Economic History

American economic history has traditionally been told as a narrative of industrialization and affluence collapsing into globalization and industria...

A novel perspective on monetary and fiscal policy that views money as the equity capital of a nationA conventional economic theory, monetarism, hol...

In most accounts of the origins of money we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barte...

From the Nobel Prizewinning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding f...

When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disor...

The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred....

While serving as the first Treasury Secretary from 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. Hamilton established the Tre...

This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities and kingdoms during the Renai...

A lively history of beer and brewing traditions as globally connected commodities created through borrowing and exchange from precapitalist times t...

Written by Sultan Nazrin Shah - the author of the highly acclaimed works Charting the Economy and Striving for Inclusive Development - this book is...

An Economist Biggest Book of the YearHow commerce determines whether America preserves the peace or goes to warWhen the Cold War ended, many believ...

First Published in 2005. Part of a series on Economic History, this book looks at Tropical Development from 1880 to 1913. These essays were prepare...

A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the capitals of Europe ...

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. A...

How Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a third path between laissez-faire capitalism and communism Following the Great Depression...

Richard Cantillon (1680?1734), an Irish economist, has claims to be regarded as one of the most outstanding analytical economists of the eighteenth...

Richard Cantillon (1680?1734), an Irish economist, has claims to be regarded as one of the most outstanding analytical economists of the eighteenth...

Calvin Schermerhorns provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate ...