Economic History category: 3271 books
The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions
From the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Collectively, mankind has never had it so good despite periodic economic crises of which the current sub-prime crisis is merely the latest example. Much of this success is attributable to the increasing efficiency of the world's financial institutions as finance has proved to be one of the most important...
by Laurent Baronian
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
From his early economic works on, Marx conceived the labour of any kind of society as a set of production activities and analysed the historical modes of production as specific ways of distributing and exchanging these activities. Political economy on the contrary considers the labour only under the...
Economy and Society in Early Modern Europe
Essays from Annales
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In 1929 two French historians, Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, founded Annales, a historical journal which rapidly became one of the most influential in the world. They believed that economic history, social history and the history of ideas were as important as political history, and that historians...
by Deming Chen
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The 2008 global economic crisis resulted in many new changes in global economic governance, multilateral trading system, the Group20 major economies, regional economic cooperation and other international governance platforms. Countries around the world have begun a complex battle to make sure rules...
The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics
Volume 2: Policies and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
A popular myth about the travails of Africa holds that the continent's long history of poor economic performance reflects the inability of its leaders and policymakers to fulfill the long list of preconditions to be met before sustained growth can be achieved. These conditions are said to vary from...
The Politics of National Capitalism
Peronism and the Argentine Bourgeoisie, 1946–1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
In mid-twentieth-century Latin America there was a strong consensus between Left and Right—Communists working under the directives of the Third International, nationalists within the military interested in fostering industrialization, and populists—about the need to break away from the colonial...
by Maurice Dobb
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The story of the economic development of the Soviet Union provided the first case in history of the establishment of a socialist economy and was therefore of great interest for economists and economic historians of the twentieth century. At the same time it affords a unique example of the transformation...
Imagining Britain’s Economic Future, c.1800–1975
Trade, Consumerism, and Global Markets
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Following the Brexit vote, this book offers a timely historical assessment of the different ways that Britain’s economic future has been imagined and how British ideas have influenced global debates about market relationships over the past two centuries. The 2016 EU referendum hinged to a substantial...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
This book challenges the static, ahistorical models on which Economics continues to rely. These models presume that markets operate on a "frictionless" plane where abstract forces play out independent of their institutional and spatial contexts, and of the influences of the past. In reality,...
by Rupert J. Ederer
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
In Pope Pius XII on the Economic Order, economist Rupert J. Ederer explores the views of Eugenio Pacelli, who served as pope during the tumultuous period of 1939 to 1958. Prodigious in his output, Pius XII produced 40 encyclicals, 19 highly regarded Christmas messages, and series of addresses to groups...
Late Neoclassical Economics
The restoration of theoretical humanism in contemporary economic theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Several contemporary economic theories revolve around different concepts: market failures, institutions, transaction costs, information asymmetries, motivational diversity, cognitive limitations, strategic behaviors and evolutionary stability. In recent years, many economists have argued that the...
Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development
The Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies Compared
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Since many countries in the world at present were European colonies in the not so distant past, the relationship between colonial institutions and development outcomes is a key topic of study across many disciplines.
This edited volume, from a leading international group of scholars, discusses...
The Economy of Lower Yangzi Delta in Late Imperial China
Connecting Money, Markets, and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Historically, the Lower Yangzi Delta (or Jiangnan), has played a key role in China’s economic development. Indeed, as the prime example of a traditional Chinese market economy, the region serves as the core case study when making comparisons between the Chinese and Western economies in the early...
The Economics of Slavery
And Other Studies in Econometric History
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
How are economists and historians to explain what happened in history? What statistical inferences can be drawn from historical data? The authors believe that explanation in history can be identified with the problems of prediction in a probabilistic universe. Using this approach, the historian can...