Economic History

The numbers of farms and farmers on the Great Plains are dwindling. Disappearing even faster are the farm places-the houses, barns, and outbuilding...

Winner of the SHEAR Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Avery O. Craven AwardFew books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.Ari Kel...

This present volume is devoted to some of Mises's earliest writings. Key Features: editor's introduction, annotations and critical apparatus, notes...

Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revol...

In September 2008, beset by mounting losses on high-risk mortgages and mortgage securities, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation teetered on ...

How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silvers transformation from soft money durin...

At its core, economics is about making decisions. In the history of economic thought, great intellectual prowess has been exerted toward devising e...

This illuminating study of the evolution of Chinese capitalism chronicles the fortunes of the Song family of North China under five successive auth...

This book is about understanding Pakistan's structural transformation over six decades in a political economy framework. The author examines how an...

This is the first modern edition of ten essays published in 17841786 in the popular Boston newspaper The Independent chronicle, a newspaper whose p...