Economic History category: 3271 books
Themes in Value and Distribution
Classical Theory Reappraised
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
The essays in this volume, first published in 1989, seek to re-examine an important area of economic theory: value and distribution. In a sustained and analytical critique, two principle methodological approaches are compared and distinguished: the Classical or ‘surplus-based’ theories and the...
Money and Justice
A critique of modern money and banking systems from the perspective of Aristotelian and Scholastic thoughts
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Money has always represented power. For Aristotle, this power was inseparable from the exercise of justice within a community. This is why issuance of money was the prerogative of the lawful authority (government). Such a view of monetary power was widespread, and includes societies as distant as...
by Henry Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
This book, first edited with an introduction by F. A. v. Hayek in 1939, explores some of the popular errors which related to the suspension of the cash payments of the Bank of England, and to the influence of our paper currency on the price of provisions. The introduction provides an interesting overview...
by Jamie Peck
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Amongst intellectuals and activists, neoliberalism has become a potent signifier for the kind of free-market thinking that has dominated politics for the past three decades. Forever associated with the conviction politics of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the free-market project has since become...
From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics
The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless, increasingly...
by Michael E. Marti
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
China and the Legacy of Deng Xiaoping documents a turning point in the Chinese communist revolution that elevates Deng to a role equal to that of Mao. Dr. Marti explores post-Tiananmen domestic political wrangling and offers the first documentation of Dengs efforts to link all the major elements of societythe...
The Geography of Underdevelopment
Institutions and the Impact of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This book examines why the differences in comparative economic development across the world have a geographical pattern. It argues that there is a missing component in the geography versus institutions debate, namely the role of culture and its impact either directly on development or indirectly through...
Ownership Economics
On the Foundations of Interest, Money, Markets, Business Cycles and Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
This book presents the first full-length explanation in English of Heinsohn and Steiger's groundbreaking theory of money and interest, which emphasizes the role played by private property rights.
Ownership economics gives an alternative explanation of money and interest, proposing that operations...
by Susan Howson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
By the time of his death the English economist Lionel Robbins (1898–1984) was celebrated as a 'renaissance man'. He made major contributions to his own academic discipline and applied his skills as an economist not only to practical problems of economic policy – with conspicuous success when he...
Mind vs. Money
The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
For the past 150 years, Western intellectuals have trumpeted contempt for capitalism and capitalists. They have written novels, plays, and manifestos to demonstrate the evils of the economic system in which they live. Dislike and contempt for the bourgeoisie, the middle classes, industry, and commerce...
Japan's Big Bang
The Deregulation and Revitalization of the Japanese Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Japan's national economy: understanding the history of the current crisis and proposing a path forward
The consistent failure of the Japanese bureaucracy and business establishment to meet proper management and regulatory standards has made America's premier ally in Asia a major source of financial...
The Influence of Uncertainty in a Changing Financial Environment
An Inquiry into the Root Causes of the Great Recession of 2007-2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
This book examines the role of uncertainty on financial decisions - and, consequently, on financial markets - in the buildup to and aftermath of the Great Recession. It tracks the significant growth and important structural changes in the financial sector during the past few decades, both of which...
God and Gold
Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
A stunningly insightful account of the global political and economic system, sustained first by Britain and now by America, that has created the modern world. The key to the two countries' predominance, Mead argues, lies in the individualistic ideology inherent in the Anglo-American religion. Over...
The Philosophy of Economics
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2007
An anthology of works on the philosophy of economics, including classic texts and essays exploring specific branches and schools of economics. Completely revamped, this edition contains new selections, a revised introduction and a bibliography. The volume contains 26 chapters organized into five parts:...