Economic History category: 3271 books

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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013

Volume 29 contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.S. including "Understanding Aging During the Epidemiologic Transition" by Suchit Arora; "Estimating French Regional Income: Departmental Per Capita Gross Value Added, 1872-1911" by Paul Caruana-Galizia; "Improve...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018

Volume 34 contains articles on the economic history of Europe, North America and South America and brings new analysis, and newly created datasets to address issues of interest. Two of the papers present newly constructed datasets. In "Prices, Wages and the Cost of Living in Old Republic São...
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The Vital Few

The Entrepreneur and American Economic Progress

by Jonathan Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 1986

The Vital Few, a study of the contribution of entrepreneurs to the American economy, provides portraits of the men and women whose individual enterprise has helped to establish the character of the American businessperson and to carry our economy forward from colonial times. Examining such legendary...
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Confronting Capitalism

Real Solutions for a Troubled Economic System

by Philip Kotler
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

With one side of the political aisle proposing increasingly more socialistic and anti-capitalistic ideas, the other side has been quick to defend our country’s great economic model, with good reason. Capitalism--spanning a spectrum from laissez faire to authoritarian--shapes the market economies...
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The Reckoning

Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations

by Jacob Soll
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014

Whether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state's assets and guide its policies. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double-entry bookkeeping form the basis of modern capitalism and the nation-state....
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From Political Economy to Economics

Method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory

by Dimitris Milonakis, Ben Fine
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009

Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in this new major work of critical recollection. The authors show how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional...
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Political Arithmetic

Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics

by Robert William Fogel, Enid M. Fogel, Mark Guglielmo
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn’t the case—economists simply didn’t have the necessary information or statistical tools to understand...
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by Joosr
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016

In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries...
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Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences

A Biographical Dictionary

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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017

This title, first published in 1989, is an in-depth biographical dictionary of the Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences from 1969 to 1988. Each biographical entry includes a segment on the foundations of their career in the economic sciences, summaries of their most notable discoveries and ideas and...
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Speculation

A History of the Fine Line between Gambling and Investing

by Stuart Banner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

What is the difference between gambling and speculation? This difficult question has posed a legal problem throughout American history. Many have argued that periodic failures by regulators to differentiate between the two have been the proximate causes of catastrophic economic downturns, including...
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East Texas Lumber Workers

An Economic and Social Picture, 1870-1950

by Ruth A. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014

In 1950 a million Texans—more than a tenth of the entire population of the state—lived in a region where one family in every two earned less than $2,000 a year. Composing that region are the thirty-two counties of northeastern Texas in which the lumber industry is concentrated. In eleven of these...
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by Alexander Raven Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019

Alexander Raven Thomson outlines the (pre-WW2) British Union of Fascists economic proposals to “Democratise” Britain’s economic system. The Coming Corporate State sets out in clear and precise terms the economic infrastructure that would be put in place once the British Union of Fascists came...
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The End of Normal

The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth

by James K. Galbraith
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014

From one of the most respected economic thinkers and writers of our time, a brilliant argument about the history and future of economic growth. The years since the Great Crisis of 2008 have seen slow growth, high unemployment, falling home values, chronic deficits, a deepening disaster in Europe—and...
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Prometheus Shackled

Goldsmith Banks and England's Financial Revolution after 1700

by Peter Temin, Hans-Joachim Voth
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013

After 1688, Britain underwent a revolution in public finance, and the cost of borrowing declined sharply. Leading scholars have argued that easier credit for the government, made possible by better property-rights protection, lead to a rapid expansion of private credit. The Industrial Revolution,...
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