;known world"e; globalization, arguing that a mixed economy--similar in many respects to our own--existed in a variety of forms throughout the ancient world.

The purpose of this volume is to provide a conspectus of current research on the history of guilds and corporations in Italy in the period from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century.

Cities, counties, school districts and other local governments have suffered a long-lasting period of fiscal challenges since the beginning of the Great Recession.

First published in 1977, David Levine's Economic Studies offers a critique and reconstruction of the theoretical conception of economic life.

First published in English in 1935, this Routledge Revival is a reissue of Volume II of Knut Wicksell's Lectures on Political Economy.

This book contains refereed articles on: contrasting relational conceptions of the individual in recent economics; the development of Adam Smith's style of lecturing; a comparison of problems encountered in the historian's work as editor, based upon editing Harrod's papers and Haberler's "e;Prosperity and Depression"e;; reminiscences on the New Deal by Jacob Viner; and Don Lavoie's lectures on comparative economic systems.

A detailed study of changing patterns of consumption, showing how these related to wider political, social and economic developments.

Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) was a leading liberal Italian economist, economic historian and political figure: Governor of the Bank of Italy, Minister for the Budget and President of the Italian Republic.

This book investigates the changing nature of economic policies following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-9.

Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well recognized, yet scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works.

Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume examines the aspects and problems of land policies and the growth in farming during the mid-1800s.

This book offers a critical look at prominent theories of financial crisis to try to understand how prepared the profession is for identifying the next financial crisis.

This book guides the student through the transition from passive learner to active researcher.

This volume examines the experiences of Sao Paulo's working class during Brazil's Old Republic (1891-1930), showing how individuals and families adapted to forces and events such as urbanization, discrimination, migration, and World War I.

Though Cuba was among the first countries in the world to utilize rail transport, the history of its railroads has been little studied.

Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subjects of the Venetian Republic, and other social groups in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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This classic book tells the story of the development of Income Tax from its beginning in 1799 to the present day and relates it to the social, economic and political history of the period.

The first twenty years of the European Central Bank (ECB) offer a clear demonstration of how a central bank can navigate macroeconomic insecurity and crisis.

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.

Haiti, one of the least developed and most vulnerable nations in the Western Hemisphere, made the international headlines in January 2010 when an earthquake destroyed the capital, Port-au-Prince.

The market town has been dismissed as an incompletely formed urban community; in fact it was the primary urban unit in pre-industrial England.

This volume showcases the impact of the work of Douglass North, father of the field of new institutional economics.

David Lloyd George is widely regarded as one of the most effective British prime ministers of the twentieth century.

This volume reiterates the relevance of imperialism in the present, as a continuous arrangement, from the early years of empire-colonies to the prevailing pattern of expropriation across the globe.

This book explores the identity of the 'French disease' (alias the 'French pox' or 'Morbus Gallicus') in the German Imperial city of Augsburg between 1495 and 1630.

First published in 1991, The Greatest Happiness Principle traces the history of the theory of utility, starting with the Bible, and running through Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus.

Social forces are important determinants of how people behave, how economies work at the macroeconomic level, and the effectiveness of economic policies.

In the first book of its kind, Turnbull traces the development and implementation of actuarial ideas, from the conception of Equitable Life in the mid-18th century to the start of the 21st century.

A sweeping global history of entrepreneurial innovationWhether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs-and their innovations-have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations.

Slovakia has a rich and complex history, but until now there has not been a comprehensive analysis of the nation's economic thought.

Herbert Simon's renowned theory of bounded rationality is principally interested in cognitive constraints and environmental factors and influences which prevent people from thinking or behaving according to formal rationality.

De Coulanges original study provided a historical view of how land has become property which was then translated and published in 1891 by M.

Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of modern financial markets, yet almost nothing is known about the Manila trade.