Economic History category: 3271 books
Britain and the Economic Problem of the Cold War
The Political Economy and the Economic Impact of the British Defence Effort, 1945-1955
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Many accounts of British development since 1945 have attempted to discover why Britain experienced slower rates of economic growth than other Western European countries. In many cases, the explanation for this phenomenon has been attributed to the high level of defence spending that successive British...
On the Economic Significance of the Catholic Social Doctrine
125 Years of Rerum Novarum
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This book discusses the history and socioeconomic impact of Rerum novarum, the first Catholic social encyclical. Drawn from research presented at the 2016 Heilbronn Symposia on Economics and the Social Sciences, this book resumes the discussion on the origin, dissemination and impact of the Catholic...
by Alan Milward, S. B. Saul
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This work, first published in 1977, is a reissue of a trailblazing work; the first textbook of economic history to deal comprehensively with the economic development of the whole continent in this period and to do so from a continental rather than a British perspective. But it is more than merely...
Agricultural Fluctuations in Europe
From the Thirteenth to twentieth centuries
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Wilhelm Abel's study of economic fluctuations over a period of seven hundred years has long been established as a core text in European agricultural history. Professor Abel was one of the first economic historians to make extensive use of statistical data, and his scholarship and approach have had...
Unproductive Labour in Political Economy
The History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Contemporary mainstream economists see social wealth as the sum of individual incomes, but for three centuries many economists saw wealth as consisting of the public and private resources of a nation. This led them to explore the idea of unproductive labour, which provides a nation with an individual...
The Economic Ideas of Marx's Capital
Steps towards post-Keynesian economics
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Nearly two hundred years have passed since the birth of Karl Marx and continuing to this day the influence of his economic views, insights and theories can still be felt. However, since the publication of Das Kapital, the scientific community has not been sitting idle – it is time to evaluate Marx...
by Patrick O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
The book, first published in 1977, contrasts new and older approaches to the history of transport and outlines a critical exposition of the methods used to quantify the contribution of railways to economic growth by means of counterfactual speculation and the measurement of social savings. The author...
Chinas Economic Engagement in Africa
A Case Study of Angola
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
This book analyzes the growing influence of China in Angola. The author answers the question how and in what extent China has gained influence over the economic development of Angola since the end of the civil war in 2002. She presents the economic facilities of China in Angola from trade and investment...
The Economic Development of Europe's Regions
A Quantitative History since 1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
This book is the first quantitative description of Europe’s economic development at a regional level over the entire twentieth century. Based on a new and comprehensive set of data, it brings together a group of leading economic historians in order to describe and analyze the development of European...
The Individual and the Other in Economic Thought
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
The Philosophy of Economics primarily considers the economic agent as a moral subject. Economics, however, has long overlooked the agent’s moral – that is to say, reasonable – dimension, to focus instead on the strictly rational. This volume seeks to address this neglected topic through exploring...
by DK
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
The Economics Book clearly and simply explains more than one hundred groundbreaking ideas in economics, from the earliest experiences of trade to global economic crises.
Using easy-to-follow graphics and artworks, succinct quotations, and thoroughly accessible text, The Economics Book makes...
The Great Depression
America 1929-1941
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.
In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative...
The Battle of Bretton Woods
John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in the...
In FED We Trust
Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
“Whatever it takes”
That was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s vow as the worst financial panic in more than fifty years gripped the world and he struggled to avoid the once unthinkable: a repeat of the Great Depression. Brilliant but temperamentally cautious, Bernanke researched...