Changing consumer choices have built microchip factories where cotton fields used to be and have doomed cities from New Bedford to Detroit, while the impact of these choices on jobs and tax revenues has stimulated the creation of models of consumer behavior.
El turismo es uno de los sectores con mayor importancia en la economia espanola desde la decada de los cincuenta y ha contribuido en buena medida desde entonces al crecimiento y la modernizacion economica del pais.
While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications gave rise to the sectional rift.
In recent years, scholars from many disciplines have contributed to the literature on the 'proper' role of markets, but they often overlook the contribution of many economists who have also called for a broader understanding of the market beyond pricing.
Spain belongs to the group of European peripheral economies where the diffusion of the British Industrial Revolution failed during the 19th century, as Professor Jordi Nadal underlined half a century ago.
Pluralism and Progress in Economics analyzes the dynamics of growth research by introducing the concept of research routines - meso-level patterns of communal practice functionally coordinated by symbolic representations.
Pluralism and Progress in Economics analyzes the dynamics of growth research by introducing the concept of research routines - meso-level patterns of communal practice functionally coordinated by symbolic representations.
In recent years, scholars from many disciplines have contributed to the literature on the 'proper' role of markets, but they often overlook the contribution of many economists who have also called for a broader understanding of the market beyond pricing.
In Gold We Trust is a historical and sociological account of how, by the late 1960s, three small Italian towns had come to lead the world in the production of gold jewelry--even though they had virtually no jewelry industry less than a century before, and even though Italy had western Europe's most restrictive gold laws.
Long before lucrative tribal casinos sparked controversy, Native Americans amassed other wealth that provoked intense debate about the desirability, morality, and compatibility of Indian and non-Indian economic practices.
An Economist Biggest Book of the YearHow commerce determines whether America preserves the peace or goes to warWhen the Cold War ended, many believed that expanding trade would usher in an era of peace.
An Economist Biggest Book of the YearHow commerce determines whether America preserves the peace or goes to warWhen the Cold War ended, many believed that expanding trade would usher in an era of peace.
Presenting a rigorous examination of the place and significance of time in economic theory, Douglas Vickers takes up the interrelated issues of uncertainty, ignorance, and criteria of choice.
Presenting a rigorous examination of the place and significance of time in economic theory, Douglas Vickers takes up the interrelated issues of uncertainty, ignorance, and criteria of choice.
In this classic analysis and refutation of Eric Williamss 1944 thesis, Seymour Drescher argues that Britains abolition of the slave trade in 1807 resulted not from the diminishing value of slavery for Great Britain but instead from the British publics mobilization against the slave trade, which forced London to commit what Drescher terms econocide.
Spain belongs to the group of European peripheral economies where the diffusion of the British Industrial Revolution failed during the 19th century, as Professor Jordi Nadal underlined half a century ago.
