Economic history

This book examines financial markets from a historical perspective.

This book provides a critical analysis of visual images of British and international finance during the nineteenth century.

Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present sheds new light on literary representations of precarious labor from 1840 until the present.

In recent decades, new endogenous growth theory has become popular but the ideas are not new.

This book uses money as a lens through which to analyze the social and economic impact of colonialism on African societies and institutions.

This book examines the application of risk-sharing finance as a national economic policy in history and how it stimulated economic recovery during a short period in Germany between 1933 and 1935.

This book examines the work of Adam Smith and his interest in the science of the legislator.

Climate change over the past thousands of years is undeniable, but debate has arisen about its impact on past human societies.

This book deals with risk management and the organisation of banking in Swedish savings banks alongside the development in other European countries.

Exploring the rise and fall of global power from the mid-nineteenth century, this book tracks the long and interrelated trajectories of the most serious challenges facing the world today.

This book, set out over three-volumes, provides a comprehensive history of economic thought in the 20th century with special attention to the cultural and historical background in the development of theories, to the leading or the peripheral research communities and their interactions, and finally to an assessment and critical appreciation of economic theories.

This book explores the relationship between democracy and the economy in contemporary political thought and policy-making.

This edited collection explores the histories of trade, a peculiar literary genre that emerged in the context of the historiographical and cultural changes promoted by the histoire philosophique movement.

This book explores the economic and political impact of US aggression and the rise of China.

This book examines the role of institutions and law on the economic performance of the Ottoman Empire between 1500 and 1800.

This book articulates a unified theory of capitalism as an attempt to provide a comprehensive scientific theory of this social system.

This book provides an analysis of the process and outcomes of the tax reform, with a focus on progressivity, redistribution, and inequality.

This book examines the Irish experience of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic through a detailed study of the disease in the most industrialised region of the country, the province of Ulster.

Economists broadly define financial asset price bubbles as episodes in which prices rise with notable rapidity and depart from historically established asset valuation multiples and relationships.

This book is a history of outdoor advertising control in Britain between the early-nineteenth century and the beginning of the 1960s.

This book presents the evolution of the international monetary system from the gold standard to the monetary system in force today.

This book explores the vital role of merchants within early modern China.

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System marks a significant intervention into the field of literary food studies.

This book examines key issues in gender equality and corporate social responsibility in Japan.

This book is an edited collection by leading insurance historians, examining the historical role of reinsurance (the insurance of insurers) in the insurance markets of eight countries: USA, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Spain, Italy, Mexico and Japan.

Debt, private and public, and in particular excessive debt, has been debated to be one of the root causes of economic crises.

This book sheds new light on the political economy of Russia under Putin's rule.

This book explores the interaction between business and the system of taxation in Greece, from the mid-1950s up to 2008, the year that marked the eve of the economic crisis the country faced in the aftermath of the international financial crisis of 2007.

Many emerging market countries are bank-based economies and are increasingly affected by geopolitical risks, U.

This book studies past economics from anthropological, archaeological, historical and sociological perspectives.

This book, the first of two volumes, examines ancient civilizations to explore the ethical foundations of modern economic systems.

Economic recessions, social networks, environmental damage in several large countries (eg.

We might think sustainable management is a new idea, created in the 1960s by enlightened modern scientists.

Is the 'natural resource curse' destiny?

Taming the Fringe analyses the regulation and evolution of two credit products that were, and remain, vital to the working poor.

This book demonstrates the variation in the reaction of the UK's 'big four' banks - RBS, Lloyds, Barclays and HSBC - to the Great Financial Crisis 2008.

This book presents an unusual view on one of the most influential periods in world economic history: the Early Globalization.

Tax practitioners are unfamiliar with tax theory.

This book, the second of two volumes, is inspired by the famous philosopher of India, Kautilya, author of the first book on economics in the world, Arthashashtra.

This book brings together for the first time more than half a dozen proposals for an imperial paper currency in the mid-eighteenth century British Atlantic, to show how manage colonial currency and banking in the expanding empire.

This monograph gives a comprehensive but in-depth analysis of the territorial development of Croatia and historical processes of significant spatial impact.

This book applies an economic and environmental perspective to the history of landscape and the rural economy, highlighting their inter-connections through specific case studies.

This book addresses issues that remain under-researched by feminist historians.

This book develops new balance of payments statistics for the United States from 1790 to 1919, before official statistics were kept.

While paramount to the modern economy, understanding how the banking system works has been usually cast aside from overall economic education.

This expanded and enlarged third edition of Theodore Pelagidis and Michael Mitsopoulos' popular Who's to Blame for Greece?

The book analyses the role of private bankers who were pivotal in modernizing the economic and financial system of Italy in the XIX century.

This book analyses the economic history of the company and entrepreneurship in Spain from the 15th century to the present.

This book presents an overview of the economic policies adopted by the Bolivarian governments of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela between 1998 and 2018, and the economic and social results of these policies.

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.