Economic History category: 3271 books
Werner von Siemens
1816-1892
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Werner von Siemens counts as one of the pioneers of modernity and was one of the most important entrepreneurs in German history. He contributed to transforming people's everyday lives with fundamental innovations in the field of communications and energy technology. With his brothers, he laid the...
by Robert Sloan
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Why Main Street blames financial speculation for economic crashes
Disdain for short selling is as American as apple pie, dating back to our nation’s founding. But as Bob Sloan argues in Don’t Blame the Shorts, short selling lies at the heart of every Wall Street transaction and fuels the...
Reconstructing Karl Polanyi
Excavation and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
*Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2017* *BR**BR*Karl Polanyi's contribution to political economy and social science is immeasurable. In Reconstructing Karl Polanyi, Gareth Dale, foremost scholar and biographer of Polanyi, provides a sweeping survey of his contributions to the social sciences....
by Howard J. Erlichman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The Roman Century: How a Determined People Launched the Greatest Empire in World History should be of interest to anyone who ponders the increasingly intense competition among the United States, China, Russia and emerging Islamic powers. The untimely death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC would not...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
As editor Kenneth E. Hendrickson, III, notes in his introduction: “Since the end of the nineteenth-century, industrialization has become a global phenomenon. After the relative completion of the advanced industrial economies of the West after 1945, patterns of rapid economic change invaded societies...
Black Baseball, Black Business
Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Winner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research
Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social...
The Rise of Fiscal States
A Global History, 1500–1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
From the Netherlands to the Ottoman Empire, to Japan and India, this groundbreaking volume confronts the complex and diverse problem of the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia between 1500 and 1914. This series of country case studies from leading economic historians reveals that distinctive features...
Foundations of Marketing Thought
The Influence of the German Historical School
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
The study and teaching of marketing as a university subject is generally understood to have originated in America during the early 20th century emerging as an applied branch of economics. This book tells a different story describing the influence of the German Historical School on institutional economists...
The Invention of Enterprise
Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs--and their innovations--have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. The Invention of Enterprise gathers together, for the first time, leading economic historians to explore the entrepreneur's role...
Production, Distribution and Trade
Alternative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
This collection brings together significant new contributions to the Sraffa--based theories of production and distribution, from post-Keynesian arguments concerning monetary and macro economics to the history of thought and methodology. All of the authors are well established authorities in their...
by Peter Temin
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were...
Land and Credit
Mortgages in the Medieval and Early Modern European Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
This volume investigates the use of mortgages in the European countryside between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. A mortgage allowed a loan to be secured with land or other property, and the practice has been linked to the transformation of the agrarian economy that paved the way for modern...
Intra-Asian Trade and Industrialization
Essays in Memory of Yasukichi Yasuba
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Under the impressive editorship of A.J.H. Latham and comprising high quality essays on a topic of rising interest to scholars and policymakers, this volume makes some valuable contributions to regional and global dynamics of trade.
With contributions from leading names in the field of economic...
by Philip Mirowski
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
A leading scholar of the history and philosophy of economic thought, Philip Mirowski argues that there has been a top-to-bottom transformation in how scientific research is organized and funded in Western countries over the past two decades and that these changes necessitate a reexamination of the...