First published in 1970, Australian Economic Development in the Twentieth Century analyses aspects of Australian economic development in the twentieth century and places them in historical and international perspective.
To provide an understanding of financial globalization from a historical point of view, this book sheds light on international banking in Asia before World War II.
A partir del contexto economico nacional de los noventa a la actualidad, un grupo de especialistas analizan los principales retos a los que se enfrenta la administracion publica en materia economica: crecimiento estancado, pobreza persistente y desigualdad en la distribucion del ingreso.
Mit diesem faszinierenden Einblick in die Evolution der Geldsysteme rund um den Globus führt uns Nik Bhatia zu den Ursprüngen und veranschaulicht, weshalb sich das Geld in einer "mehrschichtigen" Weise entwickelt hat.
Siguiendo a Santo Tomas de Aquino, Francisco de Vitoria comenta la cuestion 66 de la Secunda secundae de la Suma de Teologia en un contexto doctrinal especifico: el relativo a la virtud de la justicia.
Siguiendo a Santo Tomas de Aquino, Francisco de Vitoria comenta la cuestion 66 de la Secunda secundae de la Suma de Teologia en un contexto doctrinal especifico: el relativo a la virtud de la justicia.
En la historiografía chilena y extranjera dedicada al Ciclo Salitrero (1880-1930) –el mayor proceso primario exportador vivido hasta entonces– existen visiones maniqueas sobre el rol que le cupo a dicho periodo en la historia económica de Chile.
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.
This book analyses the emergence and growth of the creative sector in Naples between the early modern and modern eras, focusing particularly on the development of music markets in the city.
Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy traces the origins, extension, marginalization and revival of evolutionary approaches to social theory from the Enlightenment through the beginning of the 21st century.
Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy traces the origins, extension, marginalization and revival of evolutionary approaches to social theory from the Enlightenment through the beginning of the 21st century.
Exploring the formation of networks across late medieval Central Europe, this book examines the complex interaction of merchants, students, artists, and diplomats in a web of connections that linked the region.
Exploring the formation of networks across late medieval Central Europe, this book examines the complex interaction of merchants, students, artists, and diplomats in a web of connections that linked the region.
The Meltdown Years offers the most lucid and useful explanation to date about why home values, life savings, job security, and investments around the world are in peril.
First published in 1968, A History of the Carpenters Company deals with developments in the carpenter's craft as well as with the Company's own internal growth.
This book takes a fresh look at an age-old controversy in ethics and political economy that stretches right back to Aristotle: the morality and the economics of debt financing, or the charging of interest on loans.
Combining contextual, institutional, and global perspectives, this book evaluates the impact of international trade on eighteenth-century economic thought.
Combining contextual, institutional, and global perspectives, this book evaluates the impact of international trade on eighteenth-century economic thought.
Apprenticeship in early modern Europe has been the subject of important research in the last decades, mostly by economic historians; but the majority of the research has dealt with cities or countries in Northern Europe.
Apprenticeship in early modern Europe has been the subject of important research in the last decades, mostly by economic historians; but the majority of the research has dealt with cities or countries in Northern Europe.
Soviet Agriculture in Perspective (1969) examines the framework within which Soviet agriculture had to operate from the start: the dilemma of a revolutionary regime in a backward peasant country, the straightjacket of a bureaucratic system inherited from Tsarism, made even more rigid by the internal tensions of the new society, and the imperative needs of economic development.
Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union (1933) is a valuable historical document that presents a verbatim report of the trials of various Soviet and British engineers and workers accused of acts of sabotage against the Soviet energy infrastructure.
A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States.
Since Tsarist times, Russia's leaders, rather than pursue economic growth for its own sake, have sought control over economic activity as a means to manage their own support base, respond to perceived security threats and to facilitate their wider geopolitical ambitions.
The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev's boast that by 1970 the USSR's industrial output would surpass that of the USA.
