Economic History

Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lesson...

Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lesson...

Hilaire Bellocs thinking on the economy constitutes, by its originality and acuity, a heterodox approach of the greatest interest in addressing the...

In The Industrial Turn in World History, Peter N. Stearns presents a concise yet far reaching overview of the worldwide shift from agricultural soc...

Where did modern banking come fromand how does this history help us understand financial crises?In the twelfth century, Pisa was a thriving metropo...

Revealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of Am...

Fiscal relations between states and cities in early modern Europe is a major concern for economic and financial historians. This collection of elev...

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Impressive[Readers] will be rewarded with greater understanding of historical developments that changed the relationship between consumers and prod...

The Nine Years War with France was a period of great institutional innovation in public finance and of severe monetary turmoil for England. It saw ...

Central banks now stand between societies and collapse, but are they still democratic? Two decades of financial crises have dramatically expanded c...

After the Great Financial Crisis, economic theory was fiercely criticized from both outside and inside the discipline for being incapable of explai...

History and Economic Life offers students a wide-ranging introduction to both quantitative and qualitative approaches to interpreting economic hist...

Offering a retrospective view of how the system operated in Communist Czechoslovakia, this book is an important voice in the discussion about the s...

Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britains interests in the Near East and beyond during the...

This volume marks the first English translation of Toshihiro Tanakas research outside Japan, offering a rare opportunity for international scholars...

Macroeconomic Analysis in the Classical Tradition explains how the influence of Keyness macroeconomics, including his changed definitions of some k...

Originating in the sea, especially in the waters surrounding the low-lying islands of the Maldives, Cypraea moneta (sometimes confused with Cypraea...

This book is set against the assumption that humans' unique feature is their infinite creativity, their ability to reflect on their deeds and to co...

For as long as there have been rich nations and poor nations, debt has been a powerful force for maintaining the unequal relations between them. Tr...

The Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work analyzes how offshoring investments function as a platform for intercultural encounters among corporate a...

In The Politics of Public Debt, Daniel Bin analyzes how fiscal and monetary policies and the administration of public debt related to class, labor,...

Nowhere in Europe are people more likely to enjoy a regular flutter in stocks and shares than in Britain. Whether we consider the millions of onlin...

This book incorporates advances in financial and monetary history and theory and shows the relevance of Spain's story to modern banking, monetary a...

Written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Piero Sraffa's Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, the papers ...

Covering the period c.1200-c.2000, this book provides an innovative investigation of entrepreneurship in a long-run historical perspective, present...

Framed by the decline of the Heian aristocracy in the late 1100s and the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate in the early 1600s, Japans medieval era was...

The traditional Marxian picture of a two-class polarisation seems far removed from today's diverse society. Re-examining the very foundations of th...

This book provides a critical reading of Foucault's writings on the archaeology of political economy, analyzing some of Foucault's contributions to...

How did Sweden go from a financially backward country to one with a well functioning financial system? Why did this financial revolution occur afte...

Nick Mayhew has made key contributions to fields as diverse as medieval European monetary history, numismatics, financial history, price and wage h...

James Tobin, 1981 Nobel laureate in economics, was the outstanding monetary economist among American Keynesian economists. This book, the first wri...

The Age of Revolutions has been celebrated for the momentous transition from absolute monarchies to representative governments and the creation of ...