Economic history

For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable.

Focusing on both literary and material networks in early modern England, this book examines the nature of women's wealth, its peculiar laws of transmission and accumulation, and how a world of goods and favors, mothers and daughters was transformed by market culture.

"e;A timely and smart discussion of how different cities and regions have made a changing economy work for them-and how policymakers can learn from that.

A wide-ranging exploration of the diverse historical connections between Chile and California This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile.

First published in 1946, this historical analysis of Canadian agricultural policy from 1600 to 1930 tests the assumption that agriculture has been Canada's basic industry, central in the economic and political life of the nation.

First published in 1960, this seminal work illuminates the interrelations of the various approaches to the theory of economic growth.

The Russo-Japanese War was in essence a colonial conflict between the expanding interests of Russia and Japan in East Asia.

This book provides an introduction and overview to nine applied financial studies on the theme of transport.

This book explains inflation dynamic, using time series data from 1960 for 42 countries.

This book uncovers the ambivalence towards commerce in eighteenth-century France, questioning the assumption that commerce was widely celebrated in the era of Adam Smith.

This book analyzes the top management of leading Japanese enterprises.

Justice, even divine justice, is concrete.

The articles in the first part of this volume, two being a revised English version of an article originally in Spanish, examine the place of the city in the historical development of Castile.

This book has a dual purpose.

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

Most economists assume that the mathematical and quantative sides of their science are relatively recent developments.

Moral Hazard is a core concept in economics.

This book examines the economic history of ancient South Asia by situating the Malwa region of Central India within Afro-Eurasian trade networks to illuminate the role of traders in the political, religious and economic processes connected with the Indo-Sasanian trade in the period of five centuries, circa CE 300-700.

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

Australians and the Gold Rush: California and Down Under 1849-1854 vividly recounts the dramatic intersection of two worlds during the California Gold Rush.

This book analyses the bearing of global monotheistic faiths towards the philosophy and practice of record keeping and accounting throughout history.

The Progressive Era is generally regarded as a period of extraordinary social, political, and economic change, affecting virtually every aspect of American life.

First Published in 1966.

This book breaks fresh ground in the most challenging aspect of economics and economic history - the nature of economic growth.

Firm growth.

This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa''s persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history.

Physical training is a key part of preparing to play soccer (football) at any level, but organising a genuinely effective training programme requires both an understanding the physiological principles involved and a practical knowledge of the demands of the game.

The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated - by both laypeople and Marxist historians - with the industrial capitalism that made its decisive breakthrough in 18th century Britain.

This book elucidates the economic conditions and policies during the post War Japanese economy from the view point of an influential policy maker.

THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTERA Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A Daily Mail Book of the Year; A Waterstones Book of the Year'Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL?

This major new textbook on business history brings together the expertise of two internationally renowned authors to provide a thorough overview of the developments in business - from just before the industrial revolution right up to the present day.

This book is a political history of economic life.

In The Industrial Turn in World History, Peter N.

The Global Financial Crisis has reshuffled the cards for central banks throughout the world.

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.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

This book explores how steam engine technology was transferred into nineteenth-century China in the second half of the nineteenth century by focusing on the transmission of knowledge and skills.

First Published in 1920, A Social and Industrial History of England 1815-1918 provides within as small a compass as possible, the historical background necessary for the study of modern industrial and social questions.

The Second Chinese Revolution explores some of the keys to understanding China, a country whose evolution already affects all of us.

*Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2017* Karl Polanyi's contribution to political economy and social science is immeasurable.

Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal.

As a fledgling republic, the United States implemented a series of trading outposts to engage indigenous peoples and to expand American interests west of the Appalachian Mountains.

In That Used to Be Us, the blockbuster Michael Mandelbaum wrote with Thomas L.

Friedrich Hayek was the 20th century's most significant free market theorist.

This title was first published in 2003.

David Ricardo's theories were introduced in fragments in Japan after the Meiji restoration of 1868 and his work came into prominence late in comparison to other major thinkers figuring in the history of economic thought.

This contributed volume combines approaches of the current inequality debate with aspects of finance based on profound macroeconomic model analyses.

The book is based on a rich and detailed quantitative material from research over the past decades with consecutive time series over production volumes, employment, productivity, investments etc.

This volume presents fourteen papers by Roman archaeologists and historians discussing approaches to the economic history of Pompeii, and the role of the Pompeian evidence in debates about the Roman economy.