Economic history

How New Deal economic policies played out in the small town of Arthurdale, West Virginia Today, the U.

This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the production of Victorian art autograph replicas, a painting's subsequent versions created by the same artist who painted the first version.

As the world grapples with increased globalization and technological change, Friedrich List's work appears more relevant than ever before.

Originally published in 1973, the aim of this work was to discuss the various factors governing the rate of growth of the British economy since the First World War.

Together with Mauritius, Botswana is often categorized as one of two growth miracles in sub-Saharan Africa.

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First published in 1955, this book offers a detailed history from the past to the mid-20th century on economic control.

How can the successful development of some former Third World countries be explained, while other developing countries have remained stagnant or worse, have deteriorated into failed states?

"e;One of the most important economic thinkers of all time"e;- Paul KrugmanMilton Friedman changed the world.

In Earnestly Contending, Dickson Bruce examines the ways in which religious denominations and movements in antebellum America coped with the ideals of freedom and pluralism that exerted such a strong influence on the larger, national culture.

East Germany's economic history is typically told as a story of the unravelling of an inherently flawed system.

This book analyses the emergence and growth of the creative sector in Naples between the early modern and modern eras, focusing particularly on the development of music markets in the city.

20th Century Britain provides an authoritative and accessible survey of contemporary research on economic activity, society, political development and culture.

Discover the captivating journey of the history of economic thought through the centuries with this comprehensive textbook.

General Equilibrium Theory, which became the dominating paradigm after the Second World War, is founded on the postulated existence, uniqueness, and stability of equilibrium in economic processes.

Despite the passage of NAFTA and other recent free trade victories in the United States, former U.

In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour.

This book was first published in 1961.

This book analyses the case of southern European migration using an economic approach.

A full account of the rise and fall of British banking stability which sheds new light on why banking systems crash.

This book examines the controversial issue of securitization in a global, historical context.

This volume uses the extreme case of misers to examine interlocking categories that undergirded the emergence of modern British society, including new perspectives on charity, morality, and marriage; new representations of passion and sympathy; and new modes of saving, spending, and investment.

Leading economic historians present a groundbreaking series of country case studies exploring the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia.

First Published in 1927, A Study on the Minimum Wage contains constructive proposals regarding the essential features of a satisfactory minimum wage system.

Important parts of development practice, especially in key institutions such as the World Bank, are dominated by economists.

Few economic events have caused such controversy as the privatization process in Russia.

Economists in the post-Cold War era are increasingly circumspect about universal, one-size-fits-all conceptions of human behaviour and economic institutions.

This book explores the life and work of Austrian-British economist, political economist, and social philosopher, Friedrich Hayek.

Financial market bubbles are recurring, often painful, reminders of the costs and benefits of capitalism.

In order to fully understand the evolution and future growth of economic systems, we must draw on the lessons of economic history.

Although transformations in retailing are of tremendous current interest, there is no single broad-ranging account of the evolution of retailing formats.

In this incisive and comprehensive history, business historian Charles Geisst traces the rise of monopolies from the railroad era to today's computer software empires.

This book offers a fresh perspective on the early history of macroeconomics, by examining the macro-dynamic models developed from the late 1920s to the late 1940s, and their treatment of economic instability.

The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film  draws on a broad range of narrative feature films, documentaries, and moving image installations in the US, Europe, and Asia.

Political economy and Christian theology coexisted happily in the intellectual world of the eighteenth century.

This book is concerned with one of the fundamental problems in the economic and social history of Europe in the early modern period, namely with the bifurcation in its development: in Western Europe, the development of capitalism; in East-Central Europe, the rise of the manorial-serf economy which hampered the development of capitalism.

The starting point of this volume is the scathing attack, far-reaching in its consequences, launched in 1942 by J.

Before the age of Industrial Revolution, the great Asian civilisations constituted areas not only of high culture but also of advanced economic development.

This edition brings together the most important English language tracts and pamphlets and other material on the origins and development of private banking, joint stock banking, central banking and other important related questions.

Regular commercial contacts between Europe and Asia date back to at least the early years of the Christian era, but the pattern of trade underwent a structural modification following the Portuguese discovery of a route to the East Indies via the Cape of Good Hope.

The period between 1767 and 1873 shaped public finance in Britain (and, by extension, many other countries) as we know it today, with the major economists of the time providing influential contributions.

Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the intersection, conflict, and confluence of religion and the market before 1700.

Heterodox Macroeconomics offers a detailed understanding of the foundations of the recent global financial crisis.

From the point of view of economic history, the ideal way to study any institution of commercial law would be to compare the information contained in legal codes and treatises with the material relating to its application in economic life as manifested by actual contracts, letters, and business records found in archives and other repositories.

Human Nature in Modern Economics offers a precise definition of the concept of human nature in economics, something that is so far lacking in the theoretical and methodological literature.

Peter Groenewegen's reputation as a chronicler of the history of economics is unparalleled.

This book is the first comprehensive economic, social and political study of the London suburb of Croydon from 1900 up to the present day.

This is a significant book that investigates how the French internal resistance and external Free French movement were financed during the Second World War.