Economic History category: 3271 books
by Richard Cantillon
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Richard Cantillon is one of the key figures in the early history of economics. He was certainly not the first to think about economic problems, but he was the first to have clear insight into the way the economy functions as a system. He was arguably the first to structure a theory of how the economy...
German Economy, 1870-1940
Issues and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Originally published in 1940, this book remains an illuminating and forceful survey of the economic development of modern Germany. It reveals for the first time the basic trends of German business enterprise towards central control. This survey makes three important factors clear. Firstly, the continuity...
by Geoffrey Denton, Murray Forsyth, Malcolm MacLennan
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Examining the innovations of economic policy in the UK, France and Germany in the 1960s, this book originally published in 1968, assesses the degree of success of these policies and draws conclusion for the oreintation of future policy. The book contrasts the long history of national planning in France...
An Economic Inquiry into the Nonlinear Behaviors of Nations
Dynamic Developments and the Origins of Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
This book applies an economic approach to examine the driving forces behind the dynamic behaviors of developing nations. Taking into account initial conditions and environmental and external factors often oversimplified by historians and anthropologists, Guo finds that the rise and fall of civilizations...
by Luis Bértola, José Antonio Ocampo
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Latin America is attracting increasing interest due to the strong economic performance of the last decade and to the political changes that are taking place. This book gives a unique, comprehensive, and up to date view of Latin America economic development over the two centuries since Independence....
by Costantino Bresciani-Turroni, Lionel Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
The depreciation of the mark of 1914-23, which is the subject of this work, is one of the outstanding episodes in the history of the twentieth century. Not only by reason of its magnitude but also by reason of its effects, it looms large on our horizon. It was the most colossal thing of its kind in...
Private Governance
Creating Order in Economic and Social Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
From the first stock markets of Amsterdam,London, and New York to the billions of electronic commerce transactions today, privately produced and enforced economic regulations are more common, more effective, and more promising than commonly considered. In Private Governance, prominent economist Edward...
Economic and Natural Disasters since 1900
A Comparative History
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
In the wake of the global financial and Eurozone upheavals this timely book argues that the disaster cycle a framework normally used in the context of natural disasters is equally applicable to the analysis of other types of catastrophe. Employing a modified version of the disaster cycle framework...
by Lennart Schön
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
The book is based on a rich and detailed quantitative material from research over the past decades with consecutive time series over production volumes, employment, productivity, investments etc. for sectors and branches covering the whole economy, even including estimates of non-marketed domestic...
The Outsourcer
The Story of India's IT Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
A history of how India became a major player in the global technology industry, mapping technological, economic, and political transformations.
The rise of the Indian information technology industry is a remarkable economic success story. Software and services exports from India amounted to...
Gustav von Schmoller and Adolph Wagner
Legacy and Lessons for Civil Society and the State
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2018
This book discusses the work of German economists Gustav von Schmoller and Adolph Wagner, its influence on the tradition of German and Austrian economic and social thought, and its implications for the discipline today. Schmoller and Wagner integrated philosophical, historical, sociological and political...
Economic Justice and Liberty
The Social Philosophy in John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This new book reopens the debate on theories of justice between utilitarian theorists and scholars from other camps. John Rawls’ 1971 publication of A Theory of Justice put forward a devastating challenge to the long-established dominance of utilitarianism within political and moral philosophy,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
This book discusses the 1918 European socialization debate, its consequences, and its relevance a century later. Following the end of the First World War, the disastrous social and economic situation facing Europe led to calls for socialization of central economic sectors, as well as measures for...
Capitalism by Gaslight
Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
While elite merchants, financiers, shopkeepers, and customers were the most visible producers, consumers, and distributors of goods and capital in the nineteenth century, they were certainly not alone in shaping the economy. Lurking in the shadows of capitalism's past are those who made markets by...