Economic History category: 3271 books
Culture in Economics
History, Methodological Reflections and Contemporary Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Many economists now accept that informal institutions and culture play a crucial role in economic outcomes. Driven by the work of economists like Nobel laureates Douglass North and Gary Becker, there is an important body of work that invokes cultural and institutional factors to build a more comprehensive...
by John Maynard Keynes
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
The essays in this volume show Keynes's attempts to influence the course of events by public persuasion over the period of 1919-40.
In the light of subsequent history, Essays in Persuasion is a remarkably prophetic volume covering a wide range of issues in political economy. In articles on...
Ascending India and Its State Capacity
Extraction, Violence, and Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
A comprehensive and revealing account of the ongoing struggles and instability of India’s political and economic institutions India’s ascent as a formidable power on the world stage and its geopolitical ramifications have received much attention in recent years. This comprehensive study by Sumit...
The Evolving Structure of the East Asian Economic System since 1700
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
This book is the fifth volume of essays edited by A. J. H Latham and Heita Kawakatsu from the International Economic History Congresses looking at the development of the Asian Economy. Bringing together leading scholars from both the east and west, this book offers fascinating insights into the cotton...
A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise
Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A social, economic, and political study of Philadelphia merchants, this study presents both the spirit and statistics of merchant life. Doerflinger studies the Philadelphia merchant community from three perspectives: their commercial world, their confrontation with the Revolution and its aftermath,...
by Shahzavar Karimzadi
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The concept of the origin of money has been a topic of interest and discussion to almost all schools of economic thought. However, in spite of minor differences of interpretation, most views share an underlying core principal about the rise and origin of money, implicit in which is the central belief...
Economics, Ethics and Power
From Behavioural Rules to Global Structures
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Economic theory in its neoclassical form is sometimes regarded as free from values; it is simply the theory of economic exchange. This can only hold true if we accept the idea of "Homo Economicus" and the equilibrium economy. But in the real world, away from neoclassical models, there is...
The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics
Theorizing, Analyzing, and Transforming Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the latest work on economic theory and policy from a ‘pluralistic’ heterodox perspective.
Contributions throughout the Handbook explore different theoretical perspectives including: Marxian-radical political...
The American Disease
Why the American economic system is faltering . . . and how the trend can be changed with a minimum of crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
In this provocative study of the "disease" afflicting American industry today, George Lodge, a distinguished professor at the Harvard Business School, reveals the malady as a psychological disorder, characterized by a refusal to face the facts of interdependence in a competitive world; by...
Frank H. Knight
Prophet of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
This book argues for the reconsideration of Frank Knight and the Chicago School of Economic thought in a post-Financial Crisis world. The author posits that the discussion of the founder of "Knightian Uncertainty" can reveal new insights into what the economy can do for society, as his...
by Adam Klug
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Before his untimely death in 2000, the brilliant young Israeli economic historian Klug conducted a thorough survey into the different theories of international trade. The results of this are now available here for the first time with an introduction from Warren Young and Michael Bordo.
Utilizing...
Uncertainty, Expectations, and Financial Instability
Reviving Allais's Lost Theory of Psychological Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Eric Barthalon applies the neglected theory of psychological time and memory decay of Nobel Prize–winning economist Maurice Allais (1911–2010) to model investors' psychology in the present context of recurrent financial crises. Shaped by the behavior of the demand for money during episodes of...
Hamilton's Economic Policies
Works & Speeches of the Founder of American Financial System
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
This book presents Alexander Hamilton's views on American economy. As the first Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton was the main author of the economic policies of the George Washington administration. He took the lead in the funding of the states' debts by the Federal government, as well as the establishment...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
David Ricardo (1772 – 1823) was a hugely influential British political economist and stock trader. This volume, first published in 1923, contains five important pamphlets published by him, edited and with an overarching introductory essay by E. C. K. Gonner. Each essay relates either to monetary...