Economic History

A new look at Britain's industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove industrial innovation. Maki...

Takahashi reconstructs the key blocks of one of the founders of the institutional school, John R. Commons theories of the evolution of capitalism a...

The first comprehensive textbook covering all aspects of the economics of innovation and the role of intellectual property in encouraging or discou...

This revised and updated book provides unique insight into cross-border labor mobility, from the ancient forms of slavery to the present day. With ...

The ancient economy has long been a hotly debated topic. Did citizens of the ancient world understand markets? Did they have economic policies? Did...

Every country provides some form of direct cash transfer to people in need, and this provision of money reaches hundreds of millions of people worl...

Waves of military technological changes have swept through the Eurasian land mass since the dawn of civilization. Military technological changes de...

African slaves were brought into Brazil as early as 1530, with abolition in 1888. During those three centuries, Brazil received 4,000,000 Africans,...

Poverty in Contemporary Economic Thought aims to describe and critically examine how economic thought deals with poverty, including its causes, con...

Originally published in 1932, this volume The World's Economic Crisis: and the Way of Escape contains six lectures delivered under the auspices of ...

Incorporating political, economic, and environmental factors, this book explores the evolution of health and living standards in Brazil in the nine...

Originally published in 1933, this volume From Chaos to Control represents the expansion of notes used in the delivery of the Halley Stewart Lectur...

The Scottish miners experienced enormous changes during these sixty-five years. Enjoying a high degree of autonomy underground throughout the ninet...

Nearly two hundred years have passed since the birth of Karl Marx and continuing to this day the influence of his economic views, insights and theo...

Globalization is not an external force but a result of concrete business decisions made by millions of entrepreneurs and managers across the world....

This book considers Thorstein Veblens central preoccupation with the dark places of business enterprise, an integral part of the old institutional ...

How a group of intellectuals and policymakers transformed development economics and gave Latin America a new position in the world.After the Second...

Discover the captivating journey of the history of economic thought through the centuries with this comprehensive textbook. From the dawn of econom...

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attrib...

In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using ...

An accessible account of the role of the modern university in the creation of economics During the late nineteenth century concerns about interna...

A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powersWhen scholars and policymakers consider how technological a...

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

It is widely known that at least in current societies - culture depends on money. Less attention has been given to the contrary fact: money also d...

This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the relations between Western and Eastern scientists during the Cold War from the Eastern Eur...

Throughout history rivers have always been a source of life and of conflict. This book investigates the Central Commission for the Navigation of th...

This book investigates the historical, political, and economic circumstances of the world's smallest economies as key determinants influencing thei...

The recent banking crisis has brought into question the business model used by most large banks. This collection of essays explores the success of ...