Economic History category: 3271 books
by Jake Rosenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
From workers' wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post-World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fraction now is close to one in five, and just one in ten in the private sector. The only thing big about...
Roots of American Economic Growth 1607-1861
An Essay on Social Causation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The German Economy
Beyond the Social Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
In this book, one of Germany's most influential economists describes his country's economy, the largest in the European Union and the third largest in the world, and analyzes its weaknesses: poor GDP growth performance, high unemployment due to a malfunctioning labor market, and an unsustainable social...
Finance in America
An Unfinished Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance—and revealed it to be far more arcane and influential than most people could ever have imagined. Any hope of avoiding future crises, it’s clear, rest on understanding finance itself.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Addressing the major issues arising from the power ascribed to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), this book reflects the bredth, expertise and multifaceted viewpoints of the contributors: members of OPEC itself, industry representatives, and scholars and energy specialists...
by Ernest Aves
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Ernest Aves (1857-1917) was an influential social analyst and civil servant. This title, first published in 1907, during Aves’ work for the Board of Trade, investigates the different forms of industrial co-operation within Britain; the fundamental principle of this is stated as "equitable association",...
Making Chicago Price Theory
Friedman-Stigler Correspondence 1945-1957
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Milton Friedman and George J. Stigler shaped economics as we know it today – their Chicago School laid the groundwork for much of the neoclassical tradition in economic analysis. This book brings together a collection of letters from these two Noble laureates from the post-war years, containing...
Emerging from an Entrenched Colonial Economy
New Zealand Primary Production, Britain and the EEC, 1945 - 1975
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain. Has New Zealand moved beyond its colonial heritage? Is it now time to remove the Union Jack from the national flag and change to a Republic? Hall analyses the three decades after World War II when changes in...
Systemic Changes in the German and Japanese Economies
Convergence and Differentiation as a Dual Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2004
Should Japan and Germany strive to restructure their institutional fabric and arrangements to make them more similar to Anglo-American standards? Where will systemic change lead? This book offers fresh insights by collecting Japanese and German contributions to this scholarly discussion both from...
Chinese Agriculture in the 1930s
Investigations into John Lossing Buck’s Rediscovered ‘Land Utilization in China’ Microdata
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
This edited volume analyzes land utilization data from farm surveys taken in China between 1929 and 1933. This data, which was the foundation for John Lossing Buck’s seminal work Land Utilization in China (1937), was thought lost to history until rediscovered in 2000. The book presents the first...
by P. Boissonade
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Erudite yet readable work traces the economic evolution of Europe from 5th to 15th century. Focusing on working people, it covers breakup of feudal estates, development of small craft industries and large capitalist enterprises, rise of wage laborers, development of technical advances in industry and agriculture, rise of international commerce and finance.
Cochabamba, 1550-1900
Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1998
Winner of the 1990 Best Book Award from the New England Council on Latin American Studies
This study of Bolivia uses Cochabamba as a laboratory to examine the long-term transformation of native Andean society into a vibrant Quechua-Spanish-mestizo region of haciendas and smallholdings, towns...
by Gavin Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Southern bus boycotts and lunch counter sit-ins were famous acts of civil disobedience but were also demands for jobs in the very services being denied blacks. Gavin Wright shows that the civil rights struggle was of economic benefit to all parties: the wages of southern blacks increased dramatically but not at the expense of southern whites.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
In the framework of the so-called Barcelona process, the European Union concluded several bilateral agreements with Morocco aimed to deepen their economic integration. The 2000 Association agreement European Union–Morocco is the general legal framework for the development of relationships among...