New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1989. — 264 p. — ISBN10: 1349197114; ISBN13: 978-1349197118 The author discusses the traditional system of management of the economy as it existed in the early 1950s in the USSR and goes on to deal with the reforms of the 1960s and of the 1980s, country by country. He shows that the focus of the reforms is on finding a proper combination of...
Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2004. — 493 s. — ISBN10: 3593375966; ISBN13: 978-3593375960 Wirtschaftsbeziehungen sind Tauschbeziehungen und beruhen auf kulturell geprägten Regeln, die durch Werte oder Emotionen Verbindlichkeit gewinnen - etwa dadurch, dass die Partner sich vertrauen. Umso erstaunlicher, dass Wirtschafts- und Kulturgeschichte einander kaum zur Kenntnis nehmen. In...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003. — 224 p. This book explores the characteristics of inflations, comparing historical cases from Roman times up to the modern day. High and moderate inflations caused by the inflationary bias of political systems and economic relationships – and the importance of different monetary regimes in containing them – are analyzed. Peter Bernholz...
New York: Academic Press, 2020. — 976 p. The Handbook of Historical Economics guides students and researchers through a quantitative economic history that uses fully up-to-date econometric methods. The book's coverage of statistics applied to the social sciences makes it invaluable to a broad readership. As new sources and applications of data in every economic field are...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0691144001; ISBN13: 978-0691144009 The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past. In this provocative book, Francesco Boldizzoni calls for the reconstruction of economic...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0691144001; ISBN13: 978-0691144009 The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past. In this provocative book, Francesco Boldizzoni calls for the reconstruction of economic...
Transl. from the 3d German ed. by S. Morley Wickett. — New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1901. — 415 p. Prefatory Note From the Prefaces to First and Second German Editions Primitive Economic Conditions The Economic Life of Primitive Peoples The Rise of National Economy A Historical Survey of Industrial Systems The Decline of the Handicrafts The Genesis of Journalism Union of...
Transl. from the 3d German ed. by S. Morley Wickett. — New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1901. — 415 p. Prefatory Note From the Prefaces to First and Second German Editions Primitive Economic Conditions The Economic Life of Primitive Peoples The Rise of National Economy A Historical Survey of Industrial Systems The Decline of the Handicrafts The Genesis of Journalism Union of...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. - 588 p. Volume One includes the colonial and independence eras up to 1850, linking Latin America's economic history to the pre-Hispanic, European, and African background. It also synthesizes knowledge on the human and environmental impact of the Spanish conquest, the evolution of colonial economic institutions, and the performance of key...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. - 736 p. Volume Two treats the "long twentieth century" from the onset of modern economic growth to the present. After analyzing the principal dimensions of Latin America's first era of sustained economic growth up to 1930, it explores the era of inward-looking development from the 1930s to the collapse of import-substituting industrialization...
Oxford University Press 2012 Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a turning point. After a long period of slow change and even stagnation, an age of innovation and initiative was in motion, with enclosure, voyages of discovery, and new technologies. It was an age of fierce controversy, in which the government was fearful of beggars and wary of rebellions. The...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. - 250 pgs. From the beginning of European trade and conquest overseas, Europeans have known they died from the effect of the strange "climate." Later, they came to understand that it was disease, not climate, that killed, but the fact remained that every trading voyage, every military expedition beyond Europe, had its price in...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 366 p. — ISBN10: 0521866537; ISBN13: 978-0521866538 This book examines the critical role that the economic ideas of state leaders play in the creation and maintenance of the international economic order. Drawing on a detailed study of the fifteen post-Soviet states in their first decade of independence, interviews with key...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 465 p. This book examines a number of major blockades, including the Continental System in the Napoleonic Wars, theWar of 1812, the American Civil War, and World Wars I and II, in addition to the increased use of peacetime blockades and sanctions with the hope of avoidingwar. The impact of newtechnology and organizational changes on...
Fraser Institute, 2017. — 110 p. Executive Summary Confederation, Federalism and the oRle of the eFderal Government Overview of Revenue, Expenditure, and Debt, 1867–2017 Nation Building, 1867–1913 War and Deperssion, 1914–1945 Post-War Boom, 1945–1973 The Ger at Divergence — Productivity Slowdown and Fiscal riCsis, 1973–1996 Into the 21 st Century, 1996–2017 Appendix 1:...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 328 p. — (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). Why do lenders time and again loan money to sovereign borrowers who promptly go bankrupt? When can this type of lending work? As the United States and many European nations struggle with mountains of debt, historical precedents can offer valuable insights. Lending to the Borrower...
Sveriges Riksbank: Historical Monetary and Financial Statistics for Sweden, Volume II., 2014. — 394 p. Introduction to Historical Monetary and Financial Statistics for Sweden, Volume II: House Prices, Stock Returns, National Accounts, and the Riksbank Balance Sheet, 1620–2012 Rodney Edvinsson, Tor Jacobson, and Daniel Waldenström A price index for residential property in...
University of California Press, 1999. — 300 p. — (Sather Classical Lectures) "Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals since the beginning of time," declares M. I. Finley in his classic work. The states of the ancient Mediterranean world had no recognizable real-property market, never fought a commercially inspired war,...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 168 p. First published in 1970, Professor Gerschenkron's theme is the contribution which the study of Russian economic history can make to the problems which have preoccupied Western historians. He first considers the way in which the case of the old Believers in Russia, who refused to support the official church but played an important...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 668 p. Richard A. Goldthwaite, a leading economic historian of the Italian Renaissance, has spent his career studying the Florentine economy. In this magisterial work, Goldthwaite brings together a lifetime of research and insight on the subject, clarifying and explaining the complex workings of Florence’s commercial, banking, and artisan...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 276 p. — ISBN: 1444337807, 9781444337808, 9781444346725 Economics and History presents six state-of-the-art surveys from some of the leading scholars in cliometrics. The contributions are all written at an accessible level for the non-specialist reader and consider a broad range of issues from this highly topical area. Written clearly and...
London: Routledge, 2018. — 159 p. Henry Heller's short account of the history of capitalism combines Marx's economic and political thought with contemporary scholarship to shed light on the current capitalist crisis. It argues that capitalism is an evolving mode of production that has now outgrown its institutional and political limits. The book provides an overview of the...
London: Routledge, 1997. — 208 p. — ISBN10: 0415147093; ISBN13: 978-0415147095 — (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics. Book 14) This work approaches the phenomenon of guild socialism from a new perspective, focusing on the Douglas Social Credit movement. It explores the key ideas, gives an overview of the main theories and traces their subsequent history. Thoroughly...
George Allen and Unwin, 1986. — 546 p. Comparative Financial History Finance War Finance Issues of Relevance Old Controversies Chronologies, Glossary, Rates of Exchange Chronologies Wars Monetary Events Banking Landmarks Financial Events Money Introduction to Part One The Evolution .of Money in Western Europe The Functions of Money Monetary Evolution Coin Output of Precious...
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. — 842 p. To the end of the Middle Ages Foundations of European economic life Roman economic life Mediterranean Europe during the Middle Ages The economic awakening of Northern Europe The Manor Commerce and industy in the Northern Europe during the Middle Ages In Modern times The beginning of european expansion The "commercial revolution" The...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 208 p. n this book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. From early commercial capitalism in the Arab world, China, and Europe, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century industrialization,...
Batoche Books, 2001. — 237 p. Views and Figures A Comparison of the German and English Attitude Towards Industrial Combination A Statistical Review of Cartelisation Industrial Combination in Groups of Industry Mining The Iron and Steel Industry The Chemical and Allied Industries Electrical Engineering and Electricity German Industrial Combination in the International Sphere...
Routledge, 2008. — 505 p. — ISBN: 0203799631, 9780203799635 This volume marks fifty years of an innovative approach to writing economic history often called ''The Cliometrics Revolution.'' The book presents memoirs of personal development, intellectual lives and influences, new lines of historical research, long-standing debates, a growing international scholarly community, and...
Routledge, 2014. — 203 p. — (Economics as Social Theory). — ISBN: 041582284X, 9780415822848 Ever since the inception of economics over two hundred years ago, the tools at the discipline’s disposal have grown more and more sophisticated. This book provides a historical introduction to the methodology of economics through the eyes of economists. The story begins with John Stuart...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 418 p. — ISBN-13-978-0691168883. During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 134 p. — (Key Themes in Ancient History). Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system, or a thin veneer on the surface of an underdeveloped agrarian society? Trade underpinned the growth of Athenian and Roman power, helping to supply armies...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 134 p. — (Key Themes in Ancient History). Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system, or a thin veneer on the surface of an underdeveloped agrarian society? Trade underpinned the growth of Athenian and Roman power, helping to supply armies...
Beacon Press, 2001. - 360 p. In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New...
Routledge, 1994. — 552 p. A clear and readable account of the development of the European economy and its infrastructure from the second century to 1500. Professor Pounds provides a balanced view of the many controversies within the subject, and he has a particular gift for bringing a human dimension to its technicalities. He deals with continental Europe as a whole, including...
Editora Brasiliense, 2006. — 370 p. Poucos livros contribuíram de maneira tão decisiva para a compreensão em profundidade das grandes questões nacionais quanto História Econômica do Brasil, de Caio Prado Jr.Produto de um esforço precursor de interpretação da história brasileira sob um ponto de vista marxista, ele inaugurou uma nova etapa da vida intelectual do país. Hoje,...
Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press, 1963. — 304 p. Securing sufficient information to form a balanced picture of any aspect of Communist economies takes a good deal of time and patience. As I discuss in the text, information has been scanty and highly selective. Moreover, even serious Communist discussion on foreign trade issues has been, for the most part, marked by tendentious...
Routledge, 2008. — 195 p. The essays in this book use the analytical tools and theoretical framework of economics to interpret quantitative historical evidence, offering new ways to approach historical issues and suggesting entirely new types of evidence outside conventional archives. Rosenbloom has gathered together seven essays from leading quantitative economic historians,...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 325 p. From the late imperial period until 1922, the British and French made private and government loans to Russia, making it the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe. To finance the modernization of industry, the construction of public works projects, railroad construction, and the development and adventures...
Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 2002. — 139 p. — ISBN-10: 0844741604; ISBN-13: 978-0844741604 — (AEI Studies on Financial Market Deregulation) Foreword. Lester M. Salamon Mercantilist institutions in the marketplace GSEs in the Marketplace Origins of the GSEs The GSE as a Mercantilist Institution Instrumentalities of government Unusual Legal Attributes of Federal Instrumentalities...
Viking, 2018. — 730 p. — ISBN: 978-0670-02493-3. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World" was written by Adam Tooze, an award-winning economic historian. In it, the author deconstructs the economic crisis of 2008 (and the ten years that came after) and explains how this global event directly impacted countries worldwide until today. In America and Europe,...
Harper Collins Publisher, 2012. - 328 p. ISBN: 978-0-06-207599-4 Over the past few decades, globalization and Googlization have kicked off the first phase of an innovation revolution more profound and more powerful than any economic force since the arrival of Europeans on North American shores half a millennium ago. These developments have brought us such advances as the Web,...
Textbook on the history of economics. Publication of Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin. 2003. 712 p. The Blackwell Companions to Contemporary Economics are reference volumes accessible to serious students and yet also containing up-to-date material from recognized experts in their particular fields. These volumes focus on basic bread-and-butter issues in...
Springer, 2020. — 451 p. — (International Studies in Entrepreneurship 42). — ISBN: 978-3-030-21193-6. This book examines ways in which formerly prosperous regions can renew their economy during and after a period of industrial and economic recession. Using New York’s Capital Region (i.e., Albany, Troy, Schenectady, etc.) as a case study, the authors show how entrepreneurship,...
Transl. by Michel C. Vale. — New York: Palgrave McMillan, 1979. — 240 p. ISBN: 978-1-349-04769-7 ISBN: 978-1-349-04767-3 (eBook) Drawing upon my own experience as an official of the Soviet and Polish banking systems and the Department for Financial and Monetary Affairs of the CMEA, I have attempted in this monograph to examine the new developments in this area in light of...
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