Economic History category: 3271 books
by Richard Pomfret
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalism
In this established classic, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello get to the heart of contemporary capitalism. Delving deep into the latest management texts informing the thinking of employers, the authors trace...
Nevada's Great Recession
Looking Back, Moving Forward
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Of all economic recessions experienced by the United States in the postwar period, the Great Recession that began in 2008 was the deepest, longest, and most destructive. Nevada was among the hardest hit states, its people reeling from the aftereffects, and the state government also experiencing a...
Meltdown Iceland
Lessons on the World Financial Crisis from a Small Bankrupt Island
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The economic crisis that emerged in America in 2008 unleashed a veritable epidemic of ill health around the world. However it was Iceland, whose population of three hundred thousand had the world's highest GDP per capita and counted itself the happiest of countries, that caught the worst cold. It...
China and India
A Tale of Two Economies
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
The economies of the People’s Republic of China and India are emerging-market economies, which account for more than a third of the global population. These two economies share many similarities in that they are large populous neighbours, who were regarded as abjectly poor countries until the 1980s...
A Nation of Small Shareholders
Marketing Wall Street after World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Immediately after the frightening Great Crash of 1929, many Americans swore they would "never" or "never again" become involved in the stock market. Yet hordes of Americans eventually did come to embrace equity investing, to an extent actually far greater than the level of popular...
The Historiography of Economics
British and American Economic Essays, Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This is the third and final volume of collected papers of A.W. Bob Coats. Coats began to collect material for this volume in the years following the publication of the second volume in 1993, but sadly died in 2007, before the work was completed.
The volume has now been completed under the editorship...
Austrian and German Economic Thought
From Subjectivism to Social Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book intends to renovate the view of social sciences in the German-speaking world. It explores the intellectual tension in the social science in Austria and Germany in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It deals with how the emergence of the new school (Austrian School) changed...
by Qunhui Huang
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Based on long-term research, this book comprehensively and systematically discusses the industrialization process in China, analyzing the level, characteristics, achievements and experiences as well as the problems faced. It also provides answers to important questions related to economic development...
Trade Unionism in Australia
A History from Flood to Ebb Tide
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
In the late 1960s Australian unionism was on the flood tide: growing in strength, industrially confident and capable of shaping the overall political climate of the nation. Forty years on, union membership and power is ebbing away despite community support for trade unionism and the continuing need...
by Claudio Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2007
This book charts the experiences of a textile enterprise in Russia during the 1990s, analysing post-Soviet management and managerial practices in order to illuminate the content, nature and direction of industrial restructuring in the Russian privatised sector during the years of economic transition....
Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs
Indian Business in the Colonial Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The merchant world represents a relatively neglected area in South Asian history. Merchants were important actors in the economic, political, social, and cultural life of India, and deserve more attention than they have been given. This book therefore bridges a gap by bringing together a number of issues...
Class Structure and Economic Growth
India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This book was first published in 1971.
The Economy of South Asia
From 1950 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
This book explores the historical roots of rapid economic growth in South Asia, with reference to politics, markets, resources, and the world economy. Roy posits that, after an initial slow period of growth between 1950 and the 1980s, the region has been growing rapidly and fast catching up with the...