Economic history books

In American Places, Jay Shabat explains the vast constellation of forces shaping the economies of different areas...  Read More >>

This Element provides an overview of pre-modern and ancient economies of the Pacific Northwest region of North America....  Read More >>

‘Lucid and damning … an absorbing – and infuriating – tale of complicity, coverup and denial’ PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE,...  Read More >>

A história econômica é a história das formas de exploração do trabalho social, desde o escravismo antigo, passando...  Read More >>

How did ancient cities like Palmyra survive? How did their people produce and manage the resources required for...  Read More >>

How deadly germs and pandemics have shaped history - and why they are products of our success as a species. Plagues...  Read More >>

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This book, the first of two volumes, explores the impact of Jesús Huerta de Soto and his role in the modern revival...  Read More >>

Das Thema Geld drangt sich angesichts wiederkehrender Finanzkrisen und der Verschuldungsfrage beharrlich in den...  Read More >>

A myth-busting explanation of inflation, the desperate gullibility of central bankers and finance ministers--and...  Read More >>

A myth-busting explanation of inflation, the desperate gullibility of central bankers and finance ministers--and...  Read More >>

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This book, the second of two volumes, explores the impact of Jesús Huerta de Soto and his role in the modern revival...  Read More >>

Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction reframes how we think about Victorian women's changing economic...  Read More >>

"""Why have American policymaking and political institutions weakened? Well, let me offer my one-word explanation...  Read More >>

This collective book offers a panorama of the history of tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax havens from the nineteenth...  Read More >>

During the Aegean Bronze Age, the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. In The Purpled...  Read More >>

This book provides empirical evidence that answers the question, how have Zimbabweans survived? The Title Zimbos...  Read More >>

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind chart ideas about economic scarcity across centuries of European intellectual...  Read More >>

A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state’s policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government paying its...  Read More >>

This volume contains a translated copy and analysis of a report commissioned near the end of World War II by the...  Read More >>

A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity.   Creativity...  Read More >>

"Tout savoir sur les banques: le guide ultime pour maîtriser l'univers bancaireVous êtes-vous déjà demandé comment...  Read More >>

This book presents a probabilistic approach to studying the fundamental role of labor in capitalist economies and...  Read More >>

This book presents selected papers of the Euro-Asian Symposium on Economic Theory, held by the Institute of Economics...  Read More >>