Economic History category: 3271 books
Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century
Inequality and Redistribution, 1901–1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
A landmark in contemporary social science, this pioneering work by Thomas Piketty explains the facts and dynamics of income inequality in France in the twentieth century. On its publication in French in 2001, it helped launch the international program led by Piketty and others to explore the grand...
Capitalism
The Reemergence of a Historical Concept
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Capitalism has been a controversial concept. In the second half of the 20th century, many historians have either not used the concept at all, or only in passing. Many regarded the term as too broad, holistic and vague or too value-loaded, ideological and polemic. This volume brings together leading...
Quantitative Economic History
The good of counting
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
The essays in this book use the analytical tools and theoretical framework of economics to interpret quantitative historical evidence, offering new ways to approach historical issues and suggesting entirely new types of evidence outside conventional archives. Rosenbloom has gathered together seven essays from leading quantitative economic historian
Machine Dreams
Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2001
This was the first cross-over book into the history of science written by an historian of economics. It shows how 'history of technology' can be integrated with the history of economic ideas. The analysis combines Cold War history with the history of postwar economics in America and later elsewhere,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2001
The history of economic thought has always attracted some of the brightest minds in the discipline. These chroniclers of development have helped form our current views, and it is no surprise that many among them have been at the forefront of new movements in the history of ideas.This notable collection summarizes the work of these key historians of
Hyperinflation
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Since 1970s when the world was experiencing an "age of inflation", a great volume of academic research about hyperinflation has been conducted. However, it is also true that parrot-like superficial talks abound, without questioning the economic, political and social foundations existing...
Innovation and Technological Diffusion
An economic history of early steam engines
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This book deals with two key aspects of the history of steam engines, a cornerstone of the Industrial Revolution, specifically the road that led to its discovery and the process of diffusion of the early steam engines.
The first part of the volume outlines the technological and scientific developments...
A John Heskett Reader
Design, History, Economics
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
A John Heskett Reader brings together a selection of the celebrated design historian John Heskett's key works, introduced and edited by Clive Dilnot of Parsons, the New School, USA.
Heskett, who passed away in early 2014, was a pioneering British-born writer and lecturer. His research was foundational...
The China Dream
The Quest for the Last Great Untapped Market on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“An entertaining, if cautionary, tale of Western business woes in China, stretching back seven hundred years” (The Wall Street Journal).
In The China Dream, acclaimed business journalist Joe Studwell challenges the predictions that China will become an economic juggernaut on the world stage...
How Economics Forgot History
The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2001
In arguably his most important book to date, Hodgson calls into question the tendency of economic method to try and explain all economic phenomena by using the same catch-all theories and dealing in universal truths. He argues that you need different theories to analyze different economic phenomena and systems and that historical context must be ta
Ludwig Erhard
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
In the first English-language biography of one of the most important figures in postwar German history, Alfred C. Mierzejewski examines the life and service of Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977), West Germany's first minister of economics and second chancellor. Erhard liberalized the German economy in 1948...
Merchant, Soldier, Sage
A New History of Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
A bold new interpretation of modern history as a struggle between three economic groups
We are now living in an age of merchants, but it was not always so. The history of civilization, in large part, is a story of a battle between agrarian aristocracy, the military, and a class of learned experts,...
The Wealth of a Nation
A History of Trade Politics in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
The United States is entering a period of profound uncertainty in the world political economy--an uncertainty which is threatening the liberal economic order that its own statesmen created at the end of the Second World War. The storm surrounding this threat has been ignited by an issue that has divided...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies. The contributors come from different...