Economic History category: 3271 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Volume 29 contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.S. including "Understanding Aging During the Epidemiologic Transition" by Suchit Arora; "Estimating French Regional Income: Departmental Per Capita Gross Value Added, 1872-1911" by Paul Caruana-Galizia; "Improve...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Volume 34 contains articles on the economic history of Europe, North America and South America and brings new analysis, and newly created datasets to address issues of interest. Two of the papers present newly constructed datasets. In "Prices, Wages and the Cost of Living in Old Republic São...
The Vital Few
The Entrepreneur and American Economic Progress
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 1986
The Vital Few, a study of the contribution of entrepreneurs to the American economy, provides portraits of the men and women whose individual enterprise has helped to establish the character of the American businessperson and to carry our economy forward from colonial times. Examining such legendary...
Confronting Capitalism
Real Solutions for a Troubled Economic System
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
With one side of the political aisle proposing increasingly more socialistic and anti-capitalistic ideas, the other side has been quick to defend our country’s great economic model, with good reason. Capitalism--spanning a spectrum from laissez faire to authoritarian--shapes the market economies...
The Reckoning
Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Whether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state's assets and guide its policies. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double-entry bookkeeping form the basis of modern capitalism and the nation-state....
From Political Economy to Economics
Method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in this new major work of critical recollection. The authors show how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional...
Political Arithmetic
Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn’t the case—economists simply didn’t have the necessary information or statistical tools to understand...
by Joosr
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
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Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences
A Biographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This title, first published in 1989, is an in-depth biographical dictionary of the Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences from 1969 to 1988. Each biographical entry includes a segment on the foundations of their career in the economic sciences, summaries of their most notable discoveries and ideas and...
Speculation
A History of the Fine Line between Gambling and Investing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
What is the difference between gambling and speculation? This difficult question has posed a legal problem throughout American history. Many have argued that periodic failures by regulators to differentiate between the two have been the proximate causes of catastrophic economic downturns, including...
East Texas Lumber Workers
An Economic and Social Picture, 1870-1950
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
In 1950 a million Texans—more than a tenth of the entire population of the state—lived in a region where one family in every two earned less than $2,000 a year. Composing that region are the thirty-two counties of northeastern Texas in which the lumber industry is concentrated. In eleven of these...
by Alexander Raven Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Alexander Raven Thomson outlines the (pre-WW2) British Union of Fascists economic proposals to “Democratise” Britain’s economic system. The Coming Corporate State sets out in clear and precise terms the economic infrastructure that would be put in place once the British Union of Fascists came...
The End of Normal
The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
From one of the most respected economic thinkers and writers of our time, a brilliant argument about the history and future of economic growth.
The years since the Great Crisis of 2008 have seen slow growth, high unemployment, falling home values, chronic deficits, a deepening disaster in Europe—and...
Prometheus Shackled
Goldsmith Banks and England's Financial Revolution after 1700
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
After 1688, Britain underwent a revolution in public finance, and the cost of borrowing declined sharply. Leading scholars have argued that easier credit for the government, made possible by better property-rights protection, lead to a rapid expansion of private credit. The Industrial Revolution,...