Economic History category: 3271 books
Japan and the Great Divergence
A Short Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
This text offers an accessible guide to the ways in which our growing knowledge of development in early-modern and modernising Japan can throw light on the paths that industrialisation was eventually to take across the globe. It has long been taken as read that the industrial revolution was the product...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2019
This book contains original essays on various aspect of the Han’s political economy and its legacy, written by leading Chinese and Western scholars whose collective expertise spans Economic History, History of Economic Thought and Sinology.
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler...
How America Was Financed
The True Story of Northeastern Pennsylvania's Contribution to the Financial and Economic Greatness of the United States of America
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
The author has created an interpretive document detailing the contributions of North East Pennsylvania to the greatness of the United States of America resulting in an economic, financial, and political revitalization of the U.S.A.
The book details the accidental and deliberate things that...
The World Economic Forum
A Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This book explores the paradoxes and unique characteristics of the World Economic Forum, highlighting contemporary issues and debates on global governance, economic development and corporate social responsibility.
The Forum is one of the most influential, but least understood, global institutions....
History of the IMF
Organization, Policy, and Market
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
This book describes the history of the IMF from its birth, through the Bretton Woods era, and in the aftermath. Special attention is paid to integrating IMF history with the macro-economic policies of member countries and of other international institutions as well. This collection of work presents...
Golden Fetters : The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939
The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 1992
This book offers a reassessment of the international monetary problems that led to the global economic crisis of the 1930s. It explores the connections between the gold standard--the framework regulating international monetary affairs until 1931--and the Great Depression that broke out in 1929. Eichengreen...
by James E. Meade
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1940, this book suggested the basic principles upon which a new international economic order should be built at the end of the Second World War. Particular attention is paid to the possibility of constructing such an international order on the basis of divergent national economic...
Milton Friedman
A concise guide to the ideas and influence of the free-market economist
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
"One of the most important economic thinkers of all time..." - Paul Krugman Milton Friedman changed the world. From free markets in China to the flat taxes of Eastern Europe, from the debate on drugs to interest rate policy, Friedman's skill for vivid argument and ideas led to robust and often successful...
The Theory of Value and Distribution in Economics
Discussions between Pierangelo Garegnani and Paul Samuelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This new volume explores two alternative economic theories – the classical theory and the marginalist or neoclassical theory- through a discussion between two eminent economists, Pierangelo Garegnani and Paul Samuelson.
The key themes of the volume are the difference in approaches to the...
Class and Property in Marx's Economic Thought
Exploring the Basis for Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This book presents the capitalist system as a function of the interaction of the three basic classes in the capitalist social formation. Through this, it shows how the corresponding conflicts and clashes of interests between those classes – industrial capitalists, wage labourers and landed proprietors...
American Economic Development since 1945
Growth, Decline and Rejuvenation
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This clearly-written book provides an historical analysis of postwar economic development in the United States, helping the reader to understand the nation's current economic position. Samuel Rosenberg investigates three postwar phases: the creation of an institutional framework setting the stage...
by S. DeCanio
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
The book aims to show that the deterministic vision embodied in conventional economic modelling is neither consistent with nor supported by the state of the art in mathematics, logic, and physical science. DeCanio recognizes that economic agents are intrinsically free and somewhat unpredictable, which is essential for economic and social theory.
by J. A. Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
First published in 1938 this Routledge Revival is a reissue of the autobiography of influential economist J. A. Hobson. A comprehensive work, it details many aspects of his life including his background, influences, ethical principles, philosophy and religion. In a life which spanned great social,...