Economic history

This book brings under a magnifying glass a little explored, but significant topic - the communications changes of the National Bank of Romania after 2008.

This book offers an analysis of the dynamics of the global medical device (medtech) industry from the 1960s until the present, using the approaches of business history and industry studies.

Offering a fresh take on a crucial phase of European history, this book explores the years between the 1980s and 1990s when the European Union took shape.

In the Eighth Edition of this classic text on the financial history of bubbles and crashes, Robert McCauley joins with Robert Aliber in building on Charles Kindleberger's renowned work.

This book comprehensively investigates the position of China's working class between the 1980s and 2010s and considers the consequences of economic reforms in historical perspective.

The volume gathers together seventeen articles dedicated to the monetary history of medieval Italy, most of them newly translated into English.

The later Middle Ages was an overwhelmingly rural world, with probably three out of four households reliant upon farming for a living.

The later Middle Ages was an overwhelmingly rural world, with probably three out of four households reliant upon farming for a living.

The volume gathers together seventeen articles dedicated to the monetary history of medieval Italy, most of them newly translated into English.

Drawing on modern economic theory, this book provides new insights into the economic development of ancient economies and the sustainability of their development.

An illuminating history of America's original credit market.

An essential origin story of modern society's most influential economic doctrine.

This book deals with the economic impact of technological changes and the rise of passenger shipping on social relations on board and ashore in European shipping industries between c.

Originally published in 1967, this was the first book to discuss why agricultural supply became more 'responsive' and to provide broadly based evidence of the ways in which that 'responsiveness' may have influenced the growth of the economy.

Relying on a broad range of printed and secondary sources, Wage Labor and Guilds charts the history of guilds from their antecedents in the Roman Empire to their 'crisis' in the fourteenth century.

In response to the global crises in recent decades, many countries - both developed and developing economies - have resorted to populist forms of economic policy instead of undertaking meaningful institutional change.

Originally published in 1967, this was the first book to discuss why agricultural supply became more 'responsive' and to provide broadly based evidence of the ways in which that 'responsiveness' may have influenced the growth of the economy.

The years 1690-1727 represented a period of significant change for Scotland.

The second edition of this Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "e;buying power"e; and the impact this myth has had on understanding media, race, class and economics in the United States.

The years 1690-1727 represented a period of significant change for Scotland.

La economía ocupa una parte importante de nuestras vidas y preocupaciones actuales, así como la ocupó en el pasado.

The period from 1957 to 1988 was transformative for the international oil industry.

Tanto las crisis financieras —la asiática de 1997 y de 2008, que sacudieron el sistema económico mundial— como los virajes políticos —las victorias electorales de la izquierda en Latinoamérica, la llamada "marea rosa" desde finales de los años noventa —, incluso la controversial elección del empresario y político Donald Trump como presidente de los Estados Unidos, facultaron con regularidad, en el discurso teórico y en la opinión pública, la pregunta por el fin de la era del neoliberalismo.

This book explores the early globalization of prostitution from the perspective of the Italian case.

This book explores the early globalization of prostitution from the perspective of the Italian case.

This collection of studies (the eighth by David Jacoby) covers a period witnessing intensive geographic mobility across the Mediterranean, illustrated by a growing number of Westerners engaging in pilgrimage, crusade, trading and shipping, or else driven by sheer curiosity.

The sixteen articles in this collection analyse the contribution made by overseas trade, and the wealth in coin which it created, to the development of the English economy and locate this in an European-wide setting.

This collection of studies (the eighth by David Jacoby) covers a period witnessing intensive geographic mobility across the Mediterranean, illustrated by a growing number of Westerners engaging in pilgrimage, crusade, trading and shipping, or else driven by sheer curiosity.

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The second edition of this Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "e;buying power"e; and the impact this myth has had on understanding media, race, class and economics in the United States.

From the time of Cook, the British and their Canadian successors were drawn to the Northwest coast of North America by possibilities of trade in sea otter and the wish to find a 'northwest passage'.

From the time of Cook, the British and their Canadian successors were drawn to the Northwest coast of North America by possibilities of trade in sea otter and the wish to find a 'northwest passage'.

The sixteen articles in this collection analyse the contribution made by overseas trade, and the wealth in coin which it created, to the development of the English economy and locate this in an European-wide setting.

Until recently, historians tended to stress the perceived technological and ecological shortcomings of medieval agriculture.

This volume brings together a set of classic essays by Domenico Sella in which he reassesses the economic fortunes of Northern Italy, in particular Lombardy and Venice, during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Until recently, historians tended to stress the perceived technological and ecological shortcomings of medieval agriculture.

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The period from 1957 to 1988 was transformative for the international oil industry.

England's economy between 1050 and 1550 mirrored that of much of continental Europe in its growing dependence upon trade over both short distances and long.

England's economy between 1050 and 1550 mirrored that of much of continental Europe in its growing dependence upon trade over both short distances and long.

This volume brings together a set of classic essays by Domenico Sella in which he reassesses the economic fortunes of Northern Italy, in particular Lombardy and Venice, during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Entdecken Sie in "Krieg und Vermögen", wie die Lektionen der Vergangenheit Sie durch unsichere Zeiten leiten und zu finanziellem Erfolg führen können.

Die Frage nach der Überlebensfähigkeit von Unternehmen in schwierigen Zeiten ist spätestens seit der Finanzkrise in den Jahren nach 2007 hochaktuell, doch trat dieses Problem auch in der Geschichte auf, wenn Zeiten bedeutender wirtschaftlicher, politischer und gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche neuartige Herausforderungen an Unternehmen stellten.

El lector hallará elementos que permitirán una mejor comprensión del desarrollo económico de Colombia entre 1900 y 1924, en la vía de la invención patentada, en los sectores de desarrollo tecnológico, transformaciones económicas y sociales del país.

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