Economic History category: 3271 books
Microfinance, Debt and Over-Indebtedness
Juggling with Money
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Although microcredit programmes have long been considered efficient development tools, many forms of debt-induced distress have emerged in their wake. This has brought to light the problem of over-indebtedness, a topic which has been previously underexplored in the literature.
This new book,...
British Economic and Strategic Planning
1905-1915
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Global Curse of the Federal Reserve
How Investors Can Survive and Profit From Monetary Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This revised edition offers the most up-to-date advice for investors who wish to defend themselves, or even make a profit from, the blighted policies of the Federal Reserve. Dr. Brown demonstrates how disordered US monetary policy causes waves of economic destruction around the globe.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Volume 36A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on Bruce Caldwell’s Beyond Positivism after 35 years. Contributors to the symposium include Kevin Hoover, Wade Hands, Tony Lawson, and Peter Boettke. The volume also features general-research essays from...
by J.D. Bernal
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Published in 2005, Science and Industry in the Nineteenth Century is a valuable contribution to the field of Economic History.
First Market
The Genesis of Wall Street in Ancient Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
For 4000 years the world's FIRST MARKET was forgotten along with Sumer, the world's first civilization. Recently discovered cuneiform receipts inscribed on clay tablets (over 100,000) offer clues to the rediscovery of the world's first Wall Street private treaty stock market. The CUNEIFORM CODE unlocks...
The Business of Waste
Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The advent of consumer societies in the United Kingdom and West Germany after 1945 led to the mass 'production' of garbage. This book compares the social, cultural and economic fallout of the growing volume and changing composition of waste in the two countries from 1945 to the present through sustained...
Classics and Moderns in Economics Volume II
Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Economic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
This second volume of essays on nineteenth and twentieth century economic thought, complements the first and continues the high standards of scholarship and academic rigour.
Classics and Moderns in Economics Volume I
Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Economic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2002
Peter Groenewegen's reputation as a chronicler of the history of economics is unparalleled. Building on his respected collection on eighteenth century economics, this new book focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reprinting essays on classical and modern economics. Several of the included essays have never been published before,
by Alfons Dopsch
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,...
The Lion's Share
Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This is the most in-depth analysis of inequality and social polarization ever attempted for a preindustrial society. Using data from the archives of the Venetian Terraferma, and compared with information available for elsewhere in Europe, Guido Alfani and Matteo Di Tullio demonstrate that the rise...
Financial Innovation and Resilience
A Comparative Perspective on the Public Banks of Naples (1462-1808)
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
As Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy, says in his Foreword, all economic policy makers today need to re-examine our history to help them confront the challenges of today. This edited volume focuses specifically on the theme of financial innovation and how financial resiliency was achieved...
by Karl Moore, David Charles Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Origins of Globalization draws widely on ancient sources and modern economic theory to detail the concept of “known world” globalization, arguing that a mixed economy--similar in many respects to our own--existed in a variety of forms throughout the ancient world. By analyzing the business...
Stability in International Finance
Applications of Price Disequilibrium Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This book aims to explore stability in an international financial system using disequilibrium theory. It examines historical cases of both instability and stability and reviews price-disequilibrium theory to construct a theoretical model for a stable international financial system.
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