Economic History category: 3271 books
From Partisan Banking to Open Access
The Emergence of Free Banking in Early Nineteenth Century Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
How did banking in early nineteenth-century Massachusetts evolve? Lu provides a compelling narrative about the connection between inclusive political systems and open access economies, hypothesizing that entry into banking was firstly made upon partisan grounds before later becoming open access/free...
Managing Financial Resources in Late Antiquity
Greek Fathers' Views on Hoarding and Saving
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean, from the late first to the fifth century. The study shows how the approaches of Greek Fathers, such as Clement...
Economies under Occupation
The hegemony of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Nazi Germany and Japan occupied huge areas at least for some period during World War II, and those territories became integral parts of their war economies. The book focuses on the policies of World War II aggressors in occupied countries.
The unbalanced economic and financial relations were...
Governments and Markets in East Asia
The Politics of Economic Crises
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Governments and Markets in East Asia examines the relationship between economic performance, elite co-operation, and political regime stability in the context of the Asian crisis, and argues that economic crisis is not the cause of greater political harmony or discord, but rather that it serves...
by J.J. Van Duijn
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Of all fluctuations in economic activity, the long wave or Kondratieff cycle is easily the most puzzling and least understood one. Does it really exist, and if so, is it only a cycle in prices or a cycle in economic activity at large? What causes it, and has it been confined to Europe or does it affect...
Marx, Veblen, and the Foundations of Heterodox Economics
Essays in Honor of John F. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
John F. Henry is an eminent economist who has made important contributions to heterodox economics drawing on Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and John Maynard Keynes. His historical approach offers radical insights into the evolution of ideas (ideologies and theories) giving rise to and/or...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Mercantilism and accounting remain two dynamic and debated concepts in terms of definition and scope. This volume brings together the research of international scholars from a wide variety of disciplines – accounting, anthropology, native studies, economic geography, economic history and management...
Agrarian Change and Economic Development
The Historical Problems
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Agrarian Change and Economic Development is a landmark volume that examines the historical experience of the relationship between agrarian change and economic development.
Because agriculture was until recently man's dominant occupation, scholars have traditionally drawn little attention to...
Peasants and Poverty (Routledge Revivals)
A Study of Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Haiti is a country which, until the earthquake of 2010, remained largely outside the focus of world interest and outside the important international historical currents during its existence as a free nation. The nineteenth century was the decisive period in Haitian history, serving to shape the class...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Brazil is a globally vital but troubled economy. This volume offers comprehensive insight into Brazil's economic development, focusing on its most salient characteristics and analyzing its structural features across various dimensions. This innovative Oxford Handbook provides an understanding of the...
by T. J. C. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Originally published in 1989. Professor Robinson begins by examining natural resource classification and the nature of return in mining, giving particular emphasis to different sources of long-run price changes in mining and their relevance for user cost and the economic treatment for exhaustible...
Capital Women
The European Marriage Pattern, Female Empowerment and Economic Development in Western Europe 1300-1800
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
How women increasingly became economic agents in early modern Europe is the focus of this stimulating book, which highlights how female agency was crucial for understanding the development of the Western European economy and sheds light on economic development today. Jan Luiten van Zanden, Tine De...
The Rise of the Joyful Economy
Artistic invention and economic growth from Brunelleschi to Murakami
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This book argues for the increasing importance of the arts as a major resource in fuelling growth through the experiential dimension of today’s economy. As we move from the knowledge economy to a new stage called the joyful economy, consumers shift their spending from physical objects and technical...
by Larry Elliott, Dan Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Europe's center-left is rapidly falling out of love with the European single currency. Fifteen years after its creation, British journalists Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson assess its performance to show why. Looking at a range of key indicators the authors show how the euro has failed to deliver on its...