KC - Economic History 1

The current crisis of the international order cannot be referred only to the liberal concept of globalisation. It is also a crisis of a certain model and ideas of order, which – as a result of the f……続きを見る

Energiewende und transition énergétique beschreiben im Wortsinn auf den ersten Blick das Gleiche. Fokussiert man sich jedoch auf die deutsche Energiewende und die transition énergétique française, s……続きを見る

The 1970s was a decisive decade in monetary history as the switch to floating exchange rates made central bankers weighty actors in economic policymaking. This paper will show that this rise in powe……続きを見る

"Savage Markets" is a bold and thought-provoking book that challenges conventional beliefs about free markets and neoliberalism. Through a powerful and insightful analysis, the author examines how n……続きを見る

A new history of crisis responses in the central bank’s formative years. The long-standing description of the Federal Reserve as a “lender of last resort” refers to the central bank’s emergency liqu……続きを見る

The wealth of Tudor England was the object of much envy to less fortunate states in Europe. The main preoccupation of Tudor governments was to siphon a proper proportion of this wealth from the hand……続きを見る

In the Beginning (1957) represents a series of lectures given by the author at Cornell University, examining the views of the Ancient Greeks on the central foundation myths of their civilisation. Fr……続きを見る

"Fortune always favors the brave!" Are you ready to master money? One of the richest and most famous men in the world, P.T. Barnum wrote, "Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent……続きを見る

This book explains how and why and how destructive continental influences destroyed Asia’s maritime supremacy. Following the series’ first book How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped ……続きを見る

Im Jahr 2022 befinden wir uns in einer Situation mit vielen Unsicherheiten für das Management von Sportbetrieben, eine Beruhigung ist nicht in Sicht. Der kompetente Umgang mit diesen Entwicklungen i……続きを見る

Local enterprise, institutional quality and strategic location were of central importance in the growth of medieval towns. This book, comprising a study of 112 English towns, emphasises these key fa……続きを見る

The Second Five-Year Plan of the Development of the U.S.S.R. (1934) contains a summary of the achievements of the Soviet Union’s First Five-Year Plan and the provisions of the Second Five-Year Plan.……続きを見る

The Libyan Oil Industry (1980) gives a narrative and analysis of the economic consequences of the discovery and production of oil in Libya, from the searches for oil by the major oil companies to th……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

The arguments advanced in the second chapter of On Liberty (1859) have become the touchstone for practically every discussion of freedom of speech, yet the broader development of John Stuart Mill's ……続きを見る

Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and……続きを見る

Discussing a rarely researched aspect of the Cold War, this volume uses new material to examine how the United States trade embargo on the Soviet Union and communist China severed relationships with……続きを見る

Over the last few decades there has been growing recognition of the importance of a peaceful and stable South China Sea for Indo-Pacific security and development, a recognition that has been underla……続きを見る

Originally published in 1990, this anthology of articles from the German financial and industrial press, translated into English for this volume, discusses the socio/politico/economic background tha……続きを見る

The decision to initiate a High Tide of agricultural co-operativisation in 1955 in China, is documented in this text. The social impact, policy conflict and leadership style of Mao is detailed, draw……続きを見る

A pronoia was a type of conditional grant from the emperor, often to soldiers, of various properties and privileges. In large measure the institution of pronoia characterized social and economic rel……続きを見る

G. K. Chesterton’s famous thesis explores the subjects of poverty, agriculture, machinery, capital gain, and concentration of wealth from an anti-capitalist viewpoint. This fascinating volume argues……続きを見る

Exploring how crises have shaped economic and social life from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises f……続きを見る

This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, appl……続きを見る

Capitalism has become 'financialized'. Since the 1970s, the swelling of financial markets and asset price bubbles has occurred alongside weaker underlying economic growth. Yet financialization was n……続きを見る

The monetary history of a country provides important insights into its economic development, as well as its political and social history. This book is the first detailed study of Iran's monetary his……続きを見る

This book celebrates the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by gathering together a century of interpretation and commentary on that piece of legislation. Opinions represented include John Bates Clark, E……続きを見る

This innovative analysis investigates a complex issue of tremendous economic and political importance: what makes some countries vulnerable to banking crises, while others emerge unscathed? Banks on……続きを見る

It may seem like a recent trend, but businesses have been practising compassionate capitalism for nearly a thousand years. Based on the newly discovered historical documents on Cambridge’s sophistic……続きを見る

One of the most important manuscripts surviving from thirteenth-century England, the corpus of documents known as the Hundred Rolls for Cambridge have been incomplete until the recent discovery of a……続きを見る