Economic History

Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the...

The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History aims to introduce readers to the important macroeconomic events of the past two hundred years. Th...

Many of us read books every day, either electronically or in print. We remember the books that shaped our ideas about the world as children, go bac...

Values-based organizations are institutions, communities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which are inspired by a mission or a vocation – ...

Volume 39C of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, features a symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the publication of...

Macroeconomics has always played host to contesting schools of thought, but recent events have exacerbated those differences. To fully understand t...

Wongsurawat looks at the history of Thailand since the mid-nineteenth century and uses events to elucidate basic economic models and concepts. He s...

This book presents the sharp regional diff erences within the integrating European continent. Four regions – Northwestern Europe, Southern Europe, ...

British Imperialism and Australia (1939) looks at the early economic history of Australia, which towards the end of the period under review became ...

The first articles in this volume focus on sources for the history of Baltic commerce and the evaluation of their data on prices. In most cases, th...

The great depression of the inter-war years was the most profound shock ever to strike the world economy, and is widely held to have led directly t...

Contrary to the image of Korea as a largely self-contained country until its economy became global during the 1990s, this book shows that transnati...

First published in 1941, The Reconstruction of World Trade analyses the collapse of the international trading model after the First World War; the ...

In this collection of essays David A Dyker explores some of the most difficult and fascinating aspects of the process of transition from autocratic...

This book presents an important episode in the twentieth-century history of the United Kingdom: the largest public housing scheme ever undertaken i...

Of Poverty and Wealth: Eric Hobsbawm, Barry Supple and Gareth Stedman Jones is a collection of interviews that is being published as a book for the...

This book is a reassessment of the international monetary crises of the post-World War I period that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It a...

This monograph explores the economic consequences of the Cold War, a polarised world order which politicised technology and shaped industrial devel...

First published in 1980, Public Spending Decisions attempts to answer some important questions regarding public spending and its relationship with ...

In the economic debate, power is defined and studied mainly as an interpersonal relation occurring out of perfect competition. This is a consequenc...

Point of Arrival (1975) examines the experiences of the various immigrant groups – the Huguenots, Irish, Jews, Pakistanis – who have made their hom...

This book concerns the end of the age of colonization and the inherent changes in the world economy. It discusses the author’s perception of the di...

In recent years, Israel has deeply and quickly transformed itself from a self-perceived social-democratic regime into a privatized and liberalized ...

Cultural Conflict and Adaptation (1990) examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by the children of a small group of Hmong wh...