Economic History category: 3271 books
The Economic and Business History of Occupied Japan
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
The Occupation era (1945-1952) witnessed major change in Japan and the beginnings of its growth from of the ashes of defeat towards its status as a developmental model for much of the world. The period arguably saw the sowing of the seeds of the post-war flowering of what some term the ‘postwar...
An Economic History of Europe
Knowledge, Institutions and Growth, 600 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
This revised and extended edition of the leading textbook on European economic history has been updated to take account of contemporary economic developments and the latest research and debates. A concise and accessible introduction that covers the full sweep of the European history, the book focuses...
Collective Courage
A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide...
An Economic History of the United States
Conquest, Conflict, and Struggles for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
The economy of the United States is constantly evolving in response to wars, technological innovations, cultural revolutions, and political maneuverings. Tracing the economic machine of the United States from its first experiments in the colonies to the post–Great Recession era of today, Frederick...
An Economic History of the United States
From 1607 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
An Economic History of the United States is an accessible and informative survey designed for undergraduate courses on American economic history. The book spans from 1607 to the modern age and presents a documented history of how the American economy has propelled the nation into a position of world...
An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe
Economic Regimes from Laissez-Faire to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This new edition of Ivan T. Berend's leading overview of economic regimes and economic performance from the start of the twentieth century to the present is fully updated to incorporate recent events, including the causes and impacts of the 2008 financial-economic crisis. Praised for its clear prose...
by Catherine R. Schenk
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The international economy since 1945 has endured dramatic changes in its balance of power, from the early period of prosperity for industrialised nations, to the 2008/9 global crisis. In this volume Catherine Schenk outlines these huge changes, examines how the world’s economic leaders have tried...
Economic Growth in History
Survey and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This book breaks fresh ground in the most challenging aspect of economics and economic history – the nature of economic growth.
Professor Gould considers a wide range of theories about growth and its causes, and examines these theories in the light of modern economic history. The first chapter...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
This book - the first of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective. Each chapter discusses citizens, special interests, and government officials responding to economic incentives in both markets and politics. In doing so, the book provides fresh insights...
History of Islamic Economic Thought
Contributions of Muslim Scholars to Economic Thought and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This unique book highlights the contributions made by Muslim scholars to economic thought throughout history, a topic that has received relatively little attention in mainstream economics. Abdul Azim Islahi discusses various ways in which Muslim ideas reached the European West, influencing scholars and...
History of the Future of Economic Growth
Historical Roots of Current Debates on Sustainable Degrowth
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The future of economic growth is one of the decisive questions of the twenty-first century. Alarmed by declining growth rates in industrialized countries, climate change, and rising socio-economic inequalities, among other challenges, more and more people demand to look for alternatives beyond growth....
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Economic history helps us understand the extent to which financial decisions can change the ways of the world. These decisions are important for us because they have made a difference before. So we can learn from them and ensure that when we face the same situations once again, we are prepared in...
Short History of Economic Progress
A Course in Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Y. S. Brenner is an economist whose main concern is with development, and this attitude is reflected in his approach to economic history.
He begins this seminal study in the era of the Reformation in Europe, and bases it on the hypothesis that once started, economic progress will spread over...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
This book brings together leading scholars of the history of economic thought to demonstrate the vitality and richness of a discipline that welcomes both practitioners of intellectual, contextual history, as well as specialists in the historical explanation of the analytical and theoretical dimension...