Economic history

To say that history's greatest economic experiment--Soviet communism--was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious.

New perspectives on the history of famine-and the possibility of a famine-free worldFamines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming.

How Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a ';third path' between laissez-faire capitalism and communism Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a ';third path' between laissez-faire capitalism and communism.

This book explores periodization in Big History against the background of complexity growth across the Universe, on our planet, and in biological, social, and cultural systems.

One hundred years ago a great Canadian, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, predicted that the twentieth century would belong to Canada.

In the 1960s, Canada began a seismic shift away from the core policies and values upon which the country had been built.

Originally published in 1968 this important work covers a crucial period in Britain's economic history.

Today, interest in monetary history has been revived.

Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation.

An economist examines three modern forces that have redefined what money means, who controls it, and what the future of finance might look like.

Most of us are familiar with free-market competition: the idea that society and the economy benefit when people are left to self-regulate, testing new ideas in pursuit of profit.

Cheap street is a lively and scholarly account of London's street markets, which were an overlooked site of urban modernity and the most vigorous outgrowth of the informal economy that flourished below and beyond the recognised institutions of the consumer city.

For much of American history, large numbers of people claimed that money was a public good and asserted the right to shape money creation practices.

"e;An interesting take on some factors that facilitate the development and bursting of bubbles in technology industries.

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Justice, even divine justice, is concrete.

Cheap street is a lively and scholarly account of London's street markets, which were an overlooked site of urban modernity and the most vigorous outgrowth of the informal economy that flourished below and beyond the recognised institutions of the consumer city.

Beginning in the 1950s, Taiwan rapidly industrialized, becoming a tributary to an increasingly "e;borderless"e; East Asian economy.

In the 1950s-80s, Brazil built one of the most advanced industrial networks among the "e;developing"e; countries, initially concentrated in the state of Sao Paulo.

In the centuries before Europeans crossed the Atlantic, social and material relations among the indigenous Guarani people of present-day Paraguay were based on reciprocal gift-giving.

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality?

This book presents an in-depth analysis of Bulgaria's integration into the global economy, analyzing the evolution, current status, and prospects for the country’s positioning in the ever-complex system of international economic relations.

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Business historians and economic historians frequently contribute to our understanding of strategic management, and strategy scholars often rely on a deep understanding of historical context to make sense of classic strategy issues.

Volume 29 contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.

The history of the Ancient Near East covers a huge chronological frame, from the first pictographic texts of the late 4th millennium to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 333 BC.

The articles in the first part of this volume, two being a revised English version of an article originally in Spanish, examine the place of the city in the historical development of Castile.

It is widely known that - at least in current societies - culture depends on money.

This book undertakes a theoretical and econometric analysis of intense economic growth in selected European countries during the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty first.

Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades.

Recent decades have seen many economic history books and articles published about working men and women, small and big entrepreneurs, guilds and state manufactures, farmers and journeymen, and children and citizens.

This book aims to define comparative economics and to illustrate the breadth and depth of its contribution.

Offering a historical analysis of management in banking from the Medici to present day, this book explores how banks can cause devastating financial crisis when they fail.

From the Great Depression in the twentieth century to the Great Recession in the twenty-first, systemic banking crises have been a recurring problem for both developing and developed countries.

This book focuses on the significant role of West African consumers in the development of the global economy.

This edited collection explores the ways in which the 2008/2009 social and economic crisis in Southern Europe affected the interpretation of the transitional past in Spain, Greece and Portugal.

This book updates African maritime economic history to analyse the influence of seaports and seaborne trade, processes of urbanization and development, and the impact of globalization on port evolution within the different regions of Africa.

The economic crisis of 2007/2008 has prompted much debate as to what caused it and what remedies may be implemented in order to regain a healthy economy.

Cotton textile industries vanished from much of East Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This book analyses business cycles synchronization in the Euro Area (EA), one of the 3 criteria that define Optimal Currency Areas (OCAs).

This book analyses the changing nature of the British economy and the consequences of Brexit upon its place within the European economic space.

When we start to perceive that there is a problem in the market (such as monopoly, fraud or speculation), the legislature passes a law to correct it, a bureaucracy is created to interpret and enforce the new law, firms and other market participants comply, and the problem is solved.

This book offers a new interpretation of the Employment Act of 1946.

This book describes and evaluates how institutional innovation and technological innovation have impacted on humanity from pre-historical times to modern times, and how societies have been transformed in history.

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

How can the successful development of some former Third World countries be explained, while other developing countries have remained stagnant or worse, have deteriorated into failed states?

This Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of legacy it left behind.

This book examines the history of empire and its influence on capitalism.

This book explores students' consumer practices and material desires in nineteenth-century Oxford.