Economic History category: 3271 books
Prosperity Road
America, Save the Middle Class!
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Somewhere along the way, the great nation of America has gone off track. In Prosperity Road: America, Save the Middle Class! Dr. Darryl Baker describes how we are being led down the economic pathway in a direction that’s contrary to the voice of the people. This book will take you on an exciting journey...
The Path to Sustained Growth
England's Transition from an Organic Economy to an Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Before the industrial revolution prolonged economic growth was unachievable. All economies were organic, dependent on plant photosynthesis to provide food, raw materials, and energy. This was true both of heat energy, derived from burning wood, and mechanical energy provided chiefly by human and animal...
The Cotton Kings
Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The Cotton Kings relates a colorful economic drama with striking parallels to contemporary American economic debates. At the turn of the twentieth century, dishonest cotton brokers used bad information to lower prices on the futures market, impoverishing millions of farmers. To fight this corruption,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
The United Nations declared 2012 the year of cooperatives, emphasizing that there is an alternative to privately owned firms. While greed and mismanagement have caused world financial and economic crises, co-ops offer another type of business for economic activities that is less exposed to aggressive...
Destructive Creation
American Business and the Winning of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "the arsenal...
Economics Broadly Considered
Essays in Honour of Warren J. Samuels
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001
Warren J. Samuels has been a prominent figure in the study of economics in the twentieth century. This book brings together essays by leading scholars in the areas of economics in which Samuels has made his most important contributions: the history of economic thought, economic methodology, and institutional and post-Keynesian economics. This work
Builders of a New South
Merchants, Capital, and the Remaking of Natchez, 1865–1914
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Builders of a New South describes how, between 1865 and 1914, ten Natchez mercantile families emerged as leading purveyors in the wholesale plantation supply and cotton handling business, and soon became a dominant force in the social and economic Reconstruction of the Natchez District. They were...
Shareholder Democracies?
Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Understanding the challenges of corporate governance is central to our comprehension of the economic dynamics driving corporations today. Among the most important institutions in capitalism today, corporations and joint-stock companies had their origins in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth...
Markets in the Name of Socialism
The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. In conventional accounts, American and Western European economists, such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, sold neoliberalism by popularizing their free-market ideas and radical criticisms...
Industrial Finance, 1830-1914
The Finance and Organization of English Manufacturing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The nineteenth century was a time of rapid change in forms of organization of economic activity. A central feature of such change was, inevitably, the development of new types of finance adapted to the radically new environment.
An appreciation of the history of these developments makes a substantial...
by Henry Phelps Brown, Sheila V. Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
First published in book form in 1981, this collection of essays originally written between 1955 and 1966 contains ground-breaking research and analysis on the study of wages and prices across seven centuries, with particular reference to builder’s wage rates and the price of a bundle of the commodities...
Merchants, Bankers, Governors
British Enterprise in Singapore and Malaya, 17861920
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
This is the story of British enterprise in Singapore and Malaya from 1786 to 1920, when British vision, zeal and drive developed Penang, then Singapore and, finally, the peninsular Malay States.
In the initial years, commerce and finance were paramount. The seeds of these commercial activities...
The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy
Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reforms play in the country's dissolution? In this groundbreaking study,...
by Dale Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The industrialization process in Mexico began before that of any other nation in Latin America except Argentina, with the most rapid expansion of new industrial firms occurring in the 1930s and 1940s, and import substitution in capital goods evident as early as the late 1930s. Though Mexico’s trade...