Economic History category: 3271 books
by Prof. Michael Huberman
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
It has become commonplace to think that globalization has produced a race to the bottom in terms of labor standards and quality of life: the cheaper the labor and the lower the benefits afforded workers, the more competitively a country can participate on the global stage. But in this book the distinguished...
by Craig Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In the first book of its kind,* *Turnbull traces the development and implementation of actuarial ideas, from the conception of Equitable Life in the mid-18th century to the start of the 21st century. This book analyses the historical development of British actuarial thought in each of its three...
Towards the Managed Economy
Keynes, the Treasury and the fiscal policy debate of the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This is a major study of economic policy making in Britain between the wars. It provided the first full-length analysis of the early development of fiscal policy as a tool of modern economic management. The central question addressed is how Keynesian fiscal policies came to be adopted by the British...
The Political Economy of Public Finance
Taxation, State Spending and Debt since the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This volume examines the major trends in public finance in developed capitalist countries since the oil crisis of 1973. That year's oil shock quickly became an economic crisis, putting an end to a period of very high growth rates and an era of easy finance. Tax protests and growing welfare costs often...
by Walter Rybeck
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Pinpointing a flaw in prevailing economic practices that explains why so many families in the richest nation on earth are mired in poverty, homelessness, joblessness, and hunger, this study suggests that a reform is available to correct this flaw that is corroding the enterprise system. This flaw...
Trade Policy Disaster
Lessons from the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
The extreme protectionism that contributed to a collapse of world trade in the 1930s is examined in light of the recent economic crisis.
The recent economic crisis—with the plunge in the stock market, numerous bank failures and widespread financial distress, declining output and rising unemployment—has...
The World Mining Industry
Investment Strategy and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Originally published in 1987. A powerful combination of the authors’ research and practical experience underpin this book’s treatment of management and financial strategy in the world mining industry. In contrast with highly theoretical economic treatises on the extractive industries, this account...
Concrete Economics
The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
an excellent new book” - Paul Krugman, The New York Times
History, not ideology, holds the key to growth.
Brilliantly written and argued, Concrete Economics shows how government has repeatedly reshaped the American economy ever since Alexander Hamilton’s first, foundational redesign.
This...
by Michael Mandelbaum
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Expanding the powerful argument he makes with Thomas Friedman in their bestselling That Used to Be Us, Michael Mandelbaum describes the forces driving the next stage of globalization, one of expanding wealth and vast opportunity.
IN That Used to Be Us, the bestseller Michael Mandelbaum wrote...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Originally published in 1985. Mathematical methods and models to facilitate the understanding of the processes of economic dynamics and prediction were refined considerably over the period before this book was written. The field had grown; and many of the techniques involved became extremely complicated....
From Here to Economy
A Shortcut to Economic Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996
What is the GDP, and what does it mean? Why does the stock market go down when interest rates go up? What causes a dreaded recession?
Economics impacts everyone's life, but most people take on faith what they read in the newspaper. Now, for anyone who doesn't know much about economics, noted...
The Midas Paradox
Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In The Midas Paradox Scott Sumner provides a fresh, new narrative in regards to the Great Depression and its economic backstory. He points to various ways in which the modern day understanding of the Great Depression is flawed and how the causality of it has been largely misunderstood. The understanding...
The Origins, History, and Future of the Federal Reserve
A Return to Jekyll Island
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
This book contains essays presented at a conference held in November 2010 to mark the centenary of the famous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of leading American financiers and the US Treasury. The 1910 meeting resulted in the Aldrich Plan, a precursor to the Federal Reserve Act that was enacted by Congress...
by Leopold Kohr, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
"The answer to all questions underlying all our problems today is the size factor—not unemployment, not warfare, not juvenile delinquency,...