Economic History category: 3271 books
Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution
Conversations with Economic Historians
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
This volume marks fifty years of an innovative approach to writing economic history often called "The Cliometrics Revolution." The book presents memoirs of personal development, intellectual lives and influences, new lines of historical research, long-standing debates, a growing international scholarly community, and the contingencies that guide an
Hamilton's Curse
How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton--two of the most influential Founding Fathers--were also fierce rivals with two opposing political philosophies and two radically different visions for America.
While Jefferson is better remembered today, it is actually Hamilton’s political legacy that...
The Good Room
Why we ended up in a debtors' prison – and how we can break free
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
A forensic, entertaining polemic from the author of The Pope's Children.
Ireland is deeply in debt, beholden to the IMF, the EU and the bond markets. Its economy is frozen, and years of austerity are ahead.
It didn't have to be this way - and it doesn't have to be this way. In The Good...
Econocide
British Slavery in the Era of Abolition
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
In this classic analysis and refutation of Eric Williams's 1944 thesis, Seymour Drescher argues that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 resulted not from the diminishing value of slavery for Great Britain but instead from the British public's mobilization against the slave trade, which...
Founding Finance
How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax "constitutional conservatism" lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America's founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic clashes over finance and economics that marked the founding of America? Dissenting from both...
Illiberal Reformers
Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism. But not...
The People Want
A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
"The people want . . .": This first half of slogans chanted by millions of Arab protesters since 2011 revealed a long-repressed craving for democracy. But huge social and economic problems were also laid bare by the protestors’ demands.
Simplistic interpretations of the uprising...
The Wealth of Communities
War, Resources and Cooperation in Renaissance Lombardy
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The early decades of the sixteenth century were a turbulent time for the Italian peninsula as competing centres of power struggled for political control. Nowhere was this more true than the area contested by Milan and Venice, that was constantly crossed and occupied by rival armies. Investigating...
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
“Graceful and often witty” insights from the legendary economist, drawn from his most influential works (Library Journal).
The Essential Galbraith includes key selections from the most important works of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most distinguished writers of our time—from The...
by Menzie D. Chinn, Jeffry A. Frieden
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
A clear, authoritative guide to the crisis of 2008, its continuing repercussions, and the needed reforms ahead.
The U.S. economy lost the first decade of the twenty-first century to an ill-conceived boom and subsequent bust. It is in danger of losing another decade to the stagnation of an incomplete...
by Peter M. Lichtenstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Peter M. Lichtenstein believes that any social-economic theory of capitalism must begin with a theory of value and price. Dismissing the neoclassical school, he turns to post-Keynesian and Marxian economics with their coherent and consistent theories of value and price based on concrete objective...
The Decline of the British Motor Industry (Routledge Revivals)
The Effects of Government Policy, 1945-79
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1980, this book considers the British motor industry over the period between 1945 and 1979, analysing the ways in which the industry suffered a considerable decline in the post-war era, when compared to motor industries of other countries or to most other British industries.
Rather...
Back on the Road to Serfdom
The Resurgence of Statism
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
**Leviathan is back **
The threat of statism has reemerged in force. The federal government has radically expanded its power—through bailouts, “stimulus” packages, a trillion-dollar health-care plan, “jobs bills,” massive expansions of the money supply, and much more. But such interventionism...
Institutions of Hanseatic Trade
Studies on the Political Economy of a Medieval Network Organisation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The merchants of the medieval Hanse monopolised trade in the Baltic and North Sea areas. The authors describe the structure of their trade system in terms of network organisation and attempts to explain, on the grounds of institutional economics, the coordination of the merchants’ commercial exchange...