Economic History category: 3271 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war,...
Natural Resources and Economic Growth
Learning from History
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
The relationship between natural capital and economic growth is an open debate in the field of economic development. Is an abundance of natural resources a blessing or a curse for economic performance? The field of Economic History offers an excellent vantage to explore the relevance of institutions,...
An Economic History of Development in sub-Saharan Africa
Economic Transformations and Political Changes
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2019
‘This is a desperately needed book. It not only surveys the field of African economic history at the level of undergraduate students, but provides several fresh perspectives, drawing on insights from the latest research on the evolution of African societies and their economic prosperity. This valuable...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Global Economic Thought offers the first comprehensive overview of the long-run history of economic thought from a truly international perspective. Although globalization has facilitated the spread of ideas between nations, the history of economics has tended...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis, and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end of the Middle Ages. *New Perspectives...
by Joseph A. Schumpeter
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
At the time of his death in 1950, Joseph Schumpeter was working on his monumental History of Economic Analysis. Unprecedented in scope, the book was to provide a complete history of economic theory from Ancient Greece to the end of the second world war. A major contribution to the history of ideas...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
An Economic History of Europe provides students with a comprehensive introduction to European economic history from the fifteenth century to the present day. Individual chapters offer brief references to previous historical periods and events, with special attention given to core themes concerning...
Peripheral Visions of Economic Development
New frontiers in development economics and the history of economic thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book explores peripheral visions on economic development, both in the sense that it deals with specific issues of economic development and underdevelopment in countries at the periphery of the world economy, and in terms of its exploration of the economic thinking developed in those regions,...
Harmony and the Balance
An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Economic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Frequently the achievements of pioneering economic writers are assessed by imposing contemporary theories of markets, economics, politics, and history. At last, here is a book that appraises the work of the leading English economic writers of the seventeenth century using intellectual concepts of...
Money, Finance and Crises in Economic History
The Long-Term Impact of Economic Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Recently, students and scholars have expressed dissatisfaction with the current state of economics and have called for the reintroduction of historical perspectives into economic thinking.
Supporting the idea that fruitful lessons can be drawn from the work of past economists, this volume brings...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This volume comprises twelve papers written by Chinese scholars on various aspects of the history of ancient Chinese economic thought. The contributions are preceded by an introduction which gives an overview of the development of the subject of history of economic thought in China, and which also...
Why Ireland Starved
A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy, 1800-1850
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Technical changes in the first half of the nineteenth century led to unprecedented economic growth and capital formation throughout Western Europe; and yet Ireland hardly participated in this process at all. While the Northern Atlantic Economy prospered, the Great Irish Famine of 1845–50 killed...
The Open Sea
The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean world
In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's imperial supremacy. Drawing...
A History of Ottoman Economic Thought
Developments Before the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
The Ottoman Empire (1299-1923) existed at the crossroads of the East and the West. Neither the history of Western Asia, nor that of Eastern Europe, can be fully understood without knowledge of the history of the Ottoman Empire.
The question is often raised of whether or not economic thinking...