Economic history

One thousand years ago, a handful of dynamic medieval city states developed trade at the frontier of capitalism.

The past three decades have been characterized by vast change and crises in global financial markets-and not in politically unstable countries but in the heart of the developed world, from the Great Recession in the United States to the banking crises in Japan and the Eurozone.

This two-volume collection analyses the evolution of wine production in European regions across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In discussions on European pre-modern economic growth, the role of individual freedom and of the state has loomed large.

In The Industrial Turn in World History, Peter N.

Psychoanalytic Studies of the Work of Adam Smith blends the rich intellectual heritage of the hermeneutic tradition with the methods and concepts of psychoanalysis, in order to examine the seminal works of Adam Smith.

The activities of central banks are relevant to everyone in society.

This book analyzes the important contributions of Rosa Luxemburg to economic theory as well as devoting some space to her background as a left social-democratic politician and her personality.

For most of the twentieth century, tin was the site of new forms of international regulation which became a model for other commodities.

In arguably his most important book to date, Hodgson calls into question the tendency of economic method to try and explain all economic phenomena by using the same catch-all theories and dealing in universal truths.

By the end of the nineteenth century Belgium was enjoying considerable economic success.

Ever since the Physiocrats and Adam Smith, mercantilism or 'the mercantile system' have been described as the opposite of classical political economy.

This pioneering work examines Japan's economic activities in Singapore from 1870 to 1965.

This book gathers a collection of English language essays by Jes's Huerta de Soto over the past ten years, examining the dynamic processes of social cooperation which characterize the market, with particular emphasis on the role of both entrepreneurship and institutions.

Written between 1857 and 1858, the Grundrisse is the first draft of Marx's critique of political economy and, thus, also the initial preparatory work on Capital.

Perrotta explores and charts the changing place of consumption as a source of investment in production and growth within economic writings from ancient history to the present.

At the center of sweeping change to food retailing practices in Victorian and Edwardian England lies one man: John Pearce.

This book has a dual purpose.

This book explains how and why the state-socialist regime in Hungary used technology and propaganda to foster industrialization and the conservation of natural resources simultaneously.

This book is a textual criticism of modern ideas about the work of Adam Smith that offers a new perspective on many of his famous contributions to economic thought.

This book offers insights into the behaviour of the Portuguese economy in relation to economic growth from the twentieth century to the present.

This book provides an in-depth account of the politics of the Eurozone crisis in Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta, mapping the positions expressed by the governments of Southern EU countries during the Eurozone crisis negotiations, including Greece's bailout deal, the so-called "e;Six Pack"e; and the "e;Fiscal Compact"e; and exploring the process of domestic preference formation.

While paramount to the modern economy, understanding how the banking system works has been usually cast aside from overall economic education.

This is the first book to examine the process of railway development in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China from historical and comparative perspectives.

This book is the first to reinterpret John R.

This book pleads for a new orientation of government economic policy, as well as central bank policy, rejecting the traditional government stabilization policy that leads to a dead-end of economic instability and social inequality in the long run.

This book and its companion volume offer a better understanding of the lessons that Indian policymakers can learn from China's economic experience over the last 40 years.

This book and its companion volume offer a better understanding of the lessons that Indian policymakers can learn from China's economic experience over the last 40 years.

This book provides a unique and refreshing look at the Korean economy over the past 60 years.

This book is the first study that analyses bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time.

Written in honor of Emeritus Professor Georges Prat (University of Paris Nanterre, France), this book includes contributions from eminent authors on a range of topics that are of interest to researchers and graduates, as well as investors and portfolio managers.

This book is an analysis of the political and philosophical foundations of the development of India's economy, including discussions of what's gone wrong in the past and what can be done to rectify it.

This book, the second of two volumes, continues the authors' ground-breaking re-examination of India's history and political economy.

This book examines the work of Adam Smith and his interest in the science of the legislator.

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.

This book deals with risk management and the organisation of banking in Swedish savings banks alongside the development in other European countries.

This book explores imperial power and the transnational encounters of shipowners and merchants in the South China Sea from 1840 to 1930.

This Element provides a synthesis and updated examination of the Aztec economy (1325–1521 AD).

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

This monograph explores traditional farming communities in French-speaking areas of the western Alps for the period 1500-1914 and how they endured in such an environment despite the many problems and risks which it posed for their subsistence and welfare.

This book explores the historical, current and future prospects of women's entrepreneurial activities in the former Yugoslavia, a region that is currently in a process of transition from socialism to a free-market economy.

This first part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America's major wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War.

This book analyzes the banking crisis and the events surrounding it in Hungary and other emerging EU member countries in 2007-2013.

This book sheds new light on if and why, between 2009 and 2015, European governments succeeded or failed in initiating and actually realizing some of the farthest-reaching austerity plans in modern history.

This volume of intellectual biography takes the Italian economist, sociologist, political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) from his disillusionment with liberal and pacifist activism, to the original development of pure economics and the composition of his Treatise on General Sociology and the test of this latter on the war and post-war events.

This book concludes The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, an authoritative account of the Soviet Union's industrial transformation between 1929 and 1939.

This book explores the neglected contribution of the American and English "e;psychological"e; school to economic theory, especially to the development and refinement of the Austrian school of economics.

This book examines the problem of constitutional change in times of crisis.

This book critically analyses the crisis of the euro currency from 2008 to the present.