Economic History category: 3271 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
This mid-2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This thesis examines the incentives behind China's decision to implement its aggressive $585 billion economic stimulus package in response to the global financial crisis, or GFC. The thesis...
by E Ray Canterbery
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Since its onset in late 2007, few expected the Great Recession to be protracted for over half a decade across the world. The Rise and Fall of Global Austerity explains the origins and history of austerity, severe implications of the idea of it and how the continuation of the Great Recession was a...
by Eric R. Crouse
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This book examines one of the most important economic outcomes in American history—the breakdown of the Keynesian Revolution. Drawing on economic literature, the memoirs of economists and politicians, and the popular press, Eric Crouse examines how economic decline in the 1970s precipitated a political...
by Stephen Broadberry, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
This is a definitive new account of Britain's economic evolution from a backwater of Europe in 1270 to the hub of the global economy in 1870. A team of leading economic historians reconstruct Britain's national accounts for the first time right back into the thirteenth century to show what really...
The House of Tata Meets the Second Industrial Revolution
An Institutional Analysis of Tata Iron and Steel Co. in Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
This monograph aims to analyze the economic and business history of colonial India from a corporate perspective by clarifying the historical role of institutional developments based on archival evidence of a representative enterprise. The perspective is distinctively unique in that it highlights the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book aims to start a debate on the relationship between economic theory – and more precisely business cycle theory – and economic policy*,* emphasising the diversity of views on economic policy which characterised older periods, in contrast to the homogeneity of the analysis and diagnosis...
by T.S. Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
T.S. Ashton has sought less to cover the field of economic history in detail than to offer a commentary, with a stress on trends of development rather than on forms of organization or economic legislation.
This book seeks to interpret the growth of population, agriculture, maufacture, trade...
by Riccardo Faucci
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This book provides the non-Italian scholar with an extensive picture of the development of Italian economics, from the Sixteenth century to the present. The thread of the narrative is the dialectics between economic theory and political action, where the former attempts to enlighten the latter, but...
Architectures of Economic Subjectivity
The Philosophical Foundations of the Subject in the History of Economic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The history of European economic thought has long been written by those seeking to prove or disprove the truth-value of the theories they describe. This work takes a different approach. It explores the philosophical groundwork of the theoretical structure within which economic subjects are presented....
Medieval Islamic Economic Thought
Filling the Great Gap in European Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
This book is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, during the five centuries prior to the Latin Scholastics, who include St. Thomas Aquinas. This period of time was labelled by Joseph Schumpeter as representing the...
Human Capital in History
The American Record
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
America’s expansion to one of the richest nations in the world was partly due to a steady increase in labor productivity, which in turn depends upon the invention and deployment of new technologies and on investments in both human and physical capital. The accumulation of human capital—the knowledge...
On Abstract and Historical Hypotheses and on Value Judgments in Economic Sciences
Critical Edition, with an Introduction and Afterword by Paolo Silvestri
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) was a leading liberal economist, economic historian and political figure. This book provides the English-speaking world with a first critical edition of Einaudi’s – hitherto unpublished – rewriting of one of his most unique and thoughtful essays.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
As the world grapples with increased globalization and technological change, Friedrich List’s work appears more relevant than ever before. His theory of "productive powers" and his argument for protecting infant industries give us a valuable way of looking at innovation systems, winners...
Liberalism and Chinese Economic Development
Perspectives from Europe and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Liberalism and Chinese Economic Development brings international contributors together in order to consider economic, political, social and legislative aspects of China’s modernization. This volume explores how liberalism is received and perceived, and whether it is adapted or adopted upon the basis...