Economic history

Dieser Band beschreibt die Entwicklung der modernen Konsumgesellschaft von ihren Anfängen in den vorindustriellen Gesellschaften des 17.

This book provides two important contributions to existing theories in the financial innovation literature.

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This Palgrave Pivot investigates the efforts of five aerospace companies-SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Orbital Sciences, and the Boeing Company-to launch their entry into the field of commercial space transportation.

"e;This is a radical, thought-provoking book, which brings together debates that are often kept separate about basic income and 'sovereign money'.

In light of demographic change and the growing problems of traditional old-age security systems, this book discusses two essential instruments in connection with privately providing for old-age security: (1) savings in private pension schemes and (2) building up equity for home-ownership.

This three volume series of intellectual biography considers the life, work and impact on economic, social and political theory of the Italian economist, sociologist and political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923).

This book presents an overview of the economic policies adopted by the Bolivarian governments of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela between 1998 and 2018, and the economic and social results of these policies.

This book explores the complex history of Catalonia in relation to Spain from an economic and political perspective.

This first of three volumes starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of acient and modern measurement systems of all kind, scientific measures, units of time, weights, currencies etc.

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

This book provides a historical understanding of current debates over tax reform and offers a comparative framework for discussing the relationship between fiscal policy and the distribution of income and wealth.

As Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy, says in his Foreword, all economic policy makers today need to re-examine our history to help them confront the challenges of today.

This monograph gives a comprehensive but in-depth analysis of the territorial development of Croatia and historical processes of significant spatial impact.

This edited volume studies the relationship between big business and the Latin American dictatorial regimes during the Cold War.

This book offers the first systematic analysis of economic thought concerning war.

This book assesses the current state of the Greek economy and detects its development and growth prospects up to 2030.

Bread was the staple of the ancient Mediterranean diet.

This book presents a new economic history of London construction in the early modern period.

This Palgrave Pivot reviews the history of the UK's Retail Prices Index (RPI) from its origins just after the Second World War to its controversial position today.

This book investigates the changing nature of economic policies following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-9.

This book demonstrates the variation in the reaction of the UK's 'big four' banks - RBS, Lloyds, Barclays and HSBC - to the Great Financial Crisis 2008.

We might think sustainable management is a new idea, created in the 1960s by enlightened modern scientists.

This book analyses the economic history of the nuclear program in Spain, from its inception in the 1950s to the nuclear moratorium in the early 1980s, and investigates the economic, financial and business origins of atomic energy in Spain.

This volume undertakes the important task of envisioning a regional history of Asia based on its unique internal characteristics, going beyond the usual West/non-West dichotomy.

This book discusses the work of German economists Gustav von Schmoller and Adolph Wagner, its influence on the tradition of German and Austrian economic and social thought, and its implications for the discipline today.

This book examines the political connections and trade relations between Italy and China, with particular emphasis on the second half of the 19th century and the period following the Second World War.

This book applies the contents of a working economist's tool-kit to explain, clearly and intuitively, when and why over the course of four centuries individuals, families, and enterprises decided to locate in or around the lower Hudson River Valley.

This book is the third installment in a series of volumes looking at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective.

 This book addresses the causes and consequences of the international financial crisis of 2008.

This book discusses the case for socialism and the models of socialist planning.

This second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I).

This book explores methods and techniques to predict and eventually prevent financial distress in corporations.

How did banking in early nineteenth-century Massachusetts evolve?

Nowadays remembered mostly through Adam Smith's references to the short-lived Ayr Bank in the Wealth of Nations, the 1772-3 financial crisis was an important historical episode in its own right, taking place during a pivotal period in the development of financial capitalism and coinciding with the start of the traditional industrialisation narrative.

Is the 'natural resource curse' destiny?

This book examines what we can gain from a critical reading of Marx's final manuscript and his conclusion of the "e;systematic presentation"e; of his critique, which was the basis for Engels's construction of the third volume of his infamous 'Capital'.

This book features 13 Japanese entrepreneurs who made a significant contribution to the development of society from 1868, when modernization in Japan began, to the 1950s, after World War II.

This book presents a comprehensive economic plan for Greece to encourage growth and avoid future crises.

This two-volume study explores the economy of East Timor, of which very little has been written since the country gained independence in 2002.

When the Act of Union was passed in 1707, Scottish parliament was dissolved and the nation's capital became London.

The papers in this proceedings volume were presented at the 9th international conference "e;The Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries in the Changing World"e; (EBEEC) held in Athens, Greece, in April 2017.

This book assesses the performance of banks in India over the past several decades, and discusses their current status after fifty years of nationalization.

The evolution of inequality and its causes are of crucial importance to all scholars working in the social sciences.

This book focuses on the production of low-quality goods, the rise of markets for imitations and shoddy goods, and dishonest trading practices which developed along with the expansion of global trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in East Asia.

This book presents the results of extensive international comparative research into the effects of the economic and financial crisis on democratic institutions and social cohesion policies.

Together with Mauritius, Botswana is often categorized as one of two growth miracles in sub-Saharan Africa.

This book analyzes the role of ai Viet (Vietnam) in the maritime Asian trading network of the thirteenth through the eighteenth centuries as it systematically integrates the results of archaeological investigations.

In the last decades, women's role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity.

'This is essential reading for anybody interested in global history.