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Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914: Two Paths to the Twentieth Century by Patrick O'Brien
RRP: €45.21€39.72First published in 1978, Professor O'Brien's Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 is an original and pioneering exercise in comparative and quantitative economic history. It finds a controversial place in the debate on the question of French... -
Planning and the Price Mechanism: The Liberal-Socialist Solution by James E. Meade
RRP: €52.35€45.74First published in 1948, this book outlines a solution to contemporary economic problems in the post-war years. This solution aims to make the best use of our price mechanism, free initiative and competition, but also involves the socialization of... -
The Economic Basis of a Durable Peace by James E. Meade
RRP: €45.21€39.72First published in 1940, this book suggested the basic principles upon which a new international economic order should be built at the end of the Second World War. Particular attention is paid to the possibility of constructing such an international... -
Neoliberal Thought and Thatcherism: 'A Transition From Here to There?' by Robert Ledger
RRP: €47.59€41.72The premiership of Margaret Thatcher has been portrayed as uniquely ideological in its pursuit of a more market-based economy. A body of literature has been built on how a sharp turn to the right by the Conservative Party during the 1980s - inspired by... -
Subordinated Development: Transnational Capital in the Process of Accumulation of Latin America and Brazil by Rubens R. Sawaya
RRP: €35.70€11.14Focusing on the processes of accumulation, concentration and centralisation of capital, this book explains the transnationalisation of capital and its impact on Latin America and Brazil. The first chapter addresses the logic of these processes from a... -
A People`s History of India 25 - Indian Economy Under Early British Rule, 1757 -1857 by Irfan Habib
€15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381440Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 206gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 157mm * 9mm -
Power and Political Economy from Thatcher to Blair: The Great Enemy of Democracy? by Robert Ledger
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book investigates the policies of the Thatcher, Major and Blair governments and their approaches towards concentration of economic and political power. The 1979-2007 British governments have variously been described as liberal or, to use a... -
The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection by Werner Troesken
RRP: €41.65€40.35The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world. But that wealth hasn't translated to a higher life expectancy, an area where the United States still ranks thirty-eighth-behind Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, and Greece, among many others. Some... -
The New Economic History of the Railways by Patrick O'Brien
RRP: €47.59€41.72The book, first published in 1977, contrasts new and older approaches to the history of transport and outlines a critical exposition of the methods used to quantify the contribution of railways to economic growth by means of counterfactual speculation... -
Monetary Policy and Crises: A Study of Swedish Experience by Brinley Thomas
RRP: €42.83€37.71This book, first published in 1936, is both an instructive chapter in economic history and a stimulating period in the history of economic thought. The author examines the years of economic recovery in Sweden and the measures that the country adopted to... -
The Outlook for Gold by Charles Morgan Webb
RRP: €40.45€35.70Originally published in 1931, this book was written at a time when the utility and value of gold was under great scrutiny. Global financial circles were discussing the necessity of reducing the price of gold, pressing for the return of Britain to a gold... -
The Battle for Britain's Gold Standard in 1931 by Diane B. Kunz
RRP: €39.26€34.70This book, originally published in 1987 sets the British political and financial crisis of 1931 in an international context by concentrating on the bankers who were primarily responsible for leading the fight to protect sterling in a world context. 1931... -
The Medieval Networks in East Central Europe: Commerce, Contacts, Communication by Balazs Nagy
RRP: €45.21€40.20Medieval Networks in East Central Europe explores the economic, cultural, and religious forms of contact between East Central Europe and the surrounding world in the eight to the fifteenth century. The sixteen chapters are grouped into four thematic... -
Empire and Commerce in Africa: A Study in Economic Imperialism by Leonard Woolf
€103.53In this title, originally published in 1920, Leonard Woolf traces the history of economic imperialism and explores the relations of Europe and Africa since 1876. This analysis of economic imperialism helped to shape attitudes to colonialism for more than... -
Chinese Economists on Economic Reform - Collected Works of Zhou Xiaochuan by Xiaochuan Zhou
RRP: €57.11€49.75This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of China's economic reform. The series provides an inside view of China's economic reform, revealing... -
Women and Business since 1500: Invisible Presences in Europe and North America? by Beatrice Craig
€43.54This volume surveys the role women have played in various types of business as owners, co-owners and decision-making managers in European and North American societies since the sixteenth century. Drawing on up-to-date scholarship, it identifies the... -
Why Democracy Failed: The Agrarian Origins of the Spanish Civil War by James Simpson
RRP: €92.81€83.53In this distinctive new history of the origins of the Spanish Civil War, James Simpson and Juan Carmona tackle the highly-debated issue of why it was that Spain's democratic Second Republic failed. They explore the interconnections between economic... -
The Business of Waste: Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the Present by Raymond G. Stokes
RRP: €111.85€101.10The 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... -
German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic by Lars Maischak
RRP: €107.10€82.84This study brings to life the community of trans-Atlantic merchants who established strong economic, political and cultural ties between the United States and the city-republic of Bremen, Germany in the nineteenth century. Lars Maischak shows that the... -
Hayek's Market Republicanism: The Limits of Liberty by Sean Irving
RRP: €47.59€41.72Friedrich Hayek was the 20th century's most significant free market theorist. Over the course of his long career he developed an analysis of the danger that state power can pose to individual liberty. In rejecting much of the liberal tradition's concern... -
The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition by Peter Drucker
RRP: €52.35€46.22Periods of great social change reveal a tension between the need for continuity and the need for innovation. The twentieth century has witnessed both radical alteration and tenacious durability in social organization, politics, economics, and art. To... -
China's Economic Reform: A Study with Documents by Robert F. Ash
RRP: €160.65€140.04This book presents a collection and analysis of original policy documents, newly translated into English, from a key period of Chinese development, providing both a current and a retrospective analysis of China's economic reform efforts. Topics dealt... -
Culture in Economics: History, Methodological Reflections and Contemporary Applications by Sjoerd Beugelsdijk
RRP: €130.90€98.07Many economists now accept that informal institutions and culture play a crucial role in economic outcomes. Driven by the work of economists like Nobel laureates Douglass North and Gary Becker, there is an important body of work that invokes cultural and... -
Debt: Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy by Merry Wiesner-Hanks
RRP: €26.17€22.84From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various... -
The Distorted World of Soviet-Type Economies by Jan Winiecki
RRP: €49.97€43.73The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe provide unique examples of large-scale relatively highly developed centrally planned economies. In the 1980s economists in both the East and West began to focus with increasingly critical attention on the economies of... -
The economic ideas of ordinary people: From preferences to trade by David Levy
RRP: €29.74€25.95Human actions result from a compound of animal desires, constraints and the words we use to talk about desires and constraints. Modern economics has developed complex theories to explain the operation of both desires and constraints but has neglected the... -
A Russian Factory Enters the Market Economy by Claudio Morrison
RRP: €23.79€21.05This book charts the experiences of a textile enterprise in Russia during the 1990s, analysing post-Soviet management and managerial practices in order to illuminate the content, nature and direction of industrial restructuring in the Russian privatised... -
Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Si e: Libidinal Lives by Jane Ford
RRP: €47.59€41.72This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siecle. At the end of the nineteenth-century, the move towards new... -
The Economics of Values, Ideals and Organizations by Luigino Bruni
RRP: €59.49€51.77'Values-based organizations' are institutions, communities and NGOs which are inspired by a mission or a vocation - for these groups it is their ideals which are most important to them and economics does not have a way to incorporate that into its... -
Australians in Shanghai: Race, Rights and Nation in Treaty Port China by Sophie Loy-Wilson
RRP: €47.59€41.72In the first half of the twentieth century, a diverse community of Australians settled in Shanghai. There they forged a 'China trade', circulating goods, people and ideas across the South China Sea, from Shanghai and Hong Kong to Sydney and Melbourne... -
After the Crash: Financial Crises and Regulatory Responses by Professor Sharyn O'Halloran
RRP: €35.70€27.72The 2008 crash was the worst financial crisis and the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. It triggered a complete overhaul of the global regulatory environment, ushering in a stream of new rules and laws to combat the perceived... -
The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault by Dotan Leshem
RRP: €65.45€51.06Dotan Leshem recasts the history of the West from an economic perspective, bringing politics, philosophy, and the economy closer together and revealing the significant role of Christian theology in shaping economic and political thought. He begins with... -
The Morality of Economic Behaviour: Economics as Ethics by Vangelis Chiotis
RRP: €23.79€21.05The links between self-interest and morality have been examined in moral philosophy since Plato. Economics is a mostly value-free discipline, having lost its original ethical dimension as described by Adam Smith. Examining moral philosophy through the... -
Mercantilism, Account Keeping and the Periphery-Core Relationship by Cheryl Susan McWatters
RRP: €160.65€139.56Mercantilism 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,... -
Crises in Economic and Social History - A Comparative Perspective by A. T. Brown
RRP: €29.75€25.37Exploring how crises have shaped economic and social life from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first... -
A Worker's Economist: John R. Commons and His Legacy from Progressivism to the War on Poverty by John Dennis Chasse
RRP: €136.85€118.71John R. Commons is one of the few reformers of the past century whose major works are still actively read, whose ideas are still debated, and whose principles are still applied to the analysis of contemporary problems. His life spanned the years of... -
The Ethics of Economic Responsibility by Ralf Lüfter
RRP: €59.49€51.77The Ethics of Economic Responsibility raises fundamental ethical questions related to the conceptualization of economic responsibility, that is: the imperative to fulfil certain economic obligations. It builds on a basic characterization of the question... -
Access to Power: Cross-National Studies of Women and Elites by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
RRP: €38.07€33.71Originally published in 1981, this book is composed of papers that describe and analyse women’s careers in government, business, and the professions. It examines women’s access to and participation in elite careers in the US, and in selected countries of... -
Foundations of Organisational Economics: Histories and Theories of the Firm and Production by Paul Walker
RRP: €47.59€41.72Foundations of Organisational Economics: Histories and Theories of the Firm and Production delves into a range of key topics to do with the history of the mainstream approach to the theory of production and the theory of the firm. This includes the... -
Studies in Economic and Social History: Essays Presented to Professor Derek Aldcroft by Michael J Oliver
RRP: €35.69€32.18This title was first published in 2002: There are few students of European economic history who will not have come across the writings of Derek H. Aldcroft. His contributions to the field of economic and social history are vast and distinguish him as one...