Economic history

This book offers an alternative view of the economy - and indeed, society - that does not rely on an ever-expanding government to address the problems which individuals typically face during their lives.

Information is a central concept in economics, and The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information explores its treatment in modern economics.

This book argues that if we are to think differently about management, we must first rewrite management history.

Prices and wages are the social phenomena most susceptible of objective statistical record over long periods of time.

Che Guevara remains an iconic figure, four decades after his death.

'Roderick Floud's ground-breaking study of the history, money, places and personalities involved in British gardens over the past 350 years gives fascinating insight into why gardening is part of this country's soul.

First published in 1978, Professor O'Brien's Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 is an original and pioneering exercise in comparative and quantitative economic history.

First Published in 2005.

In 1891, thousands of Tennessee miners rose up against the use of convict labor by the state's coal companies, eventually engulfing five mountain communities in a rebellion against government authority.

A revealing insight into the links between globalization and the technological advances in communication brought about by the telegraph network.

London's Global Office Economy: From Clerical Factory to Digital Hub is a timely and comprehensive study of the office from the very beginnings of the workplace to its post-pandemic future.

As the first biography of Professor Herman Daly, this book provides an in-depth account of one of the leading thinkers and most widely read writers on economics, environment and sustainability.

This book deals sequentially with major impediments to economic growth and their slow dissolution.

In these works Professor Jordan studies the origins of modern social and cultural institutions in England.

Volume 27C of "e;Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology"e; consists of documents from Glenn Johnson and F.

This book goes back to the origins of the transformation of health and medicine into a business, during the first part of the twentieth century, focusing on the example of Japan.

Between the Civil War and World War I the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history.

First Published in 1979, Industrial Conflict in Modern Britain examines the unique rhythm of British strikes since the 1880's and suggests that the explosive pattern of recurring strike waves provides the key to understanding both the evolution of British industrial relations and the major changes that have taken place in working class culture and behaviour.

In recent years, there has been a resurgence of academic interest in Adam Smith.

For most of the twentieth century, the Conservative Party engaged in an ongoing struggle to curb the power of the trade unions, culminating in the radical legislation of the Thatcher governments.

Economics is too important to be left to the economists.

The University of Oxford has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for economics.

Originally published in 1963, The Railwaymen recounts the struggle of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants from its foundation in 1872 until the first national railway strike in 1911 to gain recognition from the companies and a reduction in the excessive hours of labour and the scandalously high accident rate among railwaymen.

Essential reading for understanding the international economy-now thoroughly updatedLucid, accessible, and provocative, and now thoroughly updated to cover recent events that have shaken the global economy, Globalizing Capital is an indispensable account of the past 150 years of international monetary and financial history-from the classical gold standard to today's post-Bretton Woods "e;nonsystem.

First published in 1909 and reissued in 1910, J.

How does one distinguish between European Union investments that improve welfare and those that create economic malaise?

This is a carefully executed study of the effects of federal economic policy in transforming the American South from the time of the New Deal to the present.

This edited volume discusses the life and scholarship of Friedrich Engels.

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.

By bridging the gap between linguistics and economics, this book sheds light on a range of mutually valuable topics.

These unique papers were originally read at a conference on the new economic history of Britain at Harvard in 1970, and each is accompanied by a summary of the discussion that followed it.

Das Buch vermittelt einen leicht verständlichen Überblick über die wichtigsten dogmenhistorischen Positionen des ökonomischen Denkens ("Aspekt der Ökonomie" in der Antike und im Mittelalter; Merkantilismus, Physiokratismus, Klassischer Liberalismus, Sozialismus, Historismus, Grenznutzenlehre, Neoklassik, Keynesianismus, Monetarismus, Evolutorische Wirtschaftstheorie und Neoliberalismus).

This book and its companion volume offer a better understanding of the lessons that Indian policymakers can learn from China's economic experience over the last 40 years.

Bringing together a wide range of empirical studies from around the world (Sweden, Norway, Austria, Germany, France, UK, Israel, Russia, China, Taiwan, Argentina, Canada), framed in related contemporary theoretical frameworks, this book examines the question of the significance of proximate vs.

Ever since the quest for independence between 1810 and 1819, economic thought in Colombia has been shaped by policy debates and characterized by a pragmatic and eclectic approach.

This study is both a history of the American wine industry and an examination of its current structure and performance.

Slavery in the Twentieth Century, first published in 1986, draws together all the forms of slavery in their modern guises - in the far recesses of Africa and Arabia, in the industrial towns of Italy, the factories and mines of South America, and in the prison farms of the United States.

Hayek's philosophical psychology as set out in his The Sensory Order (1952) has, for the most part, been neglected.

This is a history-though, intentionally, a brief history-of the rise of law and economics as a field of thought in the U.

This book analyzes the roots of one of the main human activities that can be developed in natural and agricultural ecosystems: tourism.

Die Wirtschaftssoziologie ist in den letzten Jahren auch in Deutschland wieder zu einem wichtigen Arbeits- und Forschungsfeld der Soziologie geworden.

This book brings together leading contributors to explore the development of political economy in eighteenth century France from an interdisciplinary perspective, in particular the ideas for social reform proposed before the Revolution.

There is no inevitable logic of capitalism.

Most of the existing research on economic history relies either solely or ultimately on calculations of material interest to explain the major events of the modern world.

Cultural Economies explores the dynamic intersection of material culture and transatlantic formations of "e;capital"e; in the long eighteenth century.

This book provides an introductory and sympathetic discussion of John Kenneth Galbraith''s theoretical contributions to economic thought.

This book provides a collective view of the five major English chartered trading companies which were active during the period 1688-1763: The East India Company, the Royal African Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, The Levant Company, and the Russia Company.

The political ideas that resulted from confronting the crisis of the Great Depression and the New Deal of the early 20th century reshaped America.