Economic History

Often viewed as self-sufficient, Roman farmers actually depended on markets to supply them with a wide range of goods and services, from metal tool...

Invented in post-industrial 19th century Europe, the idea of capitalism originally sought to describe and explain the distinctive characteristics o...

Despite the restrictions on their work and actions, the economists of the Soviet period produced a great deal of bold and important work. With the ...

This volume, originally published in 1930, discusses the economics of Russian agriculture during the early 20th century. It analyzes those economic...

Adam Smith (1723-90) is a thinker with a distinctive perspective on human behaviour and social institutions. He is best known as the author of the ...

A book which covers the key period in the history of actuarial science from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century. There are reprints of t...

Since 2008, profound questions have been asked about the driving forces and self-regulating potential of the economic system, political control and...

How did the United States become the twentieth century's dominant economy? What is special about America and the American way of capitalism, that f...

We are constantly being told that globalisation is good for the economy and good for us, but it’s actually the opposite, argues bestselling author ...

Money is a core feature in all discussions of economic crisis, as is clear from the debates about the responses of the European Central Bank and th...

The Englishwoman’s Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to wom...

The Englishwoman’s Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to wom...

Is economics always self-corrective? Do erroneous theorems permanently disappear from the market of economic ideas? Intellectual Path Dependence in...

The Englishwoman’s Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to wom...

This book investigates from the perspective of the major economic dictionaries the notions of economic crisis and cycles. It gives an extensive sum...

This book challenges the binary distinction of developed and underdeveloped in the categorization of any country while proposing to erase this bina...

Corporate governance is not just about models of best practice organisation or prescriptions following laws or social conventions. Corporate govern...

In the early 1800s, Robert Owen was a mill owner, political figure, and an advocate for social reform, and his publications attained considerable c...

The Englishwoman’s Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to wom...

This book is a coherent and unique collection of chapters exploring the reception and diffusion of David Ricardo’s writings in different languages....

During the past decade, the role of Germany's economic elites under Hitler has once again moved into the limelight of historical research and pub...

Crossing Cultural Borders (1991) examines the day-to-day interaction of immigrant children with adults, siblings and peers in the home, school and ...

A century ago, John Maynard Keynes entered the Treasury to serve his country during the First World War, but as is well known, appalled by the term...

This book intends to renovate the view of social sciences in the German-speaking world. It explores the intellectual tension in the social science ...

Bertram Schefold is recognized internationally as an outstanding economist. He has made major contributions to the development of economic theory a...

The Englishwoman’s Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to wom...

This book, first published in 1936, is both an instructive chapter in economic history and a stimulating period in the history of economic thought....

The classics heavily influenced many aspects of European modern culture, yet it is not easy to trace their intellectual power on any author. In thi...

This book focuses on the interaction between practising economists and previous generations of economists. Because economic problems, such as crash...

Going to Market rethinks women’s contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies have focused on whether or not...

This book employs a wide range of perspectives to demonstrate how the East India Company facilitated cross-cultural interactions between the Englis...

This book contains a set of notes prepared by Ragnar Frisch for a lecture series that he delivered at Yale University in 1930. The lecture notes pr...

One thousand years ago, a handful of dynamic medieval city states developed trade at the frontier of capitalism. Their unique commercial ambition l...

This detailed volume explores the role and actions of economists in US, Japanese and various European parliaments in the critical period between 18...

Translated from the original Russian, this book analyzes the economic development of leading European empires and the United States of America. The...

Maurice Potron (1872-1942), a French Jesuit mathematician, constructed and analyzed a highly original, but virtually unknown economic model. This b...

First published in 1948, this book outlines a solution to contemporary economic problems in the post-war years. This solution aims to make the best...

The book is based on a rich and detailed quantitative material from research over the past decades with consecutive time series over production vol...

First Published in 1968. Dr. Harold H. Mann was during his lifetime an acknowledged authority on applied science and agriculture in England, the Mi...

First Published in 2005. This book argues that the agricultural revolution took place in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and not...

The book consists of eleven of the most important writings of Anders Chydenius, an eighteenth century pioneer of freedom and democracy. Thematicall...

Delving into the history of economic thought, this book presents a picture of the Mediterranean spirit of capitalism, a tradition that has its prot...

This title, first published in 1965, provides an analysis of the forces and mechanisms governing the formation of the overall level of money prices...

Translated from the original Russian, this book analyzes the economic development of leading European empires and the United States of America. The...

One of the world's most ancient and enduring civilizations, Iran has long played a central role in human events and continues to do so today. This ...

First published in 1952, this work is a systematic exposition of Professor Meade’s geometric method, bringing together into a single coherent accou...

Black barbers, reflected a freed slave who barbered in antebellum St. Louis, may have been the only men in their community who enjoyed, at all time...