Economic History category: 3271 books
Malaysia in the World Economy (1824–2011)
Capitalism, Ethnic Divisions, and "Managed" Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Does the industrial development of a country entail the democratization of its political system? Malaysia in the World Economy examines this theme with regards to Malaysia in the period between 1824 and 2011. Capitalism was first introduced into Malaysia through colonialism specifically to supply...
by W. Arthur Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
In this title, first published in 1978, Sir Arthur Lewis considers the development of the international economy in the forty years leading up to the First World War, with the adoption of the gold standard, a rapid growth in world trade, the opening up of the continents by the railways, vast emigration...
European Reformism, Nazism and Traditionalism
Economic Thought in Imperial Japan, 19301945
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This study analyses the economic thought in Japan in the critical period from 1930 to 1945. It pays particular attention to how the contemporary Japanese received European and American ideas about the transformation of capitalism from a liberal to controlled or managed economy, and how they applied...
Distant Tyranny
Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Spain's development from a premodern society into a modern unified nation-state with an integrated economy was painfully slow and varied widely by region. Economic historians have long argued that high internal transportation costs limited domestic market integration, while at the same time the Castilian...
The Limits of Convergence
Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
This book challenges the widely accepted notion that globalization encourages economic convergence--and, by extension, cultural homogenization--across national borders. A systematic comparison of organizational change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain since 1950 finds that global competition forces...
The Economic Policies of Alexander Hamilton
Works & Speeches of the Founder of American Financial System
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. It 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....
The Economy of Modern Malta
From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book provides the first wide-ranging account of the Maltese economy in the modern era, from colonialism to European Union membership. It sets arguments about growth and development, and the impact and legacy of colonization, against detailed histories of agriculture, manufacturing and trade,...
The Challenge of Credit Supply
American Problems and Solutions, 1650-1950
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
This book is for anyone seeking a succinct and accessible treatment of the most pivotal financial and monetary policies throughout American history from 1650-1950. But it is especially written for those who desire an intricate and detailed knowledge of how and why these policies worked with respect...
by Julian Gewirtz
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
With Deng Xiaoping’s blessing, Mao’s successors scoured the globe for fresh ideas to launch domestic prosperity and global economic power. Yet China’s government did not publicize its engagement with Western-style innovations, claiming instead that economic reinvention was the Party’s achievement alone. Julian Gewirtz sets forth the truer story.
The European Guilds
An Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic history
Guilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy. They were sometimes viewed as efficient institutions that guaranteed...
Confucian Capitalism
Discourse, Practice and the Myth of Chinese Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The discourse of Confucian Capitalism has been crucial in shaping our understanding of the brilliant economic successes of the Chinese diaspora all over the world. From this perspective, hard work, family values, and communal cohesion, as well as business practices based on sentiment, trust, and social...
Ricardo on Money and Finance
A Bicentenary Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
David Ricardo, one of the major figures in the history of economic thought, particularly in the English classical political economy, deployed his activities as economist just two hundreds of years ago. Since then his economics has been generally estimated as the culminating point of the classical...
National Identity and the Agrarian Republic
The Transatlantic Commerce of Ideas between America and France (1750–1830)
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
With a few exceptions, historiography has paid little attention to the impact of French economic thought during the American Revolution, focusing instead on the Revolution’s links with Britain. This book outlines how, from the mid-eighteenth to the early-nineteenth century, the political and social...
US Economic Statecraft for Survival, 1933-1991
Of Sanctions, Embargoes and Economic Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
How have US economic defence policies promoted its security since 1933?US Policies of Economic Warfare, 1933-1991 concentrates on an important and neglected facet of America's fight for survival in the latter half of the twentieth century. It explains how US policy-makers crafted and used instruments of economic statecraft against states that posed