Economic History category: 3271 books
The Yugoslav Economic System (Routledge Revivals)
The First Labor-Managed Economy in the Making
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
First published in 1976, this book traces the development of the Yugoslav economy from the end of the Second World War to the beginning of 1975, which the author argues was a highly productive era of social innovation. Drawing on personal experience of the Revolution, the Partisan Liberation War and...
The Rise of the Western World
A New Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1976
First published in 1973, this is a radical interpretation, offering a unified explanation for the growth of Western Europe between 900 A. D. and 1700, providing a general theoretical framework for institutional change geared to the general reader.
by Mark Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This book provides a theoretical and historical examination of the evolution of money. It is distinct from the majority of ‘economic’ approaches, for it does not see money as an outgrowth of market exchange via barter. Instead, the social, political, legal and religious origins of money are examined.
The...
Inequality in Living Standards since 1980
Income Tells Only a Small Part of the Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Studies of wage and income inequality among U.S. citizens over the past thirty years have engendered the common wisdom that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. But is it really that simple? In this meticulous economic study, Orazio P. Attanasio, Erich Battistin, and Mario...
Farm, Shop, Landing
The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780–1860
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
At the turn of the nineteenth century, when the word “capital” first found its way into the vocabulary of mid-Hudson Valley residents, the term irrevocably marked the profound change that had transformed the region from an inward-looking, rural community into a participant in an emerging market...
Sovereign of the Market
The Money Question in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
What should serve as money, who should control its creation and circulation, and according to what rules? For more than two hundred years, the “money question” shaped American social thought, becoming a central subject of political debate and class conflict. Sovereign of the Market reveals how...
The Peoples Joan of Arc
Mary Elizabeth Lease, Gendered Politics and Populist Party Politics in Gilded-Age America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
The ‘People’s Joan of Arc’: Mary Elizabeth Lease, Gendered Politics and Populist Party Politics in Gilded-Age America is the first comprehensive biography tracing the captivating life of renowned activist Mary Elizabeth Lease. While Lease is most remembered in American history textbooks as the...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
A Framework for Policy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In addition to winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her path-breaking research on “economic governance, especially the commons,” Elinor (Lin) Ostrom also made important contributions to other fields of political economy and public policy. This four-volume compendium of papers...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
Resource Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important contributions to several other fields of political economy and public policy. The range of topics...
by Ssemakula Peter Luyima
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Ssemakula Peter Luyima provides a new concept for World Economy in the 21st century, by producing a revised concept of MuRatopian Economy; 30 years after Professor Kaoru Yamaguchi presented a synthesized analysis of the Neoclassical, Keynesian and Marxian with his own public money economic model....
Economic Policy and Performance in Industrial Democracies
Party Governments, Central Banks and the Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
This book is the first systematic study of how the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policies and the interaction of party governments and central banks affect the fiscal-policy mix in eighteen industrial democracies in North America, Western Europe, Japan and Oceania. Sakamoto argues that central banks influence on economic policy is far mor
Financial Cycles
Sovereigns, Bankers, and Stress Tests
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
As financial positions expand, the economy becomes more vulnerable to adverse and unexpected developments taking place outside the six to seven year business cycle. Over 50 years ago Nikolai Kondratieff developed the theory of "The Long Waves in Economic Life", which incorporated an extended...
The World Economy
Growth or Stagnation?
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
The balance of the world economy is shifting away from the established economies of Europe, Japan, and the USA, towards the emerging economies of Asia, especially India and China. With contributions from some of the world's leading growth theorists, this book analyses the long-term process of structural...
Peddling Protectionism
Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record levels, is America's most infamous trade law. It is often associated with--and sometimes blamed for--the onset of the Great Depression, the collapse of world trade, and the global spread of protectionism...