CK - Economic History 1

'If you feel you should understand how economists think but have no idea where to start, this book is the answer' Financial Times Why are all my clothes made in Asia? How do I get a pay-rise? And wh……続きを見る

Jürgen Kocka, auch international einer der führenden Experten für das Thema, bietet mit diesem Band eine exzellente Einführung in die historische Entstehung und Ausdehnung des Kapitalismus seit der ……続きを見る

A vigorous call for rethinking the field of business history. Business history needs a shake-up, Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson argue, as many businesses go global and cultural contexts becom……続きを見る

Over 6.4 billion people participate in a $36.5 trillion global economy, designed and overseen by no one. How did this marvel of self-organized complexity evolve? How is wealth created within this sy……続きを見る

David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the as……続きを見る

In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. Pauls……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

Selected writings from one of the most important commentators of our generation covering the wreckage of Labour’s 10 year love affair with the Right BY THE SUMMER of 2007, Britain was close to crash……続きを見る

Presenting a full and precise description of all legal ties between landlord and tenant in early modern England, Agrarian Problems in the Sixteenth Century and After re-examines one of the key issue……続きを見る

First Published in 1968. If this book aimed at a descriptive account of the detailed phenomena of the Money Market, it would necessarily be concerned mainly with the manner in which the market was a……続きを見る

Eli Heckscher's Mercantilism is a classic work in the history of economic thought, economic history and international economics. A pioneer in both economic history and trade theory, Heckscher brough……続きを見る

This antiquarian volume contains a fascinating treatise on interest-rates and prices in the late nineteenth century. Containing a wealth of interesting historic information on the state of the econo……続きを見る

International economic integration is not a recent phenomenon; its roots can be traced back to the Roman Empire. This informative volume departs from the conventional short-term analysis and takes a……続きを見る

This book provides a theoretical and historical examination of the evolution of money. It is distinct from the majority of ‘economic’ approaches, for it does not see money as an outgrowth of market ……続きを見る

Recent years have witnessed a renewed debate over the costs at which the benefits of free markets have been bought. This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalism's ……続きを見る

We have just experienced the worst financial crash the world has seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. While real economies in general did not crash as they did in the 1930s, the financial p……続きを見る

Known as the "economist's economist" for his work on creating a synthetic economic theory, Swedish economist Knut Wicksell was a controversial, but highly influential figure in modern economic thoug……続きを見る

Since 1989 the former communist countries of Eastern Europe have witnessed a profound and dramatic upheaval. The economic coherence of this region, formerly maintained through the adoption of the So……続きを見る

This book, as the title suggests, explains how General equilibrium, the dominant conceptual framework in mainstream economics, describes a perfectly impossible world. Even with its counterfactual as……続きを見る

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Am……続きを見る

First published in 1978, Professor O’Brien’s Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 is an original and pioneering exercise in comparative and quantitative economic history. It finds a contr……続きを見る

Heinrich von Stackelberg's book, "Grundlagen einer reinen Kostentheorie", published in 1932 was at the forefront of a growing conceptual revolution in the theory of the firm, a theory which appears ……続きを見る

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics. The 500th anniversary of the "discovery" of Amer……続きを見る

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics. Despite the dominating and destructive power of ……続きを見る

Financial collapse. Global recession. The revival of free-market policies. Massive and increasing inequalities. Housing bubbles and record foreclosures. Severe strain in the European Union. Emergenc……続きを見る

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics. At the end of the 20th century, public attention……続きを見る

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics. Just as the sod-busting steel plow was destructi……続きを見る

This compact volume covers the main developments in the social sciences since the Second World War. Chapters on economics, human geography, political science, psychology, social anthropology, and so……続きを見る

Written during the early 1920s, at a time when Europe was still recovering from the catastrophe of the First World War, L.V. Birck’s The Scourge of Europe examines the economic issues surrounding th……続きを見る

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a history of popular folly by Charles Mackay. The book chronicles its targets in three parts: "National Delusions," "Peculiar Follies," a……続きを見る