Economic History

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...

The histories of six generations of the Strozzi, Gondi, Guicciardini, and Capponi families are traced from the fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth centu...

Mark Blackburn was one of the leading scholars of the numismatics and monetary history of the British Isles and Scandinavia during the early mediev...

Drawing on years of research, Gerald Steele delves into the diverse ideas of Henry Simons, a neglected economist whose work in the 1930s on monetar...

In the aftermath of the Civil War, contemporary narratives about the American South pointed to the perceived lack of industrial development in the ...

With the spread of interest-based transactions, major problems such as inequality, poverty and debt-based slavery have emerged. Those who practiced...

The history of the economic contacts between Asia and Europe dates back to at least the early years of the Common Era. But it was only after the ov...

The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies explores the significance of Salamancans, such as Vitoria and Soto, and related thinkers, such...

What makes countries rich? What makes countries poor? Europe's Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland seeks to answer these que...