Economic history

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Allan H.

An authoritative guide to the transformation of the Bank of England into a modern inflation-targeting independent central bank.

Central banks are major players in today's economic and financial policy-making.

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Metaphors in the History of Economic Thought: Crises, Business Cycles and Equilibrium explores the evolution of economic theorizing through the lens of metaphors.

This study examines the struggle between Smithfield market's supporters and detractors and argues that this demonstrates a major shift in the way the urban landscape came to be used.

This book provides a systematic account of the development of agriculture and agricultural civilization in ancient China.

The complexity of the American economy and polity has grown at an explosive rate in our era of globalization.

The Essay on the Nature of Trade in General was written in the early 1730s by Richard Cantillon, a speculator and banker who had made a vast fortune during the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719-20.

Africa welcomes business investment and offers some of the world's highest returns and impactsAfrica has tremendous economic potential and offers rewarding opportunities for global businesses looking for new markets and long-term investments with favorable returns.

This title was first published in 2002: Why do endogenous cycles persist in Spain?

This title considers the main similarities and differences in the industrialization processes of the major economies.

Embedded in an historical account of the development of U.

A modern reframing of Friedrich Hayek's most famous work for the 21st century.

Contemporary mainstream economists see social wealth as the sum of individual incomes, but for three centuries many economists saw wealth as consisting of the public and private resources of a nation.

Ten years before the start of the American Revolution, backcountry settlers in the North Carolina Piedmont launched their own defiant bid for economic independence and political liberty.

This book - the first of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective.

This book establishes a chronological trace of the entrepreneur as treated in economic literature in order to give a more wholesome perspective to contemporary writings and teachings on entrepreneurship.

The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe provide unique examples of large-scale relatively highly developed centrally planned economies.

Habits of Industry provides a richly descriptive social, historical, and cultural account of the Carolina Piedmont -- the area between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Coastal Plain -- over the course of 150 years.

In a time of unprecedented economic uncertainty, this book provides empirical guidance to the economy and what to expect in the near and distant future.

In this book Alfred Mierzejewski describes how the German economy collapsed under Allied bombing in the last year of World War II.

In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have addressed many perplexing questions about the Industrial Revolution in all its aspects.

'Capitalist critique and proletarian reasoning fit for our time' - Peter LinebaughTaking the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume as its subject, this book breaks new ground in focusing its lens on a little-studied aspect of Hume's thinking: his understanding of money.

This book is the 6th volume of the Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan.

Exploring a range of poverty experiences-socioeconomic, moral and spiritual-this collection presents new research by a distinguished group of scholars working in the medieval and early modern periods.

This book devises an innovative way to analyse Babylonian commodity price data in its historical context using formal statistical analysis.

First Published in 2005.

Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly.

This book surveys the economy of Wales from the first Norman intrusions of 1067 to the Act of Union of England and Wales in 1536.

Francis Watkins was an eminent figure in his field of mathematical and optical instrument making in mid-eighteenth century London.

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This accessible and insightful textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the economics of prehistory.

This book examines the economic and political rise of China from the perspective of Japan's economic development.

This book examines the dissemination, adaptation, and application of classical economic ideas within the Hispanic world through the life of Jose Joaquin de Mora.

Historians are used to studying the origins of war.

A distinctive new account of why markets focus on short-term goals, while government needs to concentrate on society''s long-term interests.

This book develops a comprehensive systematic economic theory, conceiving how the dynamic of market relations generates an economy dominated by the competitive process of individual profit-seeking enterprises.

Colonial Sequence 1930-1949 (1967) presents a valuable body of evidence for the enquiry into Britain's colonial actions, written at a time when Britain was retreating from empire.

Economists have long grappled with the problem of how economic theories relate to empirical evidence: how can abstract mathematized theories be used to produce empirical claims?

A new framework for measuring the evolution of human development and wellbeing in the modern world.

This was a transformative period in English history.

Complete ready reference covering Chinese history, economics, politics, culture, and prevalent social problems .