Economic History category: 3271 books
When Ideas Fail
Economic Thought, the Failure of Transition and the Rise of Institutional Instability in Post-Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In the history of Russian economic ideas, a peculiar mix of anthropocentrism and holism provided fertile breeding ground for patterns of thought that were in potential conflict with the market. These patterns, did not render the emergence of capitalism in Russia impossible. But they entailed a deep...
Biblical Economic Ethics
Sacred Scripture's Teachings on Economic Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Written in non-technical language accessible to non-specialist readers, this book is a theological synthesis of the findings of scripture scholars and ethicists on what the Bible teaches about economic life. It proposes a biblical theology of economic life that addresses three questions, namely:
What...
by Harry Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Joseph Alois Schumpeter has long been recognised as one of the great economists of the 20th Century, and his truly revolutionary approach to economic development continues to gain appreciation. This is particularly due to the emphasis he places on innovation and creative destruction as drivers of...
Competing Economic Paradigms in China
The Co-Evolution of Economic Events, Economic Theory and Economics Education, 1976–2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
When the Chinese economic reforms began in 1978, Marxist economics infused all the institutions of economic theory in China, from academic departments and economics journals to government departments and economic think tanks. By the year 2000, neoclassical economics dominated these institutions and...
Economic Freedom and Prosperity
The Origins and Maintenance of Liberalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Economic theory and a growing body of empirical research support the idea that economic freedom is an important ingredient to long-run economic prosperity. However, the determinants of economic freedom are much less understood than the benefits that freedom provides. Economic Freedom and Prosperity...
Political Economy and Industrialism
Banks in Saint-Simonian Economic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
The French philosopher and economist Saint-Simon (1760–1825) propounded a new political, economic and social order in which the quest for economic efficiency and social justice led to putting the workers at the forefront. On his death, his disciples worked to preserve his thought and developed it...
by John Maynard Keynes
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
In the light of subsequent history, Essays of Persuasion is a remarkably prophetic volume covering a wide range of issues in political economy. In articles on the Versailles Treaty, John Maynard Keynes foresaw all too clearly that excessive Allied demands for reparations and indemnities would lead...
by Mark Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The papers brought together in this volume represent a decade of advances in the historical political economy of defence, dictatorship, and warfare. They address defining events and institutions of the world in the twentieth century: economic consequences of repression and violence, the outcomes of...
Age of Greed
The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
A vividly told history of how greed bred America’s economic ills over the last forty years, and of the men most responsible for them.
As Jeff Madrick makes clear in a narrative at once sweeping, fast-paced, and incisive, the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth has been on the rise...
American Capitalism
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
From Cornell University Professors Louis Hyman and Edward E. Baptist, a collection of the most relevant readings on the history of capitalism in America, created to accompany their EdX course American Capitalism: A Reader.
To understand the past and especially our own times, arguably no story...
by Robert A. McGuire, Philip R.P. Coelho
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
The crucial role played by diseases in economic progress, the growth of civilizations, and American history.
A History of the United States in Five Crashes
Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history, Scott Nations, a longtime trader, financial engineer, and CNBC contributor, takes us on a journey through the five significant stock market crashes in the past century to reveal how they defined the United States today
The...
Wall Street
A History, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Wall Street is an unending source of legend--and nightmares. It is a universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of economic prosperity and the basest impulses of greed and deception. Charles R. Geisst's Wall Street is at once a chronicle of the street itself--from the days when the wall was...
Postwar America
An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
From the outbreak of the Cold War to the rise of the United States as the last remaining superpower, the years following World War II were filled with momentous events and rapid change. Diplomatically, economically, politically, and culturally, the United States became a major influence around the...