Economic History category: 3271 books
Famines in European Economic History
The Last Great European Famines Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This volume explores economic, social, and political dimensions of three catastrophic famines which struck mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Europe; the Irish Famine (An Gorta Mór ) of 1845–1850, the Finnish Famine (Suuret Nälkävuodet) of the 1860s and the Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor)...
An Economic History of Europe
Knowledge, Institutions and Growth, 600 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
This concise and accessible introduction to European economic history focusses on the interplay between the development of institutions and the generation and diffusion of knowledge-based technologies. The author challenges the view that European economic history before the Industrial Revolution was...
The Economy of the Word
Language, History, and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
It was only in the sixteenth century that texts began to refer to the significance of "economic activity" -- of sustaining life. This was not because the ordinary business of life was thought unimportant, but because the principles governing economic conduct were thought to be obvious or uncontroversial....
Uneven Centuries
Economic Development of Turkey since 1820
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
The first comprehensive history of the Turkish economy
The population and economy of the area within the present-day borders of Turkey has consistently been among the largest in the developing world, yet there has been no authoritative economic history of Turkey until now. In Uneven Centuries,...
by Hedrick Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.
In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union....
Greed, Lust and Gender
A History of Economic Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
When does the pursuit of self-interest go too far, lapsing into morally unacceptable behaviour? Until the unprecedented events of the recent global financial crisis economists often seemed unconcerned with this question, even suggesting that "greed is good." A closer look, however, suggests...
Perilous Passage
Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1900
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In this innovative and ambitious global history, distinguished economic historian Amiya Kumar Bagchi critically analyzes the processes leading to the rise of the West since the sixteenth century to its current position as the most prosperous...
Cultures Merging
A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
"Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes...
by Niall Kishtainy
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field
What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous...
The Great Wave
Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1996
David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling...
by Yosaburo Takekoshi
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Originally published by Allen & Unwin in 1930 this 3-volume collection brings together writings on the economic aspects of Japan's history. Covering the period from the 1600s until the 1920s this work offers the reader, not only an economic history of the Japanese, but also a social and political...
History of Economic Rationalities
Economic Reasoning as Knowledge and Practice Authority
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems. Through multiple case-studies, situated in different historical contexts of the modern West, the book shows that the development of economic rationalities takes...
The History of Capitalism in Mexico
Its Origins, 1521–1763
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
What lies at the center of the Mexican colonial experience? Should Mexican colonial society be construed as a theoretical monolith, capitalist from its inception, or was it essentially feudal, as traditional historiography viewed it? In this pathfinding study, Enrique Semo offers a fresh vision: that...
by Jonathan S. Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Over the course of the twentieth century, professional economists have become a feature in the policymaking process and have slowly changed the way we think about work, governance, and economic justice. However, they have also been a frustrating, paradoxical, and in recent years, controversial fixture...