Economic History

The Greenback Era is not a financial history; rather, it is an attempt to locate the source of political power in the crucial Reconstruction years ...

A groundbreaking history of Russia, from empire to the Soviet era, viewed through the lens of its money. Money seems passive, a silent witness to ...

In this important and provocative reassessment of the causes and consequences of economic downturns and stagnation, Roger Farmer argues that the ce...

World watch production today is concentrated in three countries: Switzerland, Japan and China. Former centres such as Great Britain, France, the Un...

Although central banking is today often presented as having emerged in the nineteenth or even twentieth century, it has a long and colourful histor...

Adam Smiths contribution to economics is well recognised, but scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works....

For too long radical political economy has suffered for lack of a coherent alternative to formal Marxian economic theory. People have had to choose...