Economic history

This book and its companion volume offer a better understanding of the lessons that Indian policymakers can learn from China's economic experience over the last 40 years.

Kenneth Boulding was a prolific writer across so many different fields that not only is he often much referred to and cited, he is considered a core member of many of these fields.

This book analyzes the impact of the digital economy on customer satisfaction, shopping experience, resistance to change, script theory, and loyalty.

The rapidly changing and evolving art market might appear to be chaotic to the casual observer, with new highs, potential lows, and tastes and fashions changing season to season.

The World of the 'Fullo' takes a detailed look at the fullers, craftsmen who dealt with high-quality garments, of Roman Italy.

International capital flow and domestic financial market structures explain why some countries are more vulnerable to banking crises.

With contributions from world-renowned figures such as Niall Ferguson and Adair Turner, this volume investigates how financial institutions and markets have undergone or reacted to past pressures, and the regulatory responses that emerged as a result.

The studies in this volume reflect the author's interest in history as it was lived: not only the social and economic structures, but the men and women, collectively and individually, who made them function.

This book provides an overview of monetary history from the perspectives of the financial intermediaries who shaped it.

This Palgrave Pivot explores the recent financial crisis from a new perspective.

In 1850 the Industrial Revolution came to an end.

Wealth in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Balkans demonstrates the economic and social transformations wrought by wars, state centralization, European expansion and the gradual Ottoman withdrawal from the Balkans.

The first work to draw on Nelson A.

Following the 2007-2009 financial and economic crises, there has been an unprecedented demand among economics students for an alternative approach, which offers a historical, institutional and multidisciplinary treatment of the discipline.

Emerging relatively unscathed from the banking crisis of 2008, China has been viewed as a model of both rampant success and fiscal stability.

Now in its fourth edition, A Short History of Economic Thought provides an elementary overview of the history of economic thought.

First Published in 2005.

This book examines how European farmers responded to the economic and political challenges created by the First World War and the Great Depression.

This book presents an in-depth examination of China's population control policies from their establishment to the present and explores the developing implications of these policies on the Chinese labour market.

At a time when Congressional investigations have taken on added importance and urgency in American politics, this book offers readers a rare, insider's portrait of the world of US Congressional oversight.

Challenges the dominant narrative of an agricultural ''enlightenment'', showing how farming books appropriated traditional knowledge in pre-industrial Britain.

At the end of World War II, Argentina was the most industrialized nation in Latin America, with a highly urbanized, literate, and pluralistic society.

Contributors to this volume highlight the failure and socio-economic and political problems of post-colonial African state and make constructive and convincing suggestions of how the problems can be addressed.

A History of Money looks at how money as we know it developed through time.

Explores how the Virginia School developed an economics for natural equals in which consent is critical for policy.

Der Band beschreibt Geschichte und Kultur des Gebietes, das die Römer Germania nannten, vom 1.

This important book is the first in-depth history of the Rhodesian railway system.

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.

This book provides a critical approach to the study of economic thought - from neoclassical economics, to Marxian economics, and to Keynesian economics - through the lens of science and the scientific method.

During the twentieth century the financial sector became possibly the most regulated area of the economy in many advanced and developing countries.

Published in the year 1968, Our Coal and Coal Pits is a valuable contribution to the field of Economics.

Working out Gender brings together leading scholars and young researchers to examine the various ways in which gender is currently being used in labour history.

To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes.

Prakash Kumar documents the global history of agricultural indigo, exploring the effects of nineteenth-century globalisation on a colonial industry in South Asia.

For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "e;the dismal science"e; rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008.

This book covers the main developments in the social sciences after World War Two.

Society today faces multi-dimensional challenges that are hard to define and even harder to deal with.

When it appeared in 1923, John Lord's Capital and Steam Power 1750-1800 was the first book to be based on the voluminous Boultori and Watt papers in Birmingham since the hey-day of Samuel Smiles.

The first authoritative study of Japan's environmental problems by the acclaimed environmental economist, placing environmental issues within a socioeconomic context.

This book explores the history and practice of testimonial advertising in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, addressing a surprising lack of scholarship on this enduring and pervasive marketing tool.

This is a study of the radical peasant trade union which thrived in parts of south and west Germany in the 1920s.

The Routledge Economic History of War presents a broad overview of the latest research on the long lasting changes and effects that collapsing security in international relations has had on the world's economies and societies.

An engagingly written account of textile engineering in its key northern centres, rich with historical narrative and analysis.

À qui profite la croissance ?

When in 1929 the world economy went into crisis, a new approach to international trade and finance appeared on the scene.

The Routledge History of Poverty, c.