Economic history

Early Modern Debts: 1550-1700 makes an important contribution to the history of debt and credit in Europe, creating new transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives on problems of debt, credit, trust, interest, and investment in early modern societies.

The University of Oxford has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for economics.

The book sets out to explore the economic motivations of imperial expansion under capitalism.

This book gathers several important texts to offer an overview of the institutionalist approach to money developed in France since the 1980s.

This book sheds new light on if and why, between 2009 and 2015, European governments succeeded or failed in initiating and actually realizing some of the farthest-reaching austerity plans in modern history.

This volume of intellectual biography takes the Italian economist, sociologist, political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) from his disillusionment with liberal and pacifist activism, to the original development of pure economics and the composition of his Treatise on General Sociology and the test of this latter on the war and post-war events.

This book explores the neglected contribution of the American and English "e;psychological"e; school to economic theory, especially to the development and refinement of the Austrian school of economics.

This book explores the diverse experience of Bangladesh's development over the last fifty years and provides systematic explanations of its success in socioeconomic development.

How should we address today's big problems, and what we can take from icons of economics past?

The concept of 'performativity' has risen to prominence throughout the humanities.

This book discusses the case for socialism and the models of socialist planning.

This book is a critical interpretation of a seminal and protracted debate in comparative global economic history.

NATO is facing a unique crisis questioning its existence and future.

This volume studies information as an economic resource in the Roman World.

This book explores imperial power and the transnational encounters of shipowners and merchants in the South China Sea from 1840 to 1930.

Reflecting the diverse and profound changes triggered by the latest wave of economic globalization, this book highlights various governance responses at national, regional and global levels.

Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts offers a sustained academic critique of Ayn Rand's works and her wider Objectivist philosophy.

This book analyses ancient Greek federalism by focusing on one of the most organised and advanced Greek federal states, the Achaean Federation Sympoliteia.

This book offers a comprehensive business history of one of the largest global brewing companies.

This book hinges upon ideas and discourses variously known under labels such as "e;Mercantilism"e; and "e;Cameralism"e;.

This book provides the first comprehensive study of the 'special relationship' between Southern Rhodesia and South Africa.

This book aims to define comparative economics and to illustrate the breadth and depth of its contribution.

This collection brings together a range of case studies by both established and early career scholars to consider the nexus between business and development in post-colonial Africa.

Central banks are major players in today's economic and financial policy-making.

This book examines the economic and political rise of China from the perspective of Japan's economic development.

This book discusses Samuel Pufendorf and his contributions to the development of the European Enlightenment and the emergence of economics as a social science.

This book analyzes the banking crisis and the events surrounding it in Hungary and other emerging EU member countries in 2007-2013.

This book examines the problem of constitutional change in times of crisis.

This book analyzes public debt from a political, historical, and global perspective.

There are two ways people coordinate their actions: through cooperation, exercised by economic power, and through control, exercised by political power.

This book examines the effect of banking on the real economy and society, focusing on banking supervision as the decisive factor in steering banking activities and determining the social outcome of the game of finance.

This book examines the history of empire and its influence on capitalism.

This book assesses the current state of the Greek economy and detects its development and growth prospects up to 2030.

Standard histories of European integration emphasize the immediate aftermath of World War II as the moment when the seeds of the European Union were first sown.

This book presents a comprehensive economic plan for Greece to encourage growth and avoid future crises.

This book not only analyzes and evaluates the current state of economic growth and development in Greece, but also investigates the potential for growth and development in the mid- to long-term horizon.

This book tells the untold story of how JPMorgan became a universal bank in the 1980s-1990s and the events leading to it being acquired by Chase in 2000.

Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades.

This book offers an in-depth case study of Romania's land and agricultural reforms from mid-19th century and up to 2000, offering a historical account of agricultural reforms in post-communist Romania in the light of more than a century of social and economic development experiments.

This edited collection examines the evolution of regional inequality in Latin America in the long run.

The economic crisis of 2007/2008 has prompted much debate as to what caused it and what remedies may be implemented in order to regain a healthy economy.

This book analyses business cycles synchronization in the Euro Area (EA), one of the 3 criteria that define Optimal Currency Areas (OCAs).

This book explores students' consumer practices and material desires in nineteenth-century Oxford.

This edited collection explores the historical determinants of the rise of mass schooling and human capital accumulation based on a global, long-run perspective, focusing on a variety of countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

This book tells the untold story of how JPMorgan became a universal bank in the 1980s-1990s and the events leading to it being acquired by Chase in 2000.

This Palgrave Pivot reviews the history of the UK's Retail Prices Index (RPI) from its origins just after the Second World War to its controversial position today.

This book provides substantial background on what Adam Smith did during his stay in Toulouse and the Languedoc region of France during the 18th century.

Bread was the staple of the ancient Mediterranean diet.

This book showcases written dialogue from Brendan Brown and Philippe Simonnot on the subject of European monetary turmoil past and present and what hope there could be for future reform.