Economic history

Provides a historical perspective for understanding the exponential growth of casinos in the United States since 1990, by telling the story of Atlantic City, New Jersey since the 1970s.

This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the original volume.

What was 'Eastern European' about the historical development of Eastern Europe?

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.

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When we look at Chinese history for a guide to business, we commonly reach for Sun Tzu's The Art of War, but that is a military text.

This collection explores emerging areas in the history of economics and provides a valuable insight into contemporary research in the field.

Originally published in 1981, Patterns of European Urbanisation Since 1500 examines urbanisation in Europe since 1500, paying particular attention to the underlying factors which govern the differentiated process of urbanisation.

The objective of this book is to elucidate the characteristics and significance of the relationships between industry and banks in Germany.

A fascinating exploration of the evolution of the Portuguese economy over the course of eight centuries, from 1143 to 2010.

The Nature and Method of Economic Sciences: Evidence, Causality, and Ends argues that economic phenomena can be examined from five analytical levels: a statistical descriptive approach, a causal explanatory approach, a teleological explicative approach, a normative approach and, finally, the level of application.

Singapore has gained a reputation for being one of the wealthiest and best-educated countries in the world and one of the brightest success stories for a colony-turned-sovereign state, but the country's path to success was anything but assured.

The first major volume to place U.

When we start to perceive that there is a problem in the market (such as monopoly, fraud or speculation), the legislature passes a law to correct it, a bureaucracy is created to interpret and enforce the new law, firms and other market participants comply, and the problem is solved.

Business historians and economic historians frequently contribute to our understanding of strategic management, and strategy scholars often rely on a deep understanding of historical context to make sense of classic strategy issues.

This Palgrave Pivot presents the first in-depth study of the pioneering Kansas Blue Sky Act of 1911, the first effort in American financial history to regulate the sale of securities in the US.

A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise.

Paul Auerbach's Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century.

British India's Relations with the Kingdom of Nepal (1970) uses original documents and confidential papers never before available to examine the relations between Nepal and British India from 1857 to 1947.

This book analyzes public debt from a political, historical, and global perspective.

A fascinating history.

This book discusses the relationship between democracy and the financial order from various legal perspectives.

This edition brings together the most important English language tracts and pamphlets and other material on the origins and development of private banking, joint stock banking, central banking and other important related questions.

The story of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Greene County, Georgia, is a remarkable tale of both fundamental change and essential continuity.

This title, first published in 1965, provides an analysis of the forces and mechanisms governing the formation of the overall level of money prices.

Early modern European economic development seen through the interaction of two major players in the Mediterranean economy: Venice and England.

An examination of South Korea''s and Taiwan''s economic successes and Argentina''s and Mexico''s relative ''failures'' through their rural middle classes.

Originally published in 1959, this book contains in straightforward language a general account of the major variables significant for the analysis of economic development.

First Published in 2005.

This work details the theological sources and moral significance of the life and work of the Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790).

Volume 30 contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.

Centering the experiences of women, this vivid social history examines Baltimore''s prostitution trade and its evolution throughout the nineteenth century.

This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith.

These six papers were originally delivered to a conference at Sheffield University in 1969 and represent an overview of a research project led by Professor Pollard, which aimed to construct a series of annual figures of capital formation for the Industrial Revolution in Britain - both in aggregate and broken down into main sectors.

Este libro es un estudio revisionista de ciertas asunciones de la historia económica, la historia social y la historia medieval cuando abordan el tema del pastoreo en España.

For nearly a century the Garden City movement has represented one end of a continuum in an ongoing debate about the future of the modern city.

For a long time, everything revolved around bread.

This book provides a detailed account of the Czechoslovak-American dispute that arose over monetary gold which was forcibly seized by Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D.

Ireland''s experience of Europe''s most spectacular financial bubble, bust and recovery is narrated and dissected by a central banking insider.

Hatten protestantische Glaubensgemeinschaften tatsächlich "Kredit bei aller Welt", wie Max Weber beobachtete?

On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and cloth; by early October the ship was back in Portugal with a very different cargo, 108 enslaved Africans.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Zur Wirkungsweise der ökonomischen Gesetze des Sozialismus und ihrer Ausnutzung durch die Leitung und Planung der Volkswirtschaft" verfügbar.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.

How the United States became an imperial power by bowing to pressure to defend its citizens' overseas investmentsThroughout the twentieth century, the U.

Banking historiography often does not sufficiently take into account bankers' deliberations of their decision making, but rather limits investigation to considerations of profit maximisation.

Much has been written on the Indian economy but this is the first major attempt to present India's economic history as a continuous process, and to place the development of agriculture, industry and currency in a political and historical context.

This edition brings together the most important English language tracts and pamphlets and other material on the origins and development of private banking, joint stock banking, central banking and other important related questions.

Often viewed as self-sufficient, Roman farmers actually depended on markets to supply them with a wide range of goods and services, from metal tools to medical expertise.