Economic History category: 3271 books
by A.J. Youngson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Professor Youngson's book is an ubiased review of Britain's past experience and present difficulties. Few sacred cows are spared. There is no pretence that fundamental problems were resolved at the time of its first publication in 1967.
Many econmic historians fail in their assessment of Britian's...
Invention and Reinvention
The Evolution of San Diego’s Innovation Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Formerly prosperous cities across the United States, struggling to keep up with an increasingly global economy and the continued decline of post-war industries like manufacturing, face the issue of how to adapt to today's knowledge economy. In Invention and Reinvention, authors Mary Walshok and Abraham...
by Angus Maddison
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In terms of output, the USSR and Japan account for one-fifth of the world's economy, occupying second and third places behind the United States. Japan has the world's fastest growth of per capita income and the USSR has not lagged far behind. But a century ago they were static feudal societies. This...
Franklin's Thrift
The Lost History of an American Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Americans today often think of thrift as a negative value—a miserly hoarding of resources and a denial of pleasure. Even more telling, many Americans don't even think of thrift at all anymore. Franklin’s Thrift challenges this state of mind by recovering the rich history of thrift as a quintessentially...
by Anthony Slaven
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The economic and social problems of modern Scotland are at the centre of current debate about regional economic growth, social improvement and environmental rehabilitation. In this book, as relevant today as when it was first published in 1975, Anthony Slaven argues that the extent and causes of these...
The History of Development
From Western Origins to Global Faith
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
In this classic text, now in its fourth edition, Gilbert Rist provides a complete and powerful overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history. He traces it from its origins in the Western view of history, through the early stages of the world system, the rise of US hegemony,...
The Economic Reader
Textbooks, Manuals and the Dissemination of the Economic Sciences during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries.
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The book studies the origins and evolution of economic textbooks in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, up to the turning point represented by Paul Samuelson’s Economics (1948), which became the template for all the textbooks of the postwar period. The case studies included in the book cover...
The Statistical Method in Economics and Political Science
A Treatise on the Quantitative and Institutional Approach to Social and Industrial Problems
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Originally published in 1929. This balanced combination of fieldwork, statistical measurement, and realistic applications shows a synthesis of economics and political science in a conception of an organic relationship between the two sciences that involves functional analysis, institutional interpretation,...
China's Regional Development
Review and Prospect
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
China is a large developing economy and it has been deeply involved in globalization since its economic reform and opening-up. Simultaneously, China has seen a significant change in the spatial distribution of economic resources, especially capital and labor. In the recent 10 years, economists have...
Agricultural Transition in China
Domestic and International Perspectives on Technology and Institutional Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
This book extends current research on the political economy of modern China, with particular regard to agricultural development and its role in economic transition. It uses Neoclassical principles to re-interpret agricultural growth and technological change under complex market institutions with...
Where Economics Went Wrong
Chicago's Abandonment of Classical Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
How modern economics abandoned classical liberalism and lost its way
Milton Friedman once predicted that advances in scientific economics would resolve debates about whether raising the minimum wage is good policy. Decades later, Friedman’s prediction has not come true. In Where Economics...
Seeds of Wealth
Four plants that made men rich
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Henry Hobhouse was the first to recognise plants as a causal factor in history in his Seeds of Wealth. In this new book, he examines four plants: rubber, timber, tobacco and the wine grape, each of which enormously increased the wealth of those who dealt in them, created great new industries and changed...
The Growing Economy
Principles of Political Economy Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
First published in 1968, this is the second part of Professor Meade’s Principles of Political Economy, which presents a systematic treatment of the whole field of economic analysis in the form of a series of simplified models which are specifically designed to show the interconnections between the...
by Conrad Blyth
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Originally published in 1960 and 1966. This is an elementary introduction to the sources of economic statistics and their uses in answering economic questions. No mathematical knowledge is assumed, and no mathematical symbols are used.
The book shows - by asking and answering a number of...