In this book, Altamura analyses the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979, considering their impact on the world economy and subsequent reactions to the global instability....Loe edasi...
Through a series of contemporary cases, issues and applications, this book provides an engaging initiation to the philosophy of economics.The book explores morality of economics, the role of the state, policies for well-being, and the methods applie...Loe edasi...
In this exciting book, Westra begins by tracing out the case for the Anthropocene. These include the Green New Deal, nowtopias of cooperative, solidarity and commoning economies, ecofeminism, Degrowth society as well as ecosocialism and democratic s...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Handbook of the Global 1980s brings together specialists from across the world to examine how the decade was shaped by these changes to politics, economics, culture, societies, and protest movements....Loe edasi...
The starting point of this book is that economics is an applied science: a tool to understand the real-world economy and a guide for economic policy. The book argues that the point of departure for economic theory should be the real world with reali...Loe edasi...
Modern economic theory has marginalised the figure of the entrepreneur, despite their significance in economic activity. This book addresses the role of the entrepreneur in the economic thought of the 18th and early 19th centuries, filling a gap in...Loe edasi...
First published in 1976, Interwar Britain presents a highly readable and up-to-date account of a crucial period in modern British history. The major economic and social issues, ranging from economic growth and policy to social welfare and housing, a...Loe edasi...
First published in 1923, Labour and the Industrial Revolution is an examination of opinions (17601832) on the right place of wage-earner under the State. The author treats of the machine as the groundwork of economic and ethical theory and of the mo...Loe edasi...
Post-Chartist period saw an easing of class tensions and the growth of a reformist working class. Using evidence based upon the cotton districts of north-west England, the author shows that enhanced socio-political stability owed much to economic re...Loe edasi...
First published in 1983, Strikes in Post-War Britain provides the first systematic long-run examination of official strike statistics since the war. It is based on a wealth of new material and analysis....Loe edasi...
First published in 1983, this book provides a penetrating analysis of the Eastern European economies, beginning with an examination of the Soviet model on which they are based. An interesting comparison is made between the levels of economic develop...Loe edasi...
Global City Typologies explores the historical, cultural, and socio-economic transactional forces in the development of existing cities through to newly planned and emerging cities. Individual chapters address different sets and typologies of global...Loe edasi...
This book deals with the evolution of initiatives connected to the social and solidarity economy, and their political cultures and educational implications, in the south of Europe and in Latin America....Loe edasi...
Echoing new trends in central banking history, this book traces the story of the Swiss National Bank from the end of the Second World War, going beyond monetary policy and inflation to explore the full scope of the banks activities....Loe edasi...
Drawing on key published works, as well as those of his contemporaries, this book explores the political and economic thought of the seventeenth century diplomat William Temple and his proposals for change in Restoration England and Ireland....Loe edasi...
This book gives an historical economic account of public debt in Kenya, dating back to the late 1800s. It describes the key episodes and events that resulted in the accumulation of debt and gives an intuitive understanding of the economic dynamics o...Loe edasi...
First published in 1970, Australian Economic Development in the Twentieth Century analyses aspects of Australian economic development in the twentieth century and places them in historical and international perspective....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1983, this book filled a gap in the existing literature, because the effect of credit upon a familys real income was frequently omitted in studies of living standards....Loe edasi...
This book analyses the transformation in 16th- and 17th-century English economic life that overturned the traditional restraints of the medieval economy for the commercial ethos that governs the modern world, and the resulting imbalance which opened...Loe edasi...
By the end of the nineteenth century, there were already some countries in southern Europe whose economies benefitted from the arrival of tourists. But it was during the twentieth century, and particularly after the Second World War, that the phenom...Loe edasi...
