Economic history

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.

How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable.

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

The purpose of this book is to clarify the mission and history of Kobe University Business School (KUBS), not only for the development of management education but also for the familiarization of industry in Japan with the ideas of modern management.

This book focuses on the interaction between practising economists and previous generations of economists.

This book argues that economic activity in the public sphere now underwrites private corporations, and rejects rigid adherence to traditional economic theories that no longer apply.

One of the lessons learned from the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-9 is that minimum capital requirements are a necessary but inadequate safeguard for the stability of an intermediary.

Industrial Action (1976), written by an experienced active trade unionist, brings valuable real-world examples to an examination of the many facets of trade union organising.

Volume 28 contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.

A panoramic global history of the nineteenth centuryA monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition.

Written during the early 1920s, at a time when Europe was still recovering from the catastrophe of the First World War, L.

This book presents the capitalist system as a function of the interaction of the three basic classes in the capitalist social formation.

This book articulates a unified theory of capitalism as an attempt to provide a comprehensive scientific theory of this social system.

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.

Long neglected, the Eighteenth Century is now the focus for much of the most exciting work in history today.

The truth about the 2008 economic crisis from a Washington insider The 1980s opened with the prime interest rate at an astonishing 21.

Between 1909-17, Gustavo Del Vecchio developed a 'theory of circulation'.

An incisive analysis of the state of the global economy and what the future holds.

First published in 1930, John Hobson's study deals with the economic dilemmas generated in the early twentieth century by the advent of mass production.

Exploring the rise and fall of global power from the mid-nineteenth century, this book tracks the long and interrelated trajectories of the most serious challenges facing the world today.

Fabian Colonial Essays (1945) brings together a host of leading thinkers to discuss different aspects of colonialism.

Highlights how West Germany leveraged its economic power to become a key pillar of the global order in the 1960s and 1970s.

Originally published in 1940, this book traces the development of theories concerning currency and credit from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth.

First Published in 2005.

This book combines elements of economic and business history to study business ethics from the nineteenth century to today.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper St.

A detailed historical description of the evolution of corporate governance and stock markets in Brazil in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things.

This book examines the crisis at the famous insurance market, Lloyd's of London, during the late twentieth century, which nearly destroyed the 300-year-old institution.

This book traces the diffusion trajectory of the second and third generation of British steam engines, the Watt and high-pressure models, covering the period 1774 to 1870.

This monograph explores the economic consequences of the Cold War, a polarised world order which politicised technology and shaped industrial development.

In this fully revised fourth edition, this book treats globalization from several vantage points, showing how these help grasp the nature of globalization both in the past and today.

Rosy Aindow examines the way fiction registered and responded to the emergence of a modern fashion industry during the period 1870-1914.

Adam Smith, in his The Theory of Moral Sentiments, largely left his readers to develop his argument's full implications.

English dress in the second half of the sixteenth century has been studied in depth, yet remarkably little has been written on the earlier years, or indeed on male clothing for the whole century.

By exploring the strengths and weaknesses of a Marxist approach to economic development, this book presents a balanced treatment of development issues within the area of 'rational choice Marxism'

The relationship between natural capital and economic growth is an open debate in the field of economic development.

München ist heute einer der wichtigsten deutschen Finanzplätze – ein Befund, der angesichts der bescheidenen Anfänge des Münchener Finanzgewerbes überrascht.

This book is the first comprehensive history of the British Trade Corporation, which was constituted under a Royal Charter on 21st April 1917.

The history of Russian economic ideas from the sixteenth century to contemporary times is a fascinating, tumultuous yet neglected topic among Western scholars.

This book is a sequal to Britain's Economic Prospects, the report issued in 1968 by the Brookings Institution and universally accepted as the most thorough and comprehensive study of the British Economy to have ever appeared.

This collection of essays presents insight and methodology that are highly relevant for readers today as they consider the future of the world they live in.

John Stuart Mill considered his A System of Logic, first published in 1843, the methodological foundation and intellectual groundwork of his later works in ethical, social, and political theory.

Originally published in 1984.

This book analyses how seven small European countries dealt with major financial crises in the last hundred years.

In the decade since the financial crisis of 2008, governments around the world have struggled to develop strategies to stabilize precarious markets, encourage growth, and combat mounting wealth inequality.