Economic history

Inspired by Karl Polanyi's assertion that a self-adjusting market cannot persist without undermining the human and natural fabric of society, this book explores the critical role of market regulation in sustaining capitalism.

In the 1890s, the choice between the gold standard and the free coinage of silver upended American politics.

In the 1890s, the choice between the gold standard and the free coinage of silver upended American politics.

In unpacking credit relationships and payments over the past 1000 years in addition to how technological innovations are shifting the credit relationships/payments landscape – from barter, commodity money, single layered to dual-layered financial money systems and from CBDC to stablecoins – this book systematically explores the various techniques that have been introduced in an attempt to improve the organisation, efficiency and stability of the IOU economy as a way to mitigate or prevent the universal challenge of the IOU economy from binding.

In unpacking credit relationships and payments over the past 1000 years in addition to how technological innovations are shifting the credit relationships/payments landscape – from barter, commodity money, single layered to dual-layered financial money systems and from CBDC to stablecoins – this book systematically explores the various techniques that have been introduced in an attempt to improve the organisation, efficiency and stability of the IOU economy as a way to mitigate or prevent the universal challenge of the IOU economy from binding.

This Palgrave Pivot presents a microhistory of an important but little-known incident of futures trading.

This Palgrave Pivot presents a microhistory of an important but little-known incident of futures trading.

This book explores the economic and political transformation of Chile under the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.

This book explores the economic and political transformation of Chile under the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.

This book examines the past history, and contemporary status of subsistence whaling.

This book examines the past history, and contemporary status of subsistence whaling.

This graduate textbook explores key microeconomic concepts to provide insight into financial markets, comparative economic development, and political institutions.

This graduate textbook explores key microeconomic concepts to provide insight into financial markets, comparative economic development, and political institutions.

This book, the first of two volumes, examines the evolution of humanity and development global economic systems to provide insight into the advances and challenges they have created.

This book, the first of two volumes, examines the evolution of humanity and development global economic systems to provide insight into the advances and challenges they have created.

This book traces the genesis of the indebtedness of the nation-state in the West, arguing that it is a phenomenon which preceded the emergence of capitalism.

This book traces the genesis of the indebtedness of the nation-state in the West, arguing that it is a phenomenon which preceded the emergence of capitalism.

This book provides a comprehensive history of Brazilian agricultural economic development between 1890 and 1950.

This book offers an assessment of the benefits and contemporary relevance of free trade.

This book offers an assessment of the benefits and contemporary relevance of free trade.

This book investigates the historical, political, and economic circumstances of the world's smallest economies as key determinants influencing their economic growth and development.

This book offers a new interpretation of the origins of the contemporary global order - the set of institutions and international practices created by the USA and its allies after the Second World War.

This book offers a new interpretation of the origins of the contemporary global order - the set of institutions and international practices created by the USA and its allies after the Second World War.

Between 1950 and 1985, the United States provided an ongoing flow of resources to support Brazilian agriculture.

Between 1950 and 1985, the United States provided an ongoing flow of resources to support Brazilian agriculture.

This book provides a comprehensive history of Brazilian agricultural economic development between 1890 and 1950.

This book explores the role of the informal sector at the beginning of the structural transformation of the Indian economy.

This book explores the development of coffee substitutes in nineteenth-century Sweden.

Taking the new structural economics as the theoretical tools, this book obtains the maximum understanding of the history, development, current situation, and trend of the change of world economic structure, as well as China's role in its development and its underlying laws and policies, analyzes the polarization between the rich and poor for countries worldwide, and provides a way for them to achieve common prosperity.

Taking the new structural economics as the theoretical tools, this book obtains the maximum understanding of the history, development, current situation, and trend of the change of world economic structure, as well as China's role in its development and its underlying laws and policies, analyzes the polarization between the rich and poor for countries worldwide, and provides a way for them to achieve common prosperity.