Economic history

The ideas of John Maynard Keynes inspired the New Deal and helped rebuild world economies after World War II -and were later dismissed as "e;depression economics.

The theory of the firm did not exist, in any serious manner, until around 1970.

The origins of the modern, Western concept of money can be traced back to the earliest electrum coins that were produced in Asia Minor in the seventh century BCE.

International cartels are powerful organizations that impact our everyday lives, although they are little known.

This new edition of a classic feminist book explains how one of the great historical revolutions - the ongoing movement toward equality between the sexes - has come about.

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Although historians usually trace its origins to the Haitian Revolution of the late 18th Century, Latin American political, economic and cultural emancipation is still very much a work in progress.

Surveying the transition to modern economic growth since 1700, this textbook sets European economic development within a pan-European framework.

User Experience in the Age of Sustainability focuses on the economic, sociological and environmental movement in business to make all products including digital ones more sustainable.

This title was first published in 2003.

How medieval Dutch society laid the foundations for modern capitalismThe Netherlands was one of the pioneers of capitalism in the Middle Ages, giving rise to the spectacular Dutch Golden Age while ushering in an era of unprecedented, long-term economic growth.

Originally published in 1987, this book is based on research concerned primarily with the Central Industrial Region.

Corporate governance is not just about models of best practice organisation or prescriptions following laws or social conventions.

A History of Ghana (1958) uses both European archives and considerable research among African traditional histories to examine the history of the Gold Coast and Ghana.

Studer shows that institutional, geographical, political, and technological factors account for Europe''s rise to undisputed world economic leader.

How has China been able to maintain high-speed economic growth during the last thirty-plus years and successfully transform itself from a poor, backward, and developing country to become the world's second-largest economy?

Bread was the staple of the ancient Mediterranean diet.

For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent.

Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, was one of the most original and controversial economists of the 20th century, both as a defender of free-market liberalism and a leading opponent of socialism and the interventionist-welfare state.

First published in 1914 and reissued with a new introduction in 1992, Work and Wealth is a seminal vision of Hobson's liberal utopian ideals, which desired to demonstrate how economic and social reform could transform existing society into one in which the majority of the population, as opposed to a small elite, could find fulfillment.

This book seeks to contribute a multi-dimensional, multi-layered and gendered approach to the illicit economy in the historiography of early modern Europe.

A study of America''s efforts to regulate expanding railroad technology.

Eric Schliesser's Adam Smith is the product of two decades' reflection by the author on the great Scottish Enlightenment.

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

Originally published in 1973, the aim of this work was to discuss the various factors governing the rate of growth of the British economy since the First World War.

The history of the voluntary sector in British towns and cities has received increasing scholarly attention in recent years.

Money is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and social functions.

Der vorliegende Band ist die letzte Veröffentlichung des DFG-Netzwerkes Forum für Frauenstiftsforschung.

Originally published in 1974.

The Struggle for Asia 1828-1914 (1977) studies a classic case of rival imperialisms.

Bernard Alford reviews the changing role, and diminishing influence, of Britain within the international economy across the century that saw the apogee and loss of Britain's empire, and her transformation from globe-straddling superpower to off-shore and indecisive member of the European Community.

This book examines how convicts played a key role in the development of capitalism in Australia and how their active resistance shaped both workplace relations and institutions.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

Born out of crisis a century ago, the Federal Reserve has become the most powerful macroeconomic policymaker and financial regulator in the world.

One of the biggest challenges in the study of history is the unreliable nature of traditional archival sources which omit histories of marginalised groups.

As the first volume of the two-volume Industrial Development in Modern China: Comparisons with Japan that studies the different paths of industrialization and economic modernization between China and Japan, this book analyzes the relationship between technological innovation and economic development in Japan before World War II.

This book provides a history of the New Deal, exploring the institutional, political, and cultural changes experienced by the United States during the Great Depression.

First Published in 2005.

The book gives an account of an essential part of Britain's troubled relationship with the rest of Europe after 1945 - particularly considering the rivalry of France and Britain between 1945 and 2007.

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The 'neoliberal' economic policy of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP Party, which has delivered extraordinary growth in Turkish GDP over the last decade, has been one of the foundations of the party's popular appeal.

This book brings together fourteen essays by leading authors in the field of economics to explore the relationship between money and markets throughout economic theory and history, providing readers with the key to understanding fundamental issues in monetary theory and other important debates in contemporary economics.

This book is an economic history of the Choson dynasty (1392-1910).

A groundbreaking 2011 study of the interrelationship between consumption, living standards and work in the early modern English economy.

The Origins of the Consumer Revolution in England explores the rise of consumerism from the end of the medieval period through to the beginning of the nineteenth century.

This book offers the first intellectual biography of the Anglo Australian economist, Colin Clark.

This book explores how in a rapidly shifting world, higher education has found itself at the crux of socio-economic, demographic, and technological transformations.

Between 1948 and 1951, the Marshall Plan delivered an unprecedented $12.