Economic history

This book discusses the role of central banks and draws lessons from examining their evolution over the past two centuries.

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Originally published in 1930, this book is a detailed but lucid piece of historical writing which answers many questions about ancient and medieval history that are most important for understanding contemporary economic problems.

Three decades of research into retailing in England from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries has established a seemingly clear narrative: fixed shops were widespread from an early date; 'modern' methods of retailing were common from at least the early eighteenth century; shopping was a skilled activity throughout the period; and consumers were increasingly part of - and aware of being part of - a polite and fashionable culture.

This book is the first quantitative description of Europe's economic development at a regional level over the entire twentieth century.

The first work to draw on Nelson A.

This book, set out over three-volumes, provides a comprehensive history of economic thought in the 20th century with special attention to the cultural and historical background in the development of theories, to the leading or the peripheral research communities and their interactions, and finally to an assessment and critical appreciation of economic theories.

Can Marxism emerge from the long shadow cast by Stalinism, and challenge capitalism?

Die Autorin zeichnet die Wohlfahrtsentwicklung der breiten Bevölkerung in Deutschland in der Zwischenkriegszeit im Vergleich zur Bundesrepublik Deutschland in den fünfziger Jahren nach.

The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic System (1992) examines in detail the collapse of the Soviet economic system, and is set in its political context, both international and domestic.

First published in 2005.

Bhotia is an exclusive ethnic community, different both from the Hindus and the Tibetans who inhabit the eastern and central Himalaya regions.

Teresa Healy here examines resistance within Mexican society during a period of sustained crisis at the regional and national level, as well as at the level of world order.

First Published in 2005.

Since the successful first edition of The Gold Standard in Theory and History was published in 1985, much new research has been completed.

More than 95% of all consumer product launched in the packaged goods sector fail to achieve their goals for success.

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

First Published in 2005.

This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism - that it was a negative and destructive phenomenon - needs to be rethought.

While earlier studies have focused predominantly on artist Francois Boucher's artistic style and identity, this book presents the first full-length interdisciplinary study of Boucher's prolific collection of around 13,500 objects including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, porcelain, shells, minerals, and other imported curios.

This volume shows how families in different contexts - noble, urban, legal, religious - and across different periods of history from the late Middle Ages to the modern era, shaped the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its successor states, pre-partitioned and post-partitioned Poland.

Both Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping drastically altered the course of contemporary China's economic development using opposing strategies.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This book, originally published in 1926 but updated in 1967 analyses Russia's economy in the decade preceding the outbreak of the First World War.

Probing the relationship between German political economy and everyday fiscal administration, The Disordered Police State focuses on the cameral sciences-a peculiarly German body of knowledge designed to train state officials-and in so doing offers a new vision of science and practice during the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries.

What is a contract in Islam?

This two-volume study explores the economy of East Timor, of which very little has been written since the country gained independence in 2002.

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.

Focusing on a series of policy initiatives from the late 1960s through to the end of the 1970s, this book looks at how successive governments tried to address growing concerns about urban deprivation across Britain.

This monograph makes a fresh contribution to a longstanding but far from exhausted debate concerning the transition to capitalism in Europe.

Der "Brasilien-Schock" Anfang der 1950er Jahre stellte für die westdeutsche Exportwirtschaft eine massive Bedrohungslage dar, denn die erst kurz zuvor wieder gegründete Hermes-Exportkreditversicherung erwies sich als lückenhaft, da sie das Transfer- und das Konvertierungsrisiko nicht adäquat abdeckte.

For a country that can boast a distinguished tradition of political economy from Sir William Petty through Swift, Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke and Cantillon through to that of Longfield, Cairnes, Bastable, Edgeworth, Geary and Gorman, it is surprising that no systematic study of Irish political economy has been undertaken.

Gendering the World Bank provides an unusual, wide-ranging and accessible account of the constitution and effects of discourses of neoliberal governance.

This book, originally published in 1987 sets the British political and financial crisis of 1931 in an international context by concentrating on the bankers who were primarily responsible for leading the fight to protect sterling in a world context.

A concise history of "e;just price,"e; from Aristotle to the present day The question of what constitutes a fair price has been at the center of market interactions since the time of Aristotle.

The essays in this volume consider the involvement of business corporations and of individual businessmen in the politics of the 1930s and 1940s: in the move away from the market and also from democracy, towards state control and authoritarianism, including the massive intervention of the state in property rights.

Drawing upon an impressive range of international sources, this book explores the late-nineteenth century partnership between Bradford worsted manufacturers the Briggs brothers and the German merchant Ernst Posselt, and their subsequent foreign direct investment in a modern factory and workers' community at Marki, near Warsaw in Poland.

This edition brings together the most important English language tracts and pamphlets and other material on the origins and development of private banking, joint stock banking, central banking and other important related questions.

This 14-volume set collects together a series of key titles that provide a wide-ranging analysis of money (A Survey of Primitive Money), banking (Bank Behavior, Regulation and Economic Development) and finance (The Money Market).

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next.

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.

Banking, Projecting, and Politicking uncovers a previously understudied and unacknowledged financial institution in late-seventeenth-century England known as Thompson and Company.

Despite its current dominant status, economic growth emerged as a field of study and as a political objective only after the Second World War.

First published in 1915, Towards International Government considers the consequences of war for global diplomacy and the alliance system.

This Palgrave Pivot reviews the history of the UK's Retail Prices Index (RPI) from its origins just after the Second World War to its controversial position today.

This collection of essays presents insight and methodology that are highly relevant for readers today as they consider the future of the world they live in.

The big landlords of eastern Germany have loomed large in the country's history, but the absence of official statistics on landownership has left their position and identity confined to folklore, without satisfactory quantification.