Economic History

During the post-World War-II period, several Asian economies turned in stellar performances. This book addresses the all-important query regarding ...

Comparing the experience of East Asia and Latin America since the mid-1970s, Elson identifies the key internal factors common to each region which ...

The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has l...

The Austrian economic school famously predicted and explained the problems of calculation in a socialist society. With their concept of spontaneous...

Are institutions the main cause of sustained economic growth? Institutions and Small Settler Economies provides a comprehensive improvement in our ...

'Kerala is different, but not in the way we think.' Economic change in this southern state has fascinated economists. Most studies focused on the s...

'Kerala is different, but not in the way we think.' Economic change in this southern state has fascinated economists. Most studies focused on the s...

The economics of the NCAA Division I men's basketball league are peculiar because it fails to hire the best college-aged players and does little to...

Die Wirtschaftsgeschichte Ostdeutschlands wird in der Regel als eine Geschichte des Zusammenbruchs eines von Natur aus fehlerhaften Systems erzählt...

This book argues that ancient democracy did not stop at the door of economic democracy, and that ancient Athens has much to tell us about the relat...

Shin Kanemaru (1914-1996) served as a key power broker at the national level in Japan from the 1970s until the early 1990s. He was at the heart of ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This collection of essays draws on fresh readings of classic texts as well as rigorous research in the archives of Europe's greatest imperial power...

This book explains the causes and consequences of the intersection of two transformative global forces - trade and conflict since 1500. The nine h...

Scholars have studied the nineteenth century's unprecedented labor flows in global and specific country contexts, but have lacked a comprehensive a...

The book chronicles the Occupation Loan that was forcibly obtained by the Third Reich from the Greece in 1942-1944 and demonstrates why Greece's cl...

What has gone wrong with economics? Economists now routinely devise highly sophisticated abstract models that score top marks for theoretical rigou...

In this follow up to From a Market Economy to a Finance Economy, Samli reflects on his more than half a century of economic experience and research...

After World War II, the AFL-CIO pursued an ambitious agenda of containing global communism and helping to throw off the shackles of colonialism. Th...