Economic History

Chicago went from nothing in 1830 to become the second-largest city in the nation in 1900, while the Midwest developed to become one of the worlds ...

Unlikely Partners recounts the story of how Chinese politicians and intellectuals looked beyond their countrys borders for economic guidance at a k...

Eva Peron remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Peron, himself a remar...

A major exploration of venture financing, from its origins in the whaling industry to Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital created an epi...

Selected for J.P. Morgan's 2018 Holiday Reading List   Imagine your life without the internet. Without phones. Without television. Without sprawl...

Thomas Pikettywhose Capital in the Twenty-First Century pushed inequality to the forefront of public debatewrote The Economics of Inequality as an ...

The Industrial Revolution (1958) examines the various interpretations of early industrialization in Britain. It assesses and synthesises the many w...

Barbarians and Romans (1983) examines the rise of the barbarian tribes and the consequent decline of the Roman Empire. The author contends that the...

Reflecting Professor Holzman's important work, this book deals with major issues relating to both East-West and intra-bloc trade. Professor Holzma...

This book brings together its contributors to study the figure of Seignelay Colbert de Castlehill, born in Inverness on 13th August 1735 into a Pre...

This graduate textbook explores key microeconomic concepts to provide insight into financial markets, comparative economic development, and politic...

Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction reframes how we think about Victorian women's changing economic rights and their representation in ...

The role of psychology in investment decisions has been amply debated during the past few decades, following the evolution of behavioural finance. ...

Utilising new methodological approaches to understanding not only the poor as a social and economic group but also of the internal means of stratif...

The origins of the modern, Western concept of money can be traced back to the earliest electrum coins that were produced in Asia Minor in the seven...

The origins of the modern, Western concept of money can be traced back to the earliest electrum coins that were produced in Asia Minor in the seven...

How the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequalityEconomic inequality is one of the most daunting...

The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, ...

What makes countries rich? What makes countries poor? Europe's Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland seeks to answer these que...

This book offers an alternative view of the economy - and indeed, society - that does not rely on an ever-expanding government to address the probl...