Economic history

Following his timely and well-received A Failure of Capitalism, Richard Posner steps back to take a longer view of the continuing crisis of democratic capitalism as the American and world economies crawl gradually back from the depths to which they had fallen in the autumn of 2008 and the winter of 2009.

En el año 2009, Fundación MAPFRE emprendió uno de los proyectos editoriales más ambiciosos en lo que llevamos de siglo en el ámbito de la historia común de los países iberoamericanos: la colección América Latina en la Historia Contemporánea.

El análisis de las políticas económicas desde la organización institucional del país hasta 2019, con especial énfasis en los últimos setenta años, es el propósito de este libro.

El desempeño de la economía argentina es un enigma hasta para los más avezados analistas.

No hay dudas de que los economistas adquirieron, en las últimas décadas, una influencia social y política decisiva.

¿Es posible que estemos retrocediendo a los niveles de desigualdad previos a la Primera Guerra Mundial?

Quienes esperen encontrar en estas páginas el antiperonismo por el que todos conocen a Iglesias no se sentirán defraudados.

The rise of China is no doubt one of the most important events in world economic history since the Industrial Revolution.

The narrative of China's history in this book is 'theme-led' rather than conventionally chronicle-based.

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.

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.

The Economic Transformation of China is a collection of essays written by an eminent observer of the Chinese economy.

The papers brought together in this volume represent a decade of advances in the historical political economy of defence, dictatorship, and warfare.

Harry S Truman is best remembered as the President who witnessed the swift arrival of the Cold War in the tumultuous years after World War Two.

Revealed Biodiversity: An Economic History of the Human Impact aims to show that for several centuries environmental conditions have been substantially the product of economic fluctuations.

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 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.