This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of how complexity emerges, transforms, and accelerates across the entire 13.8-billion-year history of the Universe. It brings together chapters from leading researchers to explore th...Loe edasi...
In seventeenth-century England goldsmiths became what we would now recognise as bankers. Goldsmiths shops sold not only gold and silver plate but also instruments of credit, such as bonds and bills of exchange, and offered safe places to lodge capit...Loe edasi...
This open access book examines how Piedmont, in early modern Italy, developed silk production into a distinctive system of technological and social innovation. It explores the ways in which this fragile yet economically significant material shaped r...Loe edasi...
This is a comprehensive guide to measuring the performance of the Chinese economy in historical context, bridging the gap between economic methods and economic history to showcase the cutting edge of quantitative Chinese economic history research....Loe edasi...
The book explores the emergence of Bengali entrepreneurship in tea industry of colonial Bengal. Despite the ‘Divide and Rule Policy’ of the British Government, it shows how the rising tide of nationalism united them and ushered in Indianisation of th...Loe edasi...
A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMAS FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2025 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York Times Superb.....Loe edasi...
This book sorts out the causes, consequences and the evolution path of Chinas economic reform process from the historical dimension of Chinas economic policy changes, from which the long-standing contradi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009602341)
What is the relationship between economic interdependence, war, and peace? William Mulligan reveals the deep connection between international economic relations and great power politics that helps to explain both how the European great powers mainta...Loe edasi...
Between 1945 and 1960, Germany and Japan rocketed from crushing defeat to become two of the five largest economies in the world positions they have maintained since. What accounts for this remarkable transformation? In this uniquely comparative acc...Loe edasi...
The Danish Economy in the Twentieth Century (1987) shows how Denmark was less severely affected by the Depression of the 1930s and the two world wars than other countries in Europe and how it maintained its position by the skilful exploitation of it...Loe edasi...
Planning and Productivity in Sweden (1976) examines the success of Swedens economy and working arrangements, detailing how a resource-poor nation came to achieve such high living standards. The growth in prosperity was no accident, but involved cons...Loe edasi...
Spain belongs to the group of European peripheral economies where the diffusion of the British Industrial Revolution failed during the 19th century, as Professor Jordi Nadal underlined half a century ago.This book presents the analysis of l...Loe edasi...
This book offers a groundbreaking analysis of the ancient Ever-Normal Granary system, illuminating its significance in both historical and modern economic discourse. This work systematically explores the theories and practices of buffer stocks withi...Loe edasi...
This book explores the historical evolution of monetary theory while placing a particular focus on the relationship between currency and credit money. Rather than using traditional classifications based on schools of thought, it develops a structure...Loe edasi...
Church and Manor (1913) examines the unit of English territorial organisation known as the manor. It considers the manor and the church to be key twin parts of this unit, and by analysing the church and manor, this book provides valuable insight int...Loe edasi...
Economic Integration in East and West (1976) explores the logic of economic integration to form free trade areas and common markets, and applies the findings to the European Economic Community and Comecon, and to third countries and the world econom...Loe edasi...
Industrial Action (1976), written by an experienced active trade unionist, brings valuable real-world examples to an examination of the many facets of trade union organising. It looks at the organising of the workforce, recruitment of new members, w...Loe edasi...
Saudi Arabia, the West and the Security of the Gulf (1986) considers the geopolitical environment of the Arab Gulf and the nature and threats to Western interests in the region. It also examines the political, economic and other Gulf resources that...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of Naples, a city of profound historical depth and multifaceted complexity, situated at the crossroads of European and Mediterranean history. Spanning from the Late Middle Ages to the...Loe edasi...
This book provides a succinct history of a medium-sized silk-weaving firm, Grout & Co, concentrating on the Canadian branch plant it set up following the First World War and operated for three decades. Extraordinarily full records of this proto-mult...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1983, this book discusses the emergence of a new concept of the state as a substantive entity and the source of the ruler’s authority over his subjects. It maintains that such a concept emerged in French political thought o...Loe edasi...
This book is the first history of foreign MNEs in twentieth-century Australia, filling a major gap in the economic and business history literature of Australia and of the history of international business globally....Loe edasi...
When it was originally published in 1963, this was the first full study in English of French economic planning in the 20th century and appeared at a time when the UK was beginning a similar experiment. When it was origin...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1963 but with lasting historical interest, this book was based on extensive research including many personal interviews with foreign trade officials and economists in communist East Berlin. It surveys the extent of economic...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1968, this book was an important contribution both to the economics of the public sector and to the study of comparative economic systems and remains of historical interest. In contrast to many expenditure specialists who d...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1967, this book provides a detailed survey of economic events from the early 1950s to the late 1960s. It provides an excellent source of reference on economic policy issues and will also be invaluable as a textbook of mid-2...Loe edasi...
First published in 1977, Planning and Politics examines Britain’s economic planning experiments during a period when the country’s seemingly intractable economic problems had become one of the major weaknesses of the western world. Since 19...Loe edasi...
First published in 1964, A History of Venezuela is based on Dr Guillermo Moróns Historia de Venezuela. Key sections are abridged while preserving the authors thesis, plus two new chapters are added: one covering post-1936 politics after tyrant Góme...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of how complexity emerges, transforms, and accelerates across the entire 13.8-billion-year history of the Universe. It brings together chapters from leading researchers to explore th...Loe edasi...
In seventeenth-century England goldsmiths became what we would now recognise as bankers. Goldsmiths shops sold not only gold and silver plate but also instruments of credit, such as bonds and bills of exchange, and offered safe places to lodge capit...Loe edasi...
Even before its launch, economists questioned whether the Euro Area had what it takes to become an optimal currency area. The onset of the crisis in 2010 confirmed challenges in its construction that many had partly predicted. But has the Euro Area......Loe edasi...
This open access book examines how Piedmont, in early modern Italy, developed silk production into a distinctive system of technological and social innovation. It explores the ways in which this fragile yet economically significant material shaped r...Loe edasi...
This is a comprehensive guide to measuring the performance of the Chinese economy in historical context, bridging the gap between economic methods and economic history to showcase the cutting edge of quantitative Chinese economic history research....Loe edasi...
The book explores the emergence of Bengali entrepreneurship in tea industry of colonial Bengal. Despite the ‘Divide and Rule Policy’ of the British Government, it shows how the rising tide of nationalism united them and ushered in Indianisation of th...Loe edasi...
A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMAS FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2025 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York Times Superb.....Loe edasi...
This book sorts out the causes, consequences and the evolution path of Chinas economic reform process from the historical dimension of Chinas economic policy changes, from which the long-standing contradi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009602341)
What is the relationship between economic interdependence, war, and peace? William Mulligan reveals the deep connection between international economic relations and great power politics that helps to explain both how the European great powers mainta...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The New Press, ISBN-13: 9798893850581)
A “lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis” (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War II—and its tragic demiseMore than any other city in America, New York in the years after th...Loe edasi...
Between 1945 and 1960, Germany and Japan rocketed from crushing defeat to become two of the five largest economies in the world positions they have maintained since. What accounts for this remarkable transformation? In this uniquely comparative acc...Loe edasi...
The Danish Economy in the Twentieth Century (1987) shows how Denmark was less severely affected by the Depression of the 1930s and the two world wars than other countries in Europe and how it maintained its position by the skilful exploitation of it...Loe edasi...
Planning and Productivity in Sweden (1976) examines the success of Swedens economy and working arrangements, detailing how a resource-poor nation came to achieve such high living standards. The growth in prosperity was no accident, but involved cons...Loe edasi...
Spain belongs to the group of European peripheral economies where the diffusion of the British Industrial Revolution failed during the 19th century, as Professor Jordi Nadal underlined half a century ago.This book presents the analysis of l...Loe edasi...
This book offers a groundbreaking analysis of the ancient Ever-Normal Granary system, illuminating its significance in both historical and modern economic discourse. This work systematically explores the theories and practices of buffer stocks withi...Loe edasi...
This book explores the historical evolution of monetary theory while placing a particular focus on the relationship between currency and credit money. Rather than using traditional classifications based on schools of thought, it develops a structure...Loe edasi...
Church and Manor (1913) examines the unit of English territorial organisation known as the manor. It considers the manor and the church to be key twin parts of this unit, and by analysing the church and manor, this book provides valuable insight int...Loe edasi...
Economic Integration in East and West (1976) explores the logic of economic integration to form free trade areas and common markets, and applies the findings to the European Economic Community and Comecon, and to third countries and the world econom...Loe edasi...
Industrial Action (1976), written by an experienced active trade unionist, brings valuable real-world examples to an examination of the many facets of trade union organising. It looks at the organising of the workforce, recruitment of new members, w...Loe edasi...
Saudi Arabia, the West and the Security of the Gulf (1986) considers the geopolitical environment of the Arab Gulf and the nature and threats to Western interests in the region. It also examines the political, economic and other Gulf resources that...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of Naples, a city of profound historical depth and multifaceted complexity, situated at the crossroads of European and Mediterranean history. Spanning from the Late Middle Ages to the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Penguin Press, ISBN-13: 9781594204173)
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lords of Finance, a magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity and the famous banking family at the center of the whirlwindOver the course of the...Loe edasi...
This book provides a succinct history of a medium-sized silk-weaving firm, Grout & Co, concentrating on the Canadian branch plant it set up following the First World War and operated for three decades. Extraordinarily full records of this proto-mult...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1983, this book discusses the emergence of a new concept of the state as a substantive entity and the source of the ruler’s authority over his subjects. It maintains that such a concept emerged in French political thought o...Loe edasi...
This book is the first history of foreign MNEs in twentieth-century Australia, filling a major gap in the economic and business history literature of Australia and of the history of international business globally....Loe edasi...
When it was originally published in 1963, this was the first full study in English of French economic planning in the 20th century and appeared at a time when the UK was beginning a similar experiment. When it was origin...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1963 but with lasting historical interest, this book was based on extensive research including many personal interviews with foreign trade officials and economists in communist East Berlin. It surveys the extent of economic...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1968, this book was an important contribution both to the economics of the public sector and to the study of comparative economic systems and remains of historical interest. In contrast to many expenditure specialists who d...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1967, this book provides a detailed survey of economic events from the early 1950s to the late 1960s. It provides an excellent source of reference on economic policy issues and will also be invaluable as a textbook of mid-2...Loe edasi...
First published in 1977, Planning and Politics examines Britain’s economic planning experiments during a period when the country’s seemingly intractable economic problems had become one of the major weaknesses of the western world. Since 19...Loe edasi...
First published in 1964, A History of Venezuela is based on Dr Guillermo Moróns Historia de Venezuela. Key sections are abridged while preserving the authors thesis, plus two new chapters are added: one covering post-1936 politics after tyrant Góme...Loe edasi...
This book uncovers the history of the concession stand in American moviegoing, which was coined The Second Box Office by trade press magazines in the 1930s, such was its importance to the economic viability of movie theatres. Even today, it is not...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009677219)
This volume examines of how premodern societies produced and mobilized resources to support social, political, and religious institutions. Topics discussed include the the nature of productive self-sufficiency, forms of economic specialization, the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009700306)
Surveys the literature on middlemen (i.e., intermediation in exchange) reviewing, extending and consolidating key developments in the field. This is important because intermediated trade is common in reality but absent in standard general equilibriu...Loe edasi...
Surveys the literature on middlemen (i.e., intermediation in exchange) reviewing, extending and consolidating key developments in the field. This is important because intermediated trade is common in reality but absent in standard general equilibriu...Loe edasi...
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(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009670722)
The Element reconstructs economic developments in state formation in Mesopotamia, from the 4th to early 3rd millennium BCE, trying to understand how interrelating environmental, social, economic, and political factors in the two main areas of Mesopo...Loe edasi...
The Element reconstructs economic developments in state formation in Mesopotamia, from the 4th to early 3rd millennium BCE, trying to understand how interrelating environmental, social, economic, and political factors in the two main areas of Mesopo...Loe edasi...
First published in 1954, Introduction to the Economic History of China is a pioneering study of a subject largely unexplored by Western scholarship at the time. Professor Kirby examines key periods in Chinese history, identifying critical i...Loe edasi...
First published in 1982, The French Economy by J.R. Hough explores Frances remarkable economic growth from post-war devastation to the 1970s, despite challenges like the oil crises. The book provides an in-depth analysis of France’s indust...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Grand Central Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781538766958)
The gripping, definitive account of the secretive family behind one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world. When Edward C. Johnson II founded Fidelity in 1946, investing was a pursuit reserved for the elite. Today, ne...Loe edasi...
This book presents a state-of-the-art picture of advances in social network research for economic, business, and financial historians. It showcases recent advances in the methodology and application of social network analysis to historical research...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300286830)
From John Maynard Keynes’s foremost biographer, an illuminating look at how the economist’s ethical approach can be used to address today’s pressing problems John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was arguably the most important economist o...Loe edasi...
This Palgrave Pivot aims to present a research-based, accessible analysis of the inner workings of the London stock exchange during the Georgian period....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: America Through Time, ISBN-13: 9781635001129)
Does a building have a soul? And once it is empty of people, does it still have a story to tell Abandoned Pittsburgh: Gears and Ghosts continues the series that seeks to explore the Steel Citys industrial past. Locations in this second volume includ...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on understanding the thinking of John Maynard Keynes stressing the evolution of his thinking from adherence to the classic Quantity Theory of Money to the development of his own novel theories of unemployment, stagnation and instab...Loe edasi...
Although transformations in retailing are of tremendous current interest, there is no single broad-ranging account of the evolution of retailing formats. This book fills this gap, providing a chronological presentation of changes in retail businesse...Loe edasi...
