Economic History

This title was first published in 2003. Fields traces the origins of recent economic growth in Ireland over a long period of development. In doing ...

With the introduction of the euro much recent attention has been focused on the role of currencies and their national and international significanc...

At the end of the Second World War Germany was devastated; her cities lay in ruins, industrial output was minimal, the economy was in tatters and h...

This title was first published in 2000: Coventry is synonymous with both the creation and relative decline of the British motor car industry. This ...

First published in 1997, this book has been produced by the leading scholars of the economic history of the region in the belief that the events of...

Adam Smith (17231790) is famous around the world as the founding father of economics, and his ideas are regularly quoted and invoked by politicians...

First published in 1927, this important collection contains a selection from the unpublished papers left by the late Professor George Unwin, togeth...

'Mining and the State' examines the fundamental economic institutional structure of Brazil through the prism of its mineral endowment.

The Viking Age was a period of profound change in Scandinavia. As kingdoms were established, Christianity became the encompassing ideological and c...

The American System was implemented by the US government after the American-British War of 1812 to develop a national domestic market. This study e...

This title was first published in 2003. Economists have had increasing success in arguing the merits of market-based approaches to environmental pr...

This book covers the development of economics in Japan from the inter-war period to the 2000s focusing on the international theoretical contributio...

This title was first published in 2000. 'Little better documented than King Arthur or Robin Hood' complained one historian in 1998 describing the l...

This title was first published in 2002: By exploring Marxian value theory and its relevance to present issues of economic analysis, such as the cir...

This title was first published in 2003. Wolfgang Stolper was one of the first Western economists to serve as an adviser in the government of an ind...

This title was first published in 2003. This book assumes a viewpoint practically absent from contemporary economics, and readdresses the first fun...

This book explains inflation dynamic, using time series data from 1960 for 42 countries. These countries are different in every aspect, historicall...

Local enterprise, institutional quality and strategic location were of central importance in the growth of medieval towns. This book, comprising a ...

The European financial crisis of 1931 was a pivotal moment in the economic and financial history of the twentieth century. Based on extensive archi...

Daniel Snowman is a social and cultural historian. His latest book is a collection of some of the more provocative essays he has published over man...

This wide-ranging book focuses on the economic and political changes that have taken place between the advent of globalization and the COVID-19 pan...