Economic history

Following books by Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely, noted economics professor William L.

The term globalization has gained widespread popularity; yet most treatments are either descriptive and/or focused on changes in economic interconnectivity.

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The nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 triggered one of the gravest international crises since the Second World War.

Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region.

For nearly two hundred years, Floridians have eagerly exploited tourism as the key to economic prosperity.

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things.

Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today presents an examination of Nordic donation and gift-giving practices in the Nordic and Western world, beginning in late Antiquity and extending through to the present day.

This book expands upon a range of economic insights within the overall context of critical theory, particularly with respect to the question of socioeconomic inequalities, and presents an explanation of how critical theory provides a number of interesting perspectives for economists.

Under the impressive editorship of A.

The book sets out to explore the economic motivations of imperial expansion under capitalism.

How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale projects that might actively alter the climate.

The publication by Longman of P J Cain and A.

Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well-recognised but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works.

Early twentieth-century Iran had been dominated by the competing influences of the two great imperial powers of the time - Russia and Britain - making it difficult for a third power to establish a foothold.

The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records.

Every banking crisis, whatever its particular circumstances, has two features in common with every previous one.

The concept of the 'fiscal-military state', popularised by John Brewer in 1989, has become familiar, even commonplace, to many historians of eighteenth-century England.

First published in 2005.

Historians have long recognized epidemics to be a significant, though sometimes hidden, factor in the fortunes of societies and civilizations.

Over 20 years ago Philip Sadler, then head of a leading British business school, wrote Managerial Leadership in the Post-Industrial Society.

This book covers the main developments in the social sciences after World War Two.

This book concerns the end of the age of colonization and the inherent changes in the world economy.

First Published in 2005.

This book contends that structural reforms, the essential third arrow in Abe's 'Abenomics', will not happen.

Focusing on a series of policy initiatives from the late 1960s through to the end of the 1970s, this book looks at how successive governments tried to address growing concerns about urban deprivation across Britain.

In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the key to economic success.

The Phillips Curve is world famous amongst economists.

The economics of the movie industry has been curiously neglected by scholars, especially given the material circumstances in which film has been produced, distributed and exhibited in capitalist economies and its central importance in the lives of the huge numbers attracted to it as a commodity.

In the aftermath of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Mexican and U.

Providing an account of the development of economic thought, this book explores the extent to which economic ideas are rooted in moral values.

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.

Government in West Africa (1968) examines the practical working of modern government and the constitutional history of West Africa.

In the years following its publication, F.

This book examines the origins of the IS-LM model, one of the most significant innovations in the history of economic thought.

This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift.

Ida Greaves, who was born in Barbados in 1907, is one of the "e;missing female voices"e; of early development economics.

This book outlines the origins of Danish Capitalism and prosperity, from a poor and devastated minor state in the 19th century to a consolidated universal mixed economy welfare state at the end of the 20th century.

In this fascinating work, Louise Purbrick offers an alternative analysis of contemporary domestic consumption.

This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries.

Originally published in 1936, this book discusses the post-War reconstruction of the monetary system.

The book illustrates financial markets from the point of view of their subjectivity, namely by analysing one of the most prominent figures among market operators: the speculator.

It would be difficult to examine interest- free alternative fi nancial systems without reviewing the evolution of debt; thus, this book offers a chronological account of the development of interest- bearing debt and contributors offer their take on how the issue of interest has been addressed throughout medieval and modern civilizations.

This book focuses on slave ownership in Virginia as it was practiced by a variety of institutions.

America is a smuggler nation.

The first full examination of the ''protectionist turn'' of French liberalism in the early stages of nineteenth-century globalisation.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

The Progressive Era was among the most volatile times for the economy and labor in American History.

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