Economic History category: 3271 books
Eastern and Western Ideas for African Growth
Diversity and Complementarity in Development Aid
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
The West and the East approach economic development differently. The Europeans and Americans stress free and fair business climate, promoting private activities generally without picking winners, and improving governance. East Asia is interested in achieving concrete results and projects rather than...
'Deficient in Commercial Morality'?
Japan in Global Debates on Business Ethics in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
This enlightening text analyses the origins of Western complaints, prevalent in the late nineteenth century, that Japan was characterised at the time by exceptionally low standards of 'commercial morality', despite a major political and economic transformation. As Britain industrialised during the...
North Carolina in the Connected Age
Challenges and Opportunities in a Globalizing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
At a time when North Carolina's population is exploding and its economy is shifting profoundly, one of the state's leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle these changes and to inform North Carolinians in easy-to-understand terms what to expect in the future.
Today we...
The Interest Standard of Currency
An Attempt
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Originally published in 1925. This book sets forth a plan to stabilize the currency at a time in which there was much discussion of what to radically change to improve the state of the flow of gold and discounts and interests. It addresses such questions as ‘what is a standard of currency’ and...
Antonio de Viti de Marco
A Story Worth Remembering
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
This book provides insight into the remarkable life and work of the Italian economist Antonio de Viti de Marco (1858-1943). This book presents eleven interviews with American and Italian scholars from various disciplines that provide a profile of this major intellectual as an economic theorist,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Three Principles of the People
San Min Chi I
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
The Three Principles of the People is a timely work that is still relevant in today's economic times. In this book Dr. Sun Yat-Sen outlines his beliefs and principles for the people.
In view of the prominent and influential position which The Three Principles of the People holds in...
Representing Public Credit
Credible commitment, fiction, and the rise of the financial subject
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Public credit was controversial in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. It entailed new ways of thinking about the individual in relation to the State and was for many reasons a site of cultural negotiation and debate. At the same time, it required commitment from participants in order to...
The Making of Competition Policy
Legal and Economic Sources
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
This book provides edited selections of primary source material in the intellectual history of competition policy from Adam Smith to the present day. Chapters include classical theories of competition, the U.S. founding era, classicism and neoclassicism, progressivism, the New Deal, structuralism,...
by Takeshi Amemiya
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
Addressing the dearth of literature that has been written on this key aspect of economic history, Takeshi Amemiya, a well known leading economist based at Stanford University, analyzes the two diametrically opposed views about the exact nature of the ancient Greek economy, putting together a broad and comprehensive survey that is unprecedented in t
by Edwin Cannan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Though Cannan, in his early years as an economist, was a critic of classical economics and an ally of interventionists, he moved sharply to the side of classical liberalism in the early 20th century. In this book, originally published in 1929 Edwin Cannan discussed in comparative terms the general...
Natural Resources in Afghanistan
Geographic and Geologic Perspectives on Centuries of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Natural Resources in Afghanistan: Geographic and Geologic Perspectives on Centuries of Conflict details Afghanistan's physical geography — namely climate, soils, vegetation, water, hazards, and basic geologic background and terrain landforms — together with details of its rich natural resources,...
Reappraising J. A. Hobson (Routledge Revivals)
Humanism and Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
J. A. Hobson was one of the most influential social, economic and political theorists of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. In this volume, first published in 1990, eight scholars reassess the importance and relevance of his work today and affirm him as a major British thinker.
These...
Accommodating Poverty
The Housing and Living Arrangements of the English Poor, c. 1600-1850
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
This book offers a detailed examination of the living arrangements and material circumstances of the poor betweeen 1650 and 1850. Chapters investigate poor households in urban, rural and metropolitan contexts, and contribute to wider investigations into British economic and social conditions in the long Eighteenth century.