Economic history

From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived surrounded by objects in eighteenth-century China.

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Law is supposed to encourage innovation, morality, and conformity with societal expectations, yet it may provides perverse incentives causing individuals, or even the State, to act in discordant, inefficient, and even immoral ways.

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This book offers a deep-dive analysis of the period of globalization from the late 1980s to the present through the lens of long wave theory.

Japanese industry is the envy of the world for its efficient and humane management practices.

The continued history of Beaufort County, South Carolina, during and following the Civil WarIn Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861-1893, the second of three volumes on the history of Beaufort County, Stephen R.

Emile Walters reworked the French author Bastiat's Sophismes Economique to make it more accessible for an American audience.

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology is an annual research series which presents materials in two fields, both broadly considered: the history of economic thought and the methodology of economics.

Volume 28 contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.

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

In a business world predominantly oriented toward the future, it has paradoxically become ever more common that companies turn towards their pasts.

The business of birth control is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities in Britain before the pill.

As late as the mid 1980s, Iceland's economy revolved around little else than a semi-robust cod-fishing industry.

The people who run our government are affected by money just like the rest of us.

An authoritative look at recent developments in China's approach to educating its young--and what it means for the rest of the worldCovering psychological ideology, moral education, and current reforms, The History of Chinese Modern Educational Thought summarizes recent developments in Chinese education practices.

The first complete history of US industry's most influential and controversial lobbyistFounded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers-NAM-helped make manufacturing the basis of the US economy and a major source of jobs in the twentieth century.

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What Every American Needs to Know About the War on Free Enterprise--and Freedom ItselfAmerica: be warned.

Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the worst sovereign default in history.

A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression to the postwar eraAs the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry.

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Fired by Stanford and the University of Chicago but recommended by his peers to the presidency of the American Economic Association, Thorstein Veblen remains a baffling figure in American intellectual history.

Bankers and speculators build castles in the air but when they come crashing down ordinary people have to pick up the tab.

The fall and rise of a trillion-dollar industryJust three years ago, hedge funds were at the top of the investment world.

One of China's leading education experts explores the best ways to create ideal schools, teachers, administrators, and educationProfessor Zhu Yongxin expounds on what he believes to be ideal education.

"e;The most important task of education is to teach children to be kind, to have a dream, and to possess the ability to learn.

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The triumphant rise of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte over his Republican opponents has been the central theme of most narrative accounts of mid-nineteenth-century France, while resistance to the coup d'etat generally has been neglected.

Why the irrational exuberance of investors hasn't disappeared since the financial crisisIn this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both the tech and housing bubbles, cautions that signs of irrational exuberance among investors have only increased since the 2008-9 financial crisis.

How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states.

This book celebrates the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by gathering together a century of interpretation and commentary on that piece of legislation.

This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present.

The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world.

What modern economics can tell us about ancient RomeThe quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution.

Patrons of Enlightenment is the first English language study of the St.

The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economyEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred.

The Classical Economists Revisited conveys the extent, diversity, and richness of the literature of economics produced in the period extending from David Hume's Essays of 1752 to the final contributions of Fawcett and Cairnes in the 1870s.

In Economics in Perspective, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith presents a compelling and accessible history of economic ideas, from Aristotle through the twentieth century.

This book examines the application of risk-sharing finance as a national economic policy in history and how it stimulated economic recovery during a short period in Germany between 1933 and 1935.

This edited collection examines the formation of urban networks and role of gateways in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern world.

This monograph examines the failure of the Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone and the birth of new monetary and financial systems in Portuguese-speaking African countries.

The concept of 'performativity' has risen to prominence throughout the humanities.

This book explores the diverse experience of Bangladesh's development over the last fifty years and provides systematic explanations of its success in socioeconomic development.

The book uses archival data to examine how access to micro-finance credit played a role in facilitating adjustment to blight during the Great Famine of Ireland.

This book analyses the bearing of global monotheistic faiths towards the philosophy and practice of record keeping and accounting throughout history.

This book examines the link between innovation and economic crises through a systemic philosophy of economic history.

This book studies the process of demographic transition which has played a key role in the economic development of Western countries.

This book provides a critical reassessment of the role of the public sector during the Golden Age in both advanced and emerging economies.