Economic History category: 3271 books
How British Rule Changed India’s Economy
The Paradox of the Raj
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2019
This Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of legacy it left behind. Did British rule lead to India’s impoverishment, economic disruption and famine? Under British rule, evidence suggests there were beneficial improvements, with...
by A V Rajwade
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Exchange rates, growth and crises is a collection that captures the author's ringside perspective of events as they unfolded in the large and tumultuous world of finance and economics over the past 25 years (post liberalization). The author has been a chronicler of his times for 30 years and in all...
Crucible of Resistance
Greece, the Eurozone and the World Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Syriza’s victory in the recent Greek general election has shaken the foundations of the Western political establishment and has given new hope to the millions suffering the austerity measures imposed by the European Troika. Many people are discussing how this has happened and what it is about Greece...
Op de schouders van grote en kleine reuzen
Nederlandse ondernemers tegen de achtergrond van vier eeuwen vaderlandse geschiedenis
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 22, 2018
Vier eeuwen geschiedenis van de Nederlandse ondernemer
Nederland heeft vanaf de zeventiende tot en met de twintigste eeuw veel spraakmakende en indrukwekkende ondernemingen voortgebracht, waar boeiende, verbluffende en soms komische verhalen achter schuilgaan. Die verhalen vormen de rode draad...
by James Woudhuysen
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
by Frances Cairncross, Hamish McRae
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Using highly-readable, non-technical language, the authors, both professional economists, describe all the major global economic forces at work in the 1970s and forecast the kind of future which such forces are creating (and which has indeed been the case). Inflation and recession, an energy crisis, international monetary disorder and a food crisis in the developing world are all discussed.
Cyprus and the Financial Crisis
The Controversial Bailout and What it Means for the Eurozone
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The 2012-2013 economic crisis in the Republic of Cyprus is commonly attributed to a number of factors, including the exposure of Cypriot banks to over leveraged local property companies; the knock-on effect of the Greek government debt crisis; and international credit rating agencies downgrading the...
by Robert E. Gallamore
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Overregulated and displaced by barges, trucks, and jet aviation, railroads fell into decline. Their misfortune was measured in lost market share, abandoned track, bankruptcies, and unemployment. Today, rail transportation is reviving. American Railroads tells a riveting story about how this iconic industry managed to turn itself around.
by Professor Donald M. MacRaild, Dr David E. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2000
In the nineteenth century, more so than now, work shaped people's lives. The nature and variety of their labour governed where and how they lived. The main theme of this wide-ranging analytical narrative is how the lives of the working class changed in Britain between 1830 and 1914. Few groups of workers...
Documents of the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850
Select Economic and Social Documents for Sixth forms
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This fascinating collection presents industrialization as a total historical process involving the destruction of one world simultaneously with the creation of another. Divided into two sections, it deals with elements of life such as the organization of labour, the health of the nation, rural and...
Population Malthus
His Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This is a fascinating insight into the work of one of our greatest thinkers.
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) is best remembered today for his theories on the menace of over-population; this first ever full-length biography shows him also in his role as one of the founders of classical political...
Net Loss
Internet Prophets, Private Profits, and the Costs to Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
How has the Internet been changing our lives, and how did these changes come about? Nathan Newman seeks the answers to these questions by studying the emergence of the Internet economy in Silicon Valley and the transformation of power relations it has brought about in our new information age. Net...
Selling Power
Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
We remember Thomas Edison as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, but he deserves credit for something much larger, an even more singular invention that profoundly changed the way the world works: the modern electric utility industry. Edison’s light bulb was the first to work within a system...
Freefare
Welcome to the Age of Entitlement
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Freefare represents the ultimate state of our evolving entitlement society. The book outlines how America has evolved from its initial free enterprise society into a federally regulated, over controlled, over taxed society in which everyone, regardless of social or financial status, believes they...