Economic History category: 3271 books
Botswana – A Modern Economic History
An African Diamond in the Rough
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Together with Mauritius, Botswana is often categorized as one of two growth miracles in sub-Saharan Africa. Due to its spectacular long-run economic performance and impressive social development, it has been termed both an economic success story and a developmental state. While there is uniqueness...
Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene
Perspectives on Asia and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
For the populations of the developing economies – the vast majority of humanity – the present century offers the prospect of emulating Western standards of living. This hope is combined with increasing awareness of the environmental consequences of the very process of global industrialisation...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This book investigates the tensions between subjectivism and objectivism in the history of economics. The book looks at the works of Adam Smith, Carl Menger, Leon Walras, William Stanley Jevons, Oskar Morgenstern, Ludwig Mises, Piero Sraffa, and so on. The book highlights the diverse subjective...
by Gianni Toniolo
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
This book, first published in 1990, examines Italy’s economic history from its Unification in 1850 to the end of the First World War. Particular attention is paid to the extent to which Italy exhibits the features of Kaznets’s model of ‘modern economic growth’.
An Economic History of...
The Economics of World War II
Six Great Powers in International Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2000
This book provides a new quantitative view of the wartime economic experiences of six great powers; the UK, the USA, Germany, Italy, Japan and the USSR. What contribution did economics made to war preparedness and to winning or losing the war? What was the effect of wartime experiences on postwar...
by Alon Kadish
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
First published in 1989, Alon Kadish’s study re-examines the standard view held by historians of economic thought whereby economic history emerged from the historicist criticism of neoclassical economic theory. He also demonstrates how the discipline evolved as an extension of the study of history....
An Economic History of Indonesia
1800-2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Based on new datasets, this book presents an economic history of Indonesia. It analyses the causes of stagnation of growth during the colonial and independence period, making use of new theoretical insights from institutional economics and new growth theory.
The book looks at the major themes...
Economic Development and Global Crisis
The Latin American Economy in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This edited collection uses a history of economic thought perspective to explore the evolving role of Latin America within the context of globalization. In particular, it examines the region’s resilience in the face of the global financial crisis.
Economic Development and Global Crisis explains...
by Charles P. Kindleberger
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1996
Charles Kindleberger's World Economic Primacy: 1500-1990 is a work of rare ambition and scope from one of our most respected economic historians. Extending over broad ranges of both history and geography, the work considers what it is that enables countries to achieve, at some period in their history,...
Business Cycles in Economic Thought
A history
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Business Cycles in Economic Thought underlines how, over the time span of two centuries, economic thought interacted with cycles in a continuous renewal of theories and rethinking of policies, whilst economic actions embedded themselves into past economic thought.
This book argues that studying...
The Economic History of Nuclear Energy in Spain
Governance, Business and Finance
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This book analyses the economic history of the nuclear program in Spain, from its inception in the 1950s to the nuclear moratorium in the early 1980s, and investigates the economic, financial and business origins of atomic energy in Spain. The actual dimension of the Spanish nuclear sector, which...
Economic Theory and Economic Thought
Essays in Honour of Ian Steedman
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Ian Steedman is recognised internationally as one of the leading economic theorists of his time and has made major contributions to the development of economic theory and economic thought, as substantiated by his work on Marx, Sraffa, Marshall, Jevons and Wicksteed. His contributions to economic theory...
People, Places and Business Cultures
Essays in Honour of Francesca Carnevali
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This collection brings together new research into nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and European economic history, socio-cultural history and business history. It is inspired by the work and legacy of Francesca Carnevali who, throughout her career, encouraged a lively dialogue between these...
Comparisons in Economic Thought
Economic interdependency reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
The idea of comparing rewards with others has a long and persistent presence in the social sciences, and can be found in many psychological, social and managerial theories. In economics, this idea can be traced back through the works of a substantial number of eminent thinkers, from Genovesi and Hume,...