Economic History

First published in 1953, The Miners: Years of Struggle is the official history of the British miners, which draws on original sources, moving into ...

The West and the East approach economic development differently. The Europeans and Americans stress free and fair business climate, promoting priva...

As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese economic history, this book investigates Chinese economic development between 1912 and 1949 and ...

This book explores peripheral visions on economic development, both in the sense that it deals with specific issues of economic development and und...

This volume, originally published in 1958, contains a selection of the most important and interesting articles by Knut Wicksell, which had hitherto...

The years 1690–1727 represented a period of significant change for Scotland. It was a time of grand colonial endeavours and financial innovation, p...

Jamaican Migrant (1965) is the honest and moving recollection of a Jamaican cabinet-maker who emigrated to a new life in Britain. This is the book ...

This book contains original essays on various aspect of the Han’s political economy and its legacy, written by leading Chinese and Western scholars...

It is well-understood that the consumption of goods plays an important, symbolic role in the way human beings communicate, create identity, and est...

First published in 1998, this book introduces a new concept of profitability, called the 'efficiency rate of profit', which is defined as the ratio...

This volume historicizes the use of the notion of self-interest that at least since Bernard de Mandeville and Adam Smith’s theories is considered a...

Neoclassical economics has been criticized from various angles by orthodox schools. The same can be said about its particular branch: the theory of...

First published in 1985, Prospects for Recovery in the British Economy examines the origins of the economic downturn of the early 1980s. The book e...

What is Pan-Americanism? People have been struggling with that problem for over a century. Pan-Americanism is (and has been) an amalgam of diplomat...

A Land of Dreams, first published in 1993, explores two events in recent English history: the settlement of East European Jews in the East End of L...

Migrant Labour in Europe (1987) examines the movement of workers from less prosperous parts of Europe to areas with demand for their services. The ...

First published in 1971, this collection of fourteen contemporaneous European research studies on managerial backgrounds and on the patterns, roles...

Lost Illusions, first published in 1988, analyses the differing experiences of Caribbean migration to Britain and the Netherlands, both from the pe...

A collection of papers in English by one of the foremost historians of the social and economic structure of medieval rural communities, who here ex...

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the archit...

Originally published in 1981 but now with a new preface, this volume provided the first detailed comparative analysis of how local authorities in t...

This book is the first scholarly study to explore economic relations between brewers and publicans in the brewing industry over a century.Based on ...

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or ...

This volume historicizes the use of the notion of self-interest that at least since Bernard de Mandeville and Adam Smith’s theories is considered a...