Economic History

The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses i...

Money has the power to make nations and fuel wars. It is both the subject of diplomacy and the tool of those seeking to overthrow hostile regimes a...

In the last few years, populism -- of the right, left, and center varieties -- has spread like wildfire throughout the world. The impulse reached i...

Feeding the World chronicles the rise of Brazil as a world agricultural powerhouse during the second half of the twentieth century. Tracing the his...

L''annee 1950 marque les progres et la sophistication accrue de la perception du probleme pose par le communisme sovietique. Le facteur ideologique...

Relative to the other habited places on our planet, Hawai''i has a very short history. The Hawaiian archipelago was the last major land area on the...

The Cambridge History of Capitalism is a comprehensive two-volume work that provides an authoritative account of the evolution of capitalism and it...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached Am...

A landmark in contemporary social science, this pioneering work by Thomas Piketty explains the facts and dynamics of income inequality in France in...

In the decades that followed World War II, cheap and plentiful oil helped to fuel rapid economic growth, ensure political stability, and reinfor...

This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition ...

This textbook offers an accessible guide to the Japanese economy. Japan developed from a defeated country following World War II into a dominant ec...

This is the first comprehensive economic history of the Basotho people of Southern Africa (in colonial Basutoland, then Lesotho) and spans from ...

This little book tells the truthful story of how the Bank of England actually came into being. It is a story of pirates, treasure, random good fort...

'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it... Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason'Gu...

How and why did the US become the most successful economy in history? One of The Economist''s Best Books of 2017, America, Inc explains the rise o...

Books about history using real life memories recorded specifically for the purpose are rare, Live, Work & Play is just such a book. Created fro...

When we look at Chinese history for a guide to business, we commonly reach for Sun Tzu's The Art of War, but that is a military text. It focuses on...

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The financial collapse of 20078 has questioned our assumptions about the underlying basis for stability in the financial system, and Anthony Hotson...