Economic History category: 3271 books
by Donald W. Katzner
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This book provides a practitioner's foundation for the process of explanatory model building, breaking down that process into five stages. Donald W. Katzner presents a concrete example with unquantified variable values to show how the five-stage procedure works. He describes what is involved in explanatory...
Pollution
Economy and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This study, originally published in 1972, examines the connections between human society and the rest of the universe that are attributable to economic activity. These include the inputs from the environment to industry, such as oxygen, used in the combustion of mineral fuels. Also included are the...
by Mark S. LeClair
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The uncovering of a great number of cartels in the industrialised world has left an unfortunate, yet significant, mark on global economic developments in recent years. Globalization has forced firms into more direct competition; the result has been global price-fixing. This situation has greatly challenged...
A Nation Transformed by Information
How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2000
This book makes the startling case that North Americans were getting on the "information highway" as early as the 1700's, and have been using it as a critical building block of their social, economic, and political world ever since. By the time of the founding of the United States, there was a postal...
The Political Economy of a Living Wage
Progressives, the New Deal, and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This book tells the story behind President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s use of the phrase "living wage" in a variety of speeches, letters, and statements, and examines the degree to which programs of the New Deal reflected the ideas of a living wage movement that existed in the US for almost...
America's Free Market Myths
Debunking Market Fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
This book describes and refutes thirteen ideas involving free market principles and the US economic system, arguing that these (mostly familiar) ideas are myths. The myths are deeply ingrained in the United States' self-image and in political discourse, and are hailed as indisputable, scientifically...
by Jan Winiecki
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe provide unique examples of large-scale relatively highly developed centrally planned economies. In the 1980s economists in both the East and West began to focus with increasingly critical attention on the economies of the Soviet Bloc, in an attempt to explain why...
by Alexander J. Field
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
by Garet Garrett
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The burden of Europe's private debt to this country is now greater than the burden of her war debt; and the war debt, with arrears of interest, is greater than it was the day the peace was signed. And it is not Europe alone. Debt was the economic terror of the world when the war ended. How to pay it...
Civil Happiness
Economics and Human Flourishing in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Economists have long laboured under the misapprehension that all humans exist as rational beings that find happiness in maximizing their personal utility. This impressive volume presents an historical review of the evolution of economic thought, from economic philosophy to contemporary mathematical...
Work and Wealth (Routledge Revivals)
A Human Valuation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
First published in 1914 and reissued with a new introduction in 1992, Work and Wealth is a seminal vision of Hobson's liberal utopian ideals, which desired to demonstrate how economic and social reform could transform existing society into one in which the majority of the population, as opposed to...
by J.A. Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
First published in 1915, Towards International Government considers the consequences of war for global diplomacy and the alliance system. Hobson argues that, to reduce armaments and the possibility of another world war, an organisational structure of international government must be put into place....
China's Lessons for India: Volume II
The Political Economy of Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book and its companion volume offer a better understanding of the lessons that Indian policymakers can learn from China’s economic experience over the last 40 years. The aim of the two books together is to evaluate China’s incremental reforms and how these reforms have impacted on the Chinese...
Interdisciplinary Studies of the Political Order
New Applications of Public Choice Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
The political process focuses on the ways that people come together to engage in collective decision making in a variety of contexts. The central elements of the political process include: the formation of rules, the subsequent interactions that take place within those rules, and the evolution of...