Economic History

More than a decade since the global financial crisis, economics does not exhibit signs of significant change. Mainstream economists act on an ideal...

This volume explores the changes that occurred during the Viking Age, as Scandinavian societies fell in line with the larger forces that dominated ...

First published in 1997, this collection of articles, two of which hitherto only appeared in Dutch, examines the technical changes in shipbuilding,...

Adam Smiths An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was the product of the rich tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment but ...

Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on childhood, social work and ...

Money is a core feature in all discussions of economic crisis, as is clear from the debates about the responses of the European Central Bank and th...

Although Otto Neurath left his mark across an array of fields in the first half of the twentieth century, he was trained as an economist and wrote ...

This title was first published in 2002: From Individualism to the Individual treats finance as a social and cultural process, exploring the unseen ...

The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 explores the links between maritime trading networks around Europe, from the Medit...

Bengals traditional industries, once celebrated worldwide, largely decayed under the backwash effects of the British Industrial Revolution in the f...

Drawing on years of research, Gerald Steele delves into the diverse ideas of Henry Simons, a neglected economist whose work in the 1930s on monetar...

Popular belief holds that throwing the contents of a chamber pot into the street was a common occurrence during the early modern period. This book ...

This title was first published in 2003.The creation of a 'Third Way' between unfettered capitalism and old-style Keynesian-corporatist forms of soc...

Our elaborate market exchange system owes its existence not to our calculating brain or insatiable self-centeredness, but rather to our sophisticat...

This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of ...

David Ricardos theories have been widely studied and discussed, including the prominent theory on comparative advantage. Ricardo and International ...

Recent developments in the global economy, such as the Greek budget crisis, have led to new focus on the role of Europe, and in particular on the c...

This book is set against the assumption that humans' unique feature is their infinite creativity, their ability to reflect on their deeds and to co...

The theory of the firm did not exist, in any serious manner, until around 1970. Only then did the current theory of the firm literature begin to em...

Macroeconomic Principles and Problems: A Pluralist Introduction offers a comprehensive overview of the major topics in modern macroeconomics, from ...

Published in 1999, this work offers a balanced interdisciplinary account of literary and criminal forgery as they were practised, constructed and t...

In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars Britain found itself faced with a stagnant economy. Economist David Ricardo believed that the full re-integ...

First published in 1955, this book offers a detailed history from the past to the mid-20th century on economic control. The book examines economic ...

Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing...