SJ - Economic History 1

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

Diese Studie wurde vom VDI mit dem Conrad-Matschoß-Preis 2021 ausgezeichnet. Zu Beginn der 1930er Jahre tauchten im bis dato expressionistisch geprägten deutschen Zukunftsfilm vermehrt Ingenieure au……続きを見る

Financial professionals are paid as if they were capable of “beating the market” on a regular basis. In fact, active fund managers routinely underperform low-cost index funds, and financial analysts……続きを見る

In The Financiers and the Nation (1934) Mr. Johnston – Privy Councillor – examines a dozen or so of the most spectacular of the major financial frauds permitted by Bank of England and City merchants……続きを見る

More than one hundred years have passed since, in late 1919 - a few months after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles - John Maynard Keynes published The Economic Consequences of the Peace. The a……続きを見る

This open access book uses an interdisciplinary approach that not only focuses on social organization but also analyzes how societies and ecological settings were interwoven. How did early modern in……続きを見る

An insightful and thorough exploration of the economies of Asia In Asian Economies: History, Institutions and Structure, seasoned economist and professor Jamus Jerome Lim provides a comprehensive di……続きを見る

In light of the resurgence of inflation in developed industrialised countries following a period of inordinately low inflation, this book analyses the causes and devastating effects of inflation by ……続きを見る

Spätestens mit der Wende 1989 wurde die politische, moralische und vor allem ökonomische Unterlegenheit des "real existierenden Sozialismus" unübersehbar. Nach seinem Zusammenbruch verloren auch Kar……続きを見る

First published in 1974, Authors, Publishers and Politicians describes the efforts to secure an Anglo-American copyright agreement. It explores the underlying causes of the failure of this quest, a ……続きを見る

The Colonial Office (1956) examines the organisation and work of the Office as it stood in the mid-1950s. The role of the Colonial Office had changed following the Second World War, and this book lo……続きを見る

Dieser Band bietet eine konzise, informative und weit gefächerte Einführung in die Wirtschaftsgeschichte des Mittelalters. Das Themenspektrum reicht von den christlich geprägten Gedanken zu Ökonomie……続きを見る

The central theme in the work of F.A. Hayek was the problem of order in society, and his focus was epistemological: he was concerned with the constraints on knowledge, the problems associated with i……続きを見る

Thomas Joplin (1790?1847) was an English timber merchant and banker who published his Essay on the General Principles and Present Practices of Banking in England and Scotland, which attracted consid……続きを見る

The aim of this work is to make available to English-language readers a translation of Jean-Baptiste Say’s main texts on money and banking which were not at present accessible in English. The work i……続きを見る

Whether it’s Michael Moore or the New York Times, Hollywood or academia, a growing segment in America is waging a war on capitalism. We hear that greedy plutocrats exploit the American public; that ……続きを見る

The French philosopher and economist Saint-Simon (1760–1825) propounded a new political, economic and social order in which the quest for economic efficiency and social justice led to putting the wo……続きを見る

Este libro busca recabar información sobre las crisis desde la perspectiva de Chile, considerando tres aristas fundamentales: económica, regulación y ética. Por tanto, es un esfuerzo de reflexión mu……続きを見る

Presents the latest research on the causes and consequences of British population change from the medieval period to the eve of the Industrial Revolution, in both town and countryside Population, We……続きを見る

Population, Welfare and Economic Change presents the latest research on the causes and consequences of British population change from the medieval period to the eve of the Industrial Revolution, in ……続きを見る

Over a hundred years after the first socialist revolution broke the global monopoly of capitalism, a new class of socialist-oriented socioeconomic development is coming to the fore. Capitalism is st……続きを見る

Die DDR und Polen haben von 1945 bis 1989 versucht, das kollektivistische Modernisierungsprojekt zu verwirklichen – den real existierenden Sozialismus. Das Buch vergleicht die unterschiedliche Entwi……続きを見る

Escrito para o público geral, o livro China: o socialismo do século XXI é um meticuloso trabalho teórico e estatístico de Elias Jabbour e Alberto Gabriele. A obra analisa a República Popular da Chin……続きを見る

A dive into the origins, management, and uses and misuses of sovereign debt through the ages. Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as governments responded to the Co……続きを見る

This book reconsiders the nature and formation of Asia's economic order during the 1930s and 1950s in light of the new historiographical developments in Britain and Japan. Recently several Japanese ……続きを見る

Today's trade is global. A company can choose to have its headquarters in one part of the world, its production facilities in another and sell its brands in all markets. Since the first sea-borne co……続きを見る

The First World War constitutes a point in the history of New York when its character and identity were challenged, recast and reinforced. Due to its pre-eminent position as a financial and trading ……続きを見る

After 1688, Britain underwent a revolution in public finance, and the cost of borrowing declined sharply. Leading scholars have argued that easier credit for the government, made possible by better ……続きを見る

Many economists now accept that informal institutions and culture play a crucial role in economic outcomes. Driven by the work of economists like Nobel laureates Douglass North and Gary Becker, ther……続きを見る

Surveys the contributions that economic theory has made to the often contentious debate over the government's use of its power of eminent domain, as prescribed by the Fifth Amendment. It addresses s……続きを見る