Economic History category: 3271 books
Reciprocity in the third millennium
Money or the structure of socio-economic evolution - Book II : Geopolitics and New Social Rules
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
A fundamental approach to the structure of the economic evolution, the impact on geopolitics and the role of new social rules.
What does a house, digital data and social connections have in common?
They all are asset classes of a physical-digital economic space.
What does a village marketplace,...
by Maria Brouwer
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Most economic theory is based on the assumption that economies grow in a linear fashion. Recessions, depressions and (financial) crises are explained by policy mistakes. However, economic development has historically been uneven, and this state of affairs continues today. This book argues that...
by Martin Luther, Philipp Robinson Rössner
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Against the backdrop of today’s renewed uncertainty over the present economic system, this timely volume presents Martin Luther’s contribution to the modern economic sciences, providing a detailed introduction and revised translation of his major pamphlet on economic matters, ‘On Commerce and...
by Gavin Peebles
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1991
A Short History of Socialist Money is a historical and institutional account of the role of money in the planned economies. The monetary developments in the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and China up to 1989 are all examined.
The approach is straightforward and...
Reassessing the Role of Management in the Golden Age
An International Comparison of Public Sector Managers 1945–1975
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
This book provides a critical reassessment of the role of the public sector during the Golden Age in both advanced and emerging economies. Contributions focus on a major player in the setting of mixed economies: the top managers of state-owned enterprises. Bringing together world-renowned scholars,...
The Economic System of the Early Islamic Period
Institutions and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This book provides an economic analysis of the earliest Islamic society, focusing on the policies of the Messenger of Islam (Sawa) and his successors during the first four formative decades of Islam. Two institutions of great importance – the market and the public treasury (Baitul Mal) – and their...
Institutional and Organizational Analysis
Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
What explains the great variability in economic growth and political development across countries? Institutional and organizational analysis has developed since the 1970s into a powerful toolkit, which argues that institutions and norms rather than geography, culture, or technology are the primary...
For a New West
Essays, 1919-1958
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
At a recent meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, it was reported that a ghost was haunting the deliberations of the assembled global elite - that of the renowned social scientist and economic historian, Karl Polanyi.
In his classic work, The Great Transformation, Polanyi documented...
by Dr Aashish Velkar
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Measurements are a central institutional component of markets and economic exchange. By the nineteenth century, the measurement system in Britain was desperately in need of revision: a multiplicity of measurement standards, proliferation of local or regional weights and measures, and a confusing array...
by Alan Milward, S. B. Saul
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Upon its initial publication in 1973 this was the first textbook to present a unified view and comprehensive treatment of the economic development of Europe from a continental rather than a British perspective. At the same time, it is more than mere textbook: it is an interpretive analysis of a wide...
The Israeli Path to Neoliberalism
The State, Continuity and Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
In recent years, Israel has deeply and quickly transformed itself from a self-perceived social-democratic regime into a privatized and liberalized "Start-Up Nation" and a highly divided society. This transition to neoliberalism has been coupled with the adoption of a hawkish and isolationist...
Jimmy Carter's Economy
Policy in an Age of Limits
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
The massive inflation and oil crisis of the 1970s damaged Jimmy Carter's presidency. In Jimmy Carter's Economy, Carl Biven traces how the Carter administration developed and implemented economic policy amid multiple crises and explores how a combination of factors beyond the administration's control...
The Economic Gulag
Patriarchy, Capitalism, and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The Economic Gulag: Patriarchy, Capitalism, and Inequality is a trenchant critical analysis of the devastating ravages of capitalist patriarchy in our modern society and its pervasive and increasingly destabilizing negative influence on our views and values regarding power, gender, wealth, and inequality....
Economics in One Lesson
The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
With over a million copies sold, Economics in One Lesson is an essential guide to the basics of economic theory. A fundamental influence on modern libertarianism, Hazlitt defends capitalism and the free market from economic myths that persist to this day.
Considered among the leading economic...