Economic history

Although Sismondi was admired for his analytic originality and imagination by Marx, Mill, and Schumpeter, until now there has been no full translation of his major work into English.

Russia and America (1987) examines the divergence between two countries organised on diametrically opposed economic principles - one centrally-planned, state-dominated, the other a highly decentralised market economy, free from significant government intervention.

The Economic Development of the USSR (1982) examines the economic advances the Soviet Union made as the first major economy to adopt full-scale socialist planning.

The Economic Development of the USSR (1982) examines the economic advances the Soviet Union made as the first major economy to adopt full-scale socialist planning.

Russia and America (1987) examines the divergence between two countries organised on diametrically opposed economic principles - one centrally-planned, state-dominated, the other a highly decentralised market economy, free from significant government intervention.

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.

Soviet Central Asia (1989) explores the economic development of the four republics of Central Asia that suffered under Moscow's economic policies - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kirghizia.

Soviet Central Asia (1989) explores the economic development of the four republics of Central Asia that suffered under Moscow's economic policies - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kirghizia.

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.

Although Sismondi was admired for his analytic originality and imagination by Marx, Mill, and Schumpeter, until now there has been no full translation of his major work into English.

The Soviet Union Looks Ahead (1930) is the official statement of the five-year economic plan put forward by the Soviet Union, a plan involving the radical reconstruction of the entire production system of Russia.

The Second Five-Year Plan of the Development of the U.

The Enigma of Soviet Petroleum (1980) provides an analysis of the relevance of the Soviet planning system to oil production levels: why it is that planning has been the source of so many petroleum industry problems, and the nature of the measures that are being taken to overcome them.

The Soviet Union Looks Ahead (1930) is the official statement of the five-year economic plan put forward by the Soviet Union, a plan involving the radical reconstruction of the entire production system of Russia.

The Second Five-Year Plan of the Development of the U.

The Enigma of Soviet Petroleum (1980) provides an analysis of the relevance of the Soviet planning system to oil production levels: why it is that planning has been the source of so many petroleum industry problems, and the nature of the measures that are being taken to overcome them.

In the second half of the twentieth century France played the greatest role - even greater than Germany s - in shaping what eventually became the European Union.

The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the masses with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption.

Focusing on England, this study reconstructs the centuries-long process of commercialization that gave birth to the modern market society.

In the decades that followed World War II, cheap and plentiful oil helped to fuel rapid economic growth, ensure political stability, and reinforce the legitimacy of liberal democracies.

A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years.

Development has remained elusive in Africa.

Politically adrift, alienated from Weimar society, and fearful of competition from industrial elites and the working class alike, the independent artisans of interwar Germany were a particularly receptive audience for National Socialist ideology.

Money is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and social functions.

Whereas the history of workers and labor movements has been widely researched, the history of work has been rather neglected by comparison.

Climate change is the greatest market failure in world history and thus the most urgent challenge in the world of business for the foreseeable future.

Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly.

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science.

Andre Gunder Frank asks us to ReOrient our views away from Eurocentrism-to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world.

Sovereign debt crises are a little like the weather: One can get ready to endure them and maybe take some steps to lessen their impact, but so far it hasn't been possible to prevent them.

In Money Matters, Richard Gray investigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive.

Virtually everyoneleft, right, and centerbelieves that capitalist economies are autonomous, coherent, and regulated by their own internal laws.

Recently, a growing body of work on "e;law and finance"e; and "e;legal origins"e; has highlighted the role of formal legal institutions in shaping financial institutions.

Spectacular Speculation is a history and sociological analysis of the semantics of speculation from 1870 to 1930, when speculation began to assume enormous importance in popular culture.

From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived surrounded by objects in eighteenth-century China.

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Law is supposed to encourage innovation, morality, and conformity with societal expectations, yet it may provides perverse incentives causing individuals, or even the State, to act in discordant, inefficient, and even immoral ways.

This book offers a deep-dive analysis of the period of globalization from the late 1980s to the present through the lens of long wave theory.

Japanese industry is the envy of the world for its efficient and humane management practices.

The continued history of Beaufort County, South Carolina, during and following the Civil WarIn Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861-1893, the second of three volumes on the history of Beaufort County, Stephen R.

Emile Walters reworked the French author Bastiat's Sophismes Economique to make it more accessible for an American audience.

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology is an annual research series which presents materials in two fields, both broadly considered: the history of economic thought and the methodology of economics.

Volume 28 contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.

Volume 30 contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.

In a business world predominantly oriented toward the future, it has paradoxically become ever more common that companies turn towards their pasts.

The wit and weizen of wheat beers.

Principles of Brewing Science is an indispensable reference which applies the practical language of science to the art of brewing.

Ancient brewing traditions and techniques have been passed generation to generation on farms throughout remote areas of northern Europe.

Standards of Brewing covers an essential topic for today's brewers: consistent production of quality product.

The business of birth control is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities in Britain before the pill.