Economic history books

Using the life and work of Günter Henle, Volker R. Berghahn examines the postwar West German approach to labour...  Read More >>

In this deeply researched and wide-ranging intellectual history, Matthew Watson exposes the essential flaw in the...  Read More >>

""In How Economics Explains the World, Harvard-trained economist Andrew Leigh presents a new way to understand the...  Read More >>

Realta composita e complessa, il Mezzogiorno tardomedievale viene qui presentato attraverso il filtro delle scritture...  Read More >>

Il titolo I numeri parlanti, preso in prestito da uno dei saggi di Rosanna Scatamacchia qui raccolti, richiama l'essenza...  Read More >>

Joseph A. Schumpeter made multiple contributions to economic science and beyond. Drawing on this wide range of writings,...  Read More >>

It may seem at least incongruous, if not downright preposterous, to talk about a financial bubble and its inevitable...  Read More >>

This open access book examines the long-term impact of Christian missionaries in Zambia, and sub-Saharan Africa...  Read More >>

This book aims to present the observation and Interpretation for China’s economic growth since Reform and Opening-up...  Read More >>

This book explores the development of coffee substitutes in nineteenth-century Sweden. By analyzing the development...  Read More >>

Texts of circumstance, often controversial, John Locke's Several Papers Relating to Money, Interest and Trade also...  Read More >>

Thirty years of research have enabled Michel Fontenay to establish himself as one of the leading specialists on...  Read More >>

This book reassesses the actual effects of the Bubble Act, still popularly associated with the bursting of the South...  Read More >>

This book provides historical, theoretical, and biographical perspectives on two giants of contemporary economics,...  Read More >>

This book presents wide-ranging perspectives on economic inequality, as measured by differences in incomes and wealth....  Read More >>

Marxian Totality is the first book-length monograph on the Marxian concept of totality to be written from a philosophical...  Read More >>

""A look into the Golden Age of African merchants at the end of the nineteenth century, through case studies in...  Read More >>

An interpretative history of global urbanity in the 1920s and 1930s, from the vantage point of Bombay, London, and...  Read More >>

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To mark the 300th anniversary of Adam Smith’s birth, the 37th Heilbronn Symposium on Economics and the Social Sciences...  Read More >>

This book highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression ‘liberal reform’ has come to convey...  Read More >>

From the 1770s the Vienna bread market was rocked by a series of politico-economic and technological changes that...  Read More >>

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This book explores the functioning of coal markets and their influence on ports and maritime economics since the...  Read More >>

This book follows the emergence and transformation of the watch industry throughout the world from the beginning...  Read More >>