Economic History

The histories of six generations of the Strozzi, Gondi, Guicciardini, and Capponi families are traced from the fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth centu...

Mark Blackburn was one of the leading scholars of the numismatics and monetary history of the British Isles and Scandinavia during the early mediev...

Drawing on years of research, Gerald Steele delves into the diverse ideas of Henry Simons, a neglected economist whose work in the 1930s on monetar...

In the aftermath of the Civil War, contemporary narratives about the American South pointed to the perceived lack of industrial development in the ...

With the spread of interest-based transactions, major problems such as inequality, poverty and debt-based slavery have emerged. Those who practiced...

The history of the economic contacts between Asia and Europe dates back to at least the early years of the Common Era. But it was only after the ov...

The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies explores the significance of Salamancans, such as Vitoria and Soto, and related thinkers, such...

What makes countries rich? What makes countries poor? Europe's Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland seeks to answer these que...

This book takes the reader back to the era of industrialisation during the time of apartheid in South Africa, particularly in Butterworth in the Ea...

Italy is a country of recent decline and long-standing idiosyncratic traits. A rich society served by an advanced manufacturing economy , where the...

From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship b...