Economic History category: 3271 books
Behind the Model
A Constructive Critique of Economic Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
This ambitious book looks 'behind the model' to reveal how economists use formal models to generate insights into the economy. Drawing on recent work in the philosophy of science and economic methodology, the book presents a novel framework for understanding the logic of economic modeling. It also...
The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Short-listed for 1992 GPA Award. Is economic growth improving our lives? In 1992, when the first edition of The Growth Illusion appeared, most people had little doubt that the answer was 'Yes'. Today, however, the climate of opinion has changed and there is widespread acceptance that, while growth...
by E Ray Canterbery
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This book is written as a sequel to John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society, and provides a theoretical framework, for the first time, for surpra-surplus capitalism.
Conventional economics has the income and wealth distributions as "givens". This assumption immediately excludes...
by Matthew McCartney
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The phenomenal growth and liberalisation of the Indian economy has been the subject of extensive scholarly documentation and competing interpretations. This book examines the key period of liberalisation in India from 1991 to 2008. It analyses the relationship between growth and liberalisation and,...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
Polycentricity in Public Administration and Political Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important contributions to several other fields of political economy and public policy. The range of topics...
The End of Development
A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor?
Human history unfolded differently across the globe. The world is separated in to places of poverty and prosperity. Tracing the long arc of human history from hunter gatherer societies to the early twenty first century in an argument...
by Pekka Sutela
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
This book constitutes an up-to-date treatment of Russia’s economic development and economic policies since 2000, when Vladimir Putin became the President of Russia. After the slow decline and sudden collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia embarked upon a multi-faceted change. This included transition...
From greed to wellbeing
A Buddhist approach to resolving our economic and financial crises
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Despite our fitful attempts over decades at reform, the global financial system seems caught in cycles of boom and bust, instability, and scandal. In this timely new book, Joel Magnuson builds on the classic works of E. F. Schumacher and other kindred spirits to provide a Buddhist economics perspective...
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
The book has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter.
Adam Smith died on July 17, 1790 one year before French Revolution from 1789 to 1799. He as a founder of free market economic system is best known for two classic works The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and The...
Financial Intermediation in a Less Developed Economy
The History of the United Bank of India
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Financial Intermediation in a Less Developed Economy: The History of the United Bank of India is an institutional narrative of a bank in a developing economy, a representative case study that brings out the essential two-way relationship between finance and economic development.
The book highlights...
The Economics of Law, Order, and Action
The Logic of Public Goods
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
According to the standard position of the economic mainstream, the efficient production of so-called public goods, including law and defense, requires the use of territorial monopolies of coercive force. Two arguments are put forward for this position: a "positive" one, based on the claim...
The Money Cult
Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
A grand and startling work of American history
America was founded, we’re taught in school, by the Pilgrims and other Puritans escaping religious persecution in Europe—an austere and pious lot who established a culture that remained pure and uncorrupted until the Industrial Revolution got...
Enterprising America
Businesses, Banks, and Credit Markets in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
The rise of America from a colonial outpost to one of the world’s most sophisticated and productive economies was facilitated by the establishment of a variety of economic enterprises pursued within the framework of laws and institutions that set the rules for their organization and operation.
To...
by Tirthankar Roy, Anand V. Swamy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India’s economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment over the long run requires a well-developed legal infrastructure for conducting business, including cheap and reliable contract enforcement and secure property rights. But it’s...