Economic History

Nowhere in Europe are people more likely to enjoy a regular flutter in stocks and shares than in Britain. Whether we consider the millions of onlin...

This book incorporates advances in financial and monetary history and theory and shows the relevance of Spain's story to modern banking, monetary a...

Written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Piero Sraffa's Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, the papers ...

Covering the period c.1200-c.2000, this book provides an innovative investigation of entrepreneurship in a long-run historical perspective, present...

Framed by the decline of the Heian aristocracy in the late 1100s and the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate in the early 1600s, Japans medieval era was...

The traditional Marxian picture of a two-class polarisation seems far removed from today's diverse society. Re-examining the very foundations of th...

This book provides a critical reading of Foucault's writings on the archaeology of political economy, analyzing some of Foucault's contributions to...

How did Sweden go from a financially backward country to one with a well functioning financial system? Why did this financial revolution occur afte...

Nick Mayhew has made key contributions to fields as diverse as medieval European monetary history, numismatics, financial history, price and wage h...

James Tobin, 1981 Nobel laureate in economics, was the outstanding monetary economist among American Keynesian economists. This book, the first wri...

The Age of Revolutions has been celebrated for the momentous transition from absolute monarchies to representative governments and the creation of ...

The Age of Revolutions has been celebrated for the momentous transition from absolute monarchies to representative governments and the creation of ...

This book, an in-depth study of Nationalist tariff policy, fundamentally challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to the Communist seizure ...

This Open Access book examines the long economic boom experienced in Ireland  between the late 1980s and 2007, analysing why this boom occurred. T...

Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteen...

Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it...

Lucid and damning an absorbing and infuriating tale of complicity, coverup and denial PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN ...

Rosa Luxemburg, Oskar Lange and Micha? Kalecki made important contributions to twentieth century political economy that guided the thinking of thei...

The development of political economy as a philosophical preoccupation constitutes a defining feature of the Enlightenment, but no consensual agreem...

Recent discussion, academic publications and many of the national exhibitions relating to the Great War at sea have focussed on capital ships, Jutl...

Sir Arthur Lewis was the first development economist, the first Afro-Caribbean to hold a professorial chair at a British university and the first b...

Using an inter-disciplinary and global approach this book examines the different roles gold played in the international economy from the late 19th ...