Economic History category: 3271 books
The Economics and Politics of the United States Oil Industry, 1920-1990
Profits, Populism and Petroleum
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This book, originally published in 1996, traces the development of US government policy toward the oil industry during the 1920s and 1930s when the domestic syustem of production control was established. It then charts the deveopment and collapse of oil import controls, and the wild scramble for economic...
Commerce and Community
Ecologies of Social Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Since the end of the Cold War, the human face of economics has gained renewed visibility and generated new conversations among economists and other social theorists. The monistic, mechanical "economic systems" that characterized the capitalism vs. socialism debates of the mid-twentieth century...
Equilibrium in Economics
Scope and Limits
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
General Equilibrium Theory, which became the dominating paradigm after the Second World War, is founded on the postulated existence, uniqueness, and stability of equilibrium in economic processes. Since then, the concept has come under sustained attack from all points of the heterodox compass, from...
Institutions, Property Rights, and Economic Growth
The Legacy of Douglass North
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
This volume showcases the impact of the work of Douglass North, winner of the Nobel Prize and father of the field of new institutional economics. Leading scholars contribute to a substantive discussion that best illustrates the broad reach and depth of Professor North's work. The volume speaks concisely...
Securing Prosperity
The American Labor Market: How It Has Changed and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
We live in an age of economic paradox. The dynamism of America's economy is astounding--the country's industries are the most productive in the world and spin off new products and ideas at a bewildering pace. Yet Americans feel deeply uneasy about their economic future. The reason, Paul Osterman explains,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This contributed volume explores the political economy and socioeconomic aspects of the Greek Financial Crisis both within the country's borders and as part of the global economy. With chapters authored by international experts, this book examines and explicitly deals with specific and important issues...
by Edwin Cannan
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Edwin Cannan was not only a British economist and historian of economic thought, but also a professor at the London School of Economics. In this book he has managed to make room for some very fundamental matters which are often ignored in general treatises of moderate length. He refers especially...
History of Monetary and Credit Theory
From John Law to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Originally published in 1940, this book traces the development of theories concerning currency and credit from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. It provides a comprehensive account of the political and economic conditions in which the theories and controversies arose, with the result that the work has become a classic in its field.
Family Fictions and Family Facts
Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet and the Population Question in England 1798-1859
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Classical political economy rests on the assumption that the market and the family are overlapping and mutually dependent realms, dominated in turn by economic men and domestic women. Here, Brian Cooper explores the role of economic theory in 'normalizing' the family in the first half of the nineteenth...
Macroeconomic Theory and Economic Policy
Essays in Honour of Jean-Paul Fitoussi
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2004
Jean-Paul Fitoussi needs no introduction as one of the world's foremost Macroeconomists of his generation. This celebration of his work includes contributions from Nobel Prize - winning economists Robert W. Clower and Robert Solow as well as Olivier Blanchard and leading economic theorist, Edmond Malinvaud.
Revisiting Classical Economics
Studies in Long-Period Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The financial crisis and the economic crisis that followed triggered a crisis in the subject of economics, as it is typically being taught today especially in macroeconomics and related fields. A renewed interest in earlier authors, especially the classical economists from Adam Smith to David Ricardo...
Social capital, migration, ethnic diversity and economic performance
Multidisciplinary evidence from South-East Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This interdisciplinary book brings an empirical evidence that social capital is an important building block in the reintegration processes, migration challenges and economic dynamism of the SEE communities. Such a conclusion opposes the common belief that (re)establishing social relations in a post-ethnic...
Economics and Power
A Marxist critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
In the economic debate, power is defined and studied mainly as an interpersonal relation occurring out of perfect competition. This is a consequence of the combination of methodological individualism and the assumption of competition as a natural and everlasting coordinating mechanism, operating without...
Political Economy and Capitalism
Some Essays in Economic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
This volume examines questions concerning the nature and behaviour of capitalism and the development of economic thought and the relation between economic thought and practice in the early twentieth century.