George - Economic History 1

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Pierre Charnier (1795-1857) était un ouvrier en soie de Lyon, un canut. Il œuvra à la fondation du premier mutuellisme des tisseurs puis devint un de leurs représentants au conseil des prud’hommes o……続きを見る

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 mo……続きを見る

In unpacking credit relationships and payments over the past 1000 years in addition to how technological innovations are shifting the credit relationships/payments landscape – from barter, commodity……続きを見る

This book situates John Locke’s philosophy of knowledge and his political theory within his engagement in British monetary debates of the 17th and 18th century. Anchored in extensive archival resear……続きを見る

'Capitalist critique and proletarian reasoning fit for our time' - Peter Linebaugh Taking the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume as its subject, this book breaks new ground in focusing it……続きを見る

The articles in this volume are selected from the contributions to two international conferences. Authors and teams tackle general economic approaches and developments with respect to new concepts f……続きを見る

CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL’S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025 A definitive history of the United States’ recovery from the Great Depressionーand the New Deal's true part in it. FDR’s New Deal has……続きを見る

Directeur de cabinet du Premier ministre Georges Pompidou, Commissaire au plan, plusieurs fois ministre, mais aussi directeur général du marché intérieur à Bruxelles à trente-trois ans et premier pr……続きを見る

A Short Economic and Social History of Twentieth Century Britain (1968) overcomes the statistical complexities of the twentieth century by establishing long-term social and economic trends to provid……続きを見る

Ever since the Great Recession, the global financial regulatory system has undergone significant changes. But have these changes been sufficient? Have they created a new problem of over-regulation? ……続きを見る

At its core, economics is about making decisions. In the history of economic thought, great intellectual prowess has been exerted toward devising exquisite theories of optimal decision making in sit……続きを見る

This collection of 13 essays deals with a range of topics concerning Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese merchants, commodities and commerce in maritime Asia in the early modern period from c. 1585-1800. ……続きを見る

At its core, economics is about making decisions. In the history of economic thought, great intellectual prowess has been exerted toward devising exquisite theories of optimal decision making in sit……続きを見る

*The #1 Sunday Times bestseller* 'Explosive and beautifully told … these truths can set us free' - Danny Dorling 'This book is dynamite – shining a spotlight on the evils of neoliberalism, shatterin……続きを見る

This book systematically addresses Bourdieu’s key ideas and concepts in the context of Marxist thought. In this book, Bourdieu’s central theoretical points are analyzed within a political, sociologi……続きを見る

Utilising Marxian, Weberian, and institutionalist approaches, this book proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding the nature of Chinese economic history: the ‘imperial mode’ of China. T……続きを見る

Why has the United States experienced so many crippling financial crises? The popular answer: U.S. banks have long been poorly regulated, subjecting the economy to the whims of selfish interest, whi……続きを見る

In zehn unterhaltsamen Kapiteln erzählt Clason vordergründig betrachtet Erfolgsgeschichten aus der Antike, aus Babylon, dem Finanzzentrum der Welt zu Beginn der Geschichtsschreibung. Bald entdeckt d……続きを見る

Il y a quelque cent ans, on était « humain », et volontiers « sensible » ; et, en vérité, l’égoïsme n’y perdait rien, mais on s’honorait de pleurer sur les maux de ses semblables, comme d’une preuve……続きを見る

L’histoire de l’Argent et de la Terre nous apprend par quelles évolutions fatales les capitalistes de jadis, sous un régime qui leur était politiquement favorable, ont été dépouillés de leurs biens ……続きを見る

First published in 1984. This book represents a major study of union responses to the economic crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. Abjuring governmental or managerial outlooks, it argues that unions, as ……続きを見る

Originally published in 1886. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing ……続きを見る

This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift. In this ……続きを見る

The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the 20th century, Speyer was the t……続きを見る

This book combines elements of economic and business history to study business ethics from antiquity to the nineteenth century. This book begins with so-called primitive people, showing how humans b……続きを見る

In "The New York Stock Exchange in the Crisis of 1914," Henry George Stebbins Noble provides an intricate chronicle of the tumultuous events that enveloped the financial landscape during the onset o……続きを見る

This book combines elements of economic and business history to study business ethics from the nineteenth century to today. It concentrates on American and British business history, delving into iss……続きを見る

What are the keys to good economic policy? George P. Shultz and John B. Taylor draw from their several decades of experience at the forefront of national economic policy making to show how market fu……続きを見る

This is a historyーthough, intentionally, a brief historyーof the rise of law and economics as a field of thought in the U.S. college and law school academy, though the field has expanded to Europe ……続きを見る