Economic history

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.

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

This book theoretically and empirically investigates the emergence of strong money demand in wartime Japan (1937-1945), its disappearance after the end of the war (1945-1949), and the reemergence of strong money demand in contemporary Japan (from 1995 to the present) in terms of the effects on fiscal activities and the price level.

This book is the culmination of a lifetime of research into Chinese development, situated in a global historical context.

This book examines the role of institutions and law on the economic performance of the Ottoman Empire between 1500 and 1800.

Climate change over the past thousands of years is undeniable, but debate has arisen about its impact on past human societies.

This book is a history of outdoor advertising control in Britain between the early-nineteenth century and the beginning of the 1960s.

This book provides an analysis of the process and outcomes of the tax reform, with a focus on progressivity, redistribution, and inequality.

Well-connected in academia, business and government, John Maynard Keynes was one of the most influential economic theorists of the twentieth century.

This book is a faithful record of China's economy that spans almost 70 years.

In the global marketplace of ideas, few realms spark as much conflict as religion.

Fresh water has become scarce and will become even more so in the coming years, as continued population growth places ever greater demands on the supply of fresh water.

The book is an economic history of the South Sea Bubble.

This book offers a comprehensive business history of one of the largest global brewing companies.

How and why does Denmark have one of the richest, most equal, and happiest societies in the world today?

Start-ups and other entrepreneurial ventures make a significant contribution to the US economy, particularly in the tech sector, where they comprise some of the largest and most influential companies.

The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was enacted by Congress in June of 1933 to assist the nation's recovery during the Great Depression.

This book seeks to deepen readers' understanding of world history by investigating urbanization and the evolution of urban systems, as well as the urban world, from the perspective of historical analysis.

Revealed Biodiversity: An Economic History of the Human Impact aims to show that for several centuries environmental conditions have been substantially the product of economic fluctuations.

For a country that can boast a distinguished tradition of political economy from Sir William Petty through Swift, Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke and Cantillon through to that of Longfield, Cairnes, Bastable, Edgeworth, Geary and Gorman, it is surprising that no systematic study of Irish political economy has been undertaken.

The papers brought together in this volume represent a decade of advances in the historical political economy of defence, dictatorship, and warfare.

'One of the books several strong points are the amusing, often fascinating sketches of government officials and British merchants.

A controversial look at the end of globalization and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic order Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable.

This book offers an in-depth case study of Romania's land and agricultural reforms from mid-19th century and up to 2000, offering a historical account of agricultural reforms in post-communist Romania in the light of more than a century of social and economic development experiments.

Reflecting the diverse and profound changes triggered by the latest wave of economic globalization, this book highlights various governance responses at national, regional and global levels.

Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America's transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories.

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey's latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more "e;human"e; science.

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This cultural history examines the global rise of American-style supermarkets during the Cold War era and how they shaped the way we eat today.

An incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics   Throughout the twentieth century, “free enterprise” has been a contested keyword in American politics, and the cornerstone of a conservative philosophy that seeks to limit government involvement into economic matters.

In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history.

Wealth of an Empire tells the dramatic true story of a top-secret mission that changed the course of World War II: Great Britain’s shipment of virtually its entire treasury across the treacherous waters of the North Atlantic to safety in the United States and Canada.

A thoroughly researched assessment of how China's economic success continues to be shaped by the communist ideology of Chairman MaoIt was long assumed that as China embraced open markets and private enterprise, its state-controlled economy would fall by the wayside, that free markets would inevitably lead to a more liberal society.

Human capital is of utmost importance for the future of our knowledge economies and societies.

This book explores the Italian stock exchange through its construction and consolidation while examining and criticizing the birth of the capital city.

This book discusses the extent to which Thomas Piketty's work can offer a model for ancient economic history, both methodologically and politically.

This book explores the nature of money and banking throughout their history, and applies this to the study of financial crises.

Dieses Buch erforscht die wichtige Rolle der Kaufleute im frühen modernen China.

This book examines the economic circumstances in which films were produced, distributed, exhibited, and consumed during the spoken era of film production until 1970.

This book explores the economic factors that led to Britain forfeiting its North American colonies.

East Germany's economic history is typically told as a story of the unravelling of an inherently flawed system.

Banking, Projecting, and Politicking uncovers a previously understudied and unacknowledged financial institution in late-seventeenth-century England known as Thompson and Company.

This book tries to build a broad view on industrial processes of large economies and their integration in the world.

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