Economic History

From unemployment to Brexit to climate change, capitalism is in trouble and ill-prepared to cope with the challenges of the coming decades. How did...

A provocative account of capitalism's rise to global dominance and, as different models of capitalism vie for world leadership, a look into what th...

An award-winning journalist's insights into the auto industry, the decline of once-great companies, and the failures of management The collapse of ...

Exploring a range of poverty experiences-socioeconomic, moral and spiritual-this collection presents new research by a distinguished group of schol...

The studies brought together here are based on Amnon Cohen's many years of research in the archives of the Shari'a courts in Jerusalem, as well as ...

This volume analyzes the experiences of developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa, and examines how they might catch up. ...

One hundred years after his birth, J. K. Galbraith's The Great Crash 1929 is again on the bestseller lists. And in the current financial and econom...

Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America's transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, ...