Economic History category: 3271 books
Solvay
History of a Multinational Family Firm
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Ernest Solvay, philanthropist and organizer of the world-famous Solvay conferences on physics, discovered a profitable way of making soda ash in 1861. Together with a handful of associates, he laid the foundations of the Solvay company, which successfully branched out into other chemicals, plastics...
American Enterprise
A History of Business in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
What does it mean to be an American? What are American ideas and values? American Enterprise, the companion book to a major exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, aims to answer these questions about the American experience through an exploration of its economic and...
Small and Medium Powers in Global History
Trade, Conflicts, and Neutrality from the 18th to the 20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This volume brings together a leading group of scholars to offer a new perspective on the history of conflicts and trade, focusing on the role of small and medium, or "weak", and often neutral states. Existing historiography has often downplayed the importance of such states in world trade, during...
by Abdul Azim Islahi
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Islahi explores the state of Arab Muslim economic thinking in the 19th century. Investigating the works of nine distinguished Arab writers from various fields, Islahi concludes that the intellectual, economic and Islamic awakening seen in the 19th century paved the way for the development of Islamic economics in the 20th century.
by Hugh A. Lichter
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
In early 2002, the investment community is in a state of suspended animation. Share prices plummet as the “technology bubble” bursts, and corporate scandals fill every headline. Equities and debt become toxic with the fall of Enron, Global Crossings, WorldCom, Adelphia, and other high-flying corporate...
The Origin of Capitalism
A Longer View
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?
In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth...
by Klaus Schwab
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work.
Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale,...
The Alchemists
Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world’s three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King...
by Brian Lee Crowley,Jason Clemens,Niels Veldhuis
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
One hundred years ago a great Canadian Sir Wilfrid Laurier predicted that the twentieth century would belong to Canada. He had a plan to make it so. What happened? Canada lost sight of Laurier's plan and failed to claim its century dwelling instead in the long shadow of the United States. No more!...
From Silver to Cocaine
Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2006
Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. In clear, accessible essays, historians from Latin America, England, and the United...
The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath
The Past and Future of American Affluence
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
The Great Inflation in the 1960s and 1970s, notes award-winning columnist Robert J. Samuelson, played a crucial role in transforming American politics, economy, and everyday life. The direct consequences included stagnation in living standards, a growing belief—both in America and abroad—that...
On the Brink
Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System -- With Original New Material on the Five Year Anniversary of the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson -- who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets -- provides a startling, first- person account of what really happened during this time of global financial crisis - and this revised edition features fresh and original material from Paulson...
The Vanishing American Corporation
Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
It may be hard to believe in an era of Walmart, Citizens United, and the Koch brothers, but corporations are on the decline. The number of American companies listed on the stock market dropped by half between 1996 and 2012. In recent years we've seen some of the most storied corporations go bankrupt...
by Charles Mackay
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The book chronicles its subjects in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". Despite its journalistic and rather sensational style, the book has gathered a body of academic support as a work of considerable importance in the...