Economic History category: 3271 books
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The central role of the housing market in the recent recession raised a series of questions about similar episodes throughout economic history. Were the underlying causes of housing and mortgage crises the same in earlier episodes? Has the onset and spread of crises changed over time? How have previous...
Institutional Diversity in Self-Governing Societies
The Bloomington School and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom represents a distinctive contribution to the study of political economy, public policy and administration, collective action, and governance theory. Efforts to present a comprehensive overview of the Bloomington School that grew around the Workshop in Political...
The Black Death in Egypt and England
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Throughout the fourteenth century AD/eighth century H, waves of plague swept out of Central Asia and decimated populations from China to Iceland. So devastating was the Black Death across the Old World that some historians have compared its effects to those of a nuclear holocaust. As countries began...
The Origins of Globalization
World Trade in the Making of the Global Economy, 1500-1800
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
For better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this process of globalization begin, and what effects did it have on economies and societies? Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden argue that the networks of trade established...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
This book is a coherent and unique collection of chapters exploring the reception and diffusion of David Ricardo’s writings in different languages. The book highlights the similarities and differences between them. This book seeks to delineate the diffusion of Ricardo's theory in various parts of...
Creole Economics
Caribbean Cunning under the French Flag
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What do the trickster Rabbit, slave descendants, off-the-books economies, and French citizens have to do with each other? Plenty, says Katherine Browne in her anthropological investigation of the informal economy in the Caribbean island of Martinique. She begins with a question: Why, after more than...
by Gottfried Feder
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Gottfried Feder's The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation is one of a series of three books by the important, albeit now obscure German campaigner against parasitic debt-finance-capitalism. It was Feder who gave opposition to debt-finance and a demand for a new banking system a technical...
The Golden Leaf
How Tobacco Shaped Cuba and the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Through the rise and fall of empires, ideologies, and economies, tobacco grown on the tiny island of Cuba has remained an enduring symbol of pleasure and extravagance. Cultivated as one of the first reliable commodities for those inhabitants who remained after conquistadors moved on in search of a...
Calculation and Morality
The Costs of Slavery and the Value of Emancipation in the French Antilles
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Debates about whether to maintain or abolish slavery revolved around two key values: the morality of enslaving other human beings and the economic benefits and costs of slavery as compared to free labor. Various and conflicting arguments were presented by abolitionists, colonists, and administrators...
by Robert W. Fogel
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity is a collection of essays by Nobel laureate Robert W. Fogel on the theory and measurement of ageing and health-related variables. Dr Fogel analyzes historic data on height, health, nutrition and life expectation to provide a clearer understanding...
American Entrepreneur
A History of Business in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Ever since the first colonists landed in the New World, Americans have forged ahead in their quest to make good on promises of capitalism and independence. American Entrepreneur vividly illustrates the history of business in the United States from the point of view of the enterprising men and women...
FDR's Folly
How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The Great Depression and the New Deal. For generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for masterfully reining in the Depression’s destructive effects...
The Power of a Single Number
A Political History of GDP
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Widely used since the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's most powerful statistical indicator of national development and progress. Practically all governments adhere to the idea that GDP growth is a primary economic target, and while criticism of this measure...
Tulipomania
The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
A vivid narration of the history of the tulip, from its origins on the barren, windswept steppes of central Asia to its place of honor in the lush imperial gardens of Constantinople, to its starring moment as the most coveted—and beautiful—commodity in Europe.
In the 1630s, visitors to...