Economic History category: 3271 books
A History of Management Accounting
The British Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
There is growing interest in the history of accounting amongst both accounting practitioners and accounting academics. This interest developed steadily from about 1970 and really ‘took off’ in the 1990s. However, there is a lack of texts dealing with major aspects of accounting history that can...
In Search of Stability
Economics of Money, History of the Rupee
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In Search of Stability seeks to understand the economics of money through a narrative on the history of the rupee. The period delineated for study is from the time of introduction of the rupee by Sher Shah Suri in 1542 up to 1971, the year which marked the beginning of the end of the Bretton Woods...
Merchants and Ministers
A History of Businesspeople and Clergy in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Two of the most influential forces in American history are business and religion. Merchants and Ministers weaves the two together in a history of the relationship between businesspeople and Christian clergy. From fur traders and missionaries who explored the interior of the continent to Gilded-Age...
Bosch
History of a Global Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Bosch is a company with a rich history. It stands for important trends of the modern world, such as the motorization of transport or the electrification of the household, and was one of the pioneers of globalization. Its founder Robert Bosch was as well known for his liberal views as he was for the...
Work in a Modern Society
The German Historical Experience in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Whereas the history of workers and labor movements has been widely researched, the history of work has been rather neglected by comparison. This volume offers original contributions that deal with cultural, social and theoretical aspects of the history of work in modern Europe, including the relations...
Business History
Selected Readings
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This selection of readings demonstrates the use of both descriptive analysis and quantitative methods in the study of business records. The emphasis, however, is on the role of various quantitative approaches.
Part I contains articles that consider a number of questions about the methods to...
by A.E. Musson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
There is perhaps no area of British life where attitudes are more strongly influenced by shared traditions and past experiences than the trade union movement; the memory of the working-class movements is a long one. It is therefore all the more important in the light of recent events to examine the...
Bengal in Global Concept History
Culturalism in the Age of Capital
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Today people all over the globe invoke the concept of culture to make sense of their world, their social interactions, and themselves. But how did the culture concept become so ubiquitous? In this ambitious study, Andrew Sartori closely examines the history of political and intellectual life in nineteenth-...
Castles, Battles, and Bombs
How Economics Explains Military History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Castles, Battles, and Bombs reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics—with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of sheer cost, the building of castles in the High Middle Ages seems almost inevitable: though stunningly...
Early Medieval Monetary History
Studies in Memory of Mark Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Mark Blackburn was one of the leading scholars of the numismatics and monetary history of the British Isles and Scandinavia during the early medieval period. He published more than 200 books and articles on the subject, and was instrumental in building bridges between numismatics and associated disciplines,...
The Fateful History of Fannie Mae
New Deal Birth to Mortgage Crisis Fall
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
“A lucid and meticulously reported book by one of the Wall Street Journal’s ace reporters” (George Anders, Forbes contributor and author of The Rare Find).
In 1938, the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt created a small agency called Fannie Mae. Intended to make home loans more...
Through the Eye of a Needle
Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth...
Debtor Nation
The History of America in Red Ink
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to millions of American debtors. How did...
Money Changes Everything
How Finance Made Civilization Possible
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
"[A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review
“Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers.”--Financial Times
In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something...