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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Globalization and the Politics of Institutional
Book SynopsisGlobalization and the Politics of Institutional Reform in Japan illuminates Japan's contemporary and historical struggle to adjust policy and the institutional architecture of government to an evolving global order. This focused and scholarly study identifies that key to this difficulty is a structural tendency towards central political command, which reduces the country's capacity to follow a more subtle allocation of authority that ensures political leadership remains robust and non-dictatorial. Thus, Motoshi Suzuki argues that it is essential for a globalizing state to incorporate opposition parties and transgovernmental networks into policy-making processes.Providing an in-depth analysis of the theories of institutional change, this book introduces readers to a wealth of perspectives and counterarguments concerning analysis of political decision-making and policy adjustment on both the national and international scale. Placing Japanese policy reform in the global context and relating policy reform to leadership's political strategies, the author gives a detailed chronological and analytical overview of Japan's challenging institutional, political and bureaucratic transformations since the Meiji Restoration of the late nineteenth century. Analysis of globalization and policy reform in a non-liberal state, and the relationship between politicians and bureaucrats from an international perspective is included.For those interested in historical and contemporary Japanese politics from a theoretical perspective, particularly the implications of globalization and the politician-bureaucrat relationship, this is an indispensable resource.Trade Review'Suzuki illuminates the problems of globalization and associated institutional reform that have plagued historical and contemporary Japan. He focuses rightly on competition and cooperation between politicians and bureaucrats to capture the core of Japanese policy-making. His book must be read not just by scholars and students interested in Japanese political economy, but also by policy practitioners.' --Michio Muramatsu, Kyoto University, Japan'This book, by one of Japan's pre-eminent political scientists, offers a sweeping history of Japan's evolving place in the world. Contrary to the common caricature of Japan as a crafty player on the global chessboard, Suzuki describes the radical decentralization that has often plagued Japan's decision-making processes, sometimes with catastrophic consequences. International pressures have sometimes forced Japanese leaders to make important institutional and policy adjustments, but often only after Japan and other countries have borne costly consequences. Of particular interest to anyone who studies or does business with Japan will be the sections on the Japanese government's coalition building - not direction or control - after the bursting of the bubble economy in 1991, and Prime Minister Abe's attempts to build support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership over potent domestic opposition. This is an enlightening book.' --Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Yale University, US'Japanese leaders today are struggling with the Herculean task of adjusting Japan's institutions to deal with the challenges of globalization. Suzuki's book analyzes how this Japanese struggle is not new but has been playing out for a century. His analysis is a masterful overview of the complexities of balancing social and political continuities and changes as they have played out in key areas of Japan's domestic and regional politics.' --T.J. Pempel, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsContents: PART I THEORY AND HISTORY Introduction 1. Theory of Institutional Reform and Government Structure 2. Empirical Models of Government Structures and International Adjustments 3. Adjustment Struggles Under Pre-World War II International Order 4. Postwar Bureaucratic-Cabinet System and Sectoral Adjustments to the International Order of Embededd Liberalism PART II CONTEMPORARY ANALYSIS 5. Authority Reallocation Under the Neoliberal Global Order – An Overview 6. Council Politics for Regulatory Reforms on Corporate Governance and Labor Relations 7. Issue-Dimensional Politics for Trade Liberalization 8. Crisis Politics for Banking Regulation Reform 9. Political Leadership Under the Global Neoliberal Order Bibliopgraphy Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Economic and Natural Disasters since 1900: A
Book SynopsisA crisis is a period of uncertainty that may or may not lead to disaster, depending in part on the capacity of actors to make sense of what is happening and respond effectively. Disasters in different spheres occur and recur at different speeds and in idiosyncratic ways, but in essence they follow the same pattern. In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis and Eurozone upheavals this timely book argues that the disaster cycle - a framework normally used in the context of natural disasters - is equally applicable to the analysis of other types of catastrophe.Employing a modified version of the disaster cycle framework to compare and analyse a range of catastrophes in different spheres, the author draws on ideas from a variety of disciplines including economics and economic history, disaster studies, management, and political science. This unique comparative approach presents case studies of several important disasters: Hurricane Katrina, the First World War, the depression of the early 1930s, Welsh coal mining accidents, the deadly effects of smoking tobacco, and the Global Financial Crisis and Eurozone catastrophe of the early twenty first century. The author argues that economists and economic policy makers routinely misuse the term crisis to describe episodes that ought to be called disasters.This accessible and fascinating exploration will appeal to students and scholars in economic history, disaster studies, management, public policy, and related disciplines. The comparison of crisis and disaster management is also essential reading for policy makers.Trade Review‘This is a richly researched book which offers a wealth of comparison on disasters in the twentieth and twenty-?rst centuries. It is an important book for academics in the humanities and social sciences and for specialists working in disaster studies.' -- Economic History ReviewTable of ContentsContents: The Disaster Cycle 2. Hurricane Katrina: A Classic Natural Disaster 3. The First World War 4. The Great Depression 5. Mining Disasters 6. Tobacco 7. The Twin Financial Disasters of the Early Twenty-first Century Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Elgar Companion to Ronald H. Coase
Book SynopsisRonald H. Coase, one of the most innovative and provocative economists of the twentieth century, has had a lasting influence in economics, law and economics, organization theory, management and political science. In this comprehensive Companion, 31 leading economists, social scientists and legal scholars, including two Nobel Laureates, offer the first global assessment of the initial impact of Coase's work and the continuing inspiration that researchers and policy makers find in his contributions.The book presents a review of the continuing power of Coase's work, including the reshaping of public policies with particular respect to public utilities and network industries. Further chapters explore research programmes that he initiated including the concept of transaction costs and the analysis of property rights, especially in terms of the regulation of the communications industry and the creation of markets for the right to pollute. The book clearly demonstrates the originality of Coase's work and the challenge that it posed to conventional perspectives which has been a hallmark of his research throughout his life, from his initial view on the nature of the firm to his recent analysis of the development of capitalism in China. Less well-known features of Coase's research going beyond his famous papers on 'The Nature of the Firm' and 'The Problem of Social Cost' are also explored in detail.From economics to public policy, this complete and thorough assessment of Coase's vast contribution will be an invaluable reference to all those interested in the many areas influenced by this great economist.Contributors: D.W. Allen, K.J. Arrow, B. Arruñada, Y. Barzel, E. Bertrand, R.R.W. Brooks, J.N. Drobak, G.W. Evans, W. Farnsworth, J. Farrell, K. Foss, N.J. Foss, R.F. Freeland, J. Groenewegen,R. Guesnerie, F. Gul, T.W. Hazlett, P.G. Klein, G.D. Libecap, S.G. Medema, C. Ménard, M.W. Moszoro, J.H. Mulherin, J.V.C. Nye, S. Pratten, M.M. Shirley, P.T. Spiller, J. Thomas, P. de Vries, N. Wang, O.E. WilliamsonTrade Review‘These papers add up to an impressive commentary on Coase's wide-ranging contributions. All pay tribute to his work while offering a critical appraisal that suggests lines for future research.’ -- Economic AffairsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Claude Ménard and Elodie Bertrand PART I: COASE IN CONTEXT 1. Ronald Coase: The Makings of an Iconoclast Mary M. Shirley 2. Coase and the London School of Economics in the 1920s-1940s Jim Thomas 3. The Transaction Cost Economics Project: Origins, Evolution, Utilization Oliver E. Williamson PART II: FOUNDATIONS: KEY CONCEPTS 4. Coase’s Theory of the Firm: The Next Steps Kenneth J. Arrow 5. Revisiting Coase on Anticipations and the Cobweb Model George W. Evans and Roger Guesnerie 6. Coase’s Contribution to Contract Theory Douglas W. Allen and Yoram Barzel 7. Coase on Property Rights John N. Drobak 8. Coasean Bargaining to Address Environmental Externalities Gary D. Libecap 9. Coase on the Nature and Assessment of Social Institutions Stephen Pratten PART III: FIRM AND ORGANIZATION THEORY 10. The Holdup Game Richard R. W. Brooks 11. The Employment Relation and Coase’s Theory of the Firm Robert F. Freeland 12. Managerial Authority in the Coasean Firm: An Entrepreneurial Perspective Kirsten Foss, Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein 13. The Realistic Method of Ronald Coase: Lessons for Research on Mergers and Acquisitions J. Harold Mulherin 14. Ronald H. Coase and the Economics of Network Infrastructure Claude Ménard PART IV: MARKET: STRUCTURE AND REGULATION The Coase Conjecture Faruk Gul 16. What do We Really Know About Durable Goods Monopolies? The Coase Conjecture in Economics and its Relevance for the Safety Razor Industry John V.C. Nye 17. Coase and Demsetz on Property Rights: The Case of Radio Spectrum Thomas W. Hazlett 18. Coase and the Regulation of Public Utilities John Groenewegen and Piet De Vries 19. Coase and the Transaction Cost Approach to Regulation Marian W. Moszoro and Pablo T. Spiller 20. Emerging Markets: What Can We Learn from Ronald Coase Ning Wang PART V: LAW AND PROPERTY RIGHTS 21. Ronald Coase and the Legal–Economic Nexus Steven G. Medema 22. Coase and the Departure from Property Benito Arruñada 23. Coase’s Empirical Studies: The Case of the Lighthouse Elodie Bertrand 24. Some Failures of the Popular Coase Theorem Joseph Farrell 25. The Empirical Accuracy and Judicial Use of the Coase Theorem (Vel Non) Ward Farnsworth Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Crises in Economic and Social History: A
Book SynopsisExploring how crises have shaped economic and social life from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, applicable across (amongst others) the histories of agriculture, disease, finance and trade. Yet there has been little attempt to compare its use as an explanatory tool between these discrete fields of research. This volume breaks down the boundaries between traditional historical time periods and sub-disciplines of history to examine the ways in which past societies have coped with crises, and the role of crisis in generating economic and social change. Should we conceptualise a medieval agrarian or financial crisis differently from their modern counterparts? Were there similarities in how contemporaries responded to famine or outbreaks of disease? How comparable are crises within households, within institutions, or across national and international networks of trade? Contributors examine how crises have shaped economic and social life in a range of studies from the Great Depression in 1930s Latin America to the outbreak of plague in seventeenth-century central Europe, and from sheep and cattle murrain in fourteenth-century England to the Northern Rock building society collapse of 2007. A.T. BROWN is an Addison Wheeler Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Durham University. ANDY BURN is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham University. ROB DOHERTY is a doctoral candidate in history at DurhamUniversity. CONTRIBUTORS: Peter H. Bent, A.T. Brown, Andy Burn, Catherine Casson, Mark Casson, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., Rob Doherty, Josette Duncan, Matthew Hollow, Pavla Jirková, Alan Knight, John S. Lee, Cinzia Lorandini,John Martin, Ranald Michie, Anne L. Murphy, Pamela Nightingale, John Singleton, Philip Slavin, Paul WardeTrade ReviewAll scholars of environmental, public health and financial crises, modern or historical, should take a look at this book, not least for the fine introductory chapter that draws upon a wide and diverse range of reading from economics, history, sociology and philosophy to ask significant questions about current approaches to the study of crises. * CONTINUITY & CHANGE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Coping with Crisis: Understanding the Role of Crises in Economic and Social History - A.T. Brown Introduction: Coping with Crisis: Understanding the Role of Crises in Economic and Social History - Andy Burn Introduction: Coping with Crisis: Understanding the Role of Crises in Economic and Social History - Rob Doherty 'Crisis' and the Great Depression in Latin America - Alan Knight Using the Disaster Cycle in Economic and Social History - John Singleton Economic Crises in England, 1270-1520: A Statistical Approach - Mark Casson and Catherine Casson Flogging a Dead Cow: Coping with Animal Panzootic on the Eve of the Black Death - Philip Slavin Early Modern 'Resource Crisis': the Wood Shortage Debates in Europe - Paul Warde The International Crisis of 1972-7: the Neglected Agrarian Dimension - John Martin Coping with Epidemic Crises, from Antiquity to the Present - Samuel K. Cohn Plague Year 1680 in Central Europe: Using Czech Plague Registers to Monitor Epidemic - Pavla Jirkova 'Two Words...GOOD SANITATION': Colonial Medical Responses to the Cholera Epidemics of 1865 and 1888 in Malta - Josette Duncan The Impact of Crises on Credit in the Late Medieval English Economy - Pamela Nightingale Dealing with the Threat of Reform: the Bank of England in the 1780s - Anne L. Murphy Bursting the Bubble: The 2007 Northern Rock Crisis in Historical Perspective - Matthew Hollow and Ranald C Michie Crises in the Late Medieval English Cloth Trade - John S. Lee The Roots of Decline: The Tyrolean Silk Industry and the Crises of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century - Cinzia Lorandini The Stabilising Effects of the Dingley Tariff and the Recovery from the 1890s Depression in the United States - Peter H. Bent
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Charity Movements in Eighteenth-Century Ireland:
Book SynopsisRelates charity movements to religious impulse, Enlightenment 'improvement' and the fears of the Protestant ruling elite that growing social problems, unless addressed, would weaken their rule. The philanthropic impulse to engage in charitable work and to encourage economic "improvement" was sharpened in eighteenth-century Ireland as Irish Protestants became increasingly aware of the threat that social problems, such aspoverty, disease and criminality, posed to their rule. One response to this threat was the establishment of a number of voluntary societies which sought to address the different problems plaguing Ireland. This book examines a number of these voluntary societies, including those concerned with promoting education, supporting hospitals, and improving agriculture and manufacturing. It shows how these movements differed from earlier efforts in organisation, method and aims and demonstrates the connection between religiously motivated charities, Enlightenment-inspired scientific societies and the Irish government. It pays particular attention to the role of women, both as supporters of,and objects of, charity. It argues that, together, these movements aspired to purge Ireland of what they saw as destabilising factors that weakened the Anglo-Irish state. Improvers reflected Enlightenment-era optimism about the perfectibility of society and saw themselves as serving the interests and aspirations of the nation. Karen Sonnelitter is Assistant Professor of History at Siena College, Loudonville, New York. She completed her doctorate at Purdue University.Trade Review[An] excellent, multi-layered study of philanthropic movements. * AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES *A useful and engaging attempt to develop an interpretation that embraces the improving and charitable impulses of the 18th century. * REVIEWS IN HISTORY *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ireland in the Eighteenth Century: The Case for Improvement 'The Worst in Christendom': The Church of Ireland and Improvement Education and Charity: The Incorporated Society for Promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland To Cure and Relieve: Voluntary Hospitals in Eighteenth-Century Dublin Improvement as Philanthropy: The Dublin Society 'The Benevolent Sympathies of the Female Heart': Women, Improvement, and the Work of the Lady Arbella Denny National and Local Government and Improvement Conclusion: Philanthropy and Improvement in the Eighteenth-Century and Beyond
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century
Book SynopsisDiscusses the complexities of a trading network in this period, outling commodity chains, links between colonies and colonial centres, and tensions between local polities and competing empires. This book explores European mercantile activity in Southeast Asia at a time when trade in this part of the world was being transformed and extended much more widely. Based on extensive original research including in newly discovered archives, the book reveals, through the study of one particular merchant and his extensive network, how trade in the region worked. It outlines the activities of Gillian Maclaine, a young Scottish "adventurer" (his word) who came to the region in about 1816 and established an enduring business in Batavia (present day Jakarta), trading in cotton goods and coffee, and later in opium. It examines the multi-faceted nature of such a trading network, including the wide scope of commodity chains, the associated link between colony and colonial metropole, and the many tensions between colonial powers, in this case the Dutch and the British, and with local polities. The book demonstratesthat Southeast Asian maritime trade was every bit as important to European worldwide commercial networks as the trade with India and China, which have been much more extensively studied, and it contributes to current scholarly debates about western imperialism, colonialism and the nature of empire. G. Roger Knight is an Associate Professor in the School of History and Politics in the University of Adelaide. He has published three previous books and numerous journal articles on the economic and social history of Southeast Asia.Trade ReviewAn elegantly written, handsomely produced volume [that] deserves a wide readership amongst business, imperial, global and Asian historians. * HISTORY *[An] empirically rich and analytically nuanced study [and] a valuable read for anyone who is interested in global histories of material circulation and exchange. * JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA *Knight offers an entrepreneur with real flesh and blood, whose fortunes were shaped as much by deep social and psychological motivations, religious and ethnic affiliations, personal relationships, and even marriage, as they were by dry, rational calculation. Knight makes business history accessible and enjoyable for audiences frequently daunted by the subject. * JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: A SCOTS ÉMIGRÉ, IMPERIAL SYSTEMS AND GLOBAL COMMODITIES MACLAINE'S 'APPRENTICESHIP': THE CITY OF LONDON AND THE COTTON TRADE WITH ASIA, 1816-1820 A 'SCOTCH ADVENTURER': BATAVIA, COFFEE AND COLONIAL WARS, 1820-1827 THE PIVOTAL YEARS: 'MACLAINE WATSON', TREACHEROUS CHAINS, SICKNESS AND DEBT, 1827-1832 THE NETWORK TAKES SHAPE: CONNECTIONS, BUSINESS AND ASSOCIATES, 1832-1840 CONCLUSION: MACLAINE'S LEGACY, COMMODITIES AND TRADE ON A COLONIAL 'PERIPHERY', 1840-1964 Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Later Medieval Inquisitions Post Mortem:
Book SynopsisEssays exploring the potential of the Inquisitions post mortem to shed important new light on the medieval world. The Inquisitions post mortem (IPMs) are a truly wonderful source for many different aspects of late medieval countryside and rural life. They have recently been made digitally accessible and interrogatable by the Mappingthe Medieval Countryside project, and the first fruits of these developments are presented here. The chapters examine IPMs in connection with the landscape and topography of England, in particular markets and fairs and mills;and consider the utility of proofs of age for everyday life on such topics as the Church, retaining, and the wine trade. MICHAEL HICKS is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Contributors: Katie A. Clarke, William S. Deller, Paul Dryburgh, Christopher Dyer, Janette Garrett, Michael Hicks, Matthew Holford, Gordon McKelvie, Stephen Mileson, Simon Payling, Matthew Tompkins, Jennifer Ward.Trade ReviewIt is a joy to see these documents, so long the preserve of antiquaries, used to illuminate the lives not of their subjects but of the people among whom they lived.... [It] looks set to transform the way we think about and use inquisitions post mortem and proofs of age. * ARCHIVES & RECORDS *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Michael Hicks Records of an Imperial Administration? IPMs in Scotland and Calais - Gordon McKelvie, Reviews Editor Inquisitions Post Mortem in Medieval Ireland - Paul Dryburgh The Court of the Honour of Clare, 1308-1360: Feudal Incidents and Inquisitions - Jennifer C Ward Landscape, Farming and Society in an English Region: the Inquisitions Post Mortem for the West Midlands, 1250-1509 - Christopher Dyer Beyond the Dots: Mapping Meaning in the Later Medieval Landscape - Stephen Mileson Fairs and Markets in the Inquisitions Post Mortem - Matthew Holford The Structure of the Milling Industry 1427-37 - Matthew Tompkins Proofs of Age 1246 to 1430: their Nature, Veracity and Use as Sources - William Deller What went on in the Medieval Parish Church 1377-1447, with particular reference to Churching - Katie Clarke Retainers, Monks and Wine: Three Insights into Everyday Life - Michael Hicks The Administration and Efficiency of the Inquisitions Post Mortem Process. A Case Study of Northumberland - Janette Garrett Late Medieval Land Disputes and the Manipulation of the Inquisitions Post Mortem - Simon J. Payling
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Economy and Culture in North-East England,
Book SynopsisA rich picture of the complexities of early industrial development in the north-east of England. Historians increasingly emphasise that, in order to understand the industrial revolution fully as an economic, social and political process, the subject is best viewed from a regional, rather than a national, perspective. This book applies such an approach to the north-east of England in the early modern period, when, it is argued, the region experienced an early industrial revolution. Putting forward several new research findings and much new thinking, and covering many aspects of the economy of north-east England in the period, the book shows how rich and varied it was, and how vital the interplay of social, political and cultural forces was for industrial development. The book demonstrates that the economy of north-east England was not dominated by coal alone, and that previous historians' focus on 'the working class' misrepresents the full complexities of society in the period. Overall, the book has much to offer economic and social historians and historians of regional development generally, not just those interested in north-east England. ADRIAN GREEN is Lecturer in History at Durham University. He is co-editor ofRegional Identities in North-East England, 1300-2000 (The Boydell Press, 2007). BARBARA CROSBIE is Assistant Professor in History at Durham University, and is completing a study of The Rising Generations: AgeRelations and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century England. Contributors: A. T. BROWN, JOHN BROWN, ANDY BURN, BARBARA CROSBIE, ADRIAN GREEN , MATTHEW D. GREENHALL, LINDSAY HOUPT-VARNER, GWENDA MORGAN, PETER RUSHTON, LEONA SKELTON, PETER D. WRIGHT, KEITH WRIGHTSONTrade ReviewValuable to scholars of early modernEngland for a number of reasons. Most importantly, it offers a deeper understanding of thecultural implications of economic transformation in the region through deploying a range of methodological approaches and innovations. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *A fine collection [that] demonstrates the merit of examining large-scale, national developments through a regional lens, and for this it must be commended. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Ideal for any family historian wanting to get an idea of what life was like for their North-Eastern forebears, or the academic looking to start research into the North-East's economy or culture during this time period. * FACHRS NEWSLETTER *The book's overall breadth of scope has been deftly edited together through both impressively thorough chapter cross-referencing and a strong introduction which connects the dots into a compellingly contoured map. It is a valuable work. * HEXHAM LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY NEWSLETTER *Table of ContentsForeword - Keith Wrightson Introduction - Adrian Green and Barbara Crosbie Church Leaseholders on Durham Cathedral's Estate, 1540-1640: The Rise of a Rural Elite? - A.T. Brown Durham Ox: Commercial Agriculture in North-East England, 1600-1800 - Adrian Green Fluctuating Fortunes: The Bowes Family and Lead Mining Concessions, 1550-1720 - John Brown Material Matters: Improving Berwick upon Tweed's Urban Environment, 1551-1603 - Leona Skelton Work before Play: The Occupational Structure of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1600-1710 - Andy Burn Maintaining Moral Integrity: The Economic and Cultural Relationships of Quakers in North-East England, 1653-1700 - Lindsay Houpt-Varner Shipping on the Tyne: The Growth and Diversification of Seaborne Trade in the Eighteenth Century - Peter Wright From Carboniferous Capitalism to Complementary Commerce: Coastal and Overland Trade between North-East England and Scotland, 1580-1750 - Matthew Greenhall Provincial Purveyors of Culture: The Print Trade in Eighteenth-Century Newcastle upon Tyne - Barbara Crosbie Parish, River, Region and Nation: Networks of Power in Eighteenth-Century Wearside - Gwenda Morgan Parish, River, Region and Nation: Networks of Power in Eighteenth-Century Wearside - Peter Rushton Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd People, Places and Business Cultures: Essays in
Book SynopsisInspired by the work and legacy of Francesca Carnevali, this collection brings together new research into nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and European economic history, socio-cultural history and business history. This collection brings together new research into nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and European economic history, socio-cultural history and business history. It is inspired by the work and legacy of Francesca Carnevali who, throughout her career, encouraged a lively dialogue between these different disciplines. The book offers innovative views and perspectives on key debates and emphasises the connections between economic environments and wider social and cultural elements. It also considers methodological issues and emerging approaches in economic history. Topics include banks and business finance in the nineteenth century, mass-market retailing and class demarcations, economic microhistory, and comparative history and capitalism. Economic, business, social and cultural historians alike will find it of interest. PAOLO DI MARTINO is Senior Lecturer in International Business History at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. ANDREW POPP is Professor of Business History at the University of Liverpool. PETER SCOTT is Professor of International Business History at the University of Reading's Henley Business School and Director of Henley's Centre for International Business History. CONTRIBUTORS: Andrea Colli, Paolo Di Martino, Leslie Hannah, Matthew Hilton, Ken Lipartito, Lucy Newton, Andrew Popp, Peter Scott, Anna Spadavecchia, James Walker, Chris WickhamTrade ReviewThis collection of highly challenging work by a much-respected group of historians will become a standard source illustrating the need for a deep reappraisal o economic history methodology, building effectively and with some flair on Dr Carnevali's contributions to the literature. There can be no more fitting tribute. * ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW *Table of ContentsEditors' Introduction: Economic History "as if People Mattered" - Paolo Di Martino and Peter Scott and Andrew Popp Politics, Society and Culture in the World of Production: Some Reflections on Francesca Carnevali's Legacy - Paolo Di Martino Custom and Spectacle: The Public Staging of Business Life - Andrew Popp The Political Economy of Financing Italian Small Businesses, 1950-1990s - Alberto Rinaldi and Anna Spadavecchia Banks and Business Finance in Britain before 1914: A Comparative Evaluation - Leslie Hannah Large-Scale Retailing, Mass Market Strategies and the Blurring of Class Demarcations in Inter-War Britain - Peter Scott Large-Scale Retailing, Mass Market Strategies and the Blurring of Class Demarcations in Inter-War Britain - James T. Walker 'Made in England': Making and Selling the Piano, 1851-1914 - Lucy Newton Twentieth-Century British History: Perspectives, Trajectories and some Thoughts on a Revised Textbook - Matthew Hilton From Social Capital to Social Assemblage - Ken Lipartito Economic History and Microhistory - Chris Wickham Europe's Difference and Comparative History: Searching for European Capitalism - Andrea Colli Editors' Conclusion - Paolo Di Martino and Peter Scott and Andrew Popp Appendix: Bibliography of Francesca Carnevali's Published Work Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The English East India Company's Silk Enterprise
Book SynopsisThis book examines the silk-processing activities of the English East India Company in Bengal. This book examines the silk-processing activities of the English East India Company in Bengal and presents the Company as a manufacturer rather than a trading body or political agent. Silk was one of the first globally traded commodities; its luxury status and potential to create tax revenues and employ the poor gave it a strategic importance in many economies in Eurasia. The silk industry was also an important sector in Britain; yet, as raw silk could notbe produced domestically, the British government encouraged companies to source supplies from its colonies and the territories under its influence. Such projects proved to be challenging; the most successful was the English EastIndia Company's venture in Bengal, where the Company invested over 1 million into developing raw silk production to meet the demands of British weavers. A key component was the transfer of silk technologies from the West to the East - one of the first in this direction rather than vice versa. The outcome of this enterprise was influenced by the business and management capacities of the Company and by British and, eventually, imperial policies, with serious consequences for the Indian economy. The book ultimately presents a case of manufacturing failure, but one resulting from British imperial policies rather than colonial economies. KAROLINA HUTKOVÁ is an LSE Fellow in Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science.Trade Review[A] welcome addition to our understanding of technology transfer in colonial context and its wider consequences on the colony and the metropole. * TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE *[T]he present book is a welcome addition to the literature. Although the title highlights a narrow segment of the industry, it provides an overall impression of the contemporary global industry. * EH.NET *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Companies, Political Economy and the Great Divergence Early Modern Silk Industry, Trade and Mercantilism Empire, the English East India Company and Bengal Raw Silk Bengal, Piedmont and the English East India Company The Bengal Silk Industry and the English East India Company Filatures and Performance in the Bengal Silk Industry The Bengal Silk Industry and British Laissez-faire Policies Bengal Raw Silk and British Demand in the Nineteenth Century Conclusion Appendix A: Description of the Piedmontese Reeling Machine by Dionysius Lardner Appendix B: Average Prices of Bengal Raw Silk on the British Market according to the Type of the Silk, 1796-1856 Appendix C: Components of the EEIC's Business Model Appendix D: Returns to Investment Analysis Appendix E: Comparison of Manufacturing Costs at the EEIC's Experimental Filature and Common Filature in its Vicinity, 1832 Appendix F: Mechanisation of Silk Throwing in England, 1856 Appendix G: Types of Silkworks Reared in Bengal Silk Districts, 1818 Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd British Catholic Merchants in the Commercial Age:
Book SynopsisA rich picture of commercial life among the British Catholic merchants operating in the Atlantic and Mediterranean at the end of the Stuart era. British Catholic merchants in the long eighteenth century occupied an ambiguous social space. On the one hand, their religion made them marginal and suspect figures in a nation increasingly defining itself by its Protestantism against the Catholic powers of Europe. On the other, their Catholicism, particularly as national rivalries erupted into outright war, afforded them access to markets and contacts overseas which their Protestant competitors found it increasingly difficult to reach. Drawing on extensive original research on the business papers of one prominent Catholic merchant family, the Aylwards, Pizzoni maps a complex network of merchants emanating from trading housesin London, Cadiz and St Malo and linking Britain and Ireland, continental Europe, the Levant and colonial America. She reveals the high level of cooperation between these Catholic houses and their Protestant trading partners - a cooperation which seems to have overridden even such political perils as the Jacobite rebellion - and shows the increasing role played by smuggling and privateering in keeping the wheels of legitimate commerce turning in time of war. A final chapter looks particularly at the business activities of Roman Catholic women, who mostly inherited their husbands' businesses but in many cases developed and expanded them through new activities and investments. This is a rich picture of commercial life in a time of shifting political and religious attitudes when the pressures of mercantilism led to de facto economic integration for the successful Catholic merchant class and opened up theroad which would lead to emancipation in the next century.Trade ReviewThoughtful and well-researched * HISTORY *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Religion, Trade and National Identity: A Review Catholic Merchants in Anglo-Spanish Trade, 1670-1687 British Catholic Merchants in St Malo during the Glorious Revolution and the Nine Years War, 1688-1698 British Catholic Merchants in London and their Trading Strategies during the first years of the War of the Spanish Succession, 1698-1705 Catholic Merchants and their Inter-Imperial Networks Catholic Women in the Mercantile Community: a Female Epilogue? Conclusion Appendix Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Globalized Peripheries: Central Europe and the
Book SynopsisGlobalized Peripheries examines the commodity flows and financial ties within Central and Eastern Europe in order to situate these regions as important contributors to Atlantic trade networks. The early modern Atlantic world, with its flows of bullion, of free and unfree labourers, of colonial produce and of manufactures from Europe and Asia, with mercantile networks and rent-seeking capital, has to date been described almost entirely as the preserve of the Western sea powers. More recent scholarship has rediscovered the dense entanglements with Central and Eastern Europe. Globalized Peripheries goes further by looking beyond slavery and American plantations. Contributions look at the trading practices and networks of merchants established in Central and Eastern Europe, investigate commodity flows between these regions and the Atlantic world, and explore the production of export commodities, two-way migration as well as financial ties. The volume uncovers new economic and financial connections between Prussia, the Habsburg Empire, Russia, as well as northern and western Germany with the Atlantic world. Its period coverage connects the end of the early modern world with the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Table of ContentsConstructing Atlantic Peripheries: A Critical View of the Historiography - Jutta Wimmler and Klaus Weber Did Prussia have an Atlantic History? The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania, the French Colonization of Guiana, and Climates in the Caribbean, c. 1760s-1780s - Bernhard Struck A Fierce Competition! Silesian Linens and Indian Cottons on the West African Coast in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries - Anka Steffen Prussia's New Gate to the World: Stettin's Overseas Imports 1720-1770 and Prussia's Rise to Power - Jutta Wimmler Luxuries from the Periphery: The Global Dimensions of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Rhubarb Trade - Friederike Gehrmann Atlantic Sugar and Central Europe: Sugar Importers in Hamburg and their Trade with Bordeaux and Lisbon, 1733-1798 - Torsten dos Santos Arnold A Gateway to the Spanish Atlantic? The Habsburg Port City of Trieste as Intermediary in Commodity Flows between the Habsburg Monarchy and Spain in the Eighteenth Century - Klemens Kaps A Cartel on the Periphery. Wupper Valley Merchants and their Strategies in Atlantic Trade (1790s-1820s) - Anne Sophie Overkamp Linen and Merchants from the Duchy of Berg, Lower Saxony and Westphalia and their Global Trade in Eighteenth-Century London - Margrit Schulte Beerbühl Ambiguous Passages: Non-Europeans Brought to Europe by the Moravian Brethren during the Eighteenth Century - Josef Köstlbauer German Emigrants as a Commodity in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World - Alexandra Gittermann Reorienting Atlantic World Financial Capitalism: America and the German States - David K. Thomson Afterword - Göran Rydén
£23.75
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Financing Cotton: British Industrial Growth and
Book SynopsisThis book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry, long a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy, for the first time. The cotton and textile industry, at the centre of the industrial revolution, has long been a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy. This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry for the first time. Using a unique underlying data-set drawn from financial business records of over 100 cotton and textile-manufacturing firms based in Lancashire, and ranging from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first century, Financing Cotton analyses the dynamics of industrial capitalism by uncovering the interaction between financial systems and technological development and innovation. It offers new perspectives on business practices and their evolution, as well as decisions taken by entrepreneurs, managers and employees. The book broadly investigates five questions: how and why were individual firms profitable and what happened to these profits; how did the firms' financial structure and performance influence their attitudes to employment regulation; what were the effects of financial networks and institutions on the characteristics of the first and second phase of industrialisation; how did the financial system enable or stifle entrepreneurship and investment in new technology and, finally, why did consolidation and industrial restructuring offer survival options for some firms, but not for others?Table of ContentsIntroduction Industrialization and capital formation Industrialization and profitability The Factory Act debates: Financial Perspectives Industrial demoncracy and co-operative finance Industry growth and financial networks Entrepreneurs, technology and industrial organization Financial speculation, restructuring, and survival Epilogue Bibliography Appendices
£23.74
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Register of the Goldsmiths' Company: Deeds
Book SynopsisThis three-volume edition provides translations of the Goldsmiths' Company Register of Deeds with full explicatory annotation, and with a clear introduction to both the manuscript and the legal texts contained in it. The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, commonly known as the Goldsmiths' Company, is one of the twelve Great Livery Companies of the City of London. This three-volume edition provides translations of the company's Register of Deeds with full explicatory annotation and with a clear introduction to both the manuscript and the legal texts contained within. Additionally, the volumes contain detailed name and subject indexes. The company's Register of Deeds has never been fully utilised by historians, but it contains a record copy made from the fifteenth century onwards of the original deeds of the company's acquisitions of property from the reign of King Richard I to the seventeenth century. These deeds reveal much about the precise location of properties and their inhabitants. Wills, often appearing in the Register, help to piece together a social history of the time. Charitable purposes were often the reason for monies or property bequeathed to the Goldsmiths, sometimes of an educational nature, or of almsgiving to the poor, or for the training and support of young goldsmiths and silversmiths. Many documents also concern women, either acting solely in their own name or jointly with a husband, sometimes also appearing as daughters or sisters, providing evidence regarding their legal position during the medieval and early modern period. The editing and translation of these documents (from Latin and French into modern-day English) will be of great use to historians interested in the buildings of medieval and Tudor London and their use as personal or business premises. But beyond these obvious confines, these so far hidden sources will help to rewrite a social, legal, and economic history of medieval and Tudor London. SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE: £395/$575. Rises to full price £450/$650 on 1st January 2023.Table of ContentsVolume I: Introduction Glossary Appendices 1 The Register's own List of its Contents, ff. 1r-8r, ff. 189r-189v, f. 198r 2 The Ornaments of John Hiltoft's Chantry at St Paul's, f. 8v 3 A Set of Statutes of the City of London, ff. 198v-199v 4 Some Early Documents Including Ordinances, ff. 374r-379r 5 A Wager of 1464-65, ff. 380r-380v 6 A List of Sheriffs, Wardens and Mayors of London, 1189 to 1596-97, ff. 393r-400r 7 The 1571 Grant of Arms to the Goldsmiths' Company, f. 400v Bibliography Name Index Subject and Place Index Volume II: Text Volume III: Translation
£405.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Real Agricultural Revolution: The
Book SynopsisAn investigation into farming practices throughout a period of seismic change. WINNER of the British Agricultural History Society's 2022 Thirsk Prize WINNER of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award "This meticulously researched book gives a detailed and authoritative history of agricultural change in the second half of the twentieth century. The book skilfully weaves together the hitherto underexplored individual returns of the Farm Management Survey with oral histories of the farmers who enacted change on the ground to offer an incisive account of the complex technological, political and cultural developments which gave rise to some of the greatest changes in English farming history. It will stand as the key reference point for those with an interest in the history of agricultural change in Britain." Professor Mark Riley, University of Liverpool At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 British agriculture was largely powered by the muscles of men, women, and horses, and used mostly nineteenth-century technology to produce less than half of the country's temperate food. By 1985, less land and far fewer people were involved in farming, the power sources and technologies had been completely transformed, and the output of the country's agriculture had more than doubled. This is the story of the national farm, reflecting the efforts and experiences of 200,000 or so farmers and their families, together with the people they employed. But it is not the story of any individual one of them. We know too little about change at the individual farm level, although what happened varied considerably between farms and between different technologies. Based on an improbably-surviving archive of Farm Management Survey accounts, supported by oral histories from some of the farmers involved, this book explores the links between the production of new technologies, their transmission through knowledge networks, and their reception on individual farms. It contests the idea that rapid adoption of technology was inevitable, and reveals the unevenness, variability and complexity that lay beneath the smooth surface of the official statistics.Trade Review[An] excellent and coherent volume. [...] Highly recommended. -- CHOICEThis book does a wonderful job of combining historical statistics with personal recollections to create a clear and compelling case for the character of technological changes in English agriculture. [...] The authors have given us an excellent rebuttal to technological determinism, and raised a number of very important questions for other scholars to consider in their assessments of modernization. -- HISTORIA AGRARIAThe book is fascinating...for the illustration and illuminating details, both of national conditions and trends and more so from individual stories and responses. * JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS *This study sets the individual stories against the national statistics, and in doing so provides a framework for future work -- Nicola Verdon * Family & Community History *Table of Contents1 Introduction: Exploring Agricultural Change 2 The Organisation of Agricultural Science, 1935-85 3 Knowledge Networks in UK farming 1935-85 4 Agricultural Policy 1939-85 5 Dairy Farming 6 Land and Capital 7 Labour and Machinery 8 Specialisation and Expansion 9 The Declining Enterprises: Pigs and Poultry 10 Conclusions Bibliography Index
£76.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The English and French Navies, 1500-1650:
Book SynopsisChallenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England. This book traces the advances and deterioration of the early modern English and French sea forces and relates these changes to concurrent developments within the respective states. Based on extensive original research in correspondence and memoirs, official reports and accounts, receipts of the exchequer and inventories in both France, where the sources are disparate and dispersed, and England, the book explores the rise of both kingdoms' naval resources from the early sixteenth to the mid seventeenth centuries. As a comparative study, it shows that, in sharing the Channel and with both countries increasing their involvement in maritime affairs, English and French naval expansion was intertwined. Directly and indirectly, the two kingdoms influenced their neighbours' sea programmes. The book first examines the administrative transformations of both navies, then goes on to discuss fiscal and technological change, and finally assesses the material expansion of the respective fleets. In so doing it demonstrates the close relationship between naval power and state strength in early modern Europe. One important argument challenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England.Trade ReviewThis book is a significant and thought-provoking study of the English and French navies of this period, and an important contribution to European naval history. * GLOBAL MARITIME HISTORY REVIEW *Redding has opened new frontiers in the administrative and financial histories of two early modern navies. He has advanced our understanding of the complex relationship between the growth of the state and the deployment of naval power. * H-FRANCE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A History of English and French Naval Interaction 1. Senior Admiralty 2. Naval Administration 3. Funding the Fleet 4. Warship Design and Experimentation 5. Royal and Private Armed Sea Forces 6. Navies Transformed Appendices Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Family Firms in Postwar Britain and Germany:
Book SynopsisExamines the culture and conduct of six small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in England and West Germany from 1945 to the late-1970s, drawing on numerous archives in Germany and Britain. This is the first book length study that examines the detailed histories of SMEs in a comparative, transnational manner. Emerging from this study is an evaluation of German and British varieties of capitalism in action, showing that they were not fixed or static, but rather have changed considerably as they evolved over time. The German companies studied formed part of the Mittelstand, the family-owned sector which is unique to German-speaking countries. This book explores whether the principles of a close identification with the surrounding region and a patriarchal culture within a 'family' atmosphere were adopted in practice then, and whether they are still applicable today. Paulson compares the Mittelstand to British SMEs in order to understand how their approach differed from that of their German counterparts. For both countries, the 'ecosystem' which surrounded businesses is examined, paying particular attention to funding and vocational education. The book concludes that the potential for a British Mittelstand existed, but that British companies were often less well managed and had to operate within a less supportive external environment than that which favoured the Mittelstand. Historical lessons learned from the management of these companies still resonate today, and can help us to understand contemporary differences in business performance. This book will therefore be of interest to scholars and students of twentieth-century business and economic history, as well as management studies.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction PART ONE: Operating Contexts Prologue Chapter 2: Culture, Community, and Continuity Chapter 3: Banking Chapter 4: Recruitment and Training PART TWO: Company Case Studies Prologue Chapter 5: Chr. Wandel KG, Reutlingen Chapter 6: Kenrick & Jefferson Ltd., West Bromwich Chapter 7: Julius Schneider GmbH & Co. KG, Ludwigsburg Chapter 8: Braithwaite & Co. (Engineers) Ltd., West Bromwich Chapter 9: RECARO GmbH & Co., Stuttgart Chapter 10: Jensen Motors Ltd., West Bromwich Chapter 11: Conclusion - A Better Way of Doing Business? Bibliography Index
£24.99
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe: The Coercion
Book SynopsisExplores the variety of legal and regulatory regimes that existed in Western Europe to control labour and how workers experienced those controls. Many economic historians have assumed that labour in Western Europe was 'free' after the end of serfdom in the fifteenth century. These assumptions are increasingly being questioned and labour laws have been identified as creating significant restrictions on workers' freedom. This collection is the first book to look at labour laws across Western Europe from a longer-term perspective. It is interdisciplinary in nature bringing together studies in social, political, economic and legal history. Elements of labour legislation appeared before the Black Death, but were strengthened afterwards particularly in places and periods where labour became scarce. The collection focuses on the rural economy in the late medieval and early modern period. It provides a series of studies which introduce a range of approaches to labour regulation and the very idea of labour across Europe. Uniquely, the collection offers observations on the impact of labour laws on everyday social relations. Attempts to regulate work and labour varied widely: in places they amounted to wishful thinking on the part of the regional authorities, whereas elsewhere they could impose severe limitations on individual freedoms. Contributors: Davide Cristoferi, Theresa Johnsson, Thijs Lambrecht, Charmian Mansell, Francine Michaud, Hanne Østhus, Raffaella Sarti, Carolina Uppenberg and Jane Whittle.Trade ReviewMakes clear that a better understanding of the developing ideas and practices in Europe before the sixteenth century will also lead to a better understanding of the slave trade. It invites new questions about self-representations of the organization of labor within Europe over a longer period. This makes it an important book. Original Dutch: Het maakt duidelijk dat een beter begrip van de zich ontwikkelende ideeën en praktijken in Europa vóór de zestiende eeuw ook tot meer inzicht zal leiden in de door slavenhandel. Het nodigt ook uit tot het stellen van nieuwe vragen over zelfrepresentaties van de organisatie van arbeid binnen Europa over een langere periode. Daarmee is het een belangrijk boek. * TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GESCHIEDENIS *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Towards a Comparative History of Europe's Labour Laws c.1350-1850 Thijs Lambrecht and Jane Whittle Part I: Regulating Agricultural Workers c.1350-1600 1. Attitudes to Wage Labour in English Labour Legislation, 1349-1601 Jane Whittle 2. Agricultural Workers and their Contractual Terms of Employment in Marseille, 1349-1400 Francine Michaud 3. The Ties that Bind: Mezzadria and Labour Regulations after the Black Death in Florence and Siena, 1348-c.1500 Davide Cristoferi Part II: The Regulation and Classification of Labour in Early Modern Europe 4. Slaves, Servants and Other Dependent People: Early Modern Classifications and Western Europe's Self-Representation Raffaella Sarti 5. The Servant, the Law and the State: Servant Law in Denmark-Norway, c.1600-1800 Hanne Østhus 6. Labour Legislation in the Southern Low Countries, c.1600 - c.1820 Thijs Lambrecht 7. Dimensions of Free and Unfree Labour in the Swedish Servant Acts, 1664-1858 Carolina Uppenberg Part III: The Experience of Regulation 8. Objecting to Youth: Popular Attitudes to Service as a Form of Social and Economic Control in England, 1564-1641 Charmian Mansell 9. Exposed Lives: Compulsory Service and 'Vagrancy' Practices in Sweden in the 1830s Theresa Johnsson 10. The Moral Economy of Compulsory Service: Labour Regulations in Law and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Iceland Vilhelm Vilhelmsson Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Eurozone Dystopia: Groupthink and Denial on a
Book SynopsisEurozone Dystopia traces the origin of the Eurozone and shows how the historical Franco-German rivalry combined with the growing dominance of neo-liberal economic thinking to create a monetary system that was deeply flawed and destined to fail. William Mitchell argues that the political class in Europe is trapped in a destructive groupthink. Based on a flawed understanding of macroeconomic fundamentals, groupthink extols the virtues of the erroneous concept of the self-regulating free market and prevents Europe from seeing its own policy failures. As a result, millions are unemployed, with imperiled member states caught in a cycle of persistent stagnation and rising social instability.Providing a detailed historical analysis of the evolution of the Eurozone and its failings from the 1940s to the present day, the book argues that the Eurozone lacks the necessary monetary architecture, particularly the existence of a federal fiscal function which could have resolved the economic crisis quickly. The author examines the options available to Europe and concludes that an orderly abandonment of the euro and a return to national currencies is the superior option available. The justification for this conclusion is exhaustively argued within a Modern Monetary Theory framework.This thoughtful and accessible account of Europe's economic woes will appeal to all those who are seeking an explanation for the crisis and are receptive to sensible and credible alternatives to the current scenario.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction PART I THE EARLY YEARS 2. Early Attempts at Monetary Union and the Hague Summit 3. The Werner Report and the Collapse of Bretton Woods 4. The ‘Snake in the Tunnel’ Reappears 5. Monetarism Arrives Amidst Currency Turmoil 6. The Delors Report 7. Onward to Maastricht 8. The Maastricht Treaty 9. Converging to Crisis and Austerity 10. The Ideological Straitjacket 11. The Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) 12. The Convergence Farce: Smokescreens and Denial PART II THE PATH TO CRISIS 13. The First Few Years: Smug Self Congratulation and Mass Delusion 14. The 2003 Fiscal Crisis 15. The German “Jobwunder” 16. European Groupthink: Denial on a Grand Scale PART III THE OPTIONS FOR EUROPE 17. A Monetary Framework for Fiscal Policy Activism 18. Framing the Debate - Two Alternative Visions of the Economy 19. The Basic Principles of Functional Finance 20. The Federal Solution 21. Overt Monetary Financing 22. Abandoning the Euro 23. Employment Guarantees References Index
£145.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Sports Through the Lens of Economic History
Book SynopsisFrom professional team sports to international events such as the Olympics and Tour de France, the modern sports industry continues to attract a large number of spectators and participants. This book, edited by John K. Wilson and Richard Pomfret, analyzes the economic evolution of sports over the last 150 years, from a pastime activity to a big business enterprise. It begins at a time when entrepreneurs and players first started making money from professional sports leagues, through to the impact of radio and TV in the twentieth century, and on to the present day. Using examples from sports across the world, the chapters cover such important issues as player migration, labor market restrictions, stadium arrangements and the rise and fall of workplace provisions. Unlike most sports economic texts, the contributors featured here provide insights into the historical origins of many practices and policies peculiar to the industry. This historical perspective casts light onto the development of practices, such as labor market regulations and public policies, which have become more prevalent in the modern age.The non-technical, user-friendly nature of this book will appeal to many students, particularly those enrolled in sports economics courses - a field of study which is increasingly common. Academics will also find this book to be a timely reference for their research and teaching.Contributors include: L. Borrowman, A. Carter, J. Cranfield, L. Frost, A.K. Halabi, K. Inwood, A. Kawaura, S. La Croix, M. Lightbody, J.-F. Mignot, R. Pomfret, J.A. Ross, W. Vamplew, J.K. WilsonTrade Review'Sports in the modern era have acquired an unprecedented social significance, a conjuncture that can only be understood through the lens of history of economics. This is an important book that offers a number of significant contributions and shows how the combined wisdom of these two disciplines can put modern sports in their proper context.' --Stefan Szymanski, University of MichiganTable of ContentsContents: 1. Sports Economics and the Sports Industry: Perspectives in Economic History John K. Wilson 2. The Evolution of Professional Team Sports Richard Pomfret 3. The Very Short tenure of Foreign Players in Japanese Professional Baseball, 1951-2004 Akihiko Kawaura and Sumner La Croix 4. An Economic History of the Tour de France, 1903-2015 Jean-François Mignot 5. The Relationship between Crowd Attendance and Competitive Balance – evidence from the SANFL 1920-83 John K. Wilson 6. Ground sharing between Cricket and Football in Australia Lionel Frost, Margaret Lightbody, Abdel K. Halabi, Amanda Carter and Luc Borrowman 7. Workers' Playtime: Developing an explanatory typology of work-associated sport in Britain Wray Vamplew 8. Ethnic Inequality in Professional Sport: A question of discrimination in the National Hockey League draft John Cranfield, Kris Inwood and J. Andrew Ross 9. Epilogue Richard Pomfret Index
£83.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Law and Economics from an Evolutionary
Book Synopsis'The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 was a wake-up call to all who study and practice in the field of law and economics: traditional approaches are simply inadequate for understanding the co-evolution of the economic and legal systems, and that inadequacy can result in missed opportunities to warn of impending social harm. Atkinson and Paschall demonstrate the value of an alternative approach - law and economics from an evolutionary perspective - that builds on the work of John R. Commons, a leading figure in the field nearly a century ago. In the process, they offer an eye-opening historical account of the role of the state in the economy and provide a vital starting point for future policy discussions.'- Charles J. Whalen, author of Financial Instability and Economic Security after the Great Recession'An indispensable history of business law and regulation, alongside a powerful theory of law and the courts. Glen Atkinson and Stephen P. Paschall give us an evolutionary casebook for the twenty-first century, deeply rooted in the ideas of Veblen, Commons, and other masters of the tradition.'- James K. Galbraith, The University of Texas at Austin'The language of court documents is notably difficult to understand for people with no legal training. The present volume, a product of fruitful collaboration between a university professor and a lawyer, offers valuable assistance in translating US Supreme Court decisions made in the span of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with respect to economic disputes into the language spoken by evolutionary and institutional economists. As the authors persuasively show, law and economics co-evolve. A much-needed follow-up to and development of John Commons's Legal Foundations of Capitalism! - Anton Oleinik, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada and the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, RussiaLaw and economics are interdependent. Using a historical case analysis approach, this book demonstrates how the legal process relates to and is affected by economic circumstances. Glen Atkinson and Stephen P. Paschall examine this co-evolution in the context of the economic development that occurred in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as well as the impact of the law on that development. Specifically, the authors explore the development of a national market, the transformation of the corporation, and the conflict between state and federal control over businesses. Their focus on dynamic, integrated systems presents an alternative to mainstream law and economics.The authors apply John R. Commons's approach to three main law and economics issues: the changing relationship between corporations and the State, the application of the Commerce Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to state and federal regulation of business, and the relationship of antitrust law to industrialization. They provide a valuable linking of law with changing economic circumstances, such as antitrust policy changes and the development of the corporate form. This analytical approach to the practice of law and economics will be of interest to researchers, students, and faculty in law and economics, economic history, constitutional law, economic regulation, public policy, and the sociology of law. Business students and researchers will also find value in this book's presentation of court decisions and exploration of economic development.Trade ReviewThis is a remarkable book that makes significant contributions to a new understanding of the co-evolution of law and economics-accomplished with an extensive overview that is evidence rich. It integrates previously unexplored connections between law and economics that includes everything from the ultra vires principle to technological advancement in a manner that demonstrates that neither law nor economics can be understood separately. Further consequences are an advancement in the scholarship of evolution in the social sciences, and a demonstration of real-world abductive reasoning from the back-and-forth of institutions to change beliefs for the economy through changes in law. --F. Gregory Hayden, University of Nebraska-LincolnBravo! This is the best book on the interaction of law and economics since John R. Common's Legal Foundations of Capitalism (1924) and in many respects it is a better book. Glen Atkinson (a distinguished economist) and Stephen P. Paschall (a distinguished attorney) have combined their considerable experience, knowledge, and skills to produce a book that will become a classic. Understanding how law and economics interact and change together is essential to understanding nearly all contemporary economic, political, and social issues. Read this book. --James Peach, New Mexico State UniversityBuilding on John R. Commons, the authors show how judge-made law and dispute resolution in England and the US have contributed to the evolving legal supports and working rules of capitalism. Common law and working rules are not natural or optimal. They are human-made traditions handed down to us by centuries of collective action, not by the invisible hand of God. These traditions are what we make of them, nothing more but nothing less either: the future, like the past, is shifting and contested terrain. --William M. Dugger, The University of TulsaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Evolutionary Method in Law and Economics 2. Causes and Consequences of the Widening of the Market: A Case of Cumulative Economic Evolution 3. The Corporate Form and the State 4. Interstate Commerce and State Regulation of Business 5. Interstate Commerce and Federal Regulation of Business 6. John R. Commons and Co-Evolution of Law and Economics Index
£88.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Political Economy of Public Debt: Three
Book SynopsisHow have the most influential political economists of the past three centuries theorized about sovereign borrowing and shaped its now widespread use? This important question receives a comprehensive answer in this original work, featuring careful textual analysis and illuminating exhibits of public debt empirics since 1700. Beyond its value as a definitive, authoritative history of thought on public debt, this book rehabilitates and reintroduces a realist perspective into a contemporary debate now heavily dominated by pessimists and optimists alike. The book simultaneously explicates and critiques the most prominent theories concerning why states borrow in the first place, whether or not they borrow productively, the incidence of their debts, why they sometimes borrow too much and why they often default, whether explicitly or implicitly. The author classifies major public debt theorists as pessimists, optimists or realists. This book also examines the influence of regime types, especially why most modern welfare states tend not only to over-issue bonds but also to incur even larger implicit obligations via unfunded, off-balance sheet liabilities. Scholars and undergraduate and graduate students in economics and political science, as well as policymakers, will find this analysis of public debt and public spending insightful and revealing.Trade Review'Richard Salsman presents a powerful indictment of the world's delusions about public debt. His arguments are so lucid and evidence so clear that even politicians and journalists can follow them with much profit.' --(Steve H. Hanke, Johns Hopkins University, US)'The Political Economy of Public Debt is an insightful treatment of all the major theories and controversies regarding public debt since the 1700s. The author, moreover, is no axe grinder; to the contrary, he presents a fair and balanced narrative that will prove informative to all interested readers.' --(Richard Wagner, George Mason University, US)'Salsman provides a very insightful integration of the history of public debt and the primary theories regarding the consequences of governmental debt. His discussion of economic laws and political science raise a clear issue about the relationship of unrestricted democracy and unrestricted public debt. This book is an important contribution to understanding an issue that will have significant impact on the future of western civilization. Well worth reading.' --(John Allison, Retired Chairman and CEO of BB&T and Retired President and CEO of Cato Institute, US)Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. A Brief History of Public Debt 2. Classical Theories of Public Debt 3. Keynesian Theories of Public Debt 4. Public Choice and Public Debt 5. The Limits of Public Debt Conclusion Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Financial Crises, 1929 to the Present, Second
Book SynopsisThis fascinating volume offers a comprehensive synthesis of the events, causes and outcomes of the major financial crises from 1929 to the present day. Beginning with an overview of the global financial system, Sara Hsu presents both theoretical and empirical evidence to explain the roots of financial crises and financial instability in general. She then provides a thorough breakdown of a number of major crises of the past century, both in the United States and around the world. Hsu's thorough and ambitious survey begins with the Great Depression of 1929, the first crisis created within the institutions of our current financial system, and moves through the aftermath of the Depression in the 1930s and 1940s, the inter-crisis period of the 1950s through the 1970s, and the emerging market debt default crisis of the 1980s. From there, she tackles major crises in specific countries from the 1990s on, including those in Mexico, Asia (Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea and Malaysia), Russia, Brazil and Argentina, as well as the Great Recession of 2008. The book concludes with a chapter detailing insightful policy recommendations for preventing future crises. Students and professors of economic history, financial and regulatory economics and banking will find this an invaluable resource, both for its comprehensive historical approach and its thoughtful look toward the future of the global economy.Trade ReviewAcclaim for the first edition: 'Financial Crises, 1929 to the Present. . . offers a concise history of several of the world's major financial crises. The book could serve as a supplement for undergraduate courses in economic history, international finance, and macroeconomics or as a reference for anyone wishing summaries of the key events and issues surrounding particular crises.' --David C. Wheelock, EH.Net
£94.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A History of American State and Local Economic
Book SynopsisA History of American State and Local Economic Development presents the history of American local and state economic development from 1790 to 2000. This multi-variable, multi-disciplinary history employs a bottom-up policy-making systems approach through three eras of American state and local economic development. The history offers insight into why the practice and profession evolved as it has and comments on its present day complexity. It stresses mainstream economic and community development as an output of jurisdictional policy systems driven by political culture and three key forces of change-industry/sector profit cycle, population mobility and three competitive urban hierarchies-which continue to impact policy-making. With several chapters on each major US region, this book observes two macro political cultures, Privatism and Progressivism, that have persisted since the Early Republic and have inspired two often conflicting approaches to confront urban growth and decline. This history of American state and local economic development will be of main interest to the academic community and economic development professionals, particularly those in political science, public policy, history, economics, planning, urban sociology and geography. Research, policy institutes and NGOs will also find value in the comprehensive history.Trade Review'Coan frames American sub-national economic development as two ships passing in the night, but his seminal work demonstrates that state and local economic development efforts are shaped by an armada of historical forces. He masterfully ties historical economic patterns to key events-many of which have not headlined the more familiar American narrative, yet have played a vital role in shaping the economic legacy of the nation's communities and states.' --Kenneth E. Poole, Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness, US'This is an amazingly comprehensive interpretive analysis of the factors, forces and institutions that shaped the evolution of economic development in America. Ronald W. Coan examines and interprets the historic evolution of both the institution and the practice of economic development. It is this analytic model and its use for the examination of the duality of economic development in America that separates this work from others that examine American economic history and from parts of other books and essays that examine the role and fact of economic development over the 200+ years of the American nation.' --Roger Stough, George Mason UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I Classic Era of Economic Development 1. In the Beginning was Chapter One 2. As the Twig is Bent: Pre-Civil War Migration and Political Culture 3. Early Republic Economic Development 4. The Industrial Big City: Primeval Soup of Big City Economic Development 5. Big City Economic Development 6. Two Paths Diverge: Take One 7. Pre-Depression South 8. Western Economic Development into the Twenties 9. The Twenties: Not So Calm Before the Storm Part II “Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning” The Winds of Depression, War and Victory: 1930-1961 10. Big Cities: New Deal, War Years 11. Urban Renewal: The Scarlet Letter of Economic Development 12. The South: New Deal, World War II and the Fifties 13. The West: New Deal, War Years and Fifties 14. Dry Rot to Decay: Big City Change in the ‘Wonder Bread’ Years 1945-1960 15. Hegemonic Big Cities and Rising Sunbelt Part III Foundations of Contemporary ED/CD 16. The Sixties 17. The Seventies: The World Turned Upside Down 18. Through the Eighties: Reversing Decline 19. Foundations of Contemporary Practice and Policy Emerge 20. As Two Ships Pass in the Night: The Short Story of American Economic Development Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Brief History of Political Economy: Tales of
Book SynopsisThis book examines the three historical master tales and questions their validity and relevance in today's moment of global disorientation and lack of convincing and dominant economic narrative. Investigating the ideological dimension and exploring the continued impact of Marx, Keynes and Hayek, the authors demonstrate how these three economic narratives became entangled over time and under increasing complexity, overlapping and competing with each other. The book reflects on the meaning of the historical legacy of the three narratives and investigates their significance today. All three outlined the prospects of a better and more economically efficient world with increased social justice, Magnusson and Strath argue that they constitute a legacy on which a new economic tale must be based, a legacy to draw on or confront. A concise and engaging work, this is an ideal resource for students and academics interested in economics, political science, history and global studies. A Brief History of Political Economy presents a powerful economic history of the last 170 years as a basis for economic reconsideration.Trade Review'Two of Scandinavia's most illustrious scholars have produced a highly readable guide to political economy. By focusing on the competing narratives of Marx, Keynes, and Hayek, their book makes sense of the last century of economic history and provides a powerful diagnosis of the crises that have wracked the global economy over the last decade.' --Fred Block, University of California at Davis'This excellent volume portrays Marx, Keynes and Hayek not only as great economists, but also as visionary thinkers who tried to come to grips with the changes and crises of their time. The book serves as a reminder that economics must be about the real world challenges, rather than simply the construction of models. It also show how much we can still learn from this diverse but fascinating trio of giants.' --Geoffrey M. Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Tale of Marx 2. The Tale of Keynes 3. The Tale of Hayek Epilogue:Towards a New Tale? Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Sports Through the Lens of Economic History
Book SynopsisFrom professional team sports to international events such as the Olympics and Tour de France, the modern sports industry continues to attract a large number of spectators and participants. This book, edited by John K. Wilson and Richard Pomfret, analyzes the economic evolution of sports over the last 150 years, from a pastime activity to a big business enterprise. It begins at a time when entrepreneurs and players first started making money from professional sports leagues, through to the impact of radio and TV in the twentieth century, and on to the present day. Using examples from sports across the world, the chapters cover such important issues as player migration, labor market restrictions, stadium arrangements and the rise and fall of workplace provisions. Unlike most sports economic texts, the contributors featured here provide insights into the historical origins of many practices and policies peculiar to the industry. This historical perspective casts light onto the development of practices, such as labor market regulations and public policies, which have become more prevalent in the modern age.The non-technical, user-friendly nature of this book will appeal to many students, particularly those enrolled in sports economics courses - a field of study which is increasingly common. Academics will also find this book to be a timely reference for their research and teaching.Contributors include: L. Borrowman, A. Carter, J. Cranfield, L. Frost, A.K. Halabi, K. Inwood, A. Kawaura, S. La Croix, M. Lightbody, J.-F. Mignot, R. Pomfret, J.A. Ross, W. Vamplew, J.K. WilsonTrade Review'Sports in the modern era have acquired an unprecedented social significance, a conjuncture that can only be understood through the lens of history of economics. This is an important book that offers a number of significant contributions and shows how the combined wisdom of these two disciplines can put modern sports in their proper context.' --Stefan Szymanski, University of MichiganTable of ContentsContents: 1. Sports Economics and the Sports Industry: Perspectives in Economic History John K. Wilson 2. The Evolution of Professional Team Sports Richard Pomfret 3. The Very Short tenure of Foreign Players in Japanese Professional Baseball, 1951-2004 Akihiko Kawaura and Sumner La Croix 4. An Economic History of the Tour de France, 1903-2015 Jean-François Mignot 5. The Relationship between Crowd Attendance and Competitive Balance – evidence from the SANFL 1920-83 John K. Wilson 6. Ground sharing between Cricket and Football in Australia Lionel Frost, Margaret Lightbody, Abdel K. Halabi, Amanda Carter and Luc Borrowman 7. Workers' Playtime: Developing an explanatory typology of work-associated sport in Britain Wray Vamplew 8. Ethnic Inequality in Professional Sport: A question of discrimination in the National Hockey League draft John Cranfield, Kris Inwood and J. Andrew Ross 9. Epilogue Richard Pomfret Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd History of Law and Economics
Book SynopsisDedicated to the late Henry G. Manne, this authoritative research review surveys the development of law and economics both as a scholarly field and as an educational program. Starting as a niche area, centered primarily at the University of Chicago, law and economics has grown to be the dominant field in US legal scholarship. The influential articles discussed in this review trace that development from the mid-20th century through to today, focusing on both the personalities who laid the groundwork for the field's success and the intellectual debates that fueled its growth. Written by two experts in the field, this review is a valuable research tool for academics and students interested in the history of law and economics.Trade Review‘Butler and Klick have done a wonderful job by selecting important articles that an economist or a legal scholar interested in the history of the field should read.’Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Henry N. Butler and Jonathan Klick PART I THE RISE OF LAW AND ECONOMICS 1. George L. Priest (2005), ‘The Rise of Law and Economics: A Memoir of the Early Years’, in Francesco Parisi and Charles K. Rowley (eds), The Origins of Law and Economics: Essays by the Founding Fathers, Chapter 14, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 350–82 2. Edmund W. Kitch (1983), ‘The Fire of Truth: A Remembrance of Law and Economics at Chicago, 1932–1970’, Journal of Law and Economics, XXVI (1), April, 163–234 3. Louis De Alessi (1999), ‘The John M. Olin Fellowship Program in Law and Economics’, Case Western Reserve Law Review, 50 (2), Winter, 341–6 4. Henry N. Butler (1999), ‘The Manne Programs in Economics for Federal Judges’, Case Western Reserve Law Review, 50 (2), Winter, 351–71, 376–87 5. Henry G. Manne (2005), ‘How Law and Economics was Marketed in a Hostile World: A Very Personal History’, in Francesco Parisi and Charles K. Rowley (eds), The Origins of Law and Economics: Essays by the Founding Fathers, Chapter 12, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 309–27 6. Steven G. Medema (2015), ‘From Dismal to Dominance? Law and Economics and the Values of Imperial Science, Historically Contemplated’, in Aristides N. Hatzis and Nicholas Mercuro (eds), Law and Economics: Philosophical Issues and Fundamental Questions, Chapter 5, Abingdon, UK and New York, NY, USA: Routledge, 69–88 PART II PIONEERS AND FOUNDING FATHERS 7. Sam Peltzman (2009), ‘Aaron Director’s Influence on Antitrust Policy’, in Lloyd R. Cohen and Joshua D. Wright (eds), Pioneers of Law and Economics, Chapter 3, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 35–49 8. Steven G. Medema (2016), ‘Ronald Coase and the Legal–Economic Nexus’, in Claude Ménard and Elodie Bertrand (eds), The Elgar Companion to Ronald H. Coase, Part V, Chapter 21, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 291–304 9. Harold Demsetz (2009), ‘George J. Stigler and his Contributions to Law and Economics’, in Lloyd R. Cohen and Joshua D. Wright (eds), Pioneers of Law and Economics, Chapter 4, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 50–59 10. Richard A. Posner (1993), ‘Gary Becker’s Contributions to Law and Economics’, Journal of Legal Studies, XXII (2), June, 211–5 11. Larry E. Ribstein (2009), ‘Henry Manne: Intellectual Entrepreneur’, in Lloyd R. Cohen and Joshua D. Wright (eds), Pioneers of Law and Economics, Chapter 9, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 125–44 12. Robert D. Tollison (2009), ‘Buchanan and Tullock on Law and Economics’, in Lloyd R. Cohen and Joshua D. Wright (eds), Pioneers of Law and Economics, Chapter 8, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 115–24 13. Keith N. Hylton (2009), ‘Calabresi’s Influence on Law and Economics’, in Lloyd R. Cohen and Joshua D. Wright (eds), Pioneers of Law and Economics, Chapter 13, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 224–45 14. Thomas S. Ulen (2009), ‘Pioneers of Law and Economics: William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner’, in Lloyd R. Cohen and Joshua D. Wright (eds), Pioneers of Law and Economics, Chapter 11, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 175–202 15. Nuno Garoupa and Fernando Gómez-Pomar (2009), ‘The Path Breaking Contributions of A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell to Law and Economics’, in Lloyd R. Cohen and Joshua D. Wright (eds), Pioneers of Law and Economics, Chapter 15, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 267–94 PART III AN ASSESSMENT – FROM WITHIN 16. James M. Buchanan (1974), ‘Good Economics – Bad Law’, Virginia Law Review, 60 (3), March, 483–92 17. Ronald H. Coase (1978), ‘Economics and Contiguous Disciplines’, Journal of Legal Studies, 7 (2), June, 201–11 18. Guido Calabresi (1980), ‘An Exchange – About Law and Economics: A Letter to Ronald Dworkin’, Hofstra Law Review, 8 (3), Spring, 553–62 19. Gary S. Becker (1993), ‘Nobel Lecture: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior’, Journal of Political Economy, 101 (3), June, 385–409 20. Richard A. Posner (1987), ‘The Law and Economics Movement’, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 77 (2), May, 1–13 21. Francesco Parisi and Jonathan Klick (2004), ‘Functional Law and Economics: The Search for Value-Neutral Principles of Lawmaking’, Chicago-Kent Law Review, Symposium: Law and Economics and Legal Scholarship, 79 (2), June, 431–50 22. Robert D. Cooter (2005), ‘The Confluence of Justice and Efficiency in the Economic Analysis of Law’, in Francesco Parisi and Charles K. Rowley (eds), The Origins of Law and Economics: Essays by the Founding Fathers, Chapter 8, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 222–40 23. William M. Landes (2003), ‘The Empirical Side of Law and Economics’, University of Chicago Law Review: Centennial Tribute Essays, 70 (1), Winter, 167–80 PART IV THE CURRENT BATTLE 24. Colin Camerer, Samuel Issacharoff, George Loewenstein, Ted O’Donoghue and Matthew Rabin (2003), ‘Regulation for Conservatives: Behavioral Economics and the Case for “Asymmetric Paternalism”’, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 151 (3), January, 1211–54 25. Christine Jolls and Cass R. Sunstein (2006), ‘Debiasing through Law’, Journal of Legal Studies, 35 (1), January, 199–241 26. Jonathan Klick and Gregory Mitchell (2006), ‘Government Regulation of Irrationality: Moral and Cognitive Hazards’, Minnesota Law Review, 90 (6), 1620–63 27. Edward L. Glaeser (2006), ‘Paternalism and Psychology’, University of Chicago Law Review, Symposium: Homo Economicus, Homo Myopicus, and the Law and Economics of Consumer Choice, 73 (1), Winter, 133–56 28. Jonathan Klick (2005), ‘The Microfoundations of Standard Form Contracts: Price Discrimination vs. Behavioral Bias’, Florida State University Law Review, 32 (2), Winter, 555–69 29. Russell Korobkin (2005), ‘Possibility and Plausibility in Law and Economics’, Florida State University Law Review, 32 (2), Winter, 781–95 30. Joshua D. Wright (2007), ‘Behavioral Law and Economics, Paternalism, and Consumer Contracts: An Empirical Perspective’, NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, 2 (3), 470–511 31. Alan Schwartz (2008), ‘How Much Irrationality Does the Market Permit?’, Journal of Legal Studies, 37 (1), January, 131–59 PART V LOOKING FORWARD 32. Douglas G. Baird (1997), ‘The Future of Law and Economics: Looking Forward’, University of Chicago Law Review, 64 (4), Fall, 1129–65 33. Richard A. Posner (1997), ‘The Future of the Law and Economics Movement in Europe’, International Review of Law and Economics: Annual EALE Conference, Bern, 6-9 September 1995, 17 (1), March, 3–14 34. Henry G. Manne and Joshua D. Wright (2008), ‘The Future of Law and Economics: A Discussion’, George Mason University Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-35, June, 1–27 35. Jonathan Klick (2011), ‘The Empirical Revolution in Law and Economics: Inaugural Lecture for Erasmus Chair in Empirical Legal Studies’, Erasmus Law Lectures 25, The Hague, the Netherlands: Eleven International Publishing, 7–9, 11–29, 31–34 36. Joni Hersch and W. Kip Viscusi (2012), ’Law and Economics as a Pillar of Legal Education’, Review of Law and Economics, Session Paper: The Past, Present, and Future of Interdisciplinary Legal Education, 2011 Annual Meeting, American Association of Law Schools, 8 (2), October, 487–510 Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Classical Economic Theory and the Modern Economy
Book SynopsisEconomic theory reached its highest level of analytical power and depth in the middle of the nineteenth century among John Stuart Mill and his contemporaries. This book explains classical economics when it was at its height, followed by an analysis of what took place as a result of the ensuing Marginal and Keynesian Revolutions that have left economists less able to understand how economies operate. Chapters explore the false mythology that has obscured the arguments of classical economists, clouding to the point of near invisibility the theories they had developed. Steven Kates offers a thorough understanding of the operation of an economy within a classical framework, providing a new perspective for viewing modern economic theory from the outside. This provocative book not only explains the meaning of Say's Law in an accessible way, but also the origins of the Keynesian revolution and Keynes's pathway in writing The General Theory. It provides a new look at the classical theory of value at its height that was not based, as so many now wrongly believe, on the labour theory of value. A crucial read for economic policy-makers seeking to understand the operation of a market economy, this book should also be of keen interest to economists generally as well as scholars in the history of economic thought.Trade Review‘Classical Economic Theory and the Modern Economy should be a welcome addition to the reading lists of both amateurs and professional economists, whether one’s interest is in macroeconomics or the history of economic thought. Although the book is a worthwhile read on its own without familiarity with Kates’s work, this reviewer believes it really shines when read as a sequel and conclusion to the author’s previous contributions.’ -- Per L Bylund, The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics'In Classical Economic Theory and the Modern Economy, Kates seeks to correct this dangerous intellectual detour economists took due to Keynes and finally get modern economists to practice economics beyond the shadow of Keynes. It is a Herculean task, but armed with J.B. Say and especially J.S. Mill, Steven Kates makes as strong an effort for resurrection of classical economy theory as can be marshaled. This will be a must read for all students of economics, and a compelling contribution to the history of economic doctrine.' --Peter Boettke, George Mason University, US'This book delivers hard blows to the tenets of modern economics, retells its history and evolution, and pokes holes at our misperceptions of classical economic theory. The result is as much a burial of the macroeconomics of Keynes as it is a resuscitation of the classical economics of J.S. Mill.' --Per Bylund, Oklahoma State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The Purpose of this Book and Why Only I could Write It 2. The Background 3. The Keynesian Revolution and Classical Theory 4. Understanding Classical Presuppositions, Terminology and Concepts 5. The Classical Theory of Value and the Marginal Revolution 6. Keynesian Theory Overruns the Classics 7. The Basis for Keynes’s Success: Why Keynes was Able to Succeed 8. Classical Theory and the Role of Government 9. Austrian Economics and Classical 10. An Overview of Classical Economic Theory Afterword Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Value of Applied Economics: The Life and Work
Book SynopsisThis biography of the applied English economist Arthur (A.J.) Brown, an English economist from the late 1930s to the 1980s, sets his work in the context of the Great Depression, the emergence of Oxford University as centre of applied economic research, the contraction of British colonialism in Africa, the enlarging of the UK university system, the post-war arms race, the UK joining the Common Market, and significant changes in the industrial structure of Britain.Brown's approach epitomized the role the applied economist. His career included pioneering analysis in Keynesian economics, serving on official bodies concerned with decolonisation, and membership in the UN's group to examine the economic implications of disarmament, the UK's Hunt Committee, and the EEC's MacDougall Commission. He was also heavily involved in building the Economics Department at Leeds University and serving on the University Grants Committee. Through Brown's experiences, we are granted a unique perspective on applied economics research at Oxford University in 1930s as well as reviews of early debates over the Phillips Curve, the role of economics in British decolonisation policy, and the importance of UK regional policy in the 1970s.Arthur Brown's appreciation of both the technical side of economics and the need for practical, real-world advice for decision-makers makes this a important resource for academics interested in the history of economic ideas, inflation, liquidity preference, Keynesian economics, regional policy, decolonisation, and university finances, as well as economists working in government and industry.Trade Review'Arthur Brown was one of the finest applied economists of his generation. I benefitted from his wisdom both as a student and a colleague. His favourite aphorism that ''the economy is made for man, not man for the economy'' was his guiding principle. Ken Button has done a splendid job in highlighting the importance of applied economic research through the life and work of one of its foremost practitioners.' --Tony Thirlwall, Keynes College, University of Kent, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Foreword by Henry Brown and William Brown 1. Introduction 2. The development of an applied economist 3. Early career and Keynesianism 4. Building an economics department 5. African decolonization and world disarmament 6. The “Phillips Curve” and inflation 7. Domestic policy advisor 8. Regional economic policy and the Hunt Committee 9. Brown’s later activities References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Brief History of Economic Thought: From the
Book SynopsisIt is now widely acknowledged that history is useful, even essential, because it helps us predict the future. The history of ideas in economics, as in other fields of inquiry, plays an important role in enlightening current researchers as they endeavour to understand contemporary events and anticipate the future of human societies. This book brings together a fine collection of chapters that span contributions from forgotten classics to the most recent new thinking about critical issues such as growth, wealth, its creation and its distribution among members of society. It is A Brief History of Economic Thought, but it will certainly go a long way in helping undergraduate students and other researchers who are curious about the evolution of economic ideas over the last five centuries. Chapters offer discussions on the main tenets of post-Keynesian economics, and focus on issues of growth, wealth and income distribution. The debate on the role of government versus the market is brought to the fore within the context of economic thought from the Physiocrats to the post-Keynesians.The editors have created an essential read for scholars and students interested in the history of economic thought and post-Keynesian economics.Trade Review‘At a time when mainstream economists have practically abandoned the teaching of the history of economic thought in numerous economics undergraduate university programs internationally, professors Hassan Bougrine and Louis-Philippe Rochon should be commended for trying to reverse this tendency. They have brought together a truly first-class international group of distinguished non-mainstream economists to counter this growing collective amnesia in the economics profession by presenting and reassessing not only past developments in economic thinking going as far back as the eighteenth century, but also by analyzing contemporary schools of thought. This is a book that can be used as a textbook or as an additional source of stimulating reading, especially appropriate for students enrolled in any undergraduate course covering the broad field of economic thought, both historical and contemporary.’ -- Mario Seccareccia, University of Ottawa, Canada and Editor of the International Journal of Political Economy‘Economics claims to be a regularly advancing science. Its history will be a story of progress. We look to the early thinkers – the Classics – largely for anticipations of our advanced scientific work. Not so in this book; it does show the progress of the mainstream – but it is progress up a blind alley; and we see a return to the Classics, but it is to find the point at which the discipline went off the rails. An alternative, vigorous and progressive picture of the economy is presented in well-written and well-researched articles, focusing on a good selection of the greatest economists. The book presents a good account of the actual state of the discipline; far from being a regularly advancing science, it is a sometimes chaotic scene of intellectual conflict, fascinating and very exciting at times!’ -- Edward J. Nell, New School for Social Research, US‘It’s always a good time to read a book on the history of economic thought. At least for the sake of history, which revives the narratives rooted in both language and imagination; and suggests the taste for adventure, grounded in research and discovery. The merit of this book is to bring us into this journey using fourteen suggestions cast in a thematic way. Taken as a whole, the book unearths economics as a sort of lost civilization; read just in specific chapters, each appears as an intriguing detail inspiring for further inquiries. Structure and brilliant exposure make the book interesting to students and scholars. They are both exposed to the evidence of a process that through successive stratifications built the meaning of economics: by the exercise of memory all fragments become pillars of knowledge. No need to decide winners or losers, just the same ambivalent emotion to discover that the open questions for our future are still so like those of the great thinkers who preceded us.’ -- Anna-Maria Variato, University of Bergamo, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to A Brief History of Economic Thought 1 Hassan Bougrine and Louis-Philippe Rochon PART I THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS BEFORE KEYNES 1 The Mercantilists and Physiocrats 4 Hassan Bougrine 2 The Classical School 14 Suranjana Nabar-Bhaduri and Matías Vernengo 3 Karl Marx and the Marxist School 35 Scott Carter 4 The Neoclassical School 54 Hassan Bougrine PART II KEYNES AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES 5 John Maynard Keynes 74 Amitava Dutt 6 Michał Kalecki 94 Malcolm Sawyer 7 Thorstein Bunde Veblen 112 Guglielmo Forges Davanzati 8 Joseph Alois Schumpeter 125 Nicola De Liso 9 Karl Polanyi: The Place of the Economy in Society 148 Claus Thomasberger PART III THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS AFTER KEYNES 10 The Keynesian School and the Neoclassical Synthesis 173 John E. King 11 Milton Friedman and the Monetarist School 193 Sergio Rossi 12 The Rational Expectations School 211 William McColloch and Matías Vernengo 13 The New Keynesian School 228 Steven Pressman 14 The Post-Keynesian School 246 Louis-Philippe Rochon Author index 273 Subject index 278
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Money, Method and Contemporary Post-Keynesian
Book SynopsisThe Post-Keynesian methodology emphasising uncertainty is indispensable to analysing and understanding the major challenges of the 21st Century. On that basis, this book focuses on the failures of the market economic system to secure stability and sustainability, and demonstrates why this is not recognised by conventional economic theory. The Post-Keynesian economics set out here aims for an understanding of the economy as a whole and as an integral part of society. Chapters analysing money, banks and finance as dynamic phenomena open the book. They are followed by chapters focusing on methodological issues such as uncertainty, longer-term aspects, sustainability and other non-monetary economic activities.This important book is a useful tool for students and researchers who wish to gain a better understanding of real world economics. In these areas where conventional macroeconomic theory may not be sufficient, this book offers viable post-Keynesian alternatives.Contributors include: A. Asensio, V. Chick, S. Dow, A. Freeman, J. Ghosh, C. Goodhart, P. Hawkins, J. Jespersen, M.O. Madsen, R. McMaster, C.J. Rodríguez-Fuentes, R. Rotheim, S. Sen, R. Studart, B. Tieben, G. TilyTrade Review'The Post Keynesian contributors to this remarkable volume provide contrasting opinions on monetary theory and monetary policy on four continents, together with a discussion of some major issues in macroeconomic methodology. The book concludes with incisive analyses of two big issues for the future: the probable approach of a stationary state, and the emergence of personal care as a large and growing component of aggregate output.' --John E. King, La Trobe University and Federation University, Australia'This book is a must-read for those who wish to recover the essence of Keynes's message on monetary economics. The authors apply Vicky Chick's interpretation of Keynes and of the evolution of the banking system to contemporary issues such as shadow banking, financialization and the problems of the BRIC economies.' --Marc Lavoie, University of Paris, FranceTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Monetary regimes: then and now Charles Goodhart 2. Keynes applied Geoff Tily 3. Rethinking monetary restraint Roy J. Rotheim 4. The evolutionary approach to banking and the credit-hungry consumer: a view of the failure of African Bank Penelope Hawkins 5. Financial fragility in Asia Jayati Ghosh 6. Shadow banking in emerging economies like India Sunanda Sen 7. Finance for transformation: a Post-Keynesian perspective on global sustainable development Rogério Studart 8. A personal interpretation of Victoria Chick’s monetary thought: intellectual rigour, scientific innovation and common sense Carlos J. Rodríguez-Fuentes 9. Equilibrium and uncertainty Bert Tieben 10. Hicks’s progress from statics to historical time Mogens Ove Madsen 11. A ‘static model of a dynamic process’: underemployment equilibrium with flexible wages and prices Angel Asensio 12. The economics of enough: a future for capitalism or a new way of living? Victoria Chick and Alan Freeman 13. Does Post Keynesianism need a theory of care? Robert McMaster Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The General Theory and Keynes for the 21st
Book SynopsisThis book is devoted to examining the lasting impact of The General Theory and Keynes?'s thought on macroeconomic theory, methodology and its relevance for understanding the financial and economic challenges of the 21st Century. A number of contributions take their departure from Keynes?'s presentation during the 1930s of his new macroeconomic understanding and its policy implications. The book also discusses pluralistic views of Keynes?'s ideas and their importance for contemporary debates. The General Theory and Keynes for the 21st Century develops the analysis of money and banking, and the intertwined relationship between financial and real-world activities throughout. It demonstrates how vital Keynes?s work is to understanding the failure of the globalised financial system as well as pointing to an alternative way forward. The broad scope and richness of the contributions are reminders of how most books severely misrepresent The General Theory and therefore fail to act as a guide to 21st Century policy. As such, this book is a necessary tool for scholars, researchers and advanced students of economics, as well as policy makers who wish to create a more just society in the face of the current deregulated global market economy.Contributors include: G.M. Ambrosi, A.M. Carabelli, M.A. Cedrini, V. Chick, T. Congdon, A. Denis, R. Desai, S. Dow, G.C. Harcourt, M.G. Hayes, J. Jespersen, P. Kriesler, H.D. Kurz, M.C. Marcuzzo, J.W. Nevile, R. Skidelsky, T.D. Togati, A. VercelliTrade Review'A fresh and deep dive into a host of outstanding issues in the canon of Keynes studies, from Indian Finance to IS-LM and beyond.' --James K. Galbraith, The University of Texas at Austin, US'The economic ruptures that began in 2007 have revealed how profoundly mistaken were the sustained efforts to remove Keynes's General Theory from its central place in macroeconomic theory and policy. Drawing on the celebrated work of Victoria Chick, our ablest interpreter of that enigmatic volume, the essays gathered here build new bridges from Keynes's insights to our current policy dilemmas.' --Gary Dymski, University of Leeds, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. On the relevance of The General Theory at 80: economic change and economic theory Victoria Chick 2. Against twisting The General Theory Maria Cristina Marcuzzo 3. The Keynesian unblocking Robert Skidelsky 4. The attacks on The General Theory: how Keynes’s theory was lost G.C. Harcourt, Peter Kriesler and J.W. Nevile 5. What future for ‘Macroeconomics after Keynes’? A road map to restore the generality of The General Theory Teodoro Dario Togati 6. Expectations, equilibrium and time in The General Theory Anna M. Carabelli and Mario A. Cedrini 7. Weight of argument and liquidity preference Alessandro Vercelli 8. On some principles to fix the quantity of bank money Tim Congdon 9. John Maynard Pangloss: Indian currency and finance in imperial context Radhika Desai 10. Keynes on domestic and international monetary reform Sheila Dow 11. The ‘Gibson Paradox’, The General Theory and beyond Gerhard Michael Ambrosi 12. Sraffa’s prices of production understood in terms of Keynes’s state of short-term expectation M. G. Hayes 13. Keynes and Marx: some points of contact Andy Denis 14. No invitation to ‘Alles Walzer!’: Schumpeter on The General Theory Heinz D. Kurz Index
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Liverpool University Press Harold Wilson, Denmark and the making of Labour
Book Synopsis'In 1958, Britain and Denmark both advocated closer European cooperation through the looser framework of the Free Trade Area (FTA) rather than membership of the nascent European Economic Community (EEC). By 1972, however, the situation had changed drastically. The FTA was a long-forgotten concept. Its replacement, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), seemed economically and politically inept. Now, at the third time of asking, both countries were on the verge of joining the EEC as full members. This compelling analysis compares how the European policies of the British Labour Party and the Danish Social Democrats evolved amid this environment. Based on material from 12 archives in four countries, it updates our knowledge of key moments in both parties’ interaction with the integration story, including in the formative stages of the EEC in 1958¬–60 and the negotiations for British and Danish EEC membership in 1961–63, 1967 and 1970–72. More innovatively, this book argues that amid an array of national and international constraints the reciprocal influence exerted by Labour and the SD on each other via informal party contacts was itself a crucial determinant in European policymaking. In so doing, it sheds light on the sources of Labour European thinking, the role of small states like Denmark in the integration process, and the prominence of the Anglo-Scandinavian nexus in the broader narrative of British foreign policy in this period.'Trade ReviewReviews 'Clearly written, logically structured and underpinned by an impressive base of archival material, this is a strong comparative analysis of British Labour and the Danish Social Democrats.' Dr Paul Corthorn, Queen’s University Belfast'The book is an impressive piece of scholarship, using a broad range of secondary sources in English and the Scandinavian languages as well as a few in French and German. Its anchoring in primary sources is exemplary. The author has trekked not just to the obvious archives in Britain and Copenhagen, but even to Amsterdam and Oslo in pursuit of his project.'European History Quarterly'Broad’s book is a fine accomplishment which sets an example on how government centred analysis can be hugely enriched by supplementing it with a transnational approach that moves beyond and below the state level – and still helps us to understand government agency.' Thorsten Borring Olesen, Journal of European Integration History
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Liverpool University Press John Baskerville: Art and Industry in the
Book SynopsisThis book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). Baskerville was a Birmingham inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typographic equal, by changing the course of type design. Baskerville not only designed one of the world’s most historically important typefaces, he also experimented with casting and setting type, improved the construction of the printing-press, developed a new kind of paper and refined the quality of printing inks. His typographic experiments put him ahead of his time, had an international impact and did much to enhance the printing and publishing industries of his day. Yet despite his importance, fame and influence many aspects of Baskerville’s work and life remain unexplored and his contribution to the arts, industry, culture and society of the Enlightenment are largely unrecognized. Moreover, recent scholarly research in archaeology, art and design, history, literary studies and typography, is leading to a fundamental reassessment of many aspects of Baskerville’s life and impact, including his birthplace, his work as an industrialist, the networks which sustained him and the reception of his printing in Britain and overseas. The last major, but inadequate publication of Baskerville dates from 1975. Now, forty years on, the time is ripe for a new book. This interdisciplinary approach provides an original contribution to printing history, eighteenth-century studies and the dissemination of ideas.Trade ReviewReviews 'A fascinating account of the printer, type designer, and manufacturer, John Baskerville, which sheds new light on the history of this polymathic figure. Focusing on previously unexplored details of his personal life, the book explores his contribution to fields beyond printing, and his relationship with the broader technologies and ideas of Enlightenment Birmingham.'Dr Freya Gowrley, University of Edinburgh‘This book brings to light the life of this relatively unknown 18th century figure…This volume is an important addition to the story of Birmingham and the power of networks that brought together art and industry during the Industrial Revolution.’The William Shipley Group Bulletin'This enterprising volume of essays makes a determined effort to…underline the influence that Baskerville had in the Midlands, Britain and beyond.'Paul Elliott, Midland History'This collection of papers is a useful contribution to the study of Baskerville [...] There is valuable original work here, especially in filling out some of the gaps in our knowledge of Baskerville’s life.' John Feather, Publishing History'Due to the variety of its chapters, and the depth of their investigations, John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment is a most welcome title, and one can only hope that it may be the first in what will become a series of 'Baskerville studies' addressing a range of topics from authors in a variety of fields.'Dan Reynolds, Journal of the Printing Historical SocietyTable of ContentsList of Figures viiAcknowledgements xiForeword xiiiTimeline xvBaskerville Family Tree xviiIntroduction: John Baskerville: Art and Industry ofthe Enlightenment 1Caroline Archer-Parré and Malcolm Dick1 The Topographies of a Typographer: Mapping JohnBaskerville since the Eighteenth Century 9Malcolm Dick2 Baskerville’s Birmingham: Printing and the English Urban Renaissance 25John Hinks3 Place, Home and Workplace: Baskerville’s Birthplaceand Buildings 42George Demidowicz4 John Baskerville: Japanner of ‘Tea Trays and otherHousehold Goods’ 71Yvonne Jones5 John Baskerville, William Hutton and their Social Networks 87Susan Whyman6 John Baskerville the Writing Master: Calligraphy and Typein the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 113Ewan Clayton7 A Reappraisal of Baskerville’s Greek Types 133Gerry Leonidas8 John Baskerville’s Decorated Papers 151Barry McKay and Diana Patterson9 The ‘Baskerville Bindings’ 166Aurélie Martin10 After the ‘Perfect Book’: English Printers and their Use ofBaskerville’s Type, 1767–90 185Martin Killeen11 The Cambridge Cult of the Baskerville Press 206Caroline Archer-ParréAppendix 1 The ‘Baskerville Bindings’ 222Appendix 2 Members of the Baskerville Club 226Appendix 3 Comparative Bibliography 230Further Reading 248General Bibliography 255Notes on the Contributors 260Index 263
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Liverpool University Press Historical Studies in Industrial Relations,
Book SynopsisHistorical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet for, and to stimulate an interest in, historical work in the field of industrial relations and the history of industrial relations thought. Content broadly covers the employment relationship and economic, social and political factors surrounding it – such as labour markets, union and employer policies and organization, the law, and gender and ethnicity. Articles with an explicit political dimension, particularly recognising divisions within the working class and within workers’ organizations, will be encouraged, as will historical work on labour law.Table of Contents Jean Jenkins - Hands No Longer Wanted: Closure and the Moral Economy of Protest, Treorchy, South Wales Closure Paul Smith - The Law behind the Law: Rookes v. Barnard [1964], the Common Law and the Right to Strike The Trade Disputes Act 1965 Otto Kahn Freund - Rookes v. Barnard — and After Charles McGuire - ‘Going for the Jugular’: The Steelworkers’ Banner and the 1980 national steelworkers’ strike in Britain Michael Gold - ‘A Clear and Honest Understanding’: Alan Fox and the Origins and Implications of Radical Pluralism William Brown - Introduction to Alan Fox, ‘Corporatism and Industrial Democracy’ Alan Fox - Corporatism and Industrial Democracy: The Social Origins of Present Forms and Methods in Britain and Germany Dave Lyddon - Writing Trade Union History: The Case of the National Union of Public Employees Book Reviews
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Emerald Publishing Limited Including a Symposium on Ludwig Lachmann
Book SynopsisVolume 37B of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on the work of Ludwig Lachmann, edited by Giampaolo Garzarelli. Contributors to the symposium include Peter Boettke, Erwin Dekker, Peter Lewin, and several other experts on Lachmann and the Austrian School. The volume also includes an essay on Jean de Largentaye's French translation of Keynes's General Theory, written by the translator's daughter, Hélène de Largentaye. Last and certainly not least, the volume features a collection of reviews and commentaries on historian Nancy MacLean's controversial book about James Buchanan, Democracy in Chains.Trade ReviewConsisting of 14 contributions, this volume presents a symposium on the work of Ludwig Lachmann and the Austrian School of economics, "The Legacy of Ludwig Lachmann: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Institutions, Agency and Uncertainty," held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in April 2017, and a collection of reviews and commentaries on Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains. Researchers from the US, Europe, Ecuador, and South Africa discuss the capital theoretic side of the socialist calculation debate; the joint production of interpretation instruments and the relationship between institutional orders and capital structures; Lachmann's subjectivist approach to economics and its consequences and his intellectual relationship with Joseph Schumpeter; the relationship of Lachmann's views to the Austrian School of economics before, during, and after his time; his views on John Maynard Keynes and probability theory; and his public and private persona. The second section addresses the French edition of the General Theory by Keynes, followed by reviews and commentaries of MacLean's book. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsPART I 1. Introduction to a Symposium on Ludwig Lachmann; Giampaolo Garzarelli 2. Capital, Calculation, and Coordination; Peter J. Boettke and Ennio E. Piano 3. Lachman and Shackle: On the Joint Production of Interpretation Instruments; Erwin Dekker and Pavel Kuchař 4. Lachmann and Shumpeter - Some Reflections; Martin Fransman 5. Ludwig Lachmann and the Austrians; Peter Lewin 6. Lachmann, Keynes and Subjectivism; Christopher Torr 7. Reminiscences of Ludwig Lachmann; Martin Fransman, Giampaolo Garzarelli, Peter Lewin, Jochen Runde, and Christopher Torr PART II 8. Gained in Translation: The French Edition of The General Theory by JM Keynes; Hélène de Largentaye PART III 9. Introduction to a Collection of Reviews and Commentaries on Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains; Andrew Farrent and Scott Scheall 10. The Allure and Tragedy of Ideological Blunders Left, Right and Center: A Review Essay of Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains; Peter J. Boettke 11. James M. Buchanan and Democratic Classical Liberalism; David Ellerman 12. Reading the Hermeneutics of Suspicion with Suspicion: A Review Essay on Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America; Ross B. Emmett 13. Poking a Hornet's Nest: The Debate on Democracy in Chains; Gary Mongiovi 14. Freedom of Association and its Discontents: The Calculus of Consent and the Civil Rights Movement; Vlad Tarko and Santiago Jose Gangotena
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Elgar Companion to David Ricardo
Book SynopsisArguably one of the most important economists who has lived, Ricardo's impact on the economics profession is immense. This unique and comprehensive Companion elucidates his significance and continuing legacy. Ricardo made major contributions to all fields of the subject, from monetary issues to value and income distribution, from capital accumulation, technical progress and economic growth to foreign trade and international specialization, and from taxes to public debt. What he called the main problem of political economy, the distribution of income and wealth, is again back on the political and economic agenda with a vengeance. Leading experts in the field explore his influence and offer novel interpretations of received doctrines.The concise yet comprehensive entries are arranged alphabetically for ease of use with cross references and suggestions for further reading. The Companion will serve as the standard reference work for all those engaged in the field of classical economics. It will also be essential reading for scholars and researchers interested in the history of economic thought, macroeconomics and political economy.Contributors include: R. Arena, T. Aspromourgos, M.S. Aßländer, R.E. Backhouse, I. Barens, E. Bellino, C. Bidard, S. Blankenburg, C. Casarosa, R. Ciccone, S. Cremaschi, M. Dardi, G. Deleplace, T. Dome, G. Erreygers, G. Faccarello, R. Faucci, D. Fiaschi, S. Fratini, G. Freni, C. Gehrke, A.F. Gilbert, G. Gilibert, P. Groenewegen, D. Haas, H. Hagemann, A. Heertje, J.E. King, H. Klausinger, H.D. Kurz, A. Maneschi, M.C. Marcuzzo, F. Meacci, M. Milgate, G. Mongiovi, F. Moseley, D.P.O'Brien, A. Opocher, A. Palumbo, S. Parrinello, C. Perrotta, M. Pivetti, P.L. Porta, A. Quadrio Curzio, S.A.T. Rizvi, A. Rosselli, C. Rotondi, N. Salvadori, R. Signorino, N. Sigot, M. Smith, A. Stirati, R. Sturn, P. Trabucchi, H.-M. Trautwein, P. Tubaro, K. WataraiTrade Review‘Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori have prepared a superb companion that mirrors their deep understanding of classical economics and additionally their familiarity with the international scene of scholars who have worked on Ricardo’s work and his life.’ -- Volker Caspari, Œconomia‘Although there are serious concerns, it cannot be denied that no other individual, or team, could invite so many commentators from all over the world to contribute articles and compile them into a volume on so many aspects of this genuine economist.? The geographical distribution of contributors stretches from USA and UK? ?through (most densely) continental Europe to Australia and Japan, thanks to which? ?the monolingual Anglo-American reader can access the rich non English literature? ?and tradition. The subject coverage extends not only to Ricardo’s? ?economics, pure or? ?applied, and to later economists on him, but also to his life, family, friends, business,? ?religion, politics, and other subjects - a liberal materialization of the editors’ conviction? ?that there is no essential variance between rational and historical reconstruction? ?in the historiography of economics.? ?The reader using this as a reference book should? ? consult as many entries as possible, with the aid of the “See also” sections at the end? ?of each entry. This volume seems, unlike the Ricardian world, to yield increasing? ?returns to scale.?‘ -- Shin Kubo, ?Journal of the History of Economic Thought’As the contributions demonstrate, these scholars from different countries are authorities in their respective areas of Ricardian theory and often for the history of economic thought in general, as are the editors. . . it is encouraging that even nowadays there are still scholars with an intimate knowledge of the roots of our discipline. And, we should be grateful to the editors that they encouraged these authorities, brought together in this volume, to pass on their knowledge to future generations. They contributed to a volume that can be recommended emphatically as a true Companion because it belongs to the sort of books you will not read only once and then put it away. Actually, it should be on one’s book shelf because it is the sort of volume that merits consultation time and again.’ -- History of Economics Review‘. . .Kurz and Salvadori have done researchers on Ricardo a great service with their compilation of these essays.’ -- EH.NetTable of ContentsContents: 1. Accumulation of Capital Enrico Bellino 2. Belsham, Thomas, and Ricardo Sergio Cremaschi 3. Bentham Jeremy and Ricardo Nathalie Sigot 4. Biaujeaud, Huguette, on Ricardo Gilbert Abraham-Frois 5. Blaug, Mark, on Ricardo Roger E. Backhouse 6. Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von, on Ricardo Heinz D. Kurz 7. Bortkiewicz, Ladislaus von, on Ricardo Heinz D. Kurz 8. Bullionist Controvercy Ghislain Deleplace 9. Capital and Profits Giorgio Gilibert 10. Colonies Davide Fiaschi and Rodolfo Signorino 11. Comparative Advantage Gilbert Faccarello 12. Competition Richard Arena and Stephanie Blankenburg 13. Corn Laws Andrea Maneschi 14. Corn Model Roberto Ciccone and Paolo Trabucchi 15. Demand and Supply Antonella Palumbo 16. Dmitriev, Vladimir Karpovich, on Ricardo Christian Gehrke 17. Endogeneous Growth Heinz D. Kurz and N. Salvadori 18. Essay on Profits Rodolfo Signorino 19. Exchange Value and Utility S. Abu Turab Rizvi 20. Exhaustible Resources and Mines Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori 21. Foreign Trade Sergio Parrinello 22. Funding System Rodolfo Signorino 23. General Glut Harald Hagemann 24. Gold Alberto Quadrio Curzio and Claudia Rotondi 25. Hayek, Friedrich von, on Ricardo Hansjoerg Klausinger 26. Hicks on Ricardo Carlo Casarosa 27. Historical Schools on Ricardo Riccardo Faucci 28. Hollander, Jacob Harry, on Ricardo Christian Gehrke 29. Improvements in Production Christian Gehrke 30. Invariable Measure of Value Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori 31 Jevons, William Stanley, on Ricardo David Haas 32. Jewish Background Arnold Heertje 33. Kaldor, Nicholas, on Ricardo John E. King 34. Keynes, John Maynard, on Ricardo Ingo Barens 35. Labour and Wages Antonella Stirati, 36. Labour Theory of Value Gilbert Faccarello 37. Land and Rent Christian Bidard and Guido Erreygers 38. Life and Activities Arnold Heertje 39. Limiting and Regulating Principles Heinz D. Kurz 40. Malthus-Ricardo Debate Sergio Cremaschi 41. Marshall, Alfred, on Ricardo Marco Dardi 42. Marx, Karl Heinrich, on Ricardo Fred Moseley 43. Mathematical Formulations of Ricardian Economics Giuseppe Freni 44. McCulloch, John Ramsay, and Ricardo Katsuyoshi Watarai 45. Member of Parliament Murray Milgate 46. Mill, James, and Ricardo Sergio Cremaschi 47. Mill, John Stuart, on Ricardo Michael S. Aßländer 48. Monetary Theory Ghislain Deleplace 49. National Debt D.P.O'Brien 50. Natural and Market Prices Rodolfo Signorino 51. Natural Quantity of Money Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and Annalisa Rosselli 52. Non-English Editions of Ricardo’s Works Christian Gehrke 53. Notes on Malthus Pier Luigi Porta 54. Papers on Money and Banking Ghislain Deleplace 55. Pasinetti, Luigi Lodovico, on Ricardo Enrico Bellino 56. Poor Laws Arrigo Opocher 57. Population Arrigo Opocher 58. Porter, Sarah Ricardo Sergio Cremaschi 59. Principles of Political Economy and Taxation Heinz D. Kurz and N. Salvadori 60. Rate of Interest Massimo Pivetti 61. Recent Interpretations Gary Mongiovi 62. Revenue Giorgio Gilibert 63. Ricardian Dynamics Christian Bidard and Guido Erreygers 64. Ricardian Equivalence Richard Sturn 65. Ricardian Socialists John E. King 66. Ricardo Editions Christian Gehrke 67. Ricardo on Adam Smith Tony Aspromourgos 68. Ricardo's Emancipation from Smith's Theory of Prices Katsuyoshi Watarai 69. Ricardo's Four Magic Numbers Andrea Maneschi 70. Riches and Value Cosimo Perrotta 71. Samuelson, Paul Anthony on Ricardo Heinz D. Kurz and N. Salvadori 72. Say Jean-Baptiste and Ricardo Christian Gehrke 73. Say's Law Ferdinando Meacci 74. Schumpeter, Joseph Alois, on Ricardo Heinz D. Kurz 75. Sraffa, Piero, on Ricardo Heinz D. Kurz and N. Salvadori 76. Surplus Saverio M.Fratini 77. Taxation Takuo Dome 78. Technical Change Heinz D. Kurz 79. Tooke, Thomas, and Ricardo Matthew Smith 80. Torrens, Robert, and Ricardo Gary Mongiovi 81. Tozer, John Edward, on Ricardo Paola Tubaro 82. Trower, Hutches, and Ricardo Peter Groenewegen 83. Walras, Marie-Esprit-Léon, on Ricardo Heinz D. Kurz and N. Salvadori 84. Wealth Ferdinando Meacci 85. Whewell William on Ricardo Christian Gehrke 86. Wicksell, Knut on Ricardo Hans-Michael Trautwein Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Teaching the History of Economic Thought:
Book SynopsisStemming from the idea that economics is a social science that tends to forget its own history, this refreshing book reflects on the role of teaching with historical perspectives. It offers novel ways of integrating the history of economics into the curriculum, both in history of economic thought modules and in other sub-disciplines. Coming from a wide diversity of experiences, the contributors explore the idea that studying the history of thought exposes students to pluralism, and that it is therefore an essential pedagogical tool.They also argue that this method of teaching will reveal the historical contextualisation of current theories and show how they are the results of a specific evolution within the discipline. Ultimately, this book demonstrates how some modules have successfully operationalized both the history of economic thought and the teaching of various sub-disciplines from a historical perspective.Teaching the History of Economic Thought will be invaluable and enlightening for teaching and learning institutes across the academic world, as well as for economists, heterodox economists in particular, and social scientists.Contributors include: R. Bellofiore, G. Friedman, S. Fuller, J. Halevi, C. Repapis, L.-P. Rochon, S. Rossi, D. Tavasci, L. VentimigliaTrade Review'Mainstream economics is so reduced and skewed from reality that its teaching has always been and is becoming worse in substance and methods, creating legions of opportunities to take up alternative pedagogies. This book takes a step or three in this, judicially deploying the history of economic thought both to expose the narrowness of the mainstream and the richnesses it overlooks in the discipline's own history - to the mutual benefit of the critical faculties of students and teachers alike.' --Ben Fine, SOAS University of London, UK'This book argues that economics education reform is to be achieved through the history of economic thought. Not just by introducing students to the history of economic thought at the very beginning of their studies, but mainly by situating the material taught in every module in a historical perspective. Tavasci and Ventimiglia make a compelling case, and the individual chapters contain a wealth of detail as to how that can be achieved under a variety of conditions.' --Andrew Denis, City, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Daniela Tavasci and Luigi Ventimiglia 2. Integrating History of Economic Thought into Introductory Economics Constantinos Repapis 3. Teaching economic theory based on the history of economic thought Joseph Halevi 4. From Teaching History of Economic Thought to Teaching and Learning with Historical Perspectives Daniela Tavasci 5. Eleven theses on political economy and ‘rethinking economics’: The role of the history of economic thought in the ‘Italian tradition’ Riccardo Bellofiore 6. Introducing Institutional Microeconomics through the study of the history of Economic Thought Gerald Friedman 7. Teaching money and banking with regard to the history of economic thought Louis-Philippe Rochon and Sergio Rossi 8. Teaching Financial Economics with Historical Perspectives Luigi Ventimiglia 9. Teaching and learning with historical perspectives Stephanie Fuller Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Alternative Austrian Economics: A Brief
Book SynopsisFor most economists, 'Austrian economics' refers to a distinct school of thought, originating with Mises and Hayek and characterised by a strong commitment to free-market liberalism. This innovative book explores an alternative Austrian tradition in economics. Socialist in spirit but too diffuse to be described as a single school of thought, it shares a common conviction that the market, while possibly a good servant, is a very poor master. Demonstrating how the debate on the economics of socialism began in Austria long before the 1930s, this unique book analyses the work and impact of many leading Austrian economists. Beginning with the Austro-Marxist theorists Otto Bauer and Rudolf Hilferding and moving through to the new generation of social democratic economists, most prominently Kurt Rothschild and Josef Steindl, The Alternative Austrian Economics provides insight into the history and evolution of socialist economics in Austria. Offering a previously underrepresented discussion of a century of Austrian socialist economics, this engaging book will prove to be of great value to Marxian and heterodox economists, historians of economic thought and political scientists interested in political economy.Trade Review'Economists associate the Austrian school with the free market classical liberal ideas of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, Professor King describes the ideas of another group of Austrian economists: Marxists who were active in Vienna in the early twentieth century, and later Austro-Marxists who built on their work. King's book is a delightful description of this intellectual community, and explains how their work was designed to be an extension and updating of Marx's ideas.' --Randall G. Holcombe, Florida State University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. ‘Red Vienna’ and the Roots of Austro-Marxism 3. The Young Rudolf Hilferding 4. Otto Bauer 1904-1914 5. The Economics of Socialism 6. Otto Bauer 1917-1938 7. Other Voices 8. The Heirs. I: Josef Steindl 9. The Heirs. II: Kurt Rothschild 10. What is Left Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A History of the Global Economy: The Inevitable
Book SynopsisProviding an exceptional overview and analysis of the global economy, from the origins of Homo sapiens to the present day, Colin White explores our past to help understand our economic future. He veers away from traditional Eurocentric approaches, providing a truly global scope for readers.A History of the Global Economy takes a holistic, interdisciplinary approach, beyond the narrow application of economic theory, to include the impact of climate change, genetics and culture. The main themes include the creative innovativeness of humans and how this generates economic progression, the common economic pathway trodden by all societies and the complementary relationship between government and the market. The book moves through the four key economic stages of human history - foraging, agriculture, industry and services - to finally examine where the direction of our future may lie.This comprehensive and ambitious book is a must-read for economists, particularly economic historians, as well as anthropology and political history scholars. It not only explores the history and origins of the global economy but also provides a valuable analysis of the current state of economic affairs, making it an ideal book for those wishing to understand more about our ever-evolving global society.Trade Review'Colin White has produced a work of staggering scholarship. It is in every sense ''big history''. The narrative encompasses the entire span of human experience - as well as that of its hominid predecessors. It offers provocative and original insights into virtually all the forces that have shaped thousands of years of economic history - genetic, social, cultural, political and environmental. It is an intellectual tour de force which few others could have achieved.' --Robert Ash, SOAS, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Finding a common economic pathway 2. Transitions and revolutions Part II: Beginnings: place and people 3. Changing contexts 4. The past within us 5. The dynamic forager Part III: The agricultural phase, from 15000 BC to AD 1800 6. Asking the wrong questions 7. The Agricultural Revolution: 15000 BC - 1 BC 8. Innovativeness in agrarian civilisations: 15000 BC – AD 1800 Part IV: Empires and the rise of agrarian civilisations 9. The emergence of complex political organisation 10. First civilisations 11. The rise of an eastern agrarian civilisation: China 12. Imperialism moves westward 13. Imperial structures and their finite lifetimes 14. A natural experiment - the Americas Part V: Commerce as an enabler of modern economic development 15. The building of a global world: trade systems before 1500 16. The circle completed: 1500-1800 17. The integration of the global economy: 1700-1900 18. Creative innovativeness in full bloom Part VI: The emergence of the modern economy 19. The inception of modern economic development 20. Stage one – the Industrial Revolution in Britain 21. More industrial revolutions 22. The Asian miracle? Part VII: Where are we at? 23. Stage two of modern economic development: the Service Revolution 24. Looking backwards in order to peer forwards Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Credit and Crisis from Marx to Minsky
Book SynopsisThis timely book studies the economic theories of credit cycles and disturbances in the 20th century, presenting a nuanced view of the role of finance in the economy after the financial crash of 2008. Focusing on the work of economists from Marx onwards, Jan Toporowski moves beyond conventional monetary theory to offer an insightful critical alternative to current financial macroeconomics. The book features an extended discussion of Marx's approach to credit and finance, new insights to Minsky's ideas and a reconsideration of the financial theories of Kalecki and Steindl. Economic researchers and postgraduate students seeking to extend their knowledge of critical approaches to finance will find this an invaluable read, as well as practitioners and policy makers who seek to understand financial instability and unstable markets. This will also be an insightful read for economic historians looking to understand the nuances of different key economic theories and their practical applications. This timely book studies the economic theories of credit cycles and disturbances in the 20th century, presenting a nuanced view of the role of finance in the economy after the financial crash of 2008.Trade Review'Jan Toporowski provides a provocative guide to a dissenting tradition in macroeconomics where monetary and financial institutions are just as fundamental to the market economy's performance as real factors - endowments, tastes, technology, etc. Along his route from Marx to Minsky we naturally encounter the likes of Keynes and Kalecki, but also, more surprisingly, proto-monetarists like Fisher, Hawtrey, and Henry Simons. Whatever our own views, Toporowski forces us to look at today's macroeconomics in a refreshingly new light: highly recommended.' --David Laidler, University of Western Ontario, US'Professor Jan Toporowski offers us a brilliant piece of scholarship combining history of money and credit theories ranging over heterodox economists from Marx and Luxemburg to mainstream but radical economists such as Keynes and Minsky. It is a here and now explanation of our problems.' --Lord Meghnad Desai, London School of Economics, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I: CAPITALISM AND FINANCIAL CRISIS 1. Marx and the Monetary Business Cycle 2. Marx and the Emergence of Debt Markets 3. Rosa Luxemburg and the Marxists on Finance PART II: CRITICAL THEORIES OF FINANCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: UNSTABLE MONEY AND FINANCE 4. Ralph Hawtrey and the Monetary Business Cycle 5. Irving Fisher and Debt Deflation 6. John Maynard Keynes’s Financial Theory of Under-Investment I: Towards Doubt 7. John Maynard Keynes’s Financial Theory of Under-Investment II: Towards Uncertainty PART III: CRITICAL THEORIES OF FINANCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: CORPORATE DEBT AND CRISIS 8. The Principle Of Increasing Risk: Marek Breit 9. The Principle Of Increasing Risk: Michal Kalecki 10. The Principle of Increasing Risk: Josef Steindl and Michal Kalecki on Profits and Finance 11. The Kalecki-Steindl theory of financial fragility PART IV: CRITICAL THEORIES OF FINANCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE FINANCIAL INSTABILITY HYPOTHESIS 12. The Monetary Theory of Kalecki and Minsky 13. From Money to Minsky: Henry Simons 14. The Financial Instability Hypothesis Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis
Book SynopsisThis unique troika of Handbooks provides indispensable coverage of the history of economic analysis. Edited by two of the foremost academics in the field, the volumes gather together insightful and original contributions from scholars across the world. The encyclopaedic breadth and scope of the original entries will make these Handbooks an invaluable source of knowledge for all serious students and scholars of the history of economic thought.Each Handbook can be read individually and acts as a self-contained volume in its own right. It can be purchased separately or as part of a three-volume set.Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of this system can be improved and its dysfunction reduced.Contributors include: T. Asada, T. Aspromourgos, M. Assous, V. Avtonomov, R. Baranzini, A. Baujard, A. Béraud, É. Bertrand, O. Bjerkholt, P. Boettke, D. Bögenhold, A. Brewer, G. Campagnolo, V. Caspari, V. Chick J. Creedy, F. Dal Degan, M. Dal Pont-Legrande, M. Dardi, J. de Boyer des Roches, D. Diatkine, V. Di Giovinazzo, R.W. Dimand, R. Dujmovits, I. Eliseeva, R.B. Emmett, N. Eyguesier, G. Faccarello, O. Favereau, A. Fossati, W. Gaertner, C. Gehrke, A. Giuliani, J. Glaeser, M. Gödl, R. Gómez Betancourt, H. Gram, M.E.L. Guidi, D. Haas, H. Hagemann, G.C. Harcourt, M.J. Holler, H. Janssen, J. Jespersen, J. Joachim Zweynert, P. Kalmbach, Y.-F. Kao, J.E. King, A. Kirman, H. Klausinger, M. Knell, S. Kolev, H.D. Kurz, B.J. Loasby, N. Makasheva, C. Martin, M. McLure, A. Molavi Vasséi, A.E. Murphy, L. Nellinger, S. Oliver, A. Opocher, A. Orain, T. Raffaelli, A. Rainer, G. Rubin, M. Rutherford, M. Salles, N. Salvadori,B. Schefold, M. Schneider, C.P. Schröder, M.H. Schütz, U. Schwalbe, R. Signorino, N. Skaggs, P. Spahn, P. Steiner, R. Sturn, H.-M. Trautwein, K. Tribe, R. Van den Berg, V. Vanberg, K. Velupillai, R. Venkatachalam, C.C. von Weizsäcker, L.R. Wray, K. YahiaTrade Review‘This unique trio of Handbooks of economic analysis offers a comprehensive coverage of the history of the subject. It is a fascinating collection of essays on a wide range of topics in the field.‘(The authors) are to be lauded for what is by any standard a major accomplishment, and an important contribution to the existing scholarly literature in the history of economics.’ -- Harro Maas and Cléo Chassonnery-Zaigouche, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought‘(This book) provides a comprehensive and complex history of the evolution of economic science, something that no other book does. That is why the Handbook of the History of Economic Analysis will soon become an indisputable guide for universities, in particular, and for the academic world, in general.’ -- The Journal of Philosophical EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. William Petty (1623-1687) Tony Aspromourgos 3. Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert (1646-1714) Gilbert Faccarello 4. John Law (1671-1729) Antoin E. Murphy 5. Richard Cantillon (1680/90-1734) Antoin E. Murphy 6. Charles-Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu (1689-1755) Arnaud Orain 7. François Quesnay (1694-1774) and Physiocracy Arnaud Orain and Philippe Steiner 8. Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) Gilbert Faccarello 9. David Hume (1711-1776) Daniel Diatkine 10. James Steuart [James Denham-Steuart] (1712-1780) Anthony Brewer 11. Adam Smith (1723-1790) Tony Aspromourgos 12. Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727-1781) Gilbert Faccarello 13. Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de Condorcet (1743-1794) Gilbert Faccarello 14. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) Marco E.L. Guidi 15. Achille-Nicolas Isnard (1748-1803) Richard van den Berg 16. Henry Thornton (1760-1815) Jérôme de Boyer des Roches 17. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) Catherine Martin 18. Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) Alain Béraud 19. David Ricardo (1772-1823) Heinz D. Kurz 20. Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi (1773-1842) Francesca Dal Degan and Nicolas Eyguesier 21. Thomas Tooke (1774-1858) Neil Skaggs 22. Robert Torrens (c.1780-1864) Christian Gehrke 23. Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783-1850) Ludwig Nellinger 24. Barthélémy-Charles Dunoyer de Segonzac (1786–1862) Alain Béraud 25. Friedrich List (1789-1846) Stefan Kolev and Joachim Zweynert 26. Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Alain Béraud 27. Antoine-Augustin Cournot (1801-1877) Alain Béraud 28. Jules Dupuit (1804-1866) Alain Béraud 29. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Arrigo Opocher 30. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) Alain Béraud 31. Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810-1858) Heinz D. Kurz 32. Bruno Hildebrand (1812-1878) Bertram Schefold 33. Wilhelm George Friedrich Roscher (1817-1894) Heinz D. Kurz 34. Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883) Gilbert Faccarello, Christian Gehrke and Heinz D. Kurz 35. Clément Juglar (1819-1905) Muriel Dal Pont-Legrande 36. Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) Alain Béraud 37. Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) Jérôme de Boyer des Roches 38. Marie Esprit Léon Walras (1834-1910) Roberto Baranzini 39. William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) John Creedy 40. Adolph Heinrich Gotthilf Wagner (1834-1917) Rudolf Dujmovits and Richard Sturn 41. Gustav Friedrich von Schmoller (1838-1917) Johannes Glaeser 42. Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) Keith Tribe 43. Carl Menger (1840-1921) Gilles Campagnolo 44. Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) Tiziano Raffaelli 45. Philip Henry Wicksteed (1844-1927) John Creedy 46. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845-1926) John Creedy 47. John Bates Clark (1847-1938) Marlies Hanna Schütz 48. Vilfedo Pareto (1848-1923) Michael McLure 49. Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851-1914) Carl Christian von Weizsäcker 50. Knut Wicksell (1851-1926) Hans-Michael Trautwein 51. Friedrich von Wieser (1851-1926) Richard Sturn 52. Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857-1924) Marco Dardi 53. Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857-1929) Alfonso Giuliani 54. Antonio De Viti de Marco (1858-1943) Amedeo Fossati 55. John Atkinson Hobson (1858-1940) Michael Schneider 56. Georg Simmel (1858-1918) Dieter Bögenhold 57. Enrico Barone (1859-1924) Marco Dardi 58. Max Weber (1864-1920) Keith Tribe 59. Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky (1865-1919) Vladimir Avtonomov and Natalia Makasheva 60. Gustav Cassel (1866-1945) Hans-Michael Trautwein 61. Irving Fisher (1867-1947) Harald Hagemann 62. Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz (1868-1931) Christian Gehrke and Heinz D. Kurz 63. Vladimir Karpovich Dmitriev (1868-1913) Christian Gehrke 64. Louis Bachelier (1870-1946) Alain Béraud 65. Arthur Spiethoff (1873-1957) David Haas 66. Albert Aftalion (1874-1956) Muriel Dal Pont-Legrand 67. Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874-1948) Malcolm Rutherford 68. Edwin Walter Kemmerer (1875-1945) Rebeca Gómez Betancourt 69. Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959) Hansjörg Klausinger 70. Ralph George Hawtrey (1879-1975) Jérôme de Boyer des Roches 71. Evgeni Evgenievich Slutsky (1880-1948) Irina Eliseeva 72. Ludwig Heinrich von Mises (1881-1973) Richard Sturn 73. John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) Victoria Chick and Jesper Jespersen 74. Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950) Richard Sturn 75. Frank H. Knight (1885-1972) Ross B. Emmett 76. Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) Peter Kalmbach 77. Walter Eucken (1891-1950) Hauke Janssen 78. Erik Lindahl (1891-1960) Christian Gehrke 79. Adolph Lowe (1893-1995) Harald Hagemann 80. Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (1895-1973) Olav Bjerkholt 81. Jacob Marschak (1898-1977) Harald Hagemann 82. Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) Hans-Michael Trautwein 83. Lionel Charles Robbins (1898-1984) Andreas Rainer 84. Piero Sraffa (1898-1983) Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori 85. Edward H. Chamberlin (1899-1967) Rodolfo Signorino 86. Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) Peter Boettke 87. Michał Kalecki (1899-1970) Michaël Assous 88. Roy Forbes Harrod (1900-1978) Michaël Assous 89. Abba Ptachya Lerner (1903-1982) Volker Caspari 90. John von Neumann (1903-1957) Manfred J. Holler 91. Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903-1930) K. Vela Velupillai and Ragupathy Venkatachalam 92. Joan Violet Robinson (1903-1983) Harvey Gram 93. George Lennox Sharman Shackle (1903-1992) Brian J. Loasby 94. Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) Mark Knell 95. John Richard Hicks (1904-1989) Harald Hagemann 96. Oskar Ryszard Lange (1904-1965) Michaël Assous 97. Richard Ferdinand Kahn (1905-1989) Geoffrey C. Harcourt 98. Wassily W. Leontief (1905-1999) Olav Bjerkholt 99. Heinrich von Stackelberg (1905-1946) Ulrich Schwalbe 100. James Edward Meade (1907-1995) Volker Caspari 101. Nicholas Kaldor (1908-1986) John E. King 102. Ronald Harry Coase (1910-2013) Élodie Bertrand 103. Richard Abel Musgrave (1910-2007) Richard Sturn 104. Tibor Scitovsky (1910-2002) Viviana Di Giovinazzo 105. Maurice Allais (1911-2010) Alain Béraud 106. Milton Friedman (1912-2006) Christian Philipp Schröder and Peter Spahn 107. Abram Bergson [Abram Burk] (1914-2003) Antoinette Baujard 108. Paul Anthony Samuelson (1915-2009) Carl Christian von Weizsäcker 109. Herbert Alexander Simon (1916-2001) K. Vela Velupillai and Ying-Fang Kao 110. James Tobin (1918-2002) Robert W. Dimand 111. James M. Buchanan (1919-2013) Viktor Vanberg 112. Hyman Philip Minsky (1919-1996) L. Randall Wray 113. Kenneth Joseph Arrow (1921) Maurice Salles 114. Gérard Debreu (1921-2004) Alan Kirman 115. Don Patinkin (1922-1995) Goulven Rubin 116. Michio Morishima (1923-2004) Toichiro Asada 117. Robert Merton Solow (1924) Peter Kalmbach 118. John Forbes Nash (1928-2015) Robert W. Diamand and Khalid Yahia 119. Robert Alexander Mundell (1932) Oliver Sauter and Peter Spahn 120. Takashi Negishi (1933) Toichiro Asada 121. Amartya Kumar Sen (1933) Wulf Gaertner 122. Robert E. Lucas (1937) Arash Molavi Vasséi snd Peter Spahn 123. George Akerlof (1940) Olivier Favereau 124. Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (1943) Max Gödl 125. Paul Robin Krugman (1953) Max Gödl Index
£57.90
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis
Book SynopsisThis unique troika of Handbooks provide exhaustive and indispensable coverage of the history of economic analysis. Edited by two of the foremost academics in the field, they gather together insightful and original contributions from scholars across the world. The encyclopaedic breadth and scope of the original entries will make these Handbooks an invaluable source of knowledge for all serious students and scholars of the history of economic thought.Each Handbook can be read individually and acts as a self-contained volume in its own right. They can be purchased separately or as part of a three-volume set.Volume II contains entries on the major schools of economic thought and analysis. These schools differ with regard to their 'vision' of the working of the economic system, the major forces and interactions that shape its path, and the policy recommendations proposed. At any moment of time, several such schools typically compete with one another, striving for dominance within the economic and political discourse.Contributors include: F. Allisson, R. Baranzini, M. Bellet, A.A. Belykh, C. Benassi, A. Béraud, C.B. Blankart, A. Brewer, G. Chaloupek, I. Chaplygina, S. Cook, J. Creedy, J. de Boyer des Roches, T. Demals, R.B. Emmett, G. Faccarello, C. Gehrke, G.C. Harcourt, J.E. King, H.D. Kurz, A. Lapidus, M. Lavoie, M.C. Marcuzzo, A. Molavi Vasséi, P.L. Porta, A. Rosselli, M. Rutherford, N. Salvadori, B. Schefold, N.T. Skaggs, R. Solis Rosales, H.-P. Spahn, N. Thompson, H.-M. Trautwein, K. TribeTrade Review‘This unique trio of Handbooks of economic analysis offers a comprehensive coverage of the history of the subject. It is a fascinating collection of essays on a wide range of topics in the field.‘(The authors) are to be lauded for what is by any standard a major accomplishment, and an important contribution to the existing scholarly literature in the history of economics.’ -- Harro Maas and Cléo Chassonnery-Zaigouche, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought‘(This book) provides a comprehensive and complex history of the evolution of economic science, something that no other book does. That is why the Handbook of the History of Economic Analysis will soon become an indisputable guide for universities, in particular, and for the academic world, in general.’ -- The Journal of Philosophical EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Antiquity Bertram Schefold 3. Economic Thought in Scholasticism Irina Chaplygina and André Lapidus 4. Cameralism Keith Tribe 5. Mercantilism and the Science of Trade Thierry Demals 6. French Enlightenment Thierry Demals and Gilbert Faccarello 7. Italian Enlightenment Pier Luigi Porta 8. Scottish Enlightenment Anthony Brewer 9. British Classical Political Economy Christian Gehrke 10. French Classical Political Economy Alain Béraud 11. Bullionist and Anti-bullionist Schools Jérôme de Boyer des Roches and Ricardo Solis Rosales 12. Banking and Currency Schools Neil T. Skaggs 13. Non Marxian Socialist Ideas in France Michel Bellet 14. Non Marxian Socialist Ideas in Britain and the United States Noel Thompson 15. Non Marxian Socialist Ideas in Germany and Austria Günther Chaloupek 16. Marxism(s) John E. King 17. German and Austrian school Heinz D.Kurz 18. British Marginalism John Creedy 19. Lausanne School Roberto Baranzini and François Allisson 20. Historical Economics Simon Cook and Keith Tribe 21. Institutionalism Malcolm Rutherford 22. Russian School of Mathematical Economics Andrey A. Belykh 23. Cambridge School of Economics Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and Annalisa Rosselli 24. Stockholm (Swedish) School Hans-Michael Trautwein 25. Chicago School Ross B. Emmett 26. Monetarism Arash Molavi Vasséi 27. New Classical Macroeconomics Peter Spahn 28. Public Choice Charles B. Blankart 29. Neo Ricardian Economics Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori 30. Keynesianism Geoffrey C. Harcourt 31. Post-Keynesianism Marc Lavoie 32. New Keynesianism Corrado Benassi Index
£46.95
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis
Book SynopsisThis unique troika of Handbooks provide indispensable coverage of the history of economic analysis. Edited by two of the foremost academics in the field, they gather together insightful and original contributions from scholars across the world. The encyclopaedic breadth and scope of the original entries will make these Handbooks an invaluable source of knowledge for all serious students and scholars of the history of economic thought.Each Handbook can be read individually and acts as a self-contained volume in its own right. They can be purchased separately or as part of a three-volume set.Volume III contains entries on the development of major fields in economics from the inception of systematic analysis until modern times. The reader is provided with succinct summary accounts of the main problems, the methods used and the results obtained across time. The emphasis is on both the continuity and major changes that have occurred in the economic analysis of problematic issues such as economic growth, income distribution, employment, inflation, business cycles and financial instability.Contributors: M. Assous, A. Baccini, Jr., A. Baujard, É. Bertrand, M. Boumans, J.L. Cardoso, M. Dal Pont-Legrand, J. De Boyer Des Roches, M. De Vroey, S. Di Rizzello, S. Diatkine, K. Dopfer, A.K. Dutt, R. Ege, G. Erreygers, D. Foley, R. Gómez Betancourt, D. Haas, H. Hagemann, E. Hosoda, H. Igersheim, A. Kirman, J. Kleinert, H. Kliemt, H.D. Kurz, R. Leonard, P. Malgrange, A. Maneschi, P. Mehrling, S. Mohun, M. Mosca, S. Noto, A. Opocher, N. Palan, F. Petri, A. Rainer, S. Rizzello, J.B. Rosser, M. Salles, N. Salvadori, M. Schütz, R. Signorino, A. Spada, P. Steiner, A. Stirati, R. Strohmaier, R. Sturn, C. Sunna, J.-F. Thisse, P. Tubaro, K. WataraiTrade Review‘This unique trio of Handbooks of economic analysis offers a comprehensive coverage of the history of the subject. It is a fascinating collection of essays on a wide range of topics in the field.‘(The authors) are to be lauded for what is by any standard a major accomplishment, and an important contribution to the existing scholarly literature in the history of economics.’ -- Harro Maas and Cléo Chassonnery-Zaigouche, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought‘(This book) provides a comprehensive and complex history of the evolution of economic science, something that no other book does. That is why the Handbook of the History of Economic Analysis will soon become an indisputable guide for universities, in particular, and for the academic world, in general.’ -- The Journal of Philosophical EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Balance of Payment and Exchange Rates Jérôme De Boyer Des Roches and Rebeca Gómez Betancourt 3. Behavioural and Cognitive Economics Salvatore Di Rizzello and Anna Spada 4. Business Cycles and Growth Michaël Assous, Muriel Dal Pont-Legrand and Harald Hagemann 5. Capital Theory Fabio Petri 6. Competition Neri Salvadori and Rodolfo Signorino 7. Corporatism Sergio Noto 8. Development Economics Amitava Krishna Dutt 9. Econometrics Marcel Boumans 10. Economic Dynamics J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. 11. Economic Geography Jacques-François Thisse 12. Economic Sociology Philippe Steiner 13. Economics And Philosophy Hartmut Kliemt 14. Evolutionary Economics Kurt Dopfer 15. Experimental Economics Salvatore Rizzello and Anna Spada 16. Financial Economics Perry Mehrling 17. Formalisation and Mathematical Modelling Paola Tubaro 18. Game Theory Robert Leonard 19. General Equilibrium Theory Alan Kirman 20. Growth Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori 21. Income Distribution Arrigo Opocher 22. Industrial Organization Manuela Mosca 23. Input-Output Analysis Guido Erreygers 24. Institutional Economics Élodie Bertrand 25. International Trade Andrea Maneschi 26. Labour and Employment Antonella Stirati 27. Macroeconomics Michel De Vroey and Pierre Malgrange 28. Methods in the History of Economic Thought José Luís Cardoso 29. Money and Banking Jérôme De Boyer Des Roches and Sylvie Diatkine 30. Open Economy Macroeconomics Joern Kleinert 31. Political Philosophy and Economics: Freedom and Labour Ragip Ege and Herrade Igersheim 32. Population Claudia Sunna 33. Poverty Katsuyoshi Watarai 34. Public Economics Richard Sturn 35. Resource and Environmental Economics Eui Hosoda 36. Social Choice Maurice Salles 37. Technical Change and Innovation David Haas, Heinz D. Kurz, Nicole Palan, Andreas Rainer, Marlies Schütz and Rita Strohmaier 38. Theory of the Firm Élodie Bertrand 39. Uncertainty and Information Alberto Baccini 40. Utilitarianism and Anti-Utilitarianism Antoinette Baujard 41. Value and Price Duncan Foley and Simon Mohun 42. Welfare Economics Antoinette Baujard Index
£50.30
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Inequalities and the Progressive Era:
Book SynopsisInequalities and the Progressive Era features contributors from all corners of the world, each exploring a different type of inequality during the Progressive Era (1890s-1930s). Though this era is most associated with the United States, it corresponds to a historical period in which profound changes and progress are realized or expected all over the globe. The original and international perspectives of the book make it possible to examine important issues or authors of the Progressive Era, who have at times been neglected or insufficiently discussed. This analysis allows us both to know more about this key period of the history of capitalism, and to consider contemporary debates regarding the treatment of inequalities with a pluralistic approach. Academics and students of all levels, from PhD and Master degree students to undergrads will appreciate the original focus on the roots and treatments of inequalities, and this innovative collaboration between researchers of various fields in social sciences. Contributors include: V. Babashkin, T. Briggs, B. Buarque de Hollanda, C. Castelain-Meunier, V. Chassagnon, R.W. Dimand, B. Dubrion, O. Goerg, F. Granda, O. Lakomski-Laguerre, C. Maumi, S. Meardon, A. Millmow, C. Morrisson, T. N'Diaye, A. Nikulin, J.N. Parker, S. Pressman, M. Rocca, C. Schrecker, F. Sember, R. Skidelsky, H. Tanaka, P. Thane, G. ValletTrade Review‘This collection of essays is a valuable reference for anyone interested in inequality. Its wide breadth, both in terms of topics and geographical coverage, and the sociological and institutional perspective that permeates most of the contributions, provide insights often lacking in other works on the same topic.’ -- Emanuele Citera, Review of Political Economy‘The collection itself is fascinating in the scope of the material. Many of those identified here as Progressives are absent from the orthodox treatments of the subject, which has been for the most part confined to a specific period in the economic and social history of the United States.’ -- Charles R McCann Jr, History of Economic Ideas'Rising inequality in late 19th and early 20th centuries US led to the development between 1920 and 1980 of the most successful and ambitious progressive tax system ever experimented. If you want to know more about the intellectual roots of the progressive era, you should read this great collection of essays. A fascinating book.' --Thomas Piketty, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Paris School of Economics, France'This remarkable and carefully curated volume is an invaluable roadmap to the treatment of inequalities during the fascinating and often misunderstood Progressive Era. As Guillaume Vallet and his contributors argue there is much to be learned about this transformative era of political, economic, and social reform. Today, we confront a wide range of unacceptable inequalities. Academics, policymakers, and activists should look to this volume for inspiration as they design and advocate pathways out of the present morass.' --Ilene Grabel, University of Denver, US'Although ''The Progressive Era'' is usually understood as the period from 1900 to 1917 in the United States during which major political, social, and economic reforms took place, the authors of the twenty-two essays about more than a dozen countries on five continents in this volume broaden the geographical and chronological (1890s-1930s) focus on similar reform activities. Current efforts to address the problem of increasing inequalities of wealth and income in our own time can benefit from the perspectives provided by these studies of a similar problem a century ago.' --James M. McPherson, Princeton University, US and author of Battle Cry of Freedom; The Civil War EraTable of ContentsContents: Preface Stephany Griffith-Jones Introduction Guillaume Vallet I. Foundations of inequalities 1. The question of inequalities during the Progressive Era in the United States: The “Golden Mean” program of the economist Richard T. Ely Michel Rocca 2. The progressive view of old institutionalism: Business ethics, industrial democracy and reasonable capitalism Virgile Chassagnon and Benjamin Dubrion 3. Inequalities and the dynamics of capitalism: Will democracy survive? Albion W. Small’s view Guillaume Vallet 4. Forgetting and remembering the Chicago school of Colombus, Ohio: Roderick D. McKenzie, neighborhoods, and inequality Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker 5. Progressive values and institutional realities at the New School for Social Research Cherry Schrecker 6. Progressive economic thought in interwar Australia Alex Millmow 7. Repeated disappearance: Why was progressivism forgotten in Japanese economics? Hidetomi Tanaka II. Fighting income, capital and land inequalities 8. Income inequality: A turning point, 1880–1930 Christian Morrisson 9. Inequalities in the United Kingdom: The “Progressive” Era, 1890s–1920s Patricia Thane 10. Distribution as a macroeconomic problem Robert Skidelsky 11. Land ownership as a mechanism for the reproduction of inequality in Ecuador from 1895 to 1920s Francisca Granda 12. Peasants, inequality and progress in the research of Alexander Chayanov: Russia and the world Vladimir Babashkin and Alexander Nikulin 13. Broadacre City: Frank Llyod Wright’s vision of an organic capitalism Catherine Maumi 14. The tariff question, the labor question, and Henry George’s triangulation Stephen Meardon III. Fighting social inequalities 15. Schumpeter’s view of social inequalities Odile Lakomski-Laguerre 16. W.E.B. Du Bois on poverty and racial inequality Steven Pressman and Thomas Briggs 17. A reconsideration of James Africanus Beale Horton of Sierra Leone (1835–1883) and his legacy Odile Goerg 18. Sol Plaatje: An intellectual giant in the 20th century history of black South Africa Tidiane N’Diaye and Guillaume Vallet 19. Stephen Leacock on political economy and the unsolved riddle of social justice Robert W. Dimand 20. Trailblazing feminists at the turn of the twentieth century: A focus on Marianne Weber and Lou-Andreas Salomé Christine Castelain-Meunier 21. Silvio Gesell’s vision on monetary reform: how to reduce social inequalities Florencia Sember 22. Football culture and sports history in Latin America: From the Progressive Era to contemporary times Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda Index
£126.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Malthus Across Nations: The Reception of Thomas
Book SynopsisThe writings of Thomas Robert Malthus continue to resonate today, particularly An Essay on the Principle of Population which was published more than two centuries ago. Malthus Across Nations creates a fascinating picture of the circulation of his economic and demographic ideas across different countries, highlighting the reception of his works in a variety of nations and cultures. This unique book offers not only a fascinating piece of comparative analysis in the history of economic thought, but also places some of today's most pressing debates into an accurate historical perspective, thereby improving our understanding of them. Providing a complex and multi-faceted analysis of the reception and dissemination of the works of Malthus, this book examines how his approach was misunderstood and distorted throughout his lifetime and beyond. It illuminates the different ways in which groups of actors, including laymen, politicians and experts, have reacted to his work in specific historical and intellectual contexts, and with particular theoretical, political and moral concerns. Detailed breakdowns of the main controversies over his work are also explored. An insightful read for scholars studying economics and history of economic thought, this book guides readers from Malthus's original publications to their continuing impact today. This will also be a useful volume for ethics, political thought and intellectual history students. Contributors include: D. Andrews, J.L. Cardoso, D. Donnini Macciò, G. Faccarello, C. Gehrke, M. Izumo, M. Markov, D. Melnik, A. Mendes Cunha, H. Morishita, R. Romani, J. San Julián Arrupe, R. WalterTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Malthus across nations 1 Gilbert Faccarello, Masashi Izumo and Hiromi Morishita 1 Malthus’s principle of population in Britain: restatement and antiquation 18 Ryan Walter 2 The reception of Malthus’s Essay on Population in the United States 53 David Andrews 3 ‘Enlightened Saint Malthus’ or the ‘gloomy Protestant of dismal England’? The reception of Malthus in the French language 83 Gilbert Faccarello 4 The reception of Malthus in Germany and Austria in the 19th century 174 Christian Gehrke 5 Malthus’s Italian incarnations, 1815–1915 236 Daniela Donnini Macciò and Roberto Romani 6 The reception of Malthus in Spain and Spanish-speaking Latin America 274 Javier San Julián Arrupe 7 The reception and appropriation of Malthus in Portugal and Brazil 324 José Luís Cardoso and Alexandre Mendes Cunha 8 The reception of Malthus in Russia 359 Maxim Markov and Denis Melnik 9 The reception of Malthus in Japan 400 Masashi Izumo and Hiromi Morishita Name index 453
£135.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Historical Perspectives on Sports Economics:
Book SynopsisThe sports sector, apart from being of economic significance in itself, is clearly one that many citizens share a great interest in. It is not mere results, but aspects such as history, statistics, interest in labour markets and finances that often spark people's interest. The characteristics of the sports sector and the data it provides allows economists to cast light on a large number of economic issues facing society. Historical Perspectives on Sports Economics explores a variety of topics, including mega-event analysis, sports governance, anthropometrics, gambling, industrial organisation, infrastructure development and racial issues. The analysis is sufficiently non-technical and will appeal not only to academic economists and students, but to historians and sports enthusiasts as well.Trade Review‘... there is much to recommend the blending of historical and economic method and commentary in this interdisciplinary text.’ -- Ian Henry, The International Journal of the History of SportTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Understanding economics through the history of sport John Wilson 2. From Recreational Sports Clubs to Sports Businesses: Bradford and Queen’s Park Football Clubs 1860s-1914 John Dewhirst and Wray Vamplew 3. Home ground advantage: The determinants of sharing versus sole occupied stadium arrangements Richard Pomfret and John K. Wilson 4. Stadium Construction and the Distribution of Winning Percentages in the English and Scottish Football Leagues, 1888-89 to 1938-39 Lionel Frost, Luc Borrowman, Vinod Mishra and Abdel K. Halabi 5. The Rise and Fall (and Rise and Fall) of the Olympic Games as an Economic Driver Victor Matheson 6. The Winter Sports Industry and Winter Olympics in Historical Perspective: From Grenoble 1968 to Albertville 1992 Wladimir Andreff 7. Incomplete Contracting, League Governance, and the Role of the Commissioner in Japanese and North American Professional Baseball Akihiko Kawaura and Sumner La Croix 8. Baseball and Life Expectancy: Evidence from linked historical data Joseph Price, Sebastian Brown, and Jacob Van Leeuwen 9. The Height and Weight of Canadian Major League Hockey Players, 1909–2010 J. Andrew Ross, John Cranfield, and Kris Inwood 10. Beating the Odds: Black Jockeys in the Kentucky Derby, 1870-1911 Michael Leeds and Hugh Rockoff 11. Betting on Sport: History, regulation, measurement Pierre-Charles Pradier 12. Club Survival in the English Premier League: What does it take to survive in the top flight? Jeffrey Chang, Luc Borrowman and Lionel Frost 13. Epilogue - looking forward Index
£90.00
Liverpool University Press Historical Studies in Industrial Relations,
Book SynopsisHistorical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet for, and to stimulate an interest in, historical work in the field of industrial relations and the history of industrial relations thought. Content broadly covers the employment relationship and economic, social and political factors surrounding it – such as labour markets, union and employer policies and organization, the law, and gender and ethnicity. Articles with an explicit political dimension, particularly recognising divisions within the working class and within workers’ organizations, will be encouraged, as will historical work on labour law.
£94.05
