Economic history

Bread was the staple of the ancient Mediterranean diet.

This book presents a new economic history of London construction in the early modern period.

This Palgrave Pivot reviews the history of the UK's Retail Prices Index (RPI) from its origins just after the Second World War to its controversial position today.

This book investigates the changing nature of economic policies following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-9.

This book demonstrates the variation in the reaction of the UK's 'big four' banks - RBS, Lloyds, Barclays and HSBC - to the Great Financial Crisis 2008.

We might think sustainable management is a new idea, created in the 1960s by enlightened modern scientists.

This book analyses the economic history of the nuclear program in Spain, from its inception in the 1950s to the nuclear moratorium in the early 1980s, and investigates the economic, financial and business origins of atomic energy in Spain.

This volume undertakes the important task of envisioning a regional history of Asia based on its unique internal characteristics, going beyond the usual West/non-West dichotomy.

This book discusses the work of German economists Gustav von Schmoller and Adolph Wagner, its influence on the tradition of German and Austrian economic and social thought, and its implications for the discipline today.

This book examines the political connections and trade relations between Italy and China, with particular emphasis on the second half of the 19th century and the period following the Second World War.

This book applies the contents of a working economist's tool-kit to explain, clearly and intuitively, when and why over the course of four centuries individuals, families, and enterprises decided to locate in or around the lower Hudson River Valley.

This book is the third installment in a series of volumes looking at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective.

 This book addresses the causes and consequences of the international financial crisis of 2008.

This book discusses the case for socialism and the models of socialist planning.

This second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I).

This book explores methods and techniques to predict and eventually prevent financial distress in corporations.

How did banking in early nineteenth-century Massachusetts evolve?

Nowadays remembered mostly through Adam Smith's references to the short-lived Ayr Bank in the Wealth of Nations, the 1772-3 financial crisis was an important historical episode in its own right, taking place during a pivotal period in the development of financial capitalism and coinciding with the start of the traditional industrialisation narrative.

Is the 'natural resource curse' destiny?

This book examines what we can gain from a critical reading of Marx's final manuscript and his conclusion of the "e;systematic presentation"e; of his critique, which was the basis for Engels's construction of the third volume of his infamous 'Capital'.

This book features 13 Japanese entrepreneurs who made a significant contribution to the development of society from 1868, when modernization in Japan began, to the 1950s, after World War II.

This book presents a comprehensive economic plan for Greece to encourage growth and avoid future crises.

This two-volume study explores the economy of East Timor, of which very little has been written since the country gained independence in 2002.

When the Act of Union was passed in 1707, Scottish parliament was dissolved and the nation's capital became London.

The papers in this proceedings volume were presented at the 9th international conference "e;The Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries in the Changing World"e; (EBEEC) held in Athens, Greece, in April 2017.

This book assesses the performance of banks in India over the past several decades, and discusses their current status after fifty years of nationalization.

The evolution of inequality and its causes are of crucial importance to all scholars working in the social sciences.

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.

This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China's contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong.

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.