Economic history

How scientific is economics?

Aufstieg und Fall des Hamburger Woermann-Konzerns während der deutschen Kolonialherrschaft.

Two of the most important economics treatise are Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations and Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom.

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

The historic long term economic interconnections of the world are now universally accepted.

This title was first published in 2003.

This book examines the role of uncertainty on financial decisions - and, consequently, on financial markets - in the buildup to and aftermath of the Great Recession.

The economy of the United States is constantly evolving in response to wars, technological innovations, cultural revolutions, and political maneuverings.

In this 36th volume of Research in Economic History, editors Christopher Hanes and Susan Wolcott assemble a cohort of experts to present new historical data, analyses of historical questions, and an investigation of historians' networks.

The Florentine traveler, merchant, and academician Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance.

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

From Physick to Pharmacology addresses the important, albeit neglected history of the distribution and sale of medicinal drugs in England from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century.

This book provides a comprehensive account of how the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was financed.

The reliance of democracies on vital supplies of energy from distant and non-democratic sources is probably the most pressing and dangerous problem of modern times, but it is not a new phenomenon.

This book contributes to a new economic history of late antiquity, with tightly argued, stimulating studies of class, money and exchange.

This economic, social and cultural analysis of the nature and variety of production and consumption activities in households in Kent and Cornwall yields important new insights on the transition to capitalism in England.

The authors analyze Solvay''s 150-year history, showing the enormous impact geopolitical events had on the company and the recent consequences of global competition.

Originally published in 1927 this volume includes an economic history of Rome from the origins to the Empire, with four illustrations and six maps.

Chatham's Colonial Policy (1917) examines Britain's colonial plans and ambition in the mid-eighteenth century, under the leadership of the Earl of Chatham - William Pitt the Elder.

Allyn Young (1876-1929) was a deep thinker and achieved fame during his lifetime.

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

This edited collection is a novel book with contributions from eleven expert researchers on the history of tourism in Europe.

The Freedmen's Savings Bank was a result of the efforts of the friends of the Afro-American in the North to find a means of elevating the newly emancipated race.

The theme of the book is how efficient economic organisation with clearly defined property rights in the framework of a market economy has made possible the development of the South African economy.

Published in 1926: The author tells the story of the Consumers' League from the genesis of the idea through the days of its development to its present days of power.

This book presents the first full-length explanation in English of Heinsohn and Steiger's groundbreaking theory of money and interest, which emphasizes the role played by private property rights.

Analyzing Sraffa, one of the key figures in the history of economics, this book explores his legacy and the relevance of his thought for modern economics.

This book presents the lifelong and ongoing research of Lawrence H.

Stakeholder value, corporate social responsibility and sustainability: Are these, and similar, concepts sufficiently clear for fruitful research in business ethics?

This book explores how the institution of privilege and liberty shaped early modern economic development in France between 1650 and 1820.

Karl Menger (1902-1985) was the mathematician son of the famous economist Carl Menger.

Every time the economy goes through a period of crisis, Keynes' name is called upon by economists and politicians from diverse backgrounds.

By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes-Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity-study the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas.

The early decades of the sixteenth century were a turbulent time for the Italian peninsula as competing centres of power struggled for political control.

Should businessmen who commit fraud go to prison?

Perhaps more than any other European country, Spain has undergone a remarkable transformation in the post-war period.

This book, the second of two volumes, continues the authors' ground-breaking re-examination of India's history and political economy.

Seumas Miller provides an exciting new philosophical theory of contemporary social institutions and the ethical challenges they confront.

The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries is a collection of essays focusing on the expansion, elaboration, and increasing integration of the economy of the Atlantic basin-comprising parts of Europe, West Africa, and the Americas-during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy traces the origins, extension, marginalization and revival of evolutionary approaches to social theory from the Enlightenment through the beginning of the 21st century.

This book was first published in 1967.

Der Sammelband untersucht - in Deutschland erstmalig - die Entwicklung von Korruptionspraktiken und -debatten von der Frühen Neuzeit bis in die Gegenwart.

Voulant à tout prix éliminer la dévastation de la Grande dépression, gagner la guerre et construire un monde meilleur après-guerre, les académiciens et leaders canadiens appliquèrent les idées de Keynes et de Kuznets à la situation canadienne : une nation très régionalisée désirant bâtir une société recrutant les secteurs privé et public afin d'atteindre la stabilité économique et d'accroître les richesses du pays.

Wenn es je ein Land gab, das schlechtere Voraussetzungen hatte, um reich zu werden, dann die Schweiz: Berge, Schutt, Geröll und Gras.

When Government Helped systematically evaluates some parallels between The Great Depression and the 2007-2008 global economic meltdown, not only in terms of their economic causes and consequences, but also in terms of their political and cultural contexts and the environmental crises that afflict both periods.

Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and rapid growth of transportation across the USA in the mid-1800s.