Das älteste Linzer Bürgerbuch verzeichnet nicht nur 844 Aufnahmen von Personen in die Stadtgemeinschaft im Zeitraum zwischen 1658 und 1707, es ist gleichzeitig ein Spiegel der Daseinsumstände und Entscheidungen der Menschen.
For thousands of years, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to its current status as a global industry, the history of wine has been directly related to major social, cultural, religious and economic changes.
Gerade das Gebirge gilt einerseits als ein Naturraum, der den Menschen in seinem Ringen um die Erfüllung seiner (Grund-)Bedürfnisse vor besondere Herausforderungen stellt.
How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable.
A partir del contexto economico nacional de los noventa a la actualidad, un grupo de especialistas analizan los principales retos a los que se enfrenta la administracion publica en materia economica: crecimiento estancado, pobreza persistente y desigualdad en la distribucion del ingreso.
Mit diesem faszinierenden Einblick in die Evolution der Geldsysteme rund um den Globus führt uns Nik Bhatia zu den Ursprüngen und veranschaulicht, weshalb sich das Geld in einer "mehrschichtigen" Weise entwickelt hat.
Siguiendo a Santo Tomas de Aquino, Francisco de Vitoria comenta la cuestion 66 de la Secunda secundae de la Suma de Teologia en un contexto doctrinal especifico: el relativo a la virtud de la justicia.
Siguiendo a Santo Tomas de Aquino, Francisco de Vitoria comenta la cuestion 66 de la Secunda secundae de la Suma de Teologia en un contexto doctrinal especifico: el relativo a la virtud de la justicia.
En la historiografía chilena y extranjera dedicada al Ciclo Salitrero (1880-1930) –el mayor proceso primario exportador vivido hasta entonces– existen visiones maniqueas sobre el rol que le cupo a dicho periodo en la historia económica de Chile.
A pesar de la importancia de la empresa y su rol social en el desarrollo de nuestro país, no existe una tradición que permita acceder a su historia y evolución.
A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States.
Why economics needs to focus on fairness and not just efficiencyOne of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand.
The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past.
Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand.
For nearly three centuries the spectacular rise and fall of the South Sea Company has gripped the public imagination as the most graphic warning to investors of the dangers of unbridled speculation.
'Erudite, ambitious and richly global in scope' - PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads'This book sets a new standard in economic history' - TIM HARFORD, author of How To Make the World Add UpHow many times have we been told that the working woman is a modern phenomenon?
In this major reinterpretation of the evolution of the American corporation, Mark Roe convincingly demonstrates that the ownership structure of large U.
Die militärische Rüstungsbürokratie zwischen Niederlage des Deutschen Kaiserreiches und ›Totalem Krieg‹ der NS-Diktatur – in dieses Spannungsverhältnis begibt sich der Autor.
The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independenceNeoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the North Atlantic and projected on the rest of the world.
From a leading economic historian, this is the history of the institutions and individuals who have managed the global economy, from the World Monetary and Economic Conference in the wake of the Great Depression to the presentSince the Second World War, organisations created at Bretton Woods - the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank of Reconstruction and Development - and afterwards - the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - have left an indelible mark on our contemporary world.
En sus páginas y en la amplia base de datos que componen el libro, el lector encontrará que nuestra investigación conjugó las grandes posibilidades que ofrece la digitalización de documentos de gran envergadura tales como la Guía general descriptiva de la República Mexicana, historia, geografía, estadísticas, etc.
El libro se ocupa de la génesis de la llamada oligarquía peruana durante el siglo XX y descubre que los viejos estereotipos que la consideraban como una simple continuación histórica de la aristocracia mercantil de la Colonia o de la plutocracia costeña de la época del guano carecen de sustento.
An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became "e;a great engine of state"e;The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders-and yet came to be considered, as Adam Smith described it, "e;a great engine of state.
El objetivo central de este libro es el de analizar un tema de crucial importancia para la historia económica de la región pampeana: el proceso de colonización agrícola que tuvo lugar en Santa Fe durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX.
