Economic History category: 3271 books
by J.A. Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
First published in 1921, Problems of a New World deals with the economic and political issues that arose from the First World War. The first three parts of the study consider the world before the war, and the interests, purposes and ideals which influenced the national psyche during the years which...
Competition and the Corporate Society
British Conservatives, the state and Industry 1945-1964
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
British society changed radically in the 21st century. Any political party dedicated to preserving the Britain of 1900 would have faced, over time, either major problems of adjustment or the possibility of its own destruction. The British Conservative party was just such a party, its character defined...
The General Theory of Unemployment
The fatal legacy of Adam Smith and the rehabilitation of John Maynard Keynes
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
After studying economics, Vernon Routley spent most of his working life within the bureaucracy. Although initially appointed because of his economic qualifications, he spent most of his early career engaged in the administrative minutiae which characterises all large organisations. Ultimately rising...
by Eiman Zein-Elabdin, Christine Sylvester, Nitasha Kaul
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing academic and political significance as questions about the nature of globalisation, transnational flows of capital and workers and the making and re-making of territorial borders assume centre stage in debates about contemporary...
by Maurice Dobb
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This book follows on from the author’s volume Russian Economic Development and although it encompasses some of the same material it charts the history and progress of the Soviet economy down to the efforts at reconstruction after The Second World War. A new chapter was added which covers the post-war decade from the end of the war to the announcement of the Sixth Year Plan.
Going to Market
Women, Trade and Social Relations in Early Modern English Towns, c. 1550-1650
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Going to Market rethinks women’s contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies have focused on whether or not the early modern period closed occupational opportunities for women. By attending to women’s everyday business practices, and not merely to their position...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Development Economics has been identified as a homogeneous body of theory since the 1950s, concerned both with the study of development issues and with the shaping of more effective policies for less advanced economies.
Development Economics in the Twenty-First Century brings together an international...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Austrian School of Economics is an intellectual tradition in economics and political economy dating back to Carl Menger in the late-19th century. Menger stressed the subjective nature of value in the individual decision calculus. Individual choices are indeed made on the margin, but the evaluations...
The Systemic Nature of the Economic Crisis
The perspectives of heterodox economics and psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
The most prominent aspect of the current financial crisis is its systemic character which manifests itself in high levels of inequality, rampant unemployment, economic and social insecurity and environmental decay. This book explores the potential of a pluralistic and interdisciplinary approach for...
The Economic Geography of Air Transportation
Space, Time, and the Freedom of the Sky
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Like the railroad and the automobile, the airliner has changed the very geography of the societies it serves. Fundamentally, air transportation has helped redefine the scale of human geography by dramatically reducing the cost of distance, both in terms of time and money. The result is what the author...
Power, Culture, and Economic Change in Russia
To the undiscovered country of post-socialism, 1988-2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Utilising cutting-edge theory and unique data, this book examines the role of power, culture, and practice in Russia’s story of post-socialist economic change, and provides a framework for addressing general economic change.
No other book places power and culture as centrally as this, and...
Mediterranean Labor Markets in the First Age of Globalization
An Economic History of Real Wages and Market Integration
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Scholars have studied the nineteenth century's unprecedented labor flows in global and specific country contexts, but have lacked a comprehensive analysis of the world's old economic core, the Mediterranean. This work provides answers to important questions, such as: If the Mediterranean labor market...
Trading Roles
Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
Located in the heart of the Andes, Potosí was arguably the most important urban center in the Western Hemisphere during the colonial era. It was internationally famous for its abundant silver mines and regionally infamous for its labor draft. Set in this context of opulence and oppression associated...
The Choices and Consequences of Our Age
The Disintegrating Economic, Political, and Societal Institutions of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
There are winners and losers in a capitalistic society, but capitalism does not choose who is a winner and who is a loser. The winners are those who have the right idea, sacrifice their time and money, take risks, work hard, and have a little luck and help along the way. The losers are those who rarely...