Economic History category: 3271 books
Ricardo and the History of Japanese Economic Thought
A selection of Ricardo studies in Japan during the interwar period
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
David Ricardo’s theories were introduced in fragments in Japan after the Meiji restoration of 1868 and his work came into prominence late in comparison to other major thinkers figuring in the history of economic thought.
The book seeks to analyse the studies in Japan from the year 1920...
by Charles Issawi
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
The economic history of the Middle East and North Africa is quite extraordinary.
This is an axiomatic statement, but the very nature of the economic changes that have stemmed directly from the effects of oil resources in these areas has tended to obscure longterm patterns of economic change...
After the Music Stopped
The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
New York Times** Bestseller**
One of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers offers a masterful narrative of the crisis and its lessons.
Many fine books on the financial crisis were first drafts of history—books written to fill the need for immediate understanding. Alan S....
Wealth and Democracy
How Great Fortunes and Government Created America's Aristocracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2002
For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have influenced presidential campaigns and changed...
The New Deal
A Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal began as a program of short-term emergency relief measures and evolved into a truly transformative concept of the federal government’s role in Americans’ lives. More than an economic recovery plan, it was a reordering of the political system that continues to define...
Visions of Modernity
American Business and the Modernization of Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1994
In much the same way that Japan has become the focus of contemporary American discussion about industrial restructuring, Germans in the economic reform in terms of Americanism and Fordism, seeing in the United States an intriguing vision for a revitalized economy and a new social order. During the...
by Andy Bielenberg, Raymond Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
This book provides a cogent summary of the economic history of the Irish Free State/Republic of Ireland. It takes the Irish story from the 1920s right through to the present, providing an excellent case study of one of many European states which obtained independence during and after the First World...
Macroeconomics and the History of Economic Thought
Festschrift in Honour of Harald Hagemann
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The essays in this Festschrift have been chosen to honour Harald Hagemann and his scientific work. They reflect his main contributions to economic research and his major fields of interest. The essays in the first part deal with various aspects within the history of economic thought. The second part...
by Michael H. Turk
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
How scientific is economics? This question has often been framed by analogies and correspondences made between economics and other, seemingly more well-established scientific disciplines, starting with classical mechanics. At the same time economics is likely to be seen in opposition to or in contrast...
Global Economic Disparity
A Dynamic Force in Geoeconomic Competition of Superpowers
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The world is a veritable stage for superpowers. Major historical events are best viewed as the outcomes of games played by superpowers for their own economic interests. The objective of this book is to explore the primary cause of global historical events. A global economic disparity (GED) motivates...
by Isaac Ilyich Rubin, Catherine Colliot-Thelene
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
This is an important and unparalleled work which situated Marx's economic theory in relation to the economic theories that pre-date him - from mercantilism to John Stuart Mill. First published in 1929, the book dates from the fertile period of Marxist economic theory that produced the works of Preobrazhensky,...
Depression, War, and Cold War
Studies in Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
Other books exist that warn of the dangers of empire and war. However, few, if any, of these books do so from a scholarly, informed economic standpoint. In Depression, War, and Cold War , Robert Higgs, a highly regarded economic historian, makes pointed, fresh economic arguments against war, showing...
From Windfall to Curse?
Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Since the discovery of abundant oil resources in the 1920s, Venezuela has had an economically privileged position among the nations of Latin America, which has led to its being treated by economic and political analysts as an exceptional case. In her well-known study of Venezuela’s political economy,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This mid-2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Theory attempting to explain poverty and development is vast, varied, and, in many ways, inconclusive. In this thesis, I review core literature on the Industrial Revolution and the rise of...