Economic history

Debt, private and public, and in particular excessive debt, has been debated to be one of the root causes of economic crises.

This book, the first of two volumes, examines ancient civilizations to explore the ethical foundations of modern economic systems.

Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts offers a sustained academic critique of Ayn Rand's works and her wider Objectivist philosophy.

In this book, Fauri and Tedeschi bring together contributions that outline the movement of job seekers and ethnic minority entrepreneurs in Europe, to analyse the overall impact of different forms of migration on European economies in the last 100 years.

This book is the culmination of and a collection of distinguished scholar Lawrence Officer's principal research over 50 years of scholarly activity.

This book focuses on those features of the Roman economy that are less traceable in text and archaeology, and as a consequence remain largely underexplored in contemporary scholarship.

How can developing countries become high-income nations?

Color is a visible technology that invisibly connects so many puzzling aspects of modern Western consumer societies-research and development, making and selling, predicting fashion trends, and more.

This book addresses issues that remain under-researched by feminist historians.

Based on a detailed investigation of local sources, this book examines the history of the landed estate system in England since the mid-seventeenth century.

How should we address today's big problems, and what we can take from icons of economics past?

This contributed volume combines approaches of the current inequality debate with aspects of finance based on profound macroeconomic model analyses.

This book explores the changing nature of social movements and economic elites in post-Second World War Europe.

This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century.

This book challenges the widely-held belief that popular narratives about business are invariably critical.

This book explores the evolution of credit and financing in Europe from the Middle Ages through to Modern Times.

The University of Oxford has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for economics.

This book is the fifteenth volume in the renowned International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series which explores the latest developments in political economy.

This book analyzes the evolution of Italian viticulture and winemaking from the 1860s to the new Millennium.

This book explores the economic and political impact of US aggression and the rise of China.

This book examines the Irish experience of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic through a detailed study of the disease in the most industrialised region of the country, the province of Ulster.

This book argues that economic activity in the public sphere now underwrites private corporations, and rejects rigid adherence to traditional economic theories that no longer apply.

This book develops new balance of payments statistics for the United States from 1790 to 1919, before official statistics were kept.

This book discusses the period before and after the Soviet collapse and the impact on Georgia's economy and society.

This book examines the role of uncertainty on financial decisions - and, consequently, on financial markets - in the buildup to and aftermath of the Great Recession.

This book investigates the birth and evolution of craft breweries around the world.

This book analyzes the relative balance of bargaining power between governments and the banks in charge of underwriting their debt during the first financial globalization.

This book offers 14 contributions that examine key questions in bank decision-taking,constitution of confidence in banks and risk management practices from Early Modernity to the twentieth century.

This third volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the second part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (J-Z).

This book hinges upon ideas and discourses variously known under labels such as "e;Mercantilism"e; and "e;Cameralism"e;.

The coronavirus pandemic of 2019-20 and its associated global economic collapse has bluntly revealed that decision makers everywhere are ill-equipped to identify the innovative capacities of modern societies and, in particular, deploy managers to harness such capabilities.

This book - the first of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective.

This book explores the Swedish experience of banking development, regulation and financial crisis from 1900 to 2015.

This book takes a comparative approach to economic history to offer ways to increase our understanding of the divergence between South America and Scandinavia.

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of monetary policy, banking supervision and financial stability in the euro area.

This book tells the story of the euro crisis in Cyprus from the inside.

This book provides a historical evaluation of banking reforms and structural changes in India over the past 25 years.

This book provides the first comprehensive study of the 'special relationship' between Southern Rhodesia and South Africa.

This book examines the changing reciprocal relationships between corporations and their various social obligations over the very long term - from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

This book provides a fully revised and up-to-date analysis of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

This book seeks to understand why almost all commentators on the Irish economy were unprepared for the scale of the recent economic crisis.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the pre-modern economic history of Central Asia and the Silk Road, covering several millennia.

This book charts the contributions made to the development of the late medieval English economy by enterprise, money, and credit in a period which saw its major export trade in wool, which earned most of its money-supply, suffer from prolonged periods of warfare, high taxation, adverse weather, and mortality of sheep.

This book provides a thorough review of early English land taxes of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

This book focuses on wealth inequality trends in the North Atlantic Anglo-sphere countries of Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States over the period from 1668 to 2013: a wider perspective than generally used when wealth inequality is discussed.

This book examines key issues in gender equality and corporate social responsibility in Japan.

Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment defines the cultures that emerged in response to the democratization of the stock market in nineteenth-century Britain when investing provided access to financial independence for women.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the development of the German financial system, with a particular focus on financialization and the financial crisis, topics that have increasingly gained attention since the crisis and the discussion on the secular stagnation started.

This book offers a pluralistic vision of the way economists have dealt with the question of power in society over the last two centuries.

The international financial crisis of 2007-08 and the ensuing scandals continue to raise important debates about the role of institutions in maintaining trust and fighting corruption, as well as in sustaining economic growth and political stability in a globalized world.