Economic history

Monetisation and Commercialisation in the Baltic Sea, 1050-1450 explores the varied uses of silver and gold in the Baltic Sea zone during the medieval period.

First published in 1999, this work of economic history explores the evolution of the single market and of economic and political integration in Europe since World War II.

This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems.

Covering the period c.

Many important economic and political debates today refer to the nature and the role of the State: should governments intervene in the economy and interfere with the operation of markets?

These six papers were originally delivered to a conference at Sheffield University in 1969 and represent an overview of a research project led by Professor Pollard, which aimed to construct a series of annual figures of capital formation for the Industrial Revolution in Britain - both in aggregate and broken down into main sectors.

Food crises have always tested societies.

This book provides the why, who, and how of international migration, explaining how it affects the jobs, wages, and welfare of people.

This monograph examines the failure of the Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone and the birth of new monetary and financial systems in Portuguese-speaking African countries.

The twentieth century has been popularly seen as "e;the American Century,"e; a long period in which the United States had amassed the economic resources, the political and military strength, and the moral prestige to assume global leadership.

The population of London soared during the Industrial Revolution and the poorer areas became iconic places of overcrowding and vice.

This book describes the rise of the Swiss Franc to its current status as a strong currency of international importance.

It may seem surprising that the economic choices we make in society are often determined by ideas rather than scientific evidence or financial resources.

Investment is the engine of growth.

Mit diesem Handbuch zur Soldatenkaiserzeit (235–284) wird erstmals eine umfassende Gesamtdarstellung des Römischen Reiches in der Mitte des 3.

In the late nineteenth century, scientists began allying themselves with America's corporate, political, and military elites.

This volume, originally published in 1997, reports the findings of extensive archival and contextual research into the surviving accounting and business records of some 200 British Industrial Revolution enterprises.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Zur Wirkungsweise der ökonomischen Gesetze des Sozialismus und ihrer Ausnutzung durch die Leitung und Planung der Volkswirtschaft" verfügbar.

This book depicts the Early Modern book markets in Europe and colonial Latin America.

Historical narrative integrated with graphs based on a unique dataset chronicle the last 200 years of monetary history in Norway.

Pascal Bridel held the Chair of Economics at the University of Lausanne and is founder of the Centre Walras-Pareto.

First Published in 2005.

This book examines financial markets from a historical perspective.

Exploring the formation of networks across late medieval Central Europe, this book examines the complex interaction of merchants, students, artists, and diplomats in a web of connections that linked the region.

This book delves into the intricate dynamics between economic elites and the political party system in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, particularly during their democratization phases in the twentieth century.

Drawing on research into the book-production records of twelve publishers-including George Bell & Son, Richard Bentley, William Blackwood, Chatto & Windus, Oliver & Boyd, Macmillan, and the book printers William Clowes and T&A Constable - taken at ten-year intervals from 1836 to 1916, this book interprets broad trends in the growth and diversity of book publishing in Victorian Britain.

A History of European Economic Thought grafts the history of economic thought onto Global History by showing how significant economic ideas have influenced the process of Europe's formation from the very beginning to the present day.

In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history.

This volume takes up bankruptcy in early modern Europe, when its frequency made it not only an economic problem but a personal tragedy and a social evil.

Early modern European economic development seen through the interaction of two major players in the Mediterranean economy: Venice and England.

Eva Per n remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, surpassing even sporting superstars such as Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi, and far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Per n - himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and male-dominated society, could not have existed as a political figure.

Central economic planning is often associated with failed state socialism, and modern capitalism celebrated as its antithesis.

Reveals the deep roots of the UK''s lack of resilience when COVID-19 hit and sets out an ambitious manifesto for change.

This Palgrave Pivot uses Marxian economic categories and analysis to explore the deeper causes of the 2008 global economic crisis, what the crisis represents for capitalism, and why fiscal and monetary policies pursued in its wake have failed to rejuvenate economies.

Public Choice Economics and the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria provides an economics perspective on the witchcraft episode, and adds to the growing body of work analyzing prominent historical events using the tools of economics.

China's rise as an economic power has posed some challenging questions: how did China achieve GDP growth that was even faster than the Four Asian Tigers?

Railway expansion was symbolic of modernization in the late 19th century, and Britain, Germany and France built railways at enormous speed and reaped great commercial benefits.

This book collects selected articles addressing several currently debated issues in the field of international macroeconomics.

First Published in 1966.

This book develops a comprehensive systematic economic theory, conceiving how the dynamic of market relations generates an economy dominated by the competitive process of individual profit-seeking enterprises.

In this concise historical and conceptual analysis of China's evolving position in a world defined predominantly by global capitalist development, Lin offers a critical review of relevant debates and discusses the imperative and feasibility of a socialist Chinese model, reconstructed, as an alternative to standardized modernity at an impasse.

Originally published in 1960 and 1966.

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based 'company town' projects built in association with the 'Big Three' powers of World War II.

The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space.

From the portage trails snaking their way through the wilderness to superhighways carrying the raw materials and produce of an industrial nation, Canada's roads have had a romantic but long-neglected history.

Analyzes the rise and fall of the Red de Trueque (launched in 1995 by a group of environmentalists who exchanged goods and services at their own 'market' using a system of mutual credit) in Argentina.

The United States has one of the most unique budgeting processes of any modern government.

First published in 1999, Kostis in this book traces the influences Western modern banking systems in Balkan states and the economic development of these countries.

Modern development strategy relies heavily on uncompromising orthodox economic theory and a dogmatic faith in market efficiency.