Economic History category: 3271 books
Wealth and Life (Routledge Revivals)
A Study in Values
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
First published in 1930, this book endeavours to trace and express the relations between economic and human values, between wealth and life. Hobson studies everything from the role of production processes and consumption in the determination of human welfare; to the changing attitudes of economic...
From Adam Smith to Maynard Keynes
The Heritage of Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
In this survey of the great exponents of the classical tradition, Vincent Bladen examines the thought and works of Adam Smith, T.R. Malthus, Henry Thornton, David Ricardo, J.S. Mill, Karl Marx, W.S. Jevons, Alfred Marshall, and John Maynard Keynes, and relates their views to modern situations. This...
by Francesco Ramella
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This book offers a sociological overview of the theories and research on economic innovation. Over the past few decades, the economics of innovation has given rise to a lively flow of studies, and innovation studies continues to develop as an interdisciplinary field of research. Sociology in general,...
Reflexivity and Economics
George Soros's theory of reflexivity and the methodology of economic science
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The form of ‘reflexivity’ – defined by the dictionary as that which is ‘directed back upon itself’ – that is most relevant to economic methodology is that where observation of the economy leads to ideas that change behavior, which in turn changes (is directed back upon) the economy itself....
by Michael G. Heller
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Based on a timely reassessment of the classic arguments of Weber, Schumpeter, Hayek, Popper, and Parsons, this book reconceptualizes actually-existing capitalism. It proposes capitalism as an impersonal procedural solution to the problems of spontaneously coordinating public institutions that enable...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The question of why empires decline and fall has attracted the attention of historians for centuries, but remains fundamentally unsolved. This unique collection is concerned with the purely economic aspects of decline. It can be observed of empires in the process of decline that their economies are...
The Global Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath
Hidden Factors in the Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
In The Global Financial Crisis, contributors argue that the complexity of the Global Financial Crisis challenges researchers to offer more comprehensive explanations by extending the scope and range of their traditional investigations. To achieve this, the volume views the financial crisis simultaneously...
Power to the People
Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy...
by Cheng Jin
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
This book provides a historical economic analysis of two key issues relating to township and village enterprise (TVE) development in China. Firstly, the nature of the evolving relationship between TVEs and local government; in particular how TVE entrepreneurs have used institutionalized power to secure...
Lost Decades in Growth Performance
Causes and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
There have been many noticeable incidents of 'lost decades' in economic growth, occurring in countries across the world. It has been found that in many economies, the lost decade phenomenon persists, even after the conventional set of contributing factors such as per capita income, fertility rate,...
Houston Legends
History and Heritage of Dynamic Global Capitol
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Two hundred years of Houston history through the prism of business, entrepreneurship, and innovation in this essential and epic overview.
The first Houston history book to be written from a business perspective, where the stories behind the city’s many legendary successes are told. Moore presents...
The Rise and Fall of Korea’s Economic Development
Lessons for Developing and Developed Economies
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This book provides a unique and refreshing look at the Korean economy over the past 60 years. While most books and articles on the Korean economy would be technical or specifically address some aspect of Korea, this book takes an overarching view of Korea’s economic development. It assesses Korea’s...
Governmental Forms and Economic Development
From Medieval to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
This book investigates the performance of economic development under different forms of government, ranging from autocratic states to liberal democracies. Starting with a critical review of the literature on social and economic development, including the works of Frank Knight, Max Weber, Joseph Schumpeter...
Years of Recovery
British Economic Policy 1945-51
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Years of Recovery was the first comprehensive study of the transition from war to peace in the British economy under the Labour government of 1945–51. It includes a full account of the successive crises and turning-points in those hectic years – the coal and convertibility crises of 1947, devaluation...