Economic history

This paper investigates the impact of political interventions made by Beijing and Taipei in recent years on the development of cross-Straits economic relations.

Challenges the myth that the American national state was weak in the early days of the republic and provides a new narrative of American expansionism.

How did banking in early nineteenth-century Massachusetts evolve?

How does one package and sell confidence in the stability of a nation riven by civil strife?

This is the first modern study of the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers - England's most important trading company of the sixteenth century - in its final century of existence as a privileged organisation.

Post-Keynesian and heterodox economics challenge the mainstream economics theories that dominate the teaching at universities and government economic policies.

This volume presents a systematic and fresh interpretation of a mid-second-century AD papyrus - the so-called Muziris papyrus - which preserves on its two sides fragments of a unique pair of documents: on one side, a loan agreement to finance a commercial enterprise to South India and, on the other, an assessment of the fiscal value of a South Indian cargo imported on a ship named the Hermapollon.

Featuring essays on topics ranging from the pandemic to antideflationist paranoia and the crisis of classical liberalism, this volume explores the various ways in which socialism statism is the 'deadliest virus' which constantly endangers the spontaneous process of social cooperation.

The decision to initiate a High Tide of agricultural co-operativisation in 1955 in China, is documented in this text.

As we tour the 400 year history of capitalism through its various phases of development, financial system instability is always there lurking in the shadows.

This book deals with the period when iron became the dominant 'high-technology' material, increasingly taking over from timber and masonry.

This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns.

The 38 selections in the volume include complete texts of all of Veblen's major articles and book reviews from 1882 to 1914, plus key chapters from his books The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904) and The Instinct of Workmanship (1914).

From Angkor Wat to Agent Orange, Southeast Asia An Environmental History tells the story of some of the most dramatic effects humans have had on the natural and developed environment anywhere in the world and examines the ways in which environmental factors have helped shape the culture, politics, and societies of the region.

This book provides insight into the remarkable life and work of the Italian economist Antonio de Viti de Marco (1858-1943).

This volume takes a broad perspective on the recent debate on the role of German ordoliberalism in shaping European economic policy before and after the eurozone crisis.

Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive occupational group over the past two centuries.

The six Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf - Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - have a disproportionate importance in the global economic system because of their enormous reserves of oil and gas.

The financial crisis of 2007 required the economics discipline to thoroughly re-evaluate its prevailing theories about economic cycles and economic growth.

A penetrating analysis from one of the defining voices of contemporary economics.

The subject of this volume is the relationship between production and consumption, considered not only as the supply and demand sides of economic life, but within the broader context of the societies of the Low Countries between the 12th and the 16th centuries.

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.

The papers in this edited volume discuss key elements of monetarism, including coin denominations, the role of bullion and case studies of substitute moneys.

This volume reclaims Mumbai's legacy as a global financial centre of the 19th to the first half of the 20th century.

Volume 38B of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on economists and authoritarian regimes in the 20th century.

Despite abundant literature on transaction costs, there is little to no in-depth analysis regarding what the transaction is or how it works.

This book tells the story of Taiwan's economic revolution-how Taiwan transformed itself from a planned economy into a market economy between 1949 and 1965.

A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuanAt first glance, the modern history of the global economic system seems to support the long-held view that the leading world power's currency-the British pound, the U.

I owe you a dinner invitation, you owe ten years on your mortgage, and the government owes billions.

The book is a study of the emergence of market economy with modern economic institutions in the early civilizations of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt from the third and early second millennium B.

The unique characteristic of the international banana trade is distinguished from other commodity trades by the intensity of its politics and the importance of a small number of companies which have dominated the trade for overa hundred years.

This book traces regional income inequality in Spain during the transition from a pre-industrial society to a modern economy, using the Spanish case to shed further light on the challenges that emerging economies are facing today.

A dynamic social history of shadow capitalism spanning the late nineteenth and twentieth centuriesObservers see free markets, the relentless pursuit of profit, and the unremitting drive to commodify everything as capitalism's defining characteristics.

London became an international center for import and export trade in the late Middle Ages.

This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the relations between Western and Eastern scientists during the Cold War from the Eastern European perspective using the example of economic history.

In this major reinterpretation of the evolution of the American corporation, Mark Roe convincingly demonstrates that the ownership structure of large U.

Avoiding prejudice will be critical to economic success in the fourth industrial revolution.

Go details through institutional analysis how major financial institutions (including banks and insurance companies), industries, and the U.

This book examines the macroeconomic and regulatory impact of domestic and international shocks on the South African economy resulting from the 2009 financial crisis.

Historians of the French extreme right frequently denote the existence of a strong xenophobic and nationalist tradition dating from the 1880s, a perpetual anti-republicanism which pervaded twentieth-century political discourse.

How modern economics abandoned classical liberalism and lost its wayMilton Friedman once predicted that advances in scientific economics would resolve debates about whether raising the minimum wage is good policy.

India in the 1950s and 1960s, with its diversity of economic structures and different levels of regional development, offers a unique opportunity to explore a wide range of agrarian evolution within a multiform society.

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Contrary to the image of Korea as a largely self-contained country until its economy became global during the 1990s, this book shows that transnationalism has firmly been part of modern Korea's national experience throughout its existence.

Using the life and work of G nter Henle, Volker R.

Regional Studies is inextricably intertwined with history.

Innovation is the creation of new, technologically feasible, commercially realisable products and processes and, if things go right, it emerges from the ongoing interaction of innovative organisations such as universities, research institutes, firms, government agencies and venture capitalists.