Economic History category: 3271 books
All the Facts
A History of Information in the United States since 1870
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
All the Facts presents a history of the role of information in the United States since 1870, when the nation began a nearly 150-year period of economic prosperity and technological and scientific transformations. James Cortada argues that citizens and their institutions used information extensively...
Brazil’s Economy
An Institutional and Sectoral Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
The past century has witnessed profound transitions in Brazil’s economy: from a surge of industrialization connected to export economy, to state projects of importsubstitution industrialization, followed by a process of neoliberal global market integration. How have Brazilian entrepreneurs and businesses...
Money as a Social Institution
The Institutional Development of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Money is usually understood as a valuable object, the value of which is attributed to it by its users and which other users recognize. It serves to link disparate institutions, providing a disguised whole and prime tool for the “invisible hand” of the market.
This book offers an interpretation...
The Great Disorder
Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914-1924
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 1997
This book presents a comprehensive study of the most famous and spectacular instance of inflation in modern industrial society--that in Germany during and following World War I. A broad, probing narrative, this book studies inflation as a strategy of social pacification and economic reconstruction...
by Karl Kautsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Bolshevism at a Deadlock was written Karl Kautsky, one of the leading Marxist intellectuals of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, in response to the catastrophic failures of Stalin’s first Five Year Plan, which was intended to raise Russian industry and productivity to equal that...
In Hock
Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
The definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation’s founding through the Great Depression, In Hock demonstrates that the pawnshop was essential to the rise of capitalism. The class of working poor created by this economic tide could make ends meet only, Wendy Woloson argues,...
Hypercapitalism
The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the bestselling cartoonist of The Cartoon History of the Universe comes an explosive graphic takedown of capitalism
Bestselling “overeducated cartoonist” Larry Gonick has delighted readers for years with sharp, digestible, and funny accounts of everything from the...
by Arthur Birnie
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Studies in the Economic History of Southern Africa
Volume 1: The Front Line states
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Abraham L. Udovitch
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2011
From the point of view of economic history, the ideal way to study any institution of commercial law would be to compare the information contained in legal codes and treatises with the material relating to its application in economic life as manifested by actual contracts, letters, and business records...
by Norton Reamer, Jesse Downing
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Investing—the commitment of resources to achieve a return—affects individuals, families, companies, and nations, and has done so throughout history. Yet until the sixteenth century, investing was a privilege of only the elite classes. The story behind the democratization of investing is bound...
We Sell Drugs
The Alchemy of US Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This history of US-led international drug control provides new perspectives on the economic, ideological, and political foundations of a Cold War American empire. US officials assumed the helm of international drug control after World War II at a moment of unprecedented geopolitical influence embodied...
by Y.S. Brennor
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
First Published in 1975. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Peter D'A Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.