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The Economic Future in Historical Perspective by P.A. David 9780197263471
€48.20In this volume, leading modern economic historians show how analysis of past experiences contributes to a better understanding of present-day economic conditions; they offer important insights into major challenges that will occupy the attention of... -
Accounting for the Fall of Silver: Hedging Currency Risk in Long-Distance Trade with Asia, 1870-1913 by Michael Schiltz 9780198865025
RRP: €105.91€96.02The second half of the nineteenth century is correctly known to have culminated in the emergence of the gold standard as the first truly international monetary regime. The processes leading up to this remarkable feat are, however, far less documented or... -
Inflation, Unemployment and Capital Malformations by Bernard Schmitt 9781138369801
RRP: €160.65€139.56The volume deals with the main problems faced by capitalist economies, inflation and unemployment, in a new and original way, and provides the theoretical foundations for quantum macroeconomic analysis. Its aim is to allow English-speaking economists and... -
The World Economy: History & Prospect by W. W. Rostow 9780292790162
RRP: €73.78€64.93This monumental study is an account of the world economy from the eighteenth century to the twentieth, an analysis and prescription for the future, and a challenge to the neo-Keynesian theories of income determination and growth. It is based on some... -
Competition, Value and Distribution in Classical Economics: Studies in Long-Period Analysis by Heinz D. Kurz 9780367687052
RRP: €160.65€139.56Drawing in particular on the work of Sraffa, Smith, Ricardo and Marx, the essays in this volume explore the characteristic features of the Classical economists' approach to economic problems, and the renewal of interest in that approach in modern times. ... -
Economics, Social Science and Pluralism: A Real-World Approach by Victor A. Beker 9781032212302
RRP: €160.65€139.56In the work of most classical economists - including Smith and Keynes - theory was often embedded in application. But from the second half of the last century on, mainstream economics styled itself as "pure" economics, where the theory is... -
Industrial Policy in Turkey: Rise, Retreat and Return by Mina Toksoz 9781399510141
€118.08At a time when many governments in advanced or emerging markets are embarking on some form of industrial policy and protectionism, this book looks at how these policies have evolved in Turkey in comparison with other emerging markets. Based on a... -
Early Economic Thought in Spain, 1177-1740 by Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson 9780865978010
RRP: €21.36€20.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865978010Author Marjorie Grice-HutchinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 454g -
The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century - New Edition by Roger E. Backhouse 9780691252018
RRP: €33.26€21.40The classic history of economic thought through the ages-now fully updated and expandedHesiod defined the basic economic problem as one of scarce resources, a view still held by economists today. Diocletian tried to save the Roman Empire with wage and... -
The Franchise and Politics in British North America 1755-1867 by John Garner
RRP: €32.12€28.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487598891Author John GarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 435g -
Jacob Mincer: The Founding Father of Modern Labor Economics by Pedro N. Teixeira
€35.37The original book published with the IZA, this work presents and analyzes the work of one of the most important economists of the 20th century - Jacob Mincer. Mincer's work has had a lasting influence on contemporary labor economics in both theoretical... -
THE MAKING OF A CATASTROPHE: The Disastrous Economic Fallout of the Covid-19 Pandemic in India by Jayati Ghosh
€37.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390652969Author Jayati GhoshFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co -
The Moebius Strip: A Spatial History of Colonial Society in Guerrero, Mexico by Jonathan D. Amith
€100.39The Moebius Strip explores the history, political economy, and culture of space in central Guerrero, Mexico, during the colonial period. This study is significant for two reasons. First, space comprises a sphere of contention that affects all levels of... -
Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-1940 by Stephen H. Haber
€116.94The recent economic troubles of Mexico should have surprised no one, for the Mexican economy is an unhealthy one whose basic problems extend back to the nineteenth century - that is the major theme of this study of the formative years of... -
El Poder de la Pasion: Belarmino Garcia Cuenta Como Amena Conquisto Lo Imposible a Traves de Las Personas by Garcia Belarmino
€22.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788483562635Author Garcia BelarminoFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Lid EditorialPublisher Lid EditorialWeight(grams) 340g -
Beyond the Bailouts: The Anthropology and History of the Greek Crisis by Clarissa De Waal
RRP: €113.05€112.81Since the nineteenth century, Greek financial and economic crises have been an enduring problem, most recently engulfing the European Union and EU member states. The latest crisis, beginning in 2010, has been - and continues to be - a headline news story... -
Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty First Century by Geoffrey Jones
€99.32This book provides an essential historical framework for understanding global business. The author shows how entrepreneurs built a global economy in the nineteenth century by creating firms that pursued resources and markets across borders. It... -
The Cornish Mineral Industry: Past Performance and Future Prospect by J.H. Trounson
€35.56This book commemorates the work of Jack Trounson, who was one of the leading twentieth-century authorities on Cornish mining and the greatest exponent of its future potential. He had an unparalleled ability to marshal a wealth of detail on the past... -
Surprised Again!--The Covid Crisis and the New Market Bubble by Alex J Pollock
RRP: €26.12€16.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881655Author Alex J PollockFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Paul Dry BooksPublisher Paul Dry BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm... -
Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe by Maarten Prak
RRP: €107.10€96.90This is the first comparative and comprehensive account of occupational training before the Industrial Revolution. Apprenticeship was a critical part of human capital formation, and, because of this, it has a central role to play in understanding... -
Canadian Economic History by W. T. Easterbrook
RRP: €51.17€46.49Through three centuries of development, the history of the Canadian economy reflects the shifting roles of natural resources, industrializations, and international trade. This volume, a standard in the field since its initial publication in 1958,... -
Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-century America by Michael Zakim
RRP: €38.08€37.02Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America's transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, "Capitalism Takes Command"... -
Debt, Trust and Reputation: Extra-legal Finance in Northern India by Sebastian Schwecke
RRP: €107.10€96.90Starting in the late nineteenth century, colonial rule in India took an active interest in regulating financial markets beyond the bridgeheads of European capital in intercontinental trade. Regulatory efforts were part of a modernizing project seeking to... -
Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It by H. W. Brands
RRP: €23.79€20.87The world runs on the U.S. dollar. From Washington to Beijing, governments, businesses, and individuals rely on the dollar to conduct commerce and invest profitably and safely-even after the global financial meltdown in 2008 revealed the potentially... -
Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800 by John H. Coatsworth
€26.10The fifteen essays in this volume apply the methods of the new economic history to the history of the Latin American economies since 1800. The authors combine the historian's sensitivity to context and contingency with modern or "neoclassical" economic... -
Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c.1850-1960 by Ewout Frankema
RRP: €107.10€96.90This book examines the evolution of fiscal capacity in the context of colonial state formation and the changing world order between 1850 and 1960. Until the early nineteenth century, European colonial control over Asia and Africa was largely confined to... -
The Global Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath: Hidden Factors in the Meltdown by A. G. Malliaris
RRP: €109.48€99.67In The Global Financial Crisis, contributors argue that the complexity of the Global Financial Crisis challenges researchers to offer more comprehensive explanations by extending the scope and range of their traditional investigations. To achieve this,... -
Thorstein Veblen: Theorist of the Leisure Class by John Patrick Diggins
RRP: €57.12€44.74Fired by Stanford and the University of Chicago but recommended by his peers to the presidency of the American Economic Association, Thorstein Veblen remains a baffling figure in American intellectual history. In part because he was an eccentric who... -
Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class by Devin Fergus
RRP: €27.95€25.26Politicians, economists, and the media have put forth no shortage of explanations for the mounting problem of wealth inequality - a loss of working class jobs, a rise in finance-driven speculative capitalism, and a surge of tax policy decisions that... -
China and the Persian Gulf: The New Silk Road Strategy and Emerging Partnerships by Dr. Mordechai Chaziza
€120.92Since China announced the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, the Gulf States have regarded it as a means for diversifying their national economies in order to reduce dependence on oil revenues and to achieve their national development strategy. The... -
On Freedom: Technology, Capital, Medium by Peter Trawny
RRP: €28.55€28.32How do we challenge the structures of late capitalism if all possible media through which to do do is inescapably capitalist? This urgent political question is at the heart of Peter Trawny's major new work. With searing precision Trawny demonstrates... -
The Mexican Economy, 1870-1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth by Jeffrey L. Bortz
RRP: €35.69€31.54Until the last decades of the nineteenth century, Mexico faced the twin problems of chronic political instability and slow economic growth. During the period of the Porfirio Diaz dictatorship (1876-1911), however, a series of institutional reforms... -
The International Economy since 1945 by W.M. Scammell
€83.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333354100Author W.M. ScammellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 403g -
Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds by Paul Crosthwaite
RRP: €107.10€102.33Invested examines the perennial and nefarious appeal of financial advice manuals. Who hasn't wished for a surefire formula for riches and a ticket to the good life? For three centuries, investment advisers of all kinds, legit and otherwise, have... -
Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States by Alan Greenspan
RRP: €23.80€12.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735222465Author Alan GreenspanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 138mm... -
The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier by Terry L. Anderson 9780804748544
RRP: €33.31€26.37Mention of the American West usually evokes images of rough and tumble cowboys, ranchers, and outlaws. In contrast, The Not So Wild, Wild West casts America's frontier history in a new framework that emphasizes the creation of institutions, both formal... -
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alec Macgillis
RRP: €21.42€13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250829276Author Alec MacgillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 20mm -
Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
RRP: €28.56€27.41A penetrating analysis from one of the defining voices of contemporary economics. In Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey zeroes in on the authoritarian cast of recent economics, arguing for a... -
Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600-1757 by Emily Erikson
RRP: €33.32€25.94The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the... -
The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History by Deborah Valenze 9780300246131
RRP: €53.55€51.42A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers diverse ideas about subsistence production and environments later eclipsed by classical economics With the publication of Essay on the Principle of...