Economic history

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.

This book is a faithful record of China's economy that spans almost 70 years.

This book features 13 Japanese entrepreneurs who made a significant contribution to the development of society from 1868, when modernization in Japan began, to the 1950s, after World War II.

This book is intended for policy-makers, academics and students of development studies, area studies, political economy, geography and political science.

This book utilizes historical evidence to describe the development of the Toyota Production System (TPS).

This book assesses the performance of banks in India over the past several decades, and discusses their current status after fifty years of nationalization.

This book presents economic statistics of Korea in the past three centuries, focusing on the century following 1910.

This volume is a major breakthrough in helping decipher and piece together the major interactive and flow investment dynamics within the complex Chinese economic structure, in an effort to guide global investors to formulate their own macro assessment and investment strategy in or related to China.

This book clarifies the challenges and outcomes of the Sunshine Project, a national project in Japan for developing new energy that was launched about 40 years ago at the time of the first oil crisis in the early 1970s and ended, as planned, in the early 2000s.

This book provides a systematic explanation of a remarkable policy innovation in an emerging economy in the modern world.

The year 2019 marks 30 years since the fall of the Berlin wall.

This book is the 6th volume of the Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan.

This book uniquely explores the role and governance mechanism of central banks by applying new institutional economics (NIE).

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

This book critically discusses and systematically compares J.

This book explains compellingly that, despite common belief, in the early modern period, the intra-East Asian commercial network still functioned sustainably, and within that network, the Sino-Japanese trade can be seen as the most significant part which not only connected the Chinese and Japanese domestic markets but also was linked to the global economy.

This book provides a systematic explanation of a remarkable policy innovation in an emerging economy in the modern world.

This book demonstrates that during Japan's early modern Edo period (1603-1868) an ethical code existed among the merchant class comparable to that of the well-known Bushido.

This book focuses on exploring the relationship between spin-outs from incumbents and the patterns of innovation in general purpose technology.

This book aims to explain the secret to China's rapid growth over the last 40 years from the viewpoint of a firsthand witness.

This book is the 6th volume of the Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research in the field of monetary and financial history.

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

This volume undertakes the important task of envisioning a regional history of Asia based on its unique internal characteristics, going beyond the usual West/non-West dichotomy.

This monograph aims to analyze the economic and business history of colonial India from a corporate perspective by clarifying the historical role of institutional developments based on archival evidence of a representative enterprise.

This book goes back to the origins of the transformation of health and medicine into a business, during the first part of the twentieth century, focusing on the example of Japan.

This book explores the global development of the production and trade of silk and related industries from a historical perspective.

This book examines the role of financial institutions in the financial markets during normal times, as well as during the global financial crisis.

This edited volume is based on original essays first presented at the World Economic History Conference, Kyoto, Japan, in August 2015.

This book presents and uses a major, new database of the most serious forms of internal resistance to the Nazi state to study empirically the whole phenomenon of resistance to an authoritarian regime.

This book discusses the role historical events played in determining the pattern of growth of Indian manufacturing.

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 focuses on urbanization as an attendant consequence of industrialization and sheds light on urban problems such as housing shortages and poverty of jobless people, and the housing and social policies implemented by central and local governments to deal with these problems.