Rio - Economic History 1

To fully understand the Federal Reserve and its role today we need to examine its origins and the men who founded it. Using extensive archival sources, Richard Naclerio investigates the highly secre……続きを見る

À la fin du Moyen Âge, les échanges commerciaux européens se sont intensifiés en Europe et ont pris une ampleur mondiale avec l’expansion portugaise puis espagnole. Les acteurs de l’économie ont dès……続きを見る

Passionné d’Europe, d’une Europe à la grande ambition politique et humaniste, ainsi se définit Fernand Herman en 1979. Ce fils d’agriculteur hesbignon qui, déjà, allait à l’étranger enrichir son exp……続きを見る

Analyses how book-keeping and estate accounting transformed attitudes and practices in farm management over three centuries of European history. From the eighteenth until well into the twentieth cen……続きを見る

Have you ever considered what role money has played in shaping global history? The book explores the historical narratives of the world's oldest currencies that remain in circulation today. The Brit……続きを見る

Depuis que les États-Unis ont gagné la guerre froide, le capitalisme est, dit-on, la seule manière d'organiser l'économie. Fin de la discussion ? Pas si vite ! Car de quel capitalisme parle-t-on ? L……続きを見る

Showcases the latest research on Scotland's rural economy and society. Early modern Scotland was predominantly rural. Agriculture was the main occupation of most people at the time, so what happened……続きを見る

This book explores the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure in ‘left-behind places’. Such places, typically once flourishing industrial communities that have been excluded from rec……続きを見る

Departing from the category of 'peripheral socialism', this book offers an economic history of the Cuban revolution between 1959 and 2019, with a focus on the period that ranges between 2008 and 201……続きを見る

Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from being a uniform sci……続きを見る

The Soviet Union Looks Ahead (1930) is the official statement of the five-year economic plan put forward by the Soviet Union, a plan involving the radical reconstruction of the entire production sys……続きを見る

Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union (1933) is a valuable historical document that presents a verbatim report of the trials of various Soviet and British engineers and workers a……続きを見る

This book examines the history of economic thought and of political economy over the past 250 years. It presents an accessible introduction to the lives and ideas of some of economics' most prominen……続きを見る

Questa raccolta di scritti e discorsi rivolti al paese, alle istituzioni e agli studenti di università italiane offre un quadro ampio e poliedrico delle idee del presidente del Consiglio Mario Dragh……続きを見る

This book outlines the rich and complex path of Luigi Amoroso, the main exponent of the Paretian School in Italy and probably the most important Italian mathematical economist during the interwar pe……続きを見る

En la historiografía chilena y extranjera dedicada al Ciclo Salitrero (1880-1930) –el mayor proceso primario exportador vivido hasta entonces– existen visiones maniqueas sobre el rol que le cupo a d……続きを見る

Profunda reflexión de Rubén Darío en cuanto a las diferentes realidades de los países latinoamericanos de su época, tanto desde un punto de vista político como sociocultural, histórico y económico. ……続きを見る

There is a growing consensus in social sciences that there is a need for interdisciplinary research on the complexity of human behavior. At an age of crisis for both the economy and economic theory,……続きを見る

This book develops a unified treatment of the income distribution–capital–value problems with respect to actual economies, and then gradually turns to the issues of effective demand and capitalist a……続きを見る

Le differenze di sviluppo fra il Nord e il Sud del paese cominciarono ad attrarre l’attenzione di uomini di cultura, politici, economisti, storici, geografi, a partire dagli anni Settanta dell’Ottoc……続きを見る

Provides for a new interpretation of the agrarian economy in late Tudor and early modern Britain. This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the Six……続きを見る

This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912). Tawney's Agrarian Problem surveyed landlord-tenant relations in England bet……続きを見る

Inequalities in incomes and wealth have increased in advanced countries, making our economies less dynamic, our societies more unjust and our political processes less democratic. As a result, reduci……続きを見る

Awarded the Jaume Vicens Vives Prize by the Spanish Association of Economic History, this study analyses the development of the Spanish domestic market from 1650 to 1800, which transformed the count……続きを見る

Il Giappone ha dimostrato più volte nell’ultimo secolo e mezzo di essere «incredibile», stupendo il mondo intero con la sua straordinaria forza economica e militare. È riuscito a trasformarsi da pae……続きを見る

American households, businesses, and governments have always used intensive amounts of credit. The Engine of Enterprise traces the story of credit from colonial times to the present, highlighting it……続きを見る

In 1644, the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Europe fuelling an already febrile atmosphere of messi……続きを見る

Agricultural Economists in Early Twentieth-Century Italy describes how Italian agricultural economists collected information about the economy of Italy, between the Giolittian and the Fascist era. T……続きを見る

In this book, former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis examines the European debt crisis with particular reference to the case of Greece. Greece was the first Eurozone country to face an enormous ……続きを見る

This book provides for the first time the microfoundations of evolutionary economics, enabling the reader to grasp a new framework for economic analysis that is compatible with evolutionary processe……続きを見る