Economic history

The book examines the history of co-operation in the broad context of the history of consumerism and consumption; of internationalism and the development of international organisations; and debates about international trade during the inter-war period.

This book is a study of the emergence of international business.

Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well recognised, but scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works.

This book is the first to systematically examine the sources of medieval statistics.

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

Street vendors are ubiquitous across the world and throughout history.

Based on both theoretical and empirical approaches, the essays in this volume emphasise the role of ethics in a globalized economy.

At a time when North Carolinas population is exploding and its economy is shifting profoundly, one of the states leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle these changes and to inform North Carolinians in easy-to-understand terms what to expect in the future.

Engaging with the question of the extent to which the so-called human, economic or social sciences are actually sciences, this book moves away from the search for a criterion or definition that will allow us to sharply distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific.

This volume provides an accessible and up-to-date account of the difficulties that the Zimbabwean economy and its population experienced during the crisis which peaked in 2008.

Samuel Pufendorf's work on natural law and political economy was extensive and has been cited by several important figures in the history of economic thought.

While many have examined how economic interests motivate political action, Bruce Carruthers explores the reverse relationship by focusing on how political interests shape a market.

Readable, wide-ranging history of multinational enterprise, exploring its role in international events and influence on globalization and the modern world.

In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy.

Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and expansion of agriculture across the USA during the last half of the 19th century.

A new account of economic performance and state development in African countries across the long twentieth century.

Russia's transition to a market economy has been tortuous to say the least.

This book tells the story behind President Franklin D.

Root shows how the tools of network analysis can be used to understand great transitions in global economic history.

This book combines elements of economic and business history to study business ethics from the nineteenth century to today.

States of Credit provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras.

Most scholars agree that during the sixteenth century, the centre of European international trade shifted from Antwerp to Amsterdam, presaging the economic rise of the Dutch Republic in the following century.

This volume is the first full-length biography of Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832), the most famous French classical economist.

This book provides a unique and refreshing look at the Korean economy over the past 60 years.

This book sheds new light on the political economy of Russia under Putin's rule.

This is a significant book that investigates how the French internal resistance and external Free French movement were financed during the Second World War.

First published in 1913, this Routledge Revivals title reissues J.

Despite his achievements, David Ricardo's views on money have often been misunderstood and underappreciated.

The classics heavily influenced many aspects of European modern culture, yet it is not easy to trace their intellectual power on any author.

The Merchants of Oran weaves together the history of a Mediterranean port city with the lives of Oran's Jewish mercantile elite during the transition to French colonial rule.

Stock market booms are cause for celebration.

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (RHETM) is a book series dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to a broad range of topics related to the history and methodology of economics.

Under the impressive editorship of Warren Samuels et al, this book addresses the state of the history of economic thought today.

First published in 1931, this is an attempt by the great economist J.

The general assumption that social policy should be utilitarian--that society should be organized to yield the greatest level of welfare--leads inexorably to increased government interventions.

Building Mid-Republican Rome offers a holistic treatment of the development of the Mid-Republican city from 396 to 168 BCE.

Homo Economics is the first honest account of the tense relationship between gay people and the economy.

Die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der eigenen Industrie war (spätestens) seit dem 19.

Values-based organizations are institutions, communities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which are inspired by a mission or a vocation - for these groups it is their ideals which are most important to them and economics does not have a way to incorporate that into its analysis.

The rise and fall of a tax shelter industry that enabled some of America''s richest citizens to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

The history of European economic thought has long been written by those seeking to prove or disprove the truth-value of the theories they describe.

Although mercers have long been recognised as one of the most influential trades in medieval London, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the trade from the twelfth to the sixteenth century.

Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama traces the near-simultaneous rise of economic theory, literary criticism, and public theater in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, and posits that connecting all three is a fascination with creating something out of nothing simply by acting as if it were there.

Over the course of nearly half a century, five American presidents-three Democrats and two Republicans-have relied on the financial acumen, and the integrity, of Paul A.

Volume 36C of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium edited by Andres Alvarez on monetary economics in post-independence Latin America.

What happens in the City has never affected us moreIn this excellent guide, now fully revised and updated, leading financial journalist Philip Coggan cuts through the headlines, the scandals and the jargon to explain the nuts and bolts of the financial system.

This book uses 'politics of urban knowledge' as a lens to understand how professionals, administrations, scholars, and social movements have surveyed, evaluated and theorized the city, identified problems, and shaped and legitimized practical interventions in planning and administration.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die wirtschaftlichen Ausgangsbedingungen der DDR" verfügbar.

This book reveals the business history of the Australian Government Clothing Factory as it introduced innovative changes in the production and design of the Australian Army uniform during the twentieth century.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Spain underwent one of the most rapid processes of economic development the world had ever seen.