Economic History category: 3271 books
by Paul Bairoch
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First published in 1967, Professor Bairoch’s Diagnostic de L’Evolution Economique du Tiers-Monde has gone into four editions, and has brought the author an international reputation.
This English translation is, in effect, another edition based on the latest French text but incorporating...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
The aim of this book is to analyze Japan's high-growth economy, in particular to clarify the kinds of changes in people’s lives that were generated by high growth. The present volume focuses not on the macro-economic mechanisms that expanded the scale of the economy, but on the micro-economic changes...
The Lever of Riches
Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 1992
In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the key to economic success. But why are some nations more creative than others, and why do some highly innovative societies--such as ancient China, or Britain in the industrial revolution--pass...
The Economics of Economists
Institutional Setting, Individual Incentives, and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The profession of academic economics has been widely criticized for being excessively dependent on technical models based on unrealistic assumptions about rationality and individual behavior, and yet it remains a sparsely studied area. This volume presents a series of background readings on the profession...
by Josiah Ober
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and...
The Half-Life of Deindustrialization
Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American industrial workers lost jobs in factories and mines. Deindustrialization had dramatic effects on those workers and their communities, but its longterm effects continue to ripple through working-class culture. Economic restructuring changed...
The Hesitant Hand
Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Adam Smith turned economic theory on its head in 1776 when he declared that the pursuit of self-interest mediated by the market itself--not by government--led, via an invisible hand, to the greatest possible welfare for society as a whole. The Hesitant Hand examines how subsequent economic thinkers...
Rich Indians
Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Long before lucrative tribal casinos sparked controversy, Native Americans amassed other wealth that provoked intense debate about the desirability, morality, and compatibility of Indian and non-Indian economic practices. Alexandra Harmon examines seven such instances of Indian affluence and the dilemmas...
Hard Times
Economic Depressions in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Hard Times presents a comprehensive account of economic depressions in America, from colonial times to the “great recession” that began in 2008. Written in crisp prose for a general audience, the book synthesizes a narrative account—presenting the known facts about how particular depressions...
Liberalism and the Welfare State
Economists and Arguments for the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The welfare state has, over the past forty years, come under increasing attack from liberals who consider comprehensive welfare provision inimical to liberalism. Yet, many of the architects of the post-World War II welfare states were liberals, many of whom were economists as much as socialists. Liberalism...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
This book sheds new light on the role of industrial districts in the industrial development of the past and present. Industrial districts, which refer to the geographical concentration of enterprises producing similar or closely related commodities in a small area, play a significant role in the development...
Facets of India's Economy and Her Society Volume I
Recent Economic and Social History and Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
‘Jha is the right scholar and economist to take readers through the development of the Indian economy. Readers will be in good hands.’
—Edmund Phelps, Columbia University, USA, and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics
‘This is perhaps the best and most scholarly contribution...
Inside the Global Economy
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This comprehensive and informed text offers a practical introduction to the workings of the global economy. Drawing on his hands-on experience in international finance and economic policy, Andrew Vonnegut clearly explains economic concepts and illustrates them with cogent case studies. He describes...
by Alan Booth
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2001
It is commonplace to assume that the twentieth-century British economy has failed, falling from the world's richest industrial country in 1900 to one of the poorest nations of Western Europe in 2000. Manufacturing is inevitably the centre of this failure: British industrial managers cannot organise...