Economic history

With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies.

Of all fluctuations in economic activity, the long wave or Kondratieff cycle is easily the most puzzling and least understood one.

How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West?

Das Buch schließt eine lang bestehende Forschungslücke und beleuchtet erstmalig umfassend die Entwicklung des Konzepts der "agrarischen Übervölkerung" und seine Anwendung auf Südosteuropa.

Traditional narratives of capitalist change often rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the economy and delivers modernity-for good or ill-to the rest of the world.

In The Global Financial Crisis, contributors argue that the complexity of the Global Financial Crisis challenges researchers to offer more comprehensive explanations by extending the scope and range of their traditional investigations.

How human institutionsmarkets, states, communities, religions, guilds and familieshave helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.

This is a pathbreaking book, essential reading for students of interwar political and social history.

This book discusses the history and socioeconomic impact of Rerum novarum, the first Catholic social encyclical.

This book examines the interrelations between Russian and European economics from the early 19th century to the present.

Africa's Slaves Today, first published in 1975, examines the question of the persistence of slavery in modern Africa.

Based on a wide range of archival sources, this book analyses the response of the most peripheral country in Western Europe, Franco's Spain, to the challenges of increasing economic interdependence from the end of World War II to the establishment of the EEC, 1945-57.

Lady Alice Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk kept a continuous series of household accounts from 1610-1654.

Local enterprise, institutional quality and strategic location were of central importance in the growth of medieval towns.

This volume examines the role of textiles within the expanding global economy in the Age of European Exploration.

This book examines the management of three projects from the nineteenth century which led to substantial business transformation: the Stockton to Darlington Railway, the US Transcontinental Railroad and the Manchester Ship Canal.

First published in English in 1934, this Routledge Revival is a reissue of Volume I of Swedish economist Knut Wicksell's hugely influential work two volume work on political economy, a text which influenced a generation of economists.

Uses an accessible narrative frame to explore key issues – like truth, probability, expediency, pragmatism – in Keynes''s unique career.

This book provides a systematic explanation of a remarkable policy innovation in an emerging economy in the modern world.

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Analyses economic nationalism as a set of ideas and policies that have shaped the modern world economy over the past 250 years.

The reinvention of art-history during the 1980s has provided a serious challenge to the earlier formalist and connoisseurial approaches to the discipline, in ways which can only help economic and social historians in the current drive to study past societies in terms of what they consumed, produced, perceived and imagined.

Guido Thiemeyer zeigt am Beispiel von vier europäischen Staaten (Großbritannien, Frankreich, Deutsches Reich und Italien) sowie für die USA, wie sich zwischen 1865 und 1900 ein internationales Währungssystem entwickelte.

During the eighteenth century, England's landowners played a vital role in the growth of the national economy.

We have become accustomed to economists and politicians talking about "e;market forces"e; as if they are immutable laws of the universe.

The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process.

The 38 selections in the volume include complete texts of all of Veblen's major articles and book reviews from 1882 to 1914, plus key chapters from his books The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904) and The Instinct of Workmanship (1914).

The Englishwoman's Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women.

This book is written as a sequel to John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society, and provides a theoretical framework, for the first time, for surpra-surplus capitalism.

Through three centuries of development, the history of the Canadian economy reflects the shifting roles of natural resources, industrializations, and international trade.

The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history.

'An extraordinarily rich and suggestive work, full of illuminating asides and thought-provoking insights, backed by a formidable mastery of detail.

The definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation's founding through the Great Depression, In Hock demonstrates that the pawnshop was essential to the rise of capitalism.

This book presents a thorough evaluation of Michal Kalecki's theory of the capitalist economy.

With traditional growth engines failing, the world is looking to Asia for economic salvation.

Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust, in the context of fashion and trade, were affected by the growth and development of the bankruptcy institution.

Vilfredo Pareto's Manual of Political Economy is a 'classic' study in the history of economic thought for many reasons, the most noteworthy of which include the setting of general equilibrium economics within a choice theoretic framework based on the opposition between tastes and obstacles; the definitive formulation of economic efficiency, including the surplus approach to collective welfare; the technically flawed but nonetheless insightful treatment of path dependence in consumer theory; and the introduction of non-competitive market analysis to the general equilibrium economics.

Though Cuba was among the first countries in the world to utilize rail transport, the history of its railroads has been little studied.

This book challenges the static, ahistorical models on which Economics continues to rely.

For a long time, everything revolved around bread.

The remarkable story and personalities behind one of the most important theories in modern economicsFinding Equilibrium explores the post-World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof of its central dogma-that a competitive market economy may possess a set of equilibrium prices.

The integrity of tax systems as we know them are being challenged throughout the world.

Since 1989 the former communist countries of Eastern Europe have witnessed a profound and dramatic upheaval.

The themes of this study are the exchange rate regimes chosen by policy makers in the twentieth century, the means used to maintain these regimes, and the impact of these decisions on individual national economies and the world economy in general.

This book guides readers along a path that proceeds from neurobiology to nonlinear-dynamical circuits, to nonlinear neuro-controllers and to bio-inspired robots.

These two volumes were written on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Bank of Israel.

The 1970s are widely seen as a turning point for the world economy and a transformative decade for the international order.

In tracing the development of the recruiting system, Alan Jeeves shows how a large proportion of the labour supply came to be controlled by private labour companies and recruiting agents, who aimed both to exploit the workers and to extract heavy fees from the employing companies.