Economic History 12

'The most explosive, mind-blowing business book I've ever read' – Bradley Hope, New York Times bestselling author of Billion Dollar Whale 'Jaw-dropping . . . well-told, well-structured and exquisite……続きを見る

**One of New York Magazine's best books on Silicon Valley! The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America** Long before Margaret O'Mara bec……続きを見る

Combining social, political, and economic history, Louisa Schell Hoberman examines a neglected period in Mexico’s colonial past, providing the first book-length study of the period’s merchant elite ……続きを見る

A boldly revisionist history of the first disputes in nineteenth-century Britain over the role of economists in society Economics now so dominates our understanding of how the world works that some……続きを見る

**A Financial Times Best Economics Book of 2021 From the author of Keynes Hayek, the next great duel in the history of economics.** In 1966 two columnists joined Newsweek magazine. Their assignment:……続きを見る

Marking the 75th anniversary of the first meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society, in 1947, this volume presents for the first time the original transcripts from this landmark event. The society was cre……続きを見る

Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed firsthand the consequences of high inflation and unemployment -- paired with rampant nepotism and cronyism -- on a country's e……続きを見る

For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic stagnation, experiencing ……続きを見る

1910-1950年臺灣經濟如何從戰前過渡到戰後？ 透過本書案例的討論，提出二十世紀前半臺灣經濟生產部門的特徵， 以及二十世紀後半臺灣經濟朝向高度成長邁進的初始狀態。 　　本書考察1910-1950年臺灣企業和產業在欠……続きを見る

Religious freedom has become an emblematic value in the West. Embedded in constitutions and championed by politicians and thinkers across the political spectrum, it is to many an absolute value, som……続きを見る

從全球史的角度去詮釋潮州人成功的歷史，驚人深刻，饒有勝意！ 2022年世界歷史協會班特利圖書獎 改變對殖民時代中國角色理解的先鋒史學之作 本書故事極具感染力，色彩豐厚，深具洞見。 傳統中國被視為欠缺海洋與殖……続きを見る

This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind. Encompassing 2000 years of history, part 1 begins with the Rom……続きを見る

"[A] magnificent history of money and finance."ーNew York Times Book Review "Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."ーFinancial Times In the aftermath of recent……続きを見る

Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have ch……続きを見る

A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller • An NPR Best Book of the Year The New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires’ systematic plunder of the worldーbrazenl……続きを見る

Economic Biology and Behavioral Economics: The Prophesy of Alfred Marshall explores the prophesy of Alfred Marshall, the grand synthesizer of neoclassical economics, that the "Mecca of the economist……続きを見る

A major new history of classical Greeceーhow it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from it Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew.……続きを見る

“An extraordinary achievement.” ーDavid Edgerton, Literary Review “A remarkably researched, comprehensive, and indispensable book for everyone who wishes to understand how sugar and the sugar indust……続きを見る

Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn an……続きを見る

Although many of Edmund Burke's speeches and writings contain prominent economic dimensions, his economic thought seldom receives the attention it warrants. Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Po……続きを見る

Money provides a unique and illuminating perspective on the Middle Ages. In much of medieval Europe the central meaning of money was a prescribed unit of precious metal but in practice precious meta……続きを見る

The views of Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) on population, first published in his Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798, continue to be hotly debated, either acclaimed or opposed, as do his ……続きを見る

Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt Here anthropologi……続きを見る

In this landmark volume, Samuel Hollander presents a fresh and compelling history of moral philosophy from Locke to John Stuart Mill, showing that a ‘moral sense’ can actually be considered compatib……続きを見る

What does it mean to be an American? What are American ideas and values? American Enterprise, the companion book to a major exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, aims ……続きを見る

Herbert Simon’s renowned theory of bounded rationality is principally interested in cognitive constraints and environmental factors and influences which prevent people from thinking or behaving acco……続きを見る

Fast-paced and dramatic re-telling of the financial crisis that nearly bought the developed world to its knees. Hank Paulson was at the absolute epicentre of the recent economic storm, and his accou……続きを見る

In "The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896," William Arthur Shaw meticulously examines the evolution of monetary systems across centuries, offering a comprehensive analysis of currency's role in shap……続きを見る

“A vivid portrait of an exceptional woman and a lively history of the economic and financial crises that helped make the treasury secretary and former Fed chair who she is today.” ーSylvia Nasar, #1……続きを見る

This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages. These essays explore ways that late medieval economic thought……続きを見る