Economic History category: 3271 books

Cover of The Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013

The Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History aims to introduce readers to important approaches and findings of economic historians who study the modern world. Its short chapters reflect the most up-to-date research and are written by well-known economic historians who are authorities on their...
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Economic Thought and History

An unresolved relationship

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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016

Economic Thought and History looks at the relationship between facts and thought in historical economic research, viewing it in the context of periods of economic crisis and providing detailed analyses of methods used in determining the bond between economic history and economic theory. This...
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Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy

Economic reasons of state, 1500–2000

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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016

Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy addresses the intellectual foundations of modern economic growth and European industrialization. Through an examination both of the roots of European industrialization and of the history of economic ideas, this book presents a uniquely broad...
Cover of German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Centuries
by Werner Plumpe
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016

German economic history in the industrial age has classically formed an important basis for the study of economic growth and industrialisation more generally. This book aims to introduce English-language readers to modern German economic history based on a selection of work by one of Germany's leading...
Cover of The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe: Volume 2, 1870 to the Present
by Stephen Broadberry, Kevin H. O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010

Unlike most existing textbooks on the economic history of modern Europe, which offer a country-by-country approach, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe rethinks Europe's economic history since 1700 as unified and pan-European, with the material organized by topic rather than by country....
Cover of Israel's Ascendance to a Technologically Advanced Regional Economic Power: Review of History of High-Quality Immigrants, Government Reforms and Subsidies, Tech Innovation Without Natural Resources
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019

This excellent and interesting report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This thesis examines Israel's economic ascendance to one of the most technologically advanced states in the Middle East. The analysis reviews the immigration of Jews into Palestine...
Cover of A History of Australasian Economic Thought
by Alex Millmow
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017

This overview of Australasian economic thought presents the first analysis of the Australian economic contribution for 25 years, and is the first to offer a panoramic sweeping account of New Zealand economic thought. Those two countries, both at the start of the twentieth century and at its end, excelled...
Cover of Humanism Challenges Materialism in Economics and Economic History
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017

Most of the existing research on economic history relies either solely or ultimately on calculations of material interest to explain the major events of the modern world. However, care must be taken not to rely too heavily on materialism, with its associated confidence in perfectly rational actors...
Cover of A History of States and Economic Policies in Early Modern Europe
by Silvia A. Conca Messina
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019

Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial Revolution? What was the state’s role in this momentous transformation? A History of States and Economic Policies in Early Modern Europe takes a comparative approach to answer these questions, demonstrating...
Cover of The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe: Volume 1, 1700–1870
by Stephen Broadberry, Kevin H. O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010

Unlike most existing textbooks on the economic history of modern Europe, which offer a country-by-country approach, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe rethinks Europe's economic history since 1700 as unified and pan-European, with the material organised by topic rather than by country....
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The Poverty of Clio

Resurrecting Economic History

by Francesco Boldizzoni
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011

The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past. In this provocative book, Francesco Boldizzoni calls for the reconstruction of economic history, one in which history...
Cover of Slavery and American Economic Development
by Gavin Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013

"Slavery and American Economic Development is a small book with a big interpretative punch. It is one of those rare books about a familiar subject that manages to seem fresh and new." -- Charles B. Dew, Journal of Interdisciplinary History "A stunning reinterpretation of southern economic...
Cover of A History of American Economic Thought

A History of American Economic Thought

Mainstream and Crosscurrents

by Samuel Barbour, J. E. King, James Cicarelli
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017

This vital addition to the Routledge History of Economic Thought series surveys arguably the most important country in the development of economics as we know it today – the United States of America. A History of American Economic Thought is a comprehensive study of American economics as...
Cover of Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015

The Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History documents and interprets the development of economic history as a global discipline from the later nineteenth century to the present day. Exploring the normative and relativistic nature of different schools and traditions of thought, this handbook...
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