Economic History

What can today's behavioural economists learn from the classical liberals of the past? Here, Erik Matson offers critical reflections on what he cal...

The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the sour...

This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry, long a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a...

Are religions influenced by economics? Are economics influenced by religions? If so, how - and why? Faith in Markets? charts the intersection betwe...

Throughout its history, the U.S. military has worked in close connection to market-based institutions and structures. It has run systems of free an...

A sweeping history of ancient exploration, the first full-scale account in over a century Odysseus. Jason and the Argonauts. Heracles. Greek mytho...

American economic history has traditionally been told as a narrative of industrialization and affluence collapsing into globalization and industria...

A novel perspective on monetary and fiscal policy that views money as the equity capital of a nationA conventional economic theory, monetarism, hol...

In most accounts of the origins of money we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barte...

From the Nobel Prizewinning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding f...

When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disor...

The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred....

While serving as the first Treasury Secretary from 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. Hamilton established the Tre...

This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities and kingdoms during the Renai...

A lively history of beer and brewing traditions as globally connected commodities created through borrowing and exchange from precapitalist times t...

Written by Sultan Nazrin Shah - the author of the highly acclaimed works Charting the Economy and Striving for Inclusive Development - this book is...

An Economist Biggest Book of the YearHow commerce determines whether America preserves the peace or goes to warWhen the Cold War ended, many believ...

First Published in 2005. Part of a series on Economic History, this book looks at Tropical Development from 1880 to 1913. These essays were prepare...

A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the capitals of Europe ...

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. A...

How Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a third path between laissez-faire capitalism and communism Following the Great Depression...

Richard Cantillon (1680?1734), an Irish economist, has claims to be regarded as one of the most outstanding analytical economists of the eighteenth...

Richard Cantillon (1680?1734), an Irish economist, has claims to be regarded as one of the most outstanding analytical economists of the eighteenth...

Calvin Schermerhorns provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate ...

The Panic of 1819 tells the story of the first nationwide economic collapse to strike the United States. Much more than a banking crisis or real es...

In addition to winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her path-breaking research on economic governance, especially the commons, Eli...

Provides a corrective to a neglected aspect of Jewish history in the SouthDiane C. Vecchio examines the diverse economic experiences of Jews who se...

In the wake of the financial crisis in 2008, historians have turned with renewed urgency to understanding the economic dimension of historical chan...

In the twelfth-century, Pisa was a powerhouse of global trade, a city that stood at the centre of Medieval Europe. But Pisa had a problem. It was r...