Economic History category: 3271 books
Industrial Collaboration in Nazi-Occupied Europe
Norway in Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This book brings together leading experts to assess how and whether the Nazis were successful in fostering collaboration to secure the resources they required during World War II. These studies of the occupation regimes in Norway and Western Europe reveal that the Nazis developed highly sophisticated...
Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms
Buying and Selling Securities in Canada, 1870-1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms describes the evolution of the securities market in Canada, from the onset of trading, through the boom of the 1920s and the depression of the 1930s, to the outbreak of the Second World War.
The book documents the problems of fraud, misrepresentation, and manipulation...
Determinants of Health
An Economic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This collection of Michael Grossman’s most important papers adds essential background and depth to his work on economic determinants of public health. Each of the book’s four sections includes an introduction that contextualizes the issues and addresses the larger stakes of his work. An afterword...
Input/Output Databases
Uses in Business and Government
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Originally published in 1979. An Input/output database is an information system carrying current data on the intermediate consumption of any product or service by all the specified major firms that consume it. This book begins with a survey of how the interrelationships of an economic system can...
The Automobile
A Chronology of Its Antecedents, Development, and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Originally published in 1997 and now re-issued with some updated material, this chronology lists the major events in the history of the automobile. The automobile cannot be understood without knowing about its pre-history, including technologies such as railroads, carriages and trolley cars. Material...
Theory and Method of Evolutionary Political Economy
A Cyprus Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The world is in turmoil, the dynamics of political economy seem to have entered a phase where a ‘return to normal’ cannot be expected. Since the financial crisis, conventional economic theory has proven itself to be rather helpless and political decision makers have become suspicious about this...
Regulating Competition
Cartel registers in the twentieth-century world
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Cartels, trusts and agreements to reduce competition between firms have existed for centuries, but became particularly prevalent toward the end of the 19th century. In the mid-20th century governments began to use so called ‘cartel registers’ to monitor and regulate their behaviour. This book...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This book enlarges our understanding of economic development by bringing together items or aspects of historical experience relevant to the present-day problems of developing countries; by looking at the problems over a longer period than is usual in development economics, so that the influence of...
Economics Made Fun
Philosophy of the pop-economics
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Best-selling books such as Freakonomics and The Undercover Economist have paved the way for the flourishing economics-made-fun genre. While books like these present economics as a strong and explanatory science, the ongoing economic crisis has exposed the shortcomings of economics to the general public....
by Jeffry Fawcett
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This study, first published in 1990, explores the ways in which institutions can succeed or fail at environmental improvement. The author first takes a look at the nature of environmental politics and the history of air pollution control in Southern California. He then develops a political economic...
International Trade and Economic Growth (Collected Works of Harry Johnson)
Studies in Pure Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The studies collected in this volume embody the results of research conducted in the mid 1950s into various theoretical problems in international economics. They fall into three groups – comparative cost theory, trade and growth and balance of payments theory. This volume consolidates the work of...
by Carl Mosk
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This book advances a new theory of why nationalism emerged in the modern world. In particular it explains why nationalism and economic development are closely linked, and why warfare plays a crucial role in the spread of the nation-state system. It is based on qualitative and quantitative evidence...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Economists since the First Industrial Revolution have been interested in the links between economic growth and resources, often pointing to resource scarcities as a hindrance to growth. Offering a counter perspective, this volume highlights the positive role that scarcities can play in inducing technical...
How it all Began (Routledge Revivals)
Origins of the Modern Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
First published in 1975, this book traces the origins of our modern economy, showing the routes by which nations have either achieved wealth or have been impoverished. W. W. Rostow brings together issues of public policy, international trade and the world of science and technology, arguing that conventional...