Economic History

In a work with significant implications for present-day economic reform in the Soviet Union, Paul Gregory examines Russian and Soviet economic hist...

A Concise Economic History of the World offers a broad sweep of economic history from prehistoric times to the present. Comprehensive and now even ...

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

This volume of essays builds upon renewed interest in the long-run global development of wealth and inequality stimulated by the publication of Tho...

Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society is a collection of nine quantitative studies probing aspects of Renaissance ...

Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society is a collection of nine quantitative studies probing aspects of Renaissance ...

Eric Schiff analyzes two countries, widely known for their sophisticated industrial development, that are unique in having had no national patent p...

[A] tour de force of global historyBosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history and th...

Global financial capitalism has eroded the moral economy on which all economic exchanges ultimately depend. The principles of reciprocity, responsi...

Scholars have long regarded Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV (1976) as marking an important moment in the study of th...

Eminently readable, and anybody who cares about the future of American democracy in these perilous times can only hope that it will be widely read ...

Why do lenders time and again loan money to sovereign borrowers who promptly go bankrupt? When can this type of lending work? As the United States ...

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, economists around the world have advanced theories to explain the persistence of high unemployment a...

Banks failed, credit contracted, inequality grew, and people everywhere were out of work while political paralysis and slavery threatened to rend t...

The political and economic history of Latin America has been marked by great hopes and even greater disappointments. Despite abundant resources - a...

The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smiths The Wealth of...

THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Required reading for anyone who has an i...

Fewer than two hundred probate inventories were thought to have survived for Bedfordshire and most were published in Bedfordshire Historical Record...

In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germanys industrialization. While...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023: MONEY AND BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023: ECONOMICSHistorically informed and lucid.Martin Wolf, Financial T...

In The Depths of Russia, Yale anthropologist and historian Douglas Rogers tells the history of Russian oil from the perspective of the Perm region ...

The story of the economists who championed the rise of free markets and fundamentally reshaped the modern world.As the post-World War II economic b...

The book explores the effect of modern technological shifts on human society, showing that technologies are undergoing accelerating qualitative cha...