Economic History category: 3271 books
War, Power and the Economy
Mercantilism and state formation in 18th-century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
War, Power and the Economy contains a comparative history of Great Britain, France and Spain, the three rival empires of the 1700s. It explores how the states prepared for war, what kind of economic means they had, what institutional changes they implemented, and how efficient this was. As such, the...
Moralizing Capitalism
Agents, Discourses and Practices of Capitalism and Anti-Capitalism in the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2019
This book adds a crucial focus on morality to the growing literature on the history of capitalism by exploring social and cultural perspectives on the economic order that has dominated the modern world. Taking the study beyond narrow economic confines, it traces the entanglement between moral sentiments...
Prophecy, Piety, and Profits
A Conceptual and Comparative History of Islamic Economic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
This book examines, in greater depth than the existing literature, the history of Islamic economic thought. It seeks to introduce Islamic views to debates surrounding critical economic concepts, such as scarcity, wealth, poverty, charity, usury, self-interest, rationality, and markets. It does so...
by Qiang Fang, Xiaojia Hou, Sherman Xiaogang Lai
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Modern China collects essays from the scholars in their fields and examines the ongoing corruption in China by addressing this important topic from a historical perspective through a cooperative interdisciplinary research effort among Chinese-American scholars interested...
America's History of Empowering Wealth
Optimizing America Booklets, #2
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Is life getting better? At the accelerating rate of advancing technologies? Food availability, income, and life span are up for the lucky few while disease, child mortality, and violence are barely improving for the rest all across the globe. The world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries...
A Brief History of Economics
Artful Approaches to the Dismal Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Blending past and present, this brief history of economics is the perfect book for introducing students to the field.
A Brief History of Economics illustrates how the ideas of the great economists not only influenced societies but were themselves shaped by their cultural milieu. Understanding...
The United States and the Global Economy
From Bretton Woods to the Current Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
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. Emergence of China and other major players on the international economic scene. Every day, media outlets bombard...
History of Economic Theory
The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
"The History of Economic Theory" features selected writings from influential economists of the 18th and 19th centuries. Included are the prominent works of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch. The integrity of the original writings has been carefully preserved, and no attempt has been...
by James Ledbetter
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
One Nation Under Gold examines the countervailing forces that have long since divided America—whether gold should be a repository of hope, or a damaging delusion that has long since derailed the rational investor.
Worshipped by Tea Party politicians but loathed by sane economists, gold has...
Failed
What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Why did the vast majority of low- and middle-income countries suffer a prolonged economic slowdown in the last two decades of the 20th century?...
America in the Economic World
Jobs, Necessities, and Economic Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
America in the Economic World recognizes that necessities and jobs are the natural starting point for the study of economics. That leads to a review of how nations survive in the global economy, followed by a primer of basic concepts in economics and finance, and a study of American economic history....
Clashing over Commerce
A History of US Trade Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevitable, James Madison argued in The Federalist Papers,...
by Mahesh Chandra Regmi
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1999
This attempt to study Nepali economic history during the period from 1768 to 1846 may require an explanation, but hardly any apology. There has no doubt been a spurt in historical writing in Nepal in recent years. The patience and perseverance of a number of individuals in discovering and bringing to...
History of Economic Theory
The Selected Essays of T.R. Malthus, David Ricardo, Frederic Bastiat, and John Stuart Mill
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
"The History of Economic Theory" features selected essays from influential economists of the 18th and 19th centuries. Included are the prominent works of T.R. Malthus, David Ricardo, Frédéric Bastiat, and John Stuart Mill. The integrity of the original essays has been carefully preserved,...