wired - Economic History 5

Since the Global Financial Crisis, economics has been under greater public scrutiny, revealing a crisis in the discipline. This represented a potential turning point on how economics should be thoug……続きを見る

Published in 1959: This book is the only detailed study of the origin of the German customs union and its history up to the establishment of the united Reich in 1871. It is based on the author's res……続きを見る

This book demonstrates that during Japan’s early modern Edo period (1603–1868) an ethical code existed among the merchant class comparable to that of the well-known Bushido. There is compelling evid……続きを見る

This book uniquely explores the role and governance mechanism of central banks by applying new institutional economics (NIE). Simultaneously, the book tests the analytical viability of NIE when appl……続きを見る

A key issue in economic discourse today is the relation (or lack of it) between economic behaviour and morality. Few (presumably) would want to deny that human beings are in some sense moral or ethi……続きを見る

First published in 1899, this book looks at the history of Anglo-American trade with a special focus on the effect of tariffs and forms part of the essay that won the Cobden Prize at Cambridge in 18……続きを見る

A Segregação Socioespacial é a divisão ou distanciamento no espaço entre grupos populacionais relativamente homogêneos relacionado à condição socioeconômica ou a outros atributos como os de ordem ét……続きを見る

Digital Media and Wireless Communication in Developing Nations: Agriculture, Education, and the Economic Sector explores how digital media and wireless communication, especially mobile phones and so……続きを見る

This book describes the historical setting of Zaire and focuses on economic and political developments during the Mobutu era. It examines the corrupt and closed political system, with its roots in t……続きを見る

The United States has one of the most unique budgeting processes of any modern government. The “powers of the purse” are enumerated under the Constitution, but they were hotly debated by the nation’……続きを見る

In Killing the Planet: How A Financial Cartel Doomed Mankind, best-selling authors Rodney Howard-Browne and Paul L. Williams investigate the true motives and consequences of the Pilgrim Society. Ear……続きを見る

Wer die Geschichte der Wirtschaft nicht kennt, kann auch nicht kompetent über die Zukunft der Wirtschaft nachdenken. Dieses Buch bietet einen Einstieg in die Wirtschaftsgeschichte für alle, die nach……続きを見る

Knut Wicksell is arguably the greatest Swedish social scientist of all time, and poverty was a theme that occupied him all his life. Indeed, it was probably Wicksell's interest in poverty that was t……続きを見る

This book is about an intellectual fraud, one that has become part of legal doctrine that has greatly influenced decisions all the way up to the United States Supreme Court. The 'efficient market hy……続きを見る

A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time This insightful book looks at how mainstream economics’ quest for scientific certaint……続きを見る

Hjalmar Schacht gilt auf Grund seiner Rolle als Präsident der Reichsbank bis heute als umstrittene Figur in der Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Gleichwohl er nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg umfassende Kritik an d……続きを見る

The late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US economy maimed and killed employees at an astronomically high rate, while the legal system left the injured and their loved ones with little recou……続きを見る

Drawing on an impressive range of archival material, this monograph delves into the careers of two businessmen who worked for Nordic chartered monopoly trading companies to illuminate individual ent……続きを見る

Cotton textile industries vanished from much of East Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book investigates the underlying causes of industrial arrest in the region throu……続きを見る

Ist die Rede von Wirtschaft, denken die meisten Menschen an Großunternehmen. Entgegen dieser verbreiteten Vorstellung zeigen aktuelle empirische Daten jedoch, dass die meisten Betriebe sehr klein st……続きを見る

The second half of the nineteenth century is correctly known to have culminated in the emergence of the gold standard as the first truly international monetary regime. The processes leading up to th……続きを見る

Money Transformation is a new theory about changes in money from time to time following the human need for money and technological developments. This book discusses the theory of money transformatio……続きを見る

Although political and legal institutions are essential to any nation's economic development, the forces that have shaped these institutions are poorly understood. Drawing on rich evidence about the……続きを見る

In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing i……続きを見る

From a major British political thinker and activist, a passionate case that both the left and right have lost their faith in ordinary people and must learn to find it again. This is an age of polari……続きを見る

COVID-19 is the biggest public health and economic disaster of our time. It has posed the same threat across the globe, yet countries have responded very differently and some have clearly fared much……続きを見る

Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850*–*1940 is a history of the gendered corporation, a study that examines how ideas and ideals about domesticit……続きを見る

How does economic growth work? Beginning with the history of leading countries over the past 2000 years, Economic Growth finds which countries have achieved sustained growth and how they did it. The……続きを見る

Die Automobilindustrie von heute ist das Ergebnis von einem Jahrhundert Automobilpolitik. Dabei ging es weltweit um den steigenden Beitrag der Branche zu Beschäftigung und Wachstum und zugleich um d……続きを見る

This book explores the social and economic development of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi over the course of the twentieth century. These three countries have long shared and interconnected pasts. All t……続きを見る