Economic history

1997 saw a major reform in China which signaled the move away from its traditional economy, when Jiang Zemin called off the debate on public versus private ownership.

A surge in demand for oil due to rapid economic growth and stagnation in domestic oil output has turned China into a net oil importer since 1993.

This paper investigates the impact of political interventions made by Beijing and Taipei in recent years on the development of cross-Straits economic relations.

This book argues that mainstream social scientists have failed to be useful because of misguided efforts to use objectivist methods employed in the natural sciences - of treating humans as "e;things"e;.

Since the start of reform two decades ago, China's economy has experienced spectacular growth.

Variation in market orientation in individual regions and the weakening of government intervention in regional income redistribution have been mainly responsible for the changes in China's regional economic disparities since 1978.

The history of the People's Republic of China can be classified into two distinctive periods: Mao's China (1949-1978) and Deng's China (from 1979 to the present).

In the spring of 1992, Deng Xiaoping made a historical tour of south China, popularly known as the Nanxun ("e;southern tour"e;).

This book provides an evenhanded coverage of Korea's turbulent history during the last one hundred years, from seclusion to division.

This book is part of a broad examination of Confucianism and its implications for modernization of the Confucian regions (covering mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Singapore).

Study of the progressive division of labor is a burgeoning industry in economics in recent years.

For some twenty-five years after 1949, China did not exist and the country was only rediscovered in the 1970s.

At a time of robust worldwide debates on globalization, this compact volume showshow successful each of the East Asian economies have been in harnessing globalization by appropriate and alternative means to catch up with the advanced economies andwhat implications can be drawn to assess Chinese economic growth in context.

Cold-war ideology infected the development of economics in ways its practitioners were often not fully aware.

Countries commencing industrialization with relatively low levels of agricultural productivity, hence low wages, enjoy advantages that can also prove host to daunting challenges.

The familiar industrialisation of northern England and less familiar de-industrialisation of the south are shown to have depended on a common process.

The book discusses the development model of China which has now overtaken Japan as the world's second largest economy.

Many books on the 2008 financial crisis and the current recession focus on the financial sector.

This book offers the first intellectual biography of the Anglo Australian economist, Colin Clark.

This book is an economic history of the Choson dynasty (1392-1910).

From afar, Latin America looks like a blurry tableau: devoid of defining lines, particularities and nuances.

'One of the books several strong points are the amusing, often fascinating sketches of government officials and British merchants.

Why are some nations rich and others poor?

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.

2017 marks the 50th year of Singapore's national productivity drive.

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

This book is the first in the field to cover exclusively the modern radical economists.

Blending past and present, this brief history of economics is the perfect book for introducing students to the field.

This is an introduction to the Japanese economy.

Breaking the chains of the bond market.

A classic returns.

This book is a full review of China's foreign trade in the past 70 years of institutional changes and reform.

This book assesses developmental experience in different countries as well as British expansion following the industrial revolution from a developmental perspective.

This book provides a concise history of economic thought for readers of all ages.

This book is about where to go and what to do in China's reform.

The exclusion of the destitute population from the formal financial system is a long-standing problem in India.

East Germany's economic history is typically told as a story of the unravelling of an inherently flawed system.

This book challenges conventional wisdom by revealing an extensive and heterogeneous community of foreign businesses in Australia before 1914.

This volume focuses on Chinese economic statecraft during the first decade of Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening-up policies, from 1978 to 1989.

This book tries to build a broad view on industrial processes of large economies and their integration in the world.

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.

This book offers an analysis of the dynamics of the global medical device (medtech) industry from the 1960s until the present, using the approaches of business history and industry studies.

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 book integrates the latest scholarly literature on the entire Indian Ocean region, from East Africa to China.

This book analyzes the role of ai Viet (Vietnam) in the maritime Asian trading network of the thirteenth through the eighteenth centuries as it systematically integrates the results of archaeological investigations.

This book is the culmination of a lifetime of research into Chinese development, situated in a global historical context.

This book theoretically and empirically investigates the emergence of strong money demand in wartime Japan (1937-1945), its disappearance after the end of the war (1945-1949), and the reemergence of strong money demand in contemporary Japan (from 1995 to the present) in terms of the effects on fiscal activities and the price level.

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.

This book examines the butterfly effect in China's modern economic development during the period of 1978-2018.

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.