Economic History category: 3271 books
by Robert P. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
This book provides a basic outline of the history of the American steel industry, a sector of the economy that has been an important part of the industrial system. The book starts with the 1830's, when the American iron and steel industry resembled the traditional iron producing sector that had existed...
Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD
Essays in Macro-Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind. Encompassing 2000 years of history, part 1 begins with the Roman Empire and explores the key factors that have influenced economic development in Africa, Asia, the...
Brazil in Transition
Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this nation...
Predatory Pricing in Antitrust Law and Economics
A Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Can a price ever be too low? Can competition ever be ruinous? Questions like these have always accompanied American antitrust law. They testify to the difficulty of antitrust enforcement, of protecting competition without protecting competitors.
As the business practice that most directly raises...
The History of Bankruptcy
Economic, Social and Cultural Implications in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This volume takes up bankruptcy in early modern Europe, when its frequency made it not only an economic problem but a personal tragedy and a social evil. Using legal, business and personal records, the essays in this volume examine the impact of failure on business organizations and practices, capital...
by G. C. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Discussing the process of economic development in Japan, this book covers the period from when Japan first entered upon her career of Westernization to the beginning of the war with China in 1937. The main emphasis is on industrial and financial development and organization and on economic policy....
A History of Development Economics Thought
Challenges and Counter-challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
This book explores the history of economic development thought, with an emphasis on alternative approaches in macro development economics.
Given that the pioneers of development economics in the 1940s and 1950s drew inspiration from classical political economists, this book opens with a review...
A History of Economic Theory
Essays in honour of Takashi Negishi
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Few economists have been as prolific and wide-ranging as Takashi Negishi. Part of the "Hicksian" generation of Neo-Walrasian general equilibrium theorists, Negishi rose to prominence during the early 1960s with his work on the Neo-Walrasian system. Negishi's signature has been his attempt...
Planting a Capitalist South
Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790--1860
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
"This is a pathbreaking book, well grounded in the appropriate documentary record. Downey makes especially good use of the reports of the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company and of other corporations, which are so tedious to read, to offer an exciting and fresh perspective on an old problem...
by Matthias M Matthijs
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
During the period from 1945 to 2005, Britain underwent two deep-seated institutional transformations when political elites successfully challenged the prevailing wisdom on how to govern the economy. Attlee and Thatcher were able to effectively implement most of their political platforms. During this...
The Great Transformation
The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2001
In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire...
Contributions to the History of Economic Thought
Essays in Honour of R.D.C. Black
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2000
Featuring original contributions from some of the leading contemporary figures in the history of economic thought, this book offers new perspectives on key topics, from Smith's Wealth of Nations to the Jevonian Revolution. Drawing inspiration from the life and work of R.D.C. Black, formerly Professor of Economics at Queen's University Belfast, this
by Ernesto Screpanti, Stefano Zamagni
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of economics from its beginnings, at the end of the Middle Ages, up to contemporary developments. It is strong on contemporary theory, providing extensive coverage of the twentieth century, particularly since the Second World War. The...
Markets, Money and Capital
Hicksian Economics for the Twenty First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Sir John Hicks (1904–89) was a leading economic theorist of the twentieth century, and along with Kenneth Arrow was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1972. His work addressed central topics in economic theory, such as value, money, capital and growth. An important unifying theme was the attention for economic...