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Rated as a top 10 book about the COVID-19 pandemic by New Statesman: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2021/07/best-books-about-covid-19-pandemic EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-N……続きを見る

How creditors came to wield unprecedented power over heavily indebted countriesーand the dangers this poses to democracy The European debt crisis has rekindled long-standing debates about the power ……続きを見る

A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind is Stephen Mitford Goodson’s companion volume to Inside the South African Reserve Bank Its Origins and Secrets Exposed. While the latter v……続きを見る

“Thoughtful, probing…a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China.” ーWilliam C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Le……続きを見る

Europe has many wonderful old traditions, and one of them is the Christmas market. The December market in Vienna is recorded since 1298, but Innsbruck was actually founded as a market in a field alr……続きを見る

Peter Mathias’s subject is the creation in late eighteenth-century England of the industrial system – and thereby the present world. That unique conjuncture poses the sharpest questions about the na……続きを見る

An exploration of world economic development from a new perspective. Applying the concept of radiocarbon dating to economic analysis leads to an intriguing investigation of how the world economy may……続きを見る

This book presents the results of extensive international comparative research into the effects of the economic and financial crisis on democratic institutions and social cohesion policies. The coll……続きを見る

The European Union (EU) stands out as a fascinatingly unique political organisation. On the one hand, it has shown the potential for developing deep and wide-ranging cooperation between member state……続きを見る

The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people an……続きを見る

In recent decades, private investment has led to an economic resurgence in India. But this is not the first time the region has witnessed impressive business growth. There have been many similar sto……続きを見る

The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens when Sw……続きを見る

Originally published in 1981. Discrete-choice modelling is an area of econometrics where significant advances have been made at the research level. This book presents an overview of these advances, ……続きを見る

Critically acclaimed journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell uncovers the true cost--political, economic, social, and personal--of America's mounting anxiety over jobs, and what we can do to regain control ov……続きを見る

Changes in the dynamics of economic activities since the last decades of the 20th century have yielded major changes in the composition of industries and the division of labor and production across ……続きを見る

In this major work, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello go to the heart of the changes in contemporary capitalism. Via an unprecedented analysis of the latest management texts that have for……続きを見る

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas, as expounded in his most famous work the Essay on the Principle of Population, caused a storm of controversy. In this Very Short ……続きを見る

Rosa Luxemburg's 'Die Nationalökonomie' bietet eine revolutionäre Perspektive auf wirtschaftliche Theorien und politische Ökonomie. Luxemburg untersucht scharfsinnig die kapitalistische Produktionsw……続きを見る

What can the ideas of history's greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our time? 'The best place to start to learn about the very greatest economists of all time' Professor T……続きを見る

Karl Marx est un philosophe, économiste et sociologue allemand du XIXème siècle. Connu pour sa conception matérialiste de l'histoire, sa description des rouages du capitalisme, et pour son activité ……続きを見る

The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nineteenth century, with the aftermath of the consumers’ revolution, and reaches all the way to the present. The fas……続きを見る

Winner of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize: A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers “The authors weave a c……続きを見る

A comprehensive and concise history of capitalism from its origins to today In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensiv……続きを見る

Around the year 1000 Rodulfus Glaber described France as being in the throes of a building boom. He may have been the first writer to perceive the early medieval period as a Dark Age that was ending……続きを見る

By the turn of the millennium, the East Mediterranean region had become a place of foreigners to Latin Christians living in Western Europe. Nevertheless, in the eleventh century numerous Latin Chris……続きを見る

Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropol……続きを見る

One morning while reading Barron's, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed commodities trader Jim Rogers. "Buy breakfast," he told investors, referring to the increasing va……続きを見る

“Powerful as well as highly engagingーa brilliant book.” ーAmartya Sen A Times Higher Education Book of the Week It may sound crazy to pay people whether or not they’re working or even looking for w……続きを見る

André Tchernia is one of the leading experts on amphorae as a source of economic history, a pioneer of maritime archaeology, and author of a wealth of articles on Roman trade, notably the wine trade……続きを見る

This is the first English translation of Benedetto Cotrugli's The Book of the Art of Trade, a lively account of the life of a Mediterranean merchant in the Early Renaissance, written in 1458. The bo……続きを見る