Economic History

The United States has endured eleven recessions since the end of World War II, including the recession of 2007-2009. This book focuses on the perfo...

In War, Wine, and Taxes, John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing ho...

A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to...

Winner of the 2021 Sara A. Whaley Prize of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA)On May 1, 1954, striking banana workers on the North Coas...

In the centuries before Europeans crossed the Atlantic, social and material relations among the indigenous Guaraní people of present-day Paraguay w...

The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen-and how we can do it again.The American economy gl...

Published in 2008 and winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo is a detailed so...

Finding Equilibrium explores the post-World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof of its central dogma--that a ...

Formerly prosperous cities across the United States, struggling to keep up with an increasingly global economy and the continued decline of post-wa...

Formerly prosperous cities across the United States, struggling to keep up with an increasingly global economy and the continued decline of post-wa...

Against the backdrop of England's emergence as a major economic power, the development of early modern capitalism in general and the transformation...

Ocean of Trade offers an innovative study of trade, production and consumption across the Indian Ocean between the years 1750 and 1850. Focusing on...

The sequel to Eminent Economists, this book presents the ideas of some of the most outstanding economists of the past half century. The contributor...

Examines how and why the East India Company was transformed from a commercial trading company to an institution of government, and then abolished. ...

From an award-winning financial historian comes the gripping, character-driven story of venture capital and the world it madeInnovations rarely com...

Financial capitalism emerged in a recognisably modern form in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Great Britain. Following the seminal work of...

The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies seeks to offer an integrated analysis of the anatomy and physiology of the capitalist engine of gener...

Honorable Mention, 2024 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section, American Sociological AssociationToday...

Honorable Mention, 2024 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section, American Sociological AssociationToday...

An original account of the role of ethical dispositions in the development of prosperous commercial societies In Solving Social Dilemmas, Roger Co...

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022 THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 'A complex story, which Tooze tells with clarity and ve...