Economics

The American savings and loan industry began in the 1830s to help people of modest financial means buy a home.

The Inland Revenue (1965) examines the organization and functions of the UK's Inland Revenue Department as they stood at the beginning of 1965.

This book provides readers with a conceptual and applied understanding of the role of risk management in public health issues.

In the mid-nineteenth century the business cycle was increasingly recognised as a recurrent phenomenon.

This volume assembles a broad selection of rare primary resource materials in the form of essays, reports, books and compendia informing on US public finances in the first half of the nineteenth century.

This title was first published in 2003.

Price theory has always been and still is at the heart of economic theory.

The Human Constraint is a business novel with supplementary material for business leaders.

Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massive sums on the City of London's burgeoning South American sovereign debt market by selling bonds of the State of Poyais.

Industrial Relations in the Public Services (1989) assesses the changes in industrial relations following Thatcher's 1979 election in three particular parts of the public sector: local authorities, the national health service and the civil service.

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Examines the post-1970s area of the Austrian economic tradition, from its revival to its contemporary directions and development.

British Industrial Relations (1983) provides a comprehensive and balanced approach to British industrial relations, an often controversial subject with a variety of academic interpretations which achieved a large significance in national politics.

Employing the intellectual migration analytical framework, this book examines the dynamics of student and professional migration.

Gamification plays a major role in individual and business decision-making in today's digital era, remarkably changing the way businesses perform basic functions.

This volume presents an academic discussion of SDG sub-goal 8.

Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe explores the crucial societal, political, and cultural dynamics that defined medieval East Central Europe during the early and high Middle Ages.

A set of eight volumes, these texts are designed to cover the literature of taxation from the late-17th century to the end of the 19th century.

The impacts of climate change are increasingly felt worldwide, affecting every country regardless of geographical location.

Der Autor zeigt auf, dass sich der ökologische Nutzen des Getrenntsammelns mittels gelbem Sack nach über dreißigjähriger Praxis immer noch unter Null bewegt.

This volume brings together a series of studies by Professor Blomquist on the evolution of banking in Lucca from the 12th and 13th centuries.

This collection brings together a comprehensive selection of documents from the history of US and Canadian economic thought from the 17th century through to 1900.

This collection gathers together a number of Daniel Defoe's non-fiction writings on political and economic issues.

This book explains the concerted efforts being implemented to promote environmentally and socially responsible practices within Africa's finance and insurance sectors.

This book offers an in-depth study of German neoliberalism between 1924 and 1963, arguing that a neoliberal network was established in the interwar period, decades before elite networks in Great Britain and the United States fostered the 'neoliberal revolution' of the Thatcher and Reagan administrations.

This book illustrates a connection between entrepreneurship and development in an emerging economy context, focusing on Nepal.

Based on decades of academic evidence, the book develops the ''peace formula'' and explains how ''smart idealism'' gets us there.

Over the last 30 years, the U.