Economic History

The Corporate Financiers is the fifth book in a series of discussions about the great minds in the history and theory of finance. While the series ...

Read addresses the contributions of significant individuals to our understanding of financial decisions and markets. Great financial theorists crea...

A vivid account of the past, present, and future of economic growth, showing how and why we must continue to pursue it while responding to the chal...

The EU is under stress. Many believe in the euros demise because they blame it for the 2008 financial crisis and the unwelcome austerity measures. ...

The EU is under stress. Many believe in the euros demise because they blame it for the 2008 financial crisis and the unwelcome austerity measures. ...

James Buchanan (1919-2013), economist and philosopher, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1986 for his original theory of political democr...

The book aims to show that the deterministic vision embodied in conventional economic modelling is neither consistent with nor supported by the sta...

China's agricultural production and food consumption have increased tremendously, leading to a complete evolution of agro-food markets. The book is...

The book examines the problems that Nixon faced during his presidential term, focusing on economics but the role of politics is also highlighted. T...

This sweeping survey of the history of work, from hunter-gatherers to dotcom telecommuters, deftly compresses thousands of years of human evolution...

By using information collected from numerous American Economic Review publications from the last 100 years, Torgler and Piatti examine the top publ...

This book develops the analysis of Time Series from its formal beginnings in the 1890s through to the publication of Box and Jenkins' watershed pub...

This book explores the rise of consumerism and the expanding variety of goods available in Japan. Japan is placed within the comparative context of...

The Eurasian continent, which has for over a century lagged behind in global markets, is currently gaining economic and political momentum. This bo...

British monetary policy was reactivated in 1951 when short-term interest rates were increased for the first time in two decades. The book explores ...

In one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. As The Little Big Number...

In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantlin...

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

Second in the series of books reporting and interpreting the policies, plans, debates, and activities involved in U.S. international finance. Prepa...

First in the series of books reporting and interpreting the policies, plans, debates, and activities involved in U.S. international finance. Prepar...