Economic History

This book, first published in 1934, provides a discussion of the important facts and underlying principles of the financial problems that the Ameri...

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...

Stakeholder value, corporate social responsibility and sustainability: Are these, and similar, concepts sufficiently clear for fruitful research in...

First published in 1896, this seminal work considers the Question of the Unemployed at the height of imperialist capitalism. Hobson proposes a cont...

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...

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...

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...

Despite his achievements, David Ricardo’s views on money have often been misunderstood and underappreciated. His advanced ideas had to wait until t...

This book provides the most comprehensive history of German migration to North America for the period 1709 to 1920 than has been done before. Emplo...

This volume, featuring sixteen contributions from leading Roman historians and archaeologists, sheds new light on approaches to the economic histor...

Starting from a distinction made by the American philosopher, John Rawls, in 2000 between two kinds of liberalism, "liberalism of freedom" and "lib...

Heinz Kurz is recognised internationally as a leading economic theorist and a foremost historian of economic thought. This book pays tribute to hi...

Taken in conjunction the author’s earlier Industrial and Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain during the Nineteenth Century, this classic volume...

Economical questions indisputably occupy a central place in everyday life. In order to clarify these questions, people generally turn to those who ...

This book presents a detailed account of the co-operative practice of agriculture in medieval England, shedding much light on how medieval villager...

This study provides a comprehensive account and reconsideration of the contribution to political economy of Thomas Tooke (1774-1858). It clarifies ...

The papers brought together in this volume represent a decade of advances in the historical political economy of defence, dictatorship, and warfare...

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...

Organized, readable, technically sound and comprehensive from both theoretical and empirical standpoints, this book summarizes a vast amount of ins...

This book is the first work dedicated to the key ideas of Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase on pollution and public goods with sustainable development in...

This book analyzes the important contributions of Rosa Luxemburg to economic theory as well as devoting some space to her background as a left soci...

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...

Originally published in 1954 this volume looks at the difficulties encountered by the founders of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China ...

Richard Cobden (1804-65) rose from humble beginnings to become the leading advocate of nineteenth-century free-trade and liberalism. As a fierce op...

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...

First published in 1940, this book suggested the basic principles upon which a new international economic order should be built at the end of the S...

Geoffrey Pilling’s treatment of this complex issue in political economy, first published in 1986, concentrates on a review of Keynes’ writings rath...

This independent and critical study in economic and social history is based on free access to the records of W.D. & H.O. Wills. Dr Alford trace...

Written during the early 1920s, at a time when Europe was still recovering from the catastrophe of the First World War, L.V. Birck’s The Scourge of...

This book presents the lifelong and ongoing research of Lawrence H. Officer in a systematic way. The result is an authoritative treatment of such i...

This book deals with the prime movers of socio-economic development, innovations and technical change, their origins, forms and effects. It contain...

Originally published in 1977, The International Monetary Tangle presents a translation of Guindey’s report on international monetary issues. Guinde...

First Published in 2007. This book is the third volume of previously published essays from Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori, following Understandin...

First published in 1982, this work builds on the detailed economic history of Brazil in its companion volume: "Economic Structure and Change, 1822-...

First published in 1982, this work offers an analysis Brazil’s long-term economic history and development, spanning the period from independence to...

This book provides a cogent summary of the economic history of the Irish Free State/Republic of Ireland. It takes the Irish story from the 1920s ri...

Annie Abram was born in London in 1869 and died in Sussex in 1930. She contributed significantly to the twentieth-century historiography of late me...

European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they ha...

This book, first published in 1951, focuses on the hitherto ignored contemporary critics of Malthus, giving them the attention they so rightly dese...

Starting from a distinction made by the American philosopher, John Rawls, in 2000 between two kinds of liberalism, "liberalism of freedom" and "lib...

Originally published in 1925, Industry and Civilisation explores moral standards and ethics related to economic activities by providing a comprehen...

The industrial revolution and the creation of the modern (national) state are two of the most important historical processes to have occurred in Eu...

This punchy book unites mainline mathematical economics and sometimes idiosyncratic political economy. Freshness is brought to the market concept g...

"The studies of which this book is the result have from the beginning been guided by and in the end confirmed the somewhat old-fashioned conviction...

Drawing in particular on the work of Sraffa, Smith, Ricardo and Marx, the essays in this volume explore the characteristic features of the Classica...

Although historians usually trace its origins to the Haitian Revolution of the late 18th Century, Latin American political, economic and cultural e...

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...