Economic history

First Published in 2005.

In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land.

Until now we have only had relatively narrow economic studies comparing investments in railways with investments in other fields of individual economies.

Like the United States today, Renaissance Florence and Victorian Britain were the richest, most dynamic economic systems of their times.

The failure to include gender in the economic history of rural development has severely limited our understanding of privatizing, collectivist and colonial economic policies that disrupted and transformed the lives of rural women and men in the modern world.

This book offers the first sustained study of the ways 21st century North American poems engage with financialization.

A multi-faceted look at what global central bank cooperation has - and has not - achieved over the past half century.

When does the pursuit of self-interest go too far, lapsing into morally unacceptable behaviour?

This book is about mutual influences of thinking about economic development in China and in the West, from the 18th century until the present.

Perspectives on Imperialism and Decolonization (1984) is a key collection of essays that analyse from many sides the growth and demise of Western imperialism.

This volume sheds light on the technical and institutional handicaps that the gas industry had to face since the early 19th century to consolidate its position in the energy market.

This book offers the first systematic analysis of economic thought concerning war.

The Classical Economists Revisited conveys the extent, diversity, and richness of the literature of economics produced in the period extending from David Hume's Essays of 1752 to the final contributions of Fawcett and Cairnes in the 1870s.

This book provides a rigorously chronological journey through the economic history of modern Spain, always with an eye opened to what happens in the international economy and a focus on economic policy making and institutional change.

This volume provides the first comprehensive history of the arms racing phenomenon in modern international politics, drawing both on theoretical approaches and on the latest historical research.

First Published in 2005.

This book is an excellent work of scholarship.

Without economic history, economics runs the risk of being too abstract or parochial, of failing to notice precedents, trends and cycles, of overlooking the long-run and thus misunderstanding 'how we got here'.

To mark the 300th anniversary of Adam Smith's birth, the 37th Heilbronn Symposium on Economics and the Social Sciences was dedicated to his outstanding oeuvre, but above all to his most famous work,  "e;An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"e; (1776), which is regarded as a keystone of modern economics.

In the present electronic torrent of MTV and teen flicks, Nintendo and Air Jordan advertisements, consumer culture is an unmistakably important-and controversial-dimension of modern childhood.

This title, first published in 1989, is an in-depth biographical dictionary of the Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences from 1969 to 1988.

Here, Richard Lachmann offers a new answer to an old question: Why did capitalism develop in some parts of early modern Europe but not in others?

This book investigates the options, the debates and the ensuing policies of the fledgling Russian government.

By taking the long view on the evolution of this country's tax policies through the past few decades, Henrekson and Stenkula explain how Sweden developed the highest tax-to-GDP ratio in the world, until the beginning of the 2000s.

The first comprehensive study of China''s economic development across 3,000 years of history to be published in English.

The Royal Navy and the Slavers, first published in 1969, examines not only the Royal Navy's 60-year campaign to eradicate slavery, but also the British Government's diplomatic pressure on other countries to discontinue the slave trade.

Out of Slavery, first published in 1985, is a series of articles commissioned on the 150 year anniversary of William Wilberforce's death and the Act of Parliament abolishing British slavery in 1833.

How does one distinguish between European Union investments that improve welfare and those that create economic malaise?

This book examines the Soviet agricultural crisis of 1931-1933 which culminated in the major famine of 1933.

This book focuses on the production of low-quality goods, the rise of markets for imitations and shoddy goods, and dishonest trading practices which developed along with the expansion of global trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in East Asia.

This book examines Shanxi piaohao-private financiers from the Chinese hinterland-in the economic and business history of late imperial China, forming the original theory of Chinese hinterland capitalism.

Over 5 decades of economic and technical assistance to the countries of Africa and the Middle East have failed to improve the life prospects for over 1.

This fascinating look at the power struggles between public and private entities is "e;a lively, accessible treatment of a multifaceted, complex subject"e; (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

This book analyzes the top management of leading Japanese enterprises.

EU Cohesion policy, along with support for agriculture and rural development, is one of the main items of EU spending.

Tax practitioners are unfamiliar with tax theory.

This edited volume explores the interplay between political, economic, and financial development in twentieth-century European authoritarian regimes.

First published in 1981, this book examines the life of Arthur Harding, a well-known figure in the East End underworld during the first half of the twentieth century.

After World War II, structures, practices and the culture of retailing in most West European countries went through a period of rapid change.

During the first half of the twentieth century, Canadian fisheries regularly produced more fish than markets could absorb, driving down profits and wages.

This book provides two important contributions to existing theories in the financial innovation literature.

International economic integration is not a recent phenomenon; its roots can be traced back to the Roman Empire.

First Published in 1963.

This book employs a wide range of perspectives to demonstrate how the East India Company facilitated cross-cultural interactions between the English and various groups in South Asia between 1600 to 1857 and how these interactions transformed important features of both British and South Asian history.

Between 1880 and 1939, a quarter of a million European Jews settled in England.

Combining contextual, institutional, and global perspectives, this book evaluates the impact of international trade on eighteenth-century economic thought.

Understanding the American stock market boom and bust of the 1920s is vital for formulating policies to combat the potentially deleterious effects of busts on the economy.

In this careful and thorough study of a Canadian field which has been relatively untouched in recent years, Dr.