Economic History

Discusses the policies, practices and outcomes of privatization in six transition economies: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine, paying particular attention to cross-country differences and to interrelations between the...

Adam Smith (1723-1790) is famous around the world as the founding father of economics, and his ideas are regularly quoted and invoked by politicians, business leaders, economists, and philosophers. However, considering his fame, few people have actually...

This book offers a new interpretation of German law and politics during the era between the Thirty Years' War and the French Revolution. Liberal ideas of freedom and equality were prototyped in Germany in property law: through the free disposition of...

First published in 1937, this book examines the changes in working conditions and vast improvements on sugar plantations in 20th century Fiji. By the 1930s, the sugar industry had become economically stronger through the substitution of the small tenant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381129Author Amiya Kumar BagchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 382gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 145mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250338280Author Martin DauntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 1024Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

First published in 1975, this book investigates the various pre-capitalist modes of production briefly indicated in the works of Marx and Engels, and gives an examination of the conditions of the transition from one mode of production to another. The...

The Post-Human Society is a rich, unique, path-breaking, belletristic and literary 'crie de coeur' work - a lyrical expose of all the internal infelicities (social, political, aesthetic) of the United States of America. In its vivid contrasting of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447116879Author Lucretiu Mihailescu-BirlibaFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher Harrassowitz

This open access book explores the history of how banks and banking services have become part of everyday life. Taking welfare state Sweden as its specific setting, the book identifies key cultural boundaries that had to be crossed in order to make...

Mercantilism and accounting remain two dynamic and debated concepts in terms of definition and scope. This volume brings together the research of international scholars from a wide variety of disciplines - accounting, anthropology, native studies,...

How apprenticeship shaped the English economy Apprenticeship dominated training and skill formation in early modern Europe. Years spent learning from a skilled master were a nearly universal experience for young workers in crafts and trade. In England,...

Today, it has largely been forgotten that fairs played a decisive role in trade and finance in pre-modern Europe. In the Middle Ages and Early Modern period, many cities endeavoured to obtain a fair privilege and attract as many merchants as possible...

The 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...

A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government paying its citizens to keep them out of poverty-now known as basic income-is hardly new. Often dated as far back as ancient Rome, basic income's modern...

Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax "constitutional conservatism" lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America's founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic clashes over finance and economics that marked the...

This revisionist view of late-nineteenth-century history credits Main Street, not Wall Street, with laying the foundations of modern America In American history, the prevailing narratives of the tumultuous late-nineteenth century focus on wealthy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226841601Author Melissa S KearneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

A definitive history of the United States' recovery from the Great Depression-and the New Deal's true part in it. FDR's New Deal has long enjoyed a special place in American history and policy-both because it redefined the government's fundamental...

At a time when we are faced with fundamental questions about the sustainability and morality of the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from colonialism and the Industrial Revolution to the...

This book is a renovative research work on Ricardo's theory of value and of money, achieved through analysis of Ricardo's original writings, made available in Sraffa's Works.Takenaga argues that Ricardo's economic theory should be understood as a cost...

Uncertainty--doubt about what is or could be--fuels our ambitions and fears. Tantalizing possibilities spur us to innovate and explore. Yet, we also strive to reduce uncertainty. Mountain climbers and deep-sea divers plan carefully. Rules, routines, and...

World War I left in its wake an unparalleled amount of international debt. Within a period of 5 years a larger sum of international obligations existed than had been built up by ordinary processes during the whole of the preceding century. These debts...

Many important economic and political debates today refer to the nature and the role of the State: should governments intervene in the economy and interfere with the operation of markets? In which occasions, and how? In order to better understand these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083755Author Andrew LeighFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingWeight(grams) 220gDimensions(mm)...

Originally published in 1925, this volume was written at a time when the cost of living was rising in France and the currency of the Franc was declining. Uneasiness over possible national bankruptcy or financial disintegration was increasing. The book...

A new history of crisis responses in the central bank's formative years. The long-standing description of the Federal Reserve as a "lender of last resort" refers to the central bank's emergency liquidity provision for financial entities in periods of...

Originally published in 1938, this symposium, based on the Sir Halley Stewart lectures for 1937, numbers among its contributors some of the world's most distinguished economists and the subjects of which they treat are of vital interest. Professor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870031540Author Sebastian EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Carnegie Endowment for International PeacePublisher Brookings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983333Author David LeonhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 444g

Much recent discussion surrounding valuation of the arts and culture, particularly in the policy arena, has been dominated by a concern to identify an economic and financial basis for valuation of art works, arts, activities and more general ways in...

Zhand Shakibi presents a new interpretation of the political and social dynamics of the last decade of the Shah's rule that challenges the binary view of pro-West Shah and anti-West Ayatollah by drawing attention to the Pahlavi state's reaction to the...

It was only in the sixteenth century that texts began to refer to the significance of "economic activity"---of sustaining life. This was not because the ordinary business of life was thought unimportant, but because the principles governing economic...

This volume is concerned with the development of business and economic relations between Britain and Japan from the early seventeenth century up to the late twentieth century. Particular attention is given to commodity trade, capital flows, the transfer...

The new Political Economy, which in 1815 captured the attention of a country exhausted by war and drained by economic crisis, was to have profound effects on British and, indeed, the Western world's economic and political life for more than a hundred...

Attempting to reveal the real causes of the 1929 stock market crash, Bierman refutes the popular belief that wild speculation had excessively driven up stock market prices and resulted in the crash. Although he acknowledges some prices of stocks such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authortter /f Harold /i G.Book InformationISBN 9780837181806Author Harold VatterFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury...

This bibliographic guide to the history of economic conditions in Central Europe assists in the examination of German-speaking Europe from the first efforts at economic growth and political unification through full industrialization and the disaster of...

Contemporary studies on social structure and the world political economy tend to be concerned primarily with present conditions and what these promise--or threaten for the future of the planet. The authors of this volume have taken a less fashionable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authortwin /f WilliamBook InformationISBN 9780837180380Format HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc