Economic History list 17

Study of Economic History

Collected Inaugural Lectures 1893-1970

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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

Published in the year 1975, Study of Economic History is a valuable contribution to the field of Military and Strategic Studies.

Four Central Theories of the Market Economy

Conception, evolution and application

by Farhad Rassekh
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016

This highly original work offers an intellectual history of four central theories underlying the market economic system, focusing on their conception, evolution, and applications. Four Central Theories of the Market Economy traces the root of the theories, their conception and articulation,...

Money, Currency and Crisis

In Search of Trust, 2000 BC to AD 2000

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

Money is a core feature in all discussions of economic crisis, as is clear from the debates about the responses of the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States to the 2008 economic crisis. This volume explores the role of money in economic performance, and focuses...

The Origins of the Twenty First Century

by Gabriel Tortella
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009

This fascinating book provides a fully integrated explanation of the history of the modern world. Although the sheer complexity of society requires that it be studied from the standpoint of several social sciences (including Economics, Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology), using only the...

Unified Growth Theory

by Oded Galor
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011

For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic stagnation, experiencing sustained economic growth that led to significant increases in standards of living and profoundly altered...

INTRACO

Blazing a Trail Overseas for Singapore?

by Faizal Bin Yahya
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014

Through the lens of the now-defunct Singapore government-linked company (GLC) called International Trading Company (INTRACO), this book offers a historical analysis of the country's economic development strategy. Since its Independence in 1965, GLCs like INTRACO were introduced by the former Deputy...

The Foundations of Worldwide Economic Integration

Power, Institutions, and Global Markets, 1850–1930

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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013

The essays in this volume discuss worldwide economic integration between 1850 and 1930, challenging the popular description of the period after 1918 as one of mere deglobalisation. The authors argue that markets were not only places of material exchange, but also socially structured entities, shaped...

America Rising

Power and Political Economy in the First Nation

by David Felix
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017

The United States became a great power in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and a superpower during World War II without quite knowing it. Few Americans fully appreciate the fact today. How many people know that in recent years we have had 250,000 troops in 700 bases around the world? Consider...

The Economic Theory of Costs

Foundations and New Directions

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

The theory of costs is a cornerstone of economic thinking, and figures crucially in the study of human action and society. From the first day of a principles-level course to the most advanced academic literature, costs play a vital role in virtually all behaviors and economic outcomes. How we make...

Mapping China's Growth and Development in the Long Run, 221 BC to 2020

by Kent G Deng
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015

The narrative of China's history in this book is 'theme-led' rather than conventionally chronicle-based. It covers China's resource endowments, historical contingencies (such as civil wars, invasions and climate changes) and ideologies (including Legalism, Confucianism, Social Darwinism, nationalism,...

Research in Economic History

by Alex J. Field, Christopher Hanes, Susan Wolcott
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012

Volume 28 contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.S. including "Air Conditioning, Migration and Climate-related Wage and Rent Differentials" by Jeff E. Biddle; "The Rail-Guided Vehicles Industry in Italy, 1861-1913: the Burden of the Evidence" by Carlo Ciccarelli...

An Economic History of Portugal, 1143–2010

by Leonor Freire Costa, Pedro Lains, Susana Münch Miranda
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016

This book offers a fascinating exploration of the evolution of the Portuguese economy over the course of eight centuries, from the foundation of the kingdom in 1143, when political boundaries began to take shape in the midst of the Christian Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula, and the formation...

Economic Growth

How it works and how it transformed the world

by Edward A. Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016

How does economic growth work? Beginning with the history of leading countries over the past 2000 years, Economic Growth finds which countries have achieved sustained growth and how they did it. The effects of growth are examined on a human scale. The benefits of growth are enormous in terms of life,...