This book surveys Poland's move from being a post-feudal, backward, peripheral country to being a modern, capitalist, European state: from the partition of the commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania to the abolishment of 'second serfdom'; late industrialization to state socialism; post-partition fragmentation to post-Second World War westward dislocation; and from the 'Solidarnosc' movement to accession into the European Union.
The quality of life experienced by people in the past is one of the most important areas of historical enquiry, and the standard of living of populations is one of the leading measures of the economic performance of nations.
At a time when Congressional investigations have taken on added importance and urgency in American politics, this book offers readers a rare, insider's portrait of the world of US Congressional oversight.
This contributed volume applies cliometric methods to the study of family and households in order to derive global patterns and determine their impact on economic development.
This book investigates how British diplomats in Tehran and London reacted to the overthrow of the Shah and the creation of an Islamic Republic in Iran, which had previously been a major political and commercial partner for London in the Middle East.
Without economic history, economics runs the risk of being too abstract or parochial, of failing to notice precedents, trends and cycles, of overlooking the long-run and thus misunderstanding 'how we got here'.
This book offers a comprehensive assessment of Douglass North's contribution to economics and the social sciences by examining the origins and structure of his New Institutionalist Economic History (NIEH).
This edited volume discusses the development theory advanced by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in the 1940s, and its transformations through the second half of the twentieth century.
Dieses Handbuch bietet sowohl einen Einstieg als auch einen Überblick zu Leben, Werk und Wirkung bedeutender Ökonomen der Vergangenheit und der Gegenwart - von antiken Vordenkern der Ökonomie bis hin zu Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträgern.
One of the lessons learned from the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-9 is that minimum capital requirements are a necessary but inadequate safeguard for the stability of an intermediary.
Dieses Handbuch bietet sowohl einen Einstieg als auch einen Überblick zu Leben, Werk und Wirkung bedeutender Ökonomen der Vergangenheit und der Gegenwart - von antiken Vordenkern der Ökonomie bis hin zu Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträgern.
Es läuft ganz und gar nicht rund in unserer Wirtschaft: Kam bereits vor der Pandemie der Wohlstand nicht mehr bei allen an, wurde die soziale Ungleichheit durch Corona noch weiter verschärft.
Die seit Anfang der 1980er Jahre bestehende intensive Forschung zu Börseneinführungen am deutschen Kapitalmarkt ermöglicht zuverlässige Forschungsresultate für die Zeiträume 1870 bis 1914 sowie ab dem Jahr 1948.
Mit der Wiedervereinigung schien die deutsche Frage, welche bis 1990 über Jahrhunderte das europäische Mächtegleichgewicht bestimmt hatte, eine endgültige Antwort erhalten zu haben, da das Land in der Mitte des Kontinents erstmals in seiner Geschichte „von Freunden umzingelt“ war.
This book goes back to the origins of the transformation of health and medicine into a business, during the first part of the twentieth century, focusing on the example of Japan.
Based on long-term research, this book comprehensively and systematically discusses the industrialization process in China, analyzing the level, characteristics, achievements and experiences as well as the problems faced.
Although there have been numerous studies of the causes and consequences of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2010 in the US and abroad, many of these were undertaken only for a small number of countries and before the financial and economic effects were fully realized and before various governmental policy responses were decided upon and actually implemented.
This book is written as a sequel to John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society, and provides a theoretical framework, for the first time, for surpra-surplus capitalism.
This book examines how convicts played a key role in the development of capitalism in Australia and how their active resistance shaped both workplace relations and institutions.
The book summarizes the 60 year development of economic theories, explaining in detail the features and development of economic theories from 1949 to 1976 and in the reform and opening-up period.
This book is intended for policy-makers, academics and students of development studies, area studies, political economy, geography and political science.
Through the lens of the now-defunct Singapore government-linked company (GLC) called International Trading Company (INTRACO), this book offers a historical analysis of the country's economic development strategy.
This book aims to provide a comprehensive statistical picture of the Russian economic development covering the Imperial, Soviet, and New Russian periods.
This volume is a major breakthrough in helping decipher and piece together the major interactive and flow investment dynamics within the complex Chinese economic structure, in an effort to guide global investors to formulate their own macro assessment and investment strategy in or related to China.
This book brings together a set of incisive essays that interrogate Malaysian history and social relations which began during pre-colonial times, and extended to colonial and post-colonial Malaysia.
