Economic History category: 3271 books
by Philip T. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations—such...
The Origins of Neoliberalism
Insights from economics and philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Neoliberalism is a doctrine that adopts a free market policy in a deregulated political framework. In recent years, neoliberalism has become increasingly prominent as a doctrine in Western society, and has been heavily discussed in both academia and the media.
In The Origins of Neoliberalism,...
by David Flath
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2005
Despite recent upheavals, Japan remains one of the dominant economic powers. Yet the Japanese economy is one of the most misunderstood phenomena in the modern world. Conventionally, Japan is presented as the exception to mainstream economic theory: an exception to the standard models of modern economics....
Economic Actors, Economic Behaviors, and Presidential Leadership
The Constrained Effects of Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
There is considerable disagreement about whether the U.S. president has a direct and measurable influence over the economy. The analysis presented in Economic Actors, Economic Behaviors, and Presidential Leadership: The Constrained Effects of Rhetoric suggests that while presidents have increased...
by Paul Slattery
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The Economic Ascent of the Hotel Business is about the hotel business and the economic contexts in which it has evolved. Slattery presents an understanding of the structural development of the economies in which hotels operate and which provide the potential for hotel demand and supply to grow. He draws...
by Ricardo F. Crespo
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The world has seen several financial and economic crises in the past few years. Psychological, ethical and philosophical levels of causal analysis have been discussed, and in this context, an interest in classical thinkers has emerged.
The work of Aristotle has influenced writers from Marx...
China's Economic Reform
A Study with Documents
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book presents a collection and analysis of original policy documents, newly translated into English, from a key period of Chinese development, providing both a current and a retrospective analysis of China's economic reform efforts. Topics dealt with include the evolution of Chinese economic...
Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics
The Money That Made Mexico and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics traces the linked history of the new nations of Mexico and the United States from the 1770s to the 1860s. Tatiana Seijas and Jake Frederick highlight the common challenges facing both countries in their early decades of independence by exploring the creation of...
A Tale of Two Capitalisms
Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
No questions are more pressing today than the ethical dimensions of global capitalism in relation to an unevenly secularized modernity. A Tale of Two Capitalisms offers a timely response to these questions by reexamining the intellectual history of capitalist economics during the nineteenth century....
In Essentials, Unity
An Economic History of the Grange Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The Patrons of Husbandry—or the Grange—is the longest-lived US agricultural society and, since its founding shortly after the Civil War, has had immeasurable influence on social change as enacted by ordinary Americans. The Grange sought to relieve the struggles of small farmers by encouraging...
The Changing Body
Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and capability of the human body to economic and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
This contributed volume applies cliometric methods to the study of family and households in order to derive global patterns and determine their impact on economic development. Family and households are a fundamental feature of societies and economies. They are found throughout history and are the...
Rethinking Law and Development
The Chinese experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This book is the result of the collective effort of some of the foremost experts and scholars of Chinese law, Asian law, and Chinese economics and carefully examines the relationship between law and China’s economic development. Serious inquiries and candid opinions of the contributors have made...
Multinational Enterprise, Political Risk and Organisational Change
From Total War to Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Hitherto, the organization of international business has been studied mostly from a managerial point of view or by examining the relationship between firms and the economy. Yet, the development of the modern, multinational firm - the most important type of business organisation - has been strongly...