Economic history

The idea of a guaranteed minimum income has been central to British social policy debates for more than a century.

an excellent new book Paul Krugman, The New York TimesHistory, not ideology, holds the key to growth.

British society changed radically in the 21st century.

Bringing together cultural, economic and social historians from across Europe and beyond, this volume offers a consideration from a number of perspectives of the principal forces that further integrated the Ottoman Empire and Western Europe during the first century of industrialisation.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive statistical picture of the Russian economic development covering the Imperial, Soviet, and New Russian periods.

John Maynard Keynes is best known for his contributions to economics, yet he spent nearly two decades exploring the concept of probability.

Interest in the Labour Party remains high, particularly following the unprecedented election of a third successive Labour government and amidst the on-going controversies that surround the New Labour project.

How women increasingly became economic agents in early modern Europe is the focus of this stimulating book, which highlights how female agency was crucial for understanding the development of the Western European economy and sheds light on economic development today.

Over the past 500 years westerners have turned into avid consumers of colonial products and various production systems in the Americas, Africa and Asia have adapted to serve the new markets that opened up in the wake of the "e;European encounter"e;.

This book not only analyzes and evaluates the current state of economic growth and development in Greece, but also investigates the potential for growth and development in the mid- to long-term horizon.

In The Market Revolution, one of America's most distinguished historians offers a major reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in United States history.

Examine what would happen if we were to deploy blockchain technology at the sovereign level and use it to create a decentralized cashless economy.

Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture-particularly literary output-through the lens of economics.

This edited collection explores the histories of trade, a peculiar literary genre that emerged in the context of the historiographical and cultural changes promoted by the histoire philosophique movement.

This collection brings together significant new contributions to the Sraffa--based theories of production and distribution, from post-Keynesian arguments concerning monetary and macro economics to the history of thought and methodology.

Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A.

A book which covers the key period in the history of actuarial science from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century.

Beginning in the twelfth century, taxation increasingly became an essential component of medieval society in most parts of Europe.

Land and labour provides the first full-length history of the Potters' Emigration Society, the controversial trade union scheme designed to solve the problems of surplus labour by changing workers into farmers on land acquired in frontier Wisconsin.

After World War II, the AFL-CIO pursued an ambitious agenda of containing global communism and helping to throw off the shackles of colonialism.

In this classic text, now in its fourth edition, Gilbert Rist provides a complete and powerful overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history.

When does the pursuit of self-interest go too far, lapsing into morally unacceptable behaviour?

How Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a ';third path' between laissez-faire capitalism and communism Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a ';third path' between laissez-faire capitalism and communism.

This book illuminates the largely neglected contribution of unpaid, primarily female household labour to economic production and living standards in Japan from the early modern period to the eve of World War Two.

Globalizing Ideal Beauty is the forgotten history of a group of women copywriters whose successful ad campaigns went international in the 1920s and spread an American notion of feminine appeal from Bangor to Bangkok.

This volume takes a unique and challenging look at how money has operated in Islamic society and at how Islamic theoretical frameworks have influenced perceptions of money.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world.

Geography & Ethnic Pluralism (1984) examines the debate around pluralism - the segmentation of population by race and culture - as a social and state issue, and explores this issue in Third World and metropolitan contexts.

This book is based on a conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

Die "Historische Kommission zu Berlin" betreibt die Erforschung der Landesgeschichte und der Historischen Landeskunde Berlin-Brandenburgs bzw.

Money is central to the functioning of economies, yet for the pre modern period, our knowledge of monetary systems is still evolving.

Dr Cohn provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic history of European immigration to the antebellum United States.

Providing a 'short take' on the long history of political economy, this book examines both the stories about and those within economics.

This study is the first to comprehensively examine the development of the Continental rubber and tire company during the Nazi period using sources that have recently become available.

The Englishwoman's Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women.

The fall and rise of a trillion-dollar industryJust three years ago, hedge funds were at the top of the investment world.

Nowhere in Europe are people more likely to enjoy a regular flutter in stocks and shares than in Britain.

The strict conversation of financial capital allows accountants to preserve capitalism in its current form.

From a war-torn and famine-plagued country at the beginning of the 1990s, Ethiopia is today emerging as one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa.

Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary.

Why did Britain's economic policy revolution in the 1960s achieve so little?

From the time of Cook, the British and their Canadian successors were drawn to the Northwest coast of North America by possibilities of trade in sea otter and the wish to find a 'northwest passage'.

This book provides insight into the history, goals, and potential of the Federal Reserve System (Fed).

How writers after Adam Smith helped shape our thinking about economics and politicsFew issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics.

Frank David Ascoli's Revenue History of Sundarbans during the Period 1870- 1920 looks at the area bounded on the north by the limits of Permanent Settlement in 24-Parganas, Khulna and Bakarganj districts and on the south by the sea face stretching from the Hughli estuary to the mouth of the Meghna River.

Wales has one of the highest concentrations of Japanese manufacturing investment in Europe.

Recent collection of essays discusses the historical event and the multifarious consequences of the 1867 Compromise (Ausgleich, Settlement), conducted between the Habsburg monarch, Francis Joseph and the Hungarian political ruling class.

In Gaining Currency, leading China scholar Eswar S.

This substantially expanded new edition of the Guide to the Historical Records of British Banking contains details of over 700 archive collections held in local record offices, university and local libraries and of course, banks.