Economic History

World War II was the largest and most devastating war in modern history with far-reaching consequences. The single most important campaign was the ...

First Published in 1927, A Study on the Minimum Wage contains constructive proposals regarding the essential features of a satisfactory minimum wag...

Unemployment levels have received a great deal of attention and discussion in recent years. However, another labor category—underemployment—has vi...

It is argued that the normative and ethical presuppositions of standard economics render the discipline incapable of addressing an important class ...

Kenneth Boulding was a prolific writer across so many different fields that not only is he often much referred to and cited, he is considered a cor...

In this volume, leading modern economic historians show how analysis of past experiences contributes to a better understanding of present-day econo...

This book presents a detailed and surprising history of money from Charlemagne's reform in approximately AD800 to the end of the Silver Wars in 189...

The views generally held about the rise of the factory system in Britain derive from highly distorted accounts of the social consequences of that s...

This volume focuses on the life of Joseph Rowntree of York, a renowned Quaker businessman from 1836 to 1925. Originally published in 1958, this wor...

Even after the experience of WWII and despite the existence of various institutions such as United Nations to avoid conflict between nations, we ha...

For those wishing to acquire knowledge on national development issues, this comprehensive compendium traverses a spectrum of subjects that the audi...

Since 1970s when the world was experiencing an "age of inflation", a great volume of academic research about hyperinflation has been conducted. How...

A controversial look at the end of globalization and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic order Globalization, long conside...

The Danish Economy in the Twentieth Century (1987) surveys the Danish economy, examining the effects of the rapid industrialisation which occurred ...

The beautiful Caribbean basin is fertile ground for a study of capitalism past and present. Transnational corporations move money and labor around ...

In the centuries before Europeans crossed the Atlantic, social and material relations among the indigenous Guaraní people of present-day Paraguay w...

First published in 1964, this is a study of the extreme inequalities in the ownership of property, in economies across the globe. Professor Meade e...

Michael Polanyi is most famous for his work in chemistry and the philosophy of science, but in the 1930s and 1940s he made an important contributio...

This collective volume explores the ways merchants managed to connect different spaces all over the globe in the early modern period by organizing ...