From the ancients to the moderns, questions of economic theory and policy have been an important part of intellectual and public debate, engaging the attention of some of history's greatest minds.
How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality?
This book offers an accessible introduction to post-Keynesian economics, showing that there is an alternative to neoclassical economics and its free-market economic policies.
In this groundbreaking book, renowned global economist David McWilliams unlocks the mysteries and the awesome power of money: what it is, how it works, and why it matters.
The American Radical tells the story of American democracy from the late 18th century to the present through the lives of the women and men who have fought to advance it.
This volume critically explore and extend Hayek's Nobel Prize-winning work on knowledge and social interconnectedness from the disciplines of law, economics, philosophy, anthropology, political science, and history.
The airline industry is currently faced with its longest and deepest crisis to date: many airlines are losing hundred of millions of US dollars, several have collapsed entirely and others have been rescued by their governments.
An Analysis of the Development and Nature of Accounting Principles in Japan (1991) explores the historical development of accounting principles in Japan.
This volume contains a look at the cotton-manufacture industry in relation to a disapproval of a claim of Sir Richard Arkwright invention of ingenious machinery, initially published in 1823.
Die Verstrickung des Unternehmens in die verbrecherische Vernichtungspolitik des NS-Regimes ist erforscht, jetzt geht es erstmals um die Frühgeschichte von BMW.
Technological innovation was crucial to the process of European expansion: advances in astronomy and navigation and changes in weaponry all contributed to the emergence of European commercial enclaves in Africa and Asia, and the conquest of the Americas.
Based on a mixture of primary historical research and secondary sources, this book explores the reasons for the failure of the state in England during the twentieth century to regulate, tax, and control the market in land for the common or public good.
Questions concerning the relationships and boundaries between 'private' business and 'public' government are of great and perennial concern to economists, economic and business historians, political scientists and historians.
Britain's Army in India (1978) tells how a joint stock company, the Honourable East India Company, came to organise a private army and lay the foundations for the establishment of the British Empire in India.
This intriguing new book examines and analyses the role of critical realism in economics and specifically how this line of thought can be applied to the real world.
First published in 1970, Australian Economic Development in the Twentieth Century analyses aspects of Australian economic development in the twentieth century and places them in historical and international perspective.
First published in 1930, John Hobson's study deals with the economic dilemmas generated in the early twentieth century by the advent of mass production.
Spectacular Speculation is a history and sociological analysis of the semantics of speculation from 1870 to 1930, when speculation began to assume enormous importance in popular culture.
Cartels, trusts and agreements to reduce competition between firms have existed for centuries, but became particularly prevalent toward the end of the 19th century.
Die brachiale politische Durchsetzung eines sozialistischen Herrschafts- und Gesellschaftssystems nach 1945 in Mitteldeutschland verlief parallel zu einer fundamentalen Veränderung der dort bestehenden Wirtschaftsordnung.
'Friends of China can help her best by maintaining broad but not uncritical support and striving for a deeper understanding of this ancient culture and the political and economic structure of the nation.
Wilhelm Abel's study of economic fluctuations over a period of seven hundred years has long been established as a core text in European agricultural history.
