Economic history

Since its invention in Italy in the fourteenth century, marine insurance has provided merchants with capital protection in times of crisis, thus oiling the gears of trade and commerce.

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science.

Volume 2 of a definitive two-volume reference exploring the spread and impact of capitalism across the world.

Frank G.

The Turning Point in Africa (1982) is a significant study of British colonial policy towards tropical Africa during a critical decade, from the complacent trusteeship of the inter-war years to the strategy of decolonization inaugurated after the Second World War.

Dieses Buch stellt die Entwicklung der Energiewirtschaft in Ostdeutschland während der Zeit nach dem 2.

This book offers a new interpretation of the Employment Act of 1946.

Welche Konsequenzen hatten die Geschäftspolitik der Dresdner Bank im Dritten Reich und ihre Nähe zum Nationalsozialismus nach dessen Untergang?

Demonstrates how economics can explain the transformation of human society from mobile foraging bands to the first city-states.

A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern ChinaIn Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a time of profound sociopolitical changes.

Rejecting much of mainstream economic theory for being too passive, this book argues that the innovative and unpredictable nature of economic phenomena is better understood with analytical devices, which allow for more creative and participatory analysis.

This volume discusses the impact of Financial Economics, Growth Dynamics, and the Finance & Banking sector in the economies of countries.

Whilst the early modern period has long been recognized as witnessing a growth in trade and consumerism, the majority of studies to date have tended to focus upon London and southern England.

James Buchanan (1919-2013), economist and philosopher, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1986 for his original theory of political democracy as market exchange.

The First World War constitutes a point in the history of New York when its character and identity were challenged, recast and reinforced.

Consumer Credit and the American Economy examines the economics, behavioral science, sociology, history, institutions, law, and regulation of consumer credit in the United States.

Under the Reagan presidency, the United States saw a period of strong economic growth.

The Countryside: Planning and Change (1981) examines the relationship between policies and their actual effects on the countryside, throwing light on the problems inherent in a fragmented approach to policy-making.

This textbook is based upon a philosophical method of logical deduction from basic principles such as scarcity, individual choice and subjectivism.

This text offers an accessible guide to the ways in which our growing knowledge of development in early-modern and modernising Japan can throw light on the paths that industrialisation was eventually to take across the globe.

Kenwood and Lougheed's classic book has been the benchmark introduction to the development of the global economy for decades.

The recycling and reuse of materials and objects were extensive in the past, but have rarely been embedded into models of the economy; even more rarely has any attempt been made to address the scale of these practices.

In ancient China, as the lowermost class in the social hierarchy, merchants were viewed as greedy and immoral, commanding little respect.

This 2005 book traces the history of economic thought from its prehistory to the present day.

The authors use a long-wave framework to examine the historical evolution of British industrial capitalism since the late-18th century, and present a challenging and distinctive economic history of modern and contemporary Britain.

Banking historiography often does not sufficiently take into account bankers' deliberations of their decision making, but rather limits investigation to considerations of profit maximisation.

This book explores the evolution of credit and financing in Europe from the Middle Ages through to Modern Times.

Award-winning essayist Lance Morrow writes about the partnership of God and Mammon in the New World-about the ways in which Americans have made money and lost money, and about how they have thought and obsessed about this peculiarly American subject.

This book uses economic theory to explain how consumers and producers have responded to major changes in the music industry.

Reissuing works originally published between 1929 and 1991, this collection of 17 volumes presents a variety of considerations on Econometrics, from introductions to specific research works on particular industries.

This book presents an account of the relationship between state and capital in India from independence to the liberalization episodes of the 1980s and after.

Focusing on Belgium from the mid-nineteenth century until the First World War, Vleugels presents a study of the drunkard in society.

In the early 1990s North America was the vibrant centre of an increasingly democratic and revitalized western hemisphere.

This title was first published in 2003.

This book traces the history of bird guano, demonstrating how this unique commodity helped unite the Pacific Basin with the industrialized world.

This book gathers a collection of English language essays by Jes's Huerta de Soto over the past ten years, examining the dynamic processes of social cooperation which characterize the market, with particular emphasis on the role of both entrepreneurship and institutions.

Robert Harrison and Robert Browne were the initiators of the principles of English Separatism and Congregationalism.

The main purpose of the book is to introduce the work of Alan S.

"e;Once-in-a-lifetime"e; financial crises have been a recurrent part of life in the last three decades.

With a past as deep and sinewy as the famous River Thames that twists like an eel around the jutting peninsula of Mudchute and the Isle of Dogs, London is one of the world's greatest and most resilient cities.

A revealing insight into the links between globalization and the technological advances in communication brought about by the telegraph network.

Originally published in 2006, this book examines the collapse of the Enron Corp.

This book rejects the idea that natural resource industries are doomed to slow growth.

Moral Hazard is a core concept in economics.

Trade across the Pacific will be one of the dominant forces in the economy of the next century.

The financial crisis of 2007-08 shook the idea that advanced information and communications technologies (ICTs) as solely a source of economic rejuvenation and uplift, instead introducing the world to the once-unthinkable idea of a technological revolution wrapped inside an economic collapse.

This anthology aims to explain why some Nordic shipping companies became world leaders while others failed to respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities of globalization.

Investigates the evolution and proliferation of central banks and the profession of central banking during the past century.