Global Trade in the Premodern World offers an authoritative and expansive history of exchange and interaction across Eurasia from the prehistoric origins of trade to the integration of large parts of this world-system by the fifteenth century CE.
Global Trade in the Premodern World offers an authoritative and expansive history of exchange and interaction across Eurasia from the prehistoric origins of trade to the integration of large parts of this world-system by the fifteenth century CE.
Originally published in 1983, this book filled a gap in the existing literature, because the effect of credit upon a family's real income was frequently omitted in studies of living standards.
In 1991, a small group of Russians emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union and enjoyed one of the greatest transfers of wealth ever seen, claiming ownership of some of the most valuable petroleum, natural gas and metal deposits in the world.
The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations.
This title presents a collection of documents relating to the monetary history of gold from the 17th century up to the present, covering specifically the rise of the gold standard, its heyday, and the period following.
Discussing economic theory and English economic history from the eighteenth century until the late 1970s this volume discusses among other things fixed capital and problems with the definition of the premodern economy as well as providing a chronology of 18th century business cycles.
How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable.
Nick Mayhew has made key contributions to fields as diverse as medieval European monetary history, numismatics, financial history, price and wage history, and macroeconomic history.
In parallel to the development of democracy, the Athenians of the Classical period established a series of sophisticated economic institutions for the time through which they developed a maritime and commercially oriented economy.
In parallel to the development of democracy, the Athenians of the Classical period established a series of sophisticated economic institutions for the time through which they developed a maritime and commercially oriented economy.
First published in 1970, Britain and America 1850-1939 is a key text for anyone seeking to trace and interpret the development of the two great trans-Atlantic economies.
First published in 1970, Australian Economic Development in the Twentieth Century analyses aspects of Australian economic development in the twentieth century and places them in historical and international perspective.
To provide an understanding of financial globalization from a historical point of view, this book sheds light on international banking in Asia before World War II.
A partir del contexto economico nacional de los noventa a la actualidad, un grupo de especialistas analizan los principales retos a los que se enfrenta la administracion publica en materia economica: crecimiento estancado, pobreza persistente y desigualdad en la distribucion del ingreso.
Mit diesem faszinierenden Einblick in die Evolution der Geldsysteme rund um den Globus führt uns Nik Bhatia zu den Ursprüngen und veranschaulicht, weshalb sich das Geld in einer "mehrschichtigen" Weise entwickelt hat.
Siguiendo a Santo Tomas de Aquino, Francisco de Vitoria comenta la cuestion 66 de la Secunda secundae de la Suma de Teologia en un contexto doctrinal especifico: el relativo a la virtud de la justicia.
Siguiendo a Santo Tomas de Aquino, Francisco de Vitoria comenta la cuestion 66 de la Secunda secundae de la Suma de Teologia en un contexto doctrinal especifico: el relativo a la virtud de la justicia.
En la historiografía chilena y extranjera dedicada al Ciclo Salitrero (1880-1930) –el mayor proceso primario exportador vivido hasta entonces– existen visiones maniqueas sobre el rol que le cupo a dicho periodo en la historia económica de Chile.
A pesar de la importancia de la empresa y su rol social en el desarrollo de nuestro país, no existe una tradición que permita acceder a su historia y evolución.
Focusing on the lives of two revolutionary leaders, Salvador Alvarado and Felipe Carrillo Puerto, this book shows how the Mexican Revolution affected the State of Yucatan, a region that had boasted of its independence from Mexico City and where a dominant social minority had long refused meaningful change for the indigenous population.
The Meltdown Years offers the most lucid and useful explanation to date about why home values, life savings, job security, and investments around the world are in peril.
Combining contextual, institutional, and global perspectives, this book evaluates the impact of international trade on eighteenth-century economic thought.
Combining contextual, institutional, and global perspectives, this book evaluates the impact of international trade on eighteenth-century economic thought.
The pamphlets, newspaper articles and tracts in this collection provide source material for the study of the Anti-Corn Law campaigns of the 1830s and 1840s and their role in the formation of popular economics in Britain.
Apprenticeship in early modern Europe has been the subject of important research in the last decades, mostly by economic historians; but the majority of the research has dealt with cities or countries in Northern Europe.
Apprenticeship in early modern Europe has been the subject of important research in the last decades, mostly by economic historians; but the majority of the research has dealt with cities or countries in Northern Europe.
A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States.
