Economic History category: 3271 books
Law and Long-Term Economic Change
A Eurasian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Recently, a growing body of work on "law and finance" and "legal origins" has highlighted the role of formal legal institutions in shaping financial institutions. However, these writings have focused largely on Europe, neglecting important non-Western traditions that prevail in...
by a. Birnie
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A history of the rise of industrialism in modern Europe, containing a description of the revolutionary changes which transformed industry, commerce and agriculture at the beginning of the last century, with an account of their reactions on the political and economic condition of the chief European...
by David A. Dyker
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
On its publication in 1985, this book offered a fresh analysis of the problems faced by the Soviet economy by focussing on the key issues in the economic planning system. David Dyker considers the available options for reform during the 1980s and the most likely developments. Discussing the origins...
Rock Island Requiem
The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Celebrated in history and song, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company—the Rock Island Line—was a powerful Midwestern railroad that once traversed thirteen states with its fast freights and Rocket passenger trains but eventually succumbed to government regulation and a changing...
Transforming the South
Federal Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1915-1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Historians have long recognized the middle of the twentieth century as significant in the history of the modern South, owing to a convergence of social change, political realignment, and cultural expansion. This period in southern history has provided extensive material for scholars of race, gender,...
A Perilous Progress
Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The economics profession in twentieth-century America began as a humble quest to understand the "wealth of nations." It grew into a profession of immense public prestige--and now suffers a strangely withered public purpose. Michael Bernstein portrays a profession that has ended up repudiating...
The Economic Thought of Henry Calvert Simons
Crown Prince of the Chicago School
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Drawing on years of research, Gerald Steele delves into the diverse ideas of Henry Simons, a neglected economist whose work in the 1930s on monetary and financial instability is extremely relevant to today’s debates about commercial bank credit, the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policy,...
Taiwan's Economic Transformation
Leadership, Property Rights and Institutional Change 1949-1965
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book tells the story of Taiwan’s economic revolution—how Taiwan transformed itself from a planned economy into a market economy between 1949 and 1965. The authors posit that it was the Kuomintang Government's endorsement of property rights reform and institutional change that enabled Taiwan...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
This book examines trademarks and brands, and their historical role in national competitive and comparative advantage and in overall economic growth. The contributors provide an historical account of the contribution of brands in consumer goods to economic growth; examine the development of trademark...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This book is about mutual influences of thinking about economic development in China and in the West, from the 18th century until the present. Its chapters are contributed by development economists and historians of thought from China and other parts of the world.
The book describes important...
by Gianni Toniolo
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This Oxford Handbook provides a fresh overall view and interpretation of the modern economic growth of one of the largest European countries, whose economic history is less known internationally than that of other comparably large and successful economies. It will provide, for the first time, a comprehensive,...
The Romance of Trade
A Survey Commercial and Economic
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
This revised edition of the original 1923 text first appeared in 1929, a decade after the end of WWI. The war left Great Britain burdened with debt and faced with the dire issues of unemployment and unstable domestic and foreign markets. In this title, A.W. Kirkaldy gives a brief but thoroughly detailed...
by Peter Groenewegen, Bruce McFarlane
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
First published in 1990, this book presents an original and comprehensive overview of Australian economic thought. The authors stress, by way of introduction, the many important innovative contributions Australian economists have made to thought worldwide. As the argument develops, the work of major...
The 'Conspiracy' of Free Trade
The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalisation, 1846–1896
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Following the Second World War, the United States would become the leading 'neoliberal' proponent of international trade liberalization. Yet for nearly a century before, American foreign trade policy was dominated by extreme economic nationalism. What brought about this pronounced ideological, political,...