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Book SynopsisThe 2008 financial crisis, the rise of Trumpism, and the other populist movements which have followed in their wake have grown out of the frustrations of those hurt by the economic policies advocated by conventional economists for generations. Despite this, textbooks remain frozen in time, continuing to uphold traditional policies as though nothing has happened.Foundations of Real-World Economics demonstrates how misleading it can be to apply oversimplified models of perfect competition to the real world. The math works well on college blackboards but not so well on the Main Streets of America. This volume explores the realities of oligopolies, the real impact of the minimum wage, the double-edged sword of free trade, and other ways in which powerful institutions cause distortions in mainstream models. Bringing together the work of key scholars like Kahneman, Minsky, and Schumpeter, this textbook takes into consideration the inefficiencies that arise when the perfectlyTrade Review"Finally, an economics textbook that puts people before business!" Richard Easterlin, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Southern California"The real world seldom operates like the diagrams in economics textbooks. Often left out are that human beings often act irrationally, markets have rules, and models typically began with the assumption of ‘all else being equal.’ John Komlos provides a welcome and much needed real-world look at the dismal science in his Critique of Pure Economics. In plain language that even high school seniors can grasp, Komlos shows the wishful thinking that infects standard economic texts and builds his case with empirical facts." David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind and of the New York Times bestseller, Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich—and Cheat Everybody Else"The 'Great Recession' which began in 2008 was not anticipated by economists, and they remain divided about the remedies. Economics requires a re-think, but this is proving hard. In this excellent book, John Komlos makes a start: he shows what parts of theory remain useful, and which ones have been falsified by experience. He highlights what the new theory will need to explain. Most importantly, he shows that it is necessary to start from current economics in order to reform it. Fluently written, accessible, and highly recommended as a corrective to standard textbooks."Avner Offer, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, Fellow of the British Academy"Komlos’s provocative book at once brings together and creatively synthesizes a great deal of work critical of conventional economics and lays out the broad contours of an alternative approach that the author calls humanistic economics. Komlos’s book is timely and relevant. The author includes excellent discussions of income and wealth inequality, the cultural contradictions of capitalism, and green environmental accounting, as well as an entire chapter on the financial sector (a sector often omitted entirely in introductory classes) and the sector’s role in the Great Recession." Peter Coclanis, Director of the Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"A wonderful book, a manifesto, written in a style that is easy to follow. Highly innovative and a must-read, especially but not only for students who are new to economics. John Komlos has given us a valuable tool that we can use to enrich our teaching and open the minds of our students. We owe him our thanks. More, we owe him our students’ patronage." Gerald Friedman, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst"John Komlos has given us a very useful companion text to the standard introductory economics version. Students would do well to read the two together. In fact, anyone who has taken introductory economics and had it shape their thinking about the world would benefit from learning about the issues raised in this book." Dean Baker, Senior Economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research"John Komlos provides an important complement to―and corrective for―the standard Economics 101 textbook. This book clearly explains why free markets are far from perfect and, indeed, do not exist in the vast majority of the modern economy. Instead of fetishizing economic efficiency, Komlos explains why economics should focus on creating a better society and helping all of us live more fulfilling lives." James Kwak, Professor of Law, University of Connecticut, co-author of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown"This book is a must-read, not only for economic students and professors who teach economics, but for psychology, sociology, political science, history, and philosophy students and professors as well. That is, it is a must-read for anyone who wishes to understand the discipline of economics and the way in which it has contributed to the conservative/neoliberal economic, social, and political policies that have guided us to the dysfunctional social and political systems we find ourselves in the midst of today." George H. Blackford, formerly University of Michigan-Flint, Contributions to Political Economy (2019), 1-2"Komlos uses a literary style that empowers the reader with information and in-depth discussion of topics of current interest from the repercussions of the financial crisis to the rise of populism. The book is full of creative ideas and the author achieves his goal of presenting a realistic approach to introductory economics." Andres F. Cantillo, Kansas City Kansas, Community College, Australasian Journal of Economics Education Volume 16, Number 1, 2019"This book is aimed at the introductory level and grounds its presentation in a lot of helpful stylised facts to connect to the real world. It contrasts the mainstream approach with many important heterodox insights in order to help readers to get a more realistic and multifaceted picture of economic relationships." Torsten Niechoj, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Kamp-Lintfort, Germany, and FMM Fellow, European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, Vol. 17 No. 1, 2020"This book explains a tremendous amount of how economies like the U.S. function in recent years. In doing so, it integrates conventional economic analysis with wide ranging socio-economic analyses and the thoughtful insights of the author on many topics related to how economies function or do not function well. At the very least, he has gone a long way in showing how economies can become a more important and different discipline than it has been. I highly recommend his text for many students of economics." John F. Tomer, Emeritus Professor of Economics, founding member of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE), Society and Economy"John Komlos’s book has the sense and sensibilities for building up an economy that works for the 99%, not just the 1%." Annavajhula J.C. Bose, Shri Ram College of Commerce, India, Ecotalker blogTable of Contents1. Welcome to Real-World Economics 2. The Evidence: Markets Are Neither Omniscient Nor Omnipotent 3. The Nature of Demand 4. Homo Oeconomicus Is Extinct: The Foundations of Behavioral Economics 5. Taste-Makers and Consumption 6. Oligopolies and Imperfect Competition 7. Returns to the Factors of Production 8. The Case for Oversight, Regulation, and Management of Markets 9. Microeconomic Applications On and Off the Blackboard 10. What Is Macroeconomics? 11. Macroeconomics Part II 12. Macroeconomics Part III 13. The Tsunami of Globalization 14. The Financial Crisis of 2008 15. Economists’ Mistakes Lead to Right-Wing Populism and an Insurrection 16. Hidden Racist Elements in Blackboard Economics 17. The Covid-19 Pandemic Exposed the Need for a Black-Swan-Robust Economy 18. Conclusion: Toward a Capitalism with a Human Face

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, there have been a number of new developments in what came to be known as the Capital Theory Debates. The debates took place mainly during the 1960s as a result of Piero Sraffa''s critique of the neoclassical theory according to which the prices of factors of production directly depend on their relative scarcities. Sraffa showed that when income distribution changes, there are many complexities developed within the economic system impacting on prices in ways which are not possible to predict. These debates were revisited in the 1980s and again more recently, along with a parallel literature that has developed among neoclassical economists and has also looked at the impact of shocks on an economy. This book summarizes the debates and issues around the theory of capital and brings to the fore the more recent developments. It also pinpoints the similarities and differences between the various approaches and critically evaluates them in light of aTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesList of AbbreviationsPreface and AcknowledgementsChapter 1: PreliminariesChapter 2: Theory of Capital in Historical PerspectiveChapter 3: Capital Theory ControversiesChapter 4: Price Trajectories and the Rate of ProfitChapter 5: Wage-Rate of Profit Curves and Technological ChangeChapter 6: Near Linearities of the Price- and Wage-Rates of Profit Curves and the Distribution of EigenvaluesChapter 7: A Simple but Realistic Linear Model of ProductionChapter 8: Summing-UpReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe central theme in the work of F.A. Hayek was the problem of order in society, and his focus was epistemological: he was concerned with the constraints on knowledge, the problems associated with its distribution, the structures in which it inheres, and the implications of these issues for the understanding of social phenomena generally. But while his work has greatly improved our understanding of market processes, application to more complex social arrangements was not an unambiguous success.In seeking to progress beyond Hayekâs difficulties in formulating a more general theory of spontaneous order, this book fleshes out an analogy between social orders and the biological order detailed in Hayekâs The Sensory Order into a theory of adaptive systems. It focuses first on those aspects of the systems which enable them to learn about their environments, and then on the entrepreneurial processes which implement their anticipatory capabilities. The inclusion of anticipatory elements, inspired by the work of Robert Rosen, results in a theory of social orders which integrates many of the disparate findings of Austrian economists into a self-consistent conceptual framework and has applicability to other social arrangements such as firms and governments. Of particular interest is the interaction between the systems of science and government, an issue of significant current concern which is comprehensively explored here both theoretically and empirically.This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Hayek, Austrian economics, social theory, and the history of economic thought more broadly.

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Book SynopsisCommemorating the 250th anniversary of James Millâs birth and the 150th of John Stuart Millâs death, this volume analyses the Millsâ discussions on topics such as environment, cultivation, education, utilitarianism, socialism, international relations, international trade, and living standard.John Stuart Mill is an important figure of the classical political economy, and his father played a critical role in the early stages of his intellectual development. The contributions of the two Mills are examined by leading scholars on the theory and history of economics from Japan, UK, and France. They not only deal with the Millsâ individual contributions but also shed light on their relationships and associations with a number of economists and philosophers in Britain between the late 18th and the early 20th centuries, including Adam Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, Pennington, Torrens, Martineau, Longfield, Morris, Sidgwick, and Marshall.This book is an essential read for scholars interested in the economics of James and John Mill, and reconsideration of their theories and thoughts using the backdrop of the current state of society.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines property legislation and the actual position of women in receiving, holding and passing on family property as daughters, wives and as widows throughout history.Table of Contents1. IntroductionBeatrice Moring2. Property ownership: an indicator of French immigrant women’s empowerment process in California, 1880-1940Marie-Pierre Arizzabalaga3. Women, testamentary succession and property in Southern Spain in the 18th centuryRaquel Tovar Pulido4. Women, Family and Family Property in Preindustrial Urban Northern EuropeBeatrice Moring5. Authority over the whole estate - a study of applications to remain in undivided estate, Norway 1814-1851Hilde Sandvik6. Ante nuptial contracts, marriage and female agency in Cape Town 1924-1961Amy Rommelspacher7. Women and property in pre-unification Italy: a long-term overview of norms and practicesBeatrice Zucca Micheletto8. The Legacy Duty of 1796: windows into the wealth of widows and spinsters at death in the late 18th and the early 19th centuryLloyd Bonfield9. Property ownership by widows, a study of nineteenth century inheritance practices on the island of Sao Jorge (Azores archipelago) PortugalPaulo Teodoro de Matos and Ana Mafalda Lopes

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Book SynopsisIn this book the author explores the various meanings assigned to goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their labels were understood. The first half of the book focuses on these labels and on mercantile language more broadly; how it was used in trade and how lexicographers and others approached what, for them, were new vocabularies. In the second half, the author turns to the goods themselves, and their relationships with terms such as âluxuryâ, âchoiceâ and âloveâ; terms that were used as descriptors in marketing goods. The language of objects is a subject of ongoing interest and the study of consumables opens up new ways of looking at the everyday language of the early modern period as well as the experiences of trade and consumption for both merchant and consumer.

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Book SynopsisThis book uses economic theory to argue that worker-controlled firms are rare due to market failures rather than inherent organizational defects. The book will be of interest to scholarly researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in economics, especially in industrial organization, labor economics, comparative economics, organizational economics, and finance.Trade Review'Gregory K. Dow has thought more deeply and in a more sustained manner about the puzzle of why capital hires labor than any serious student of economic theory since the first efforts in the field were undertaken more than a generation ago. The present effort to organize, revisit, and distil the conclusions from his investigations is rigorous, laid out with admirable clarity, and always intellectually honest and clear-headed. Louis Putterman, Brown University, Rhode Island'Bringing together a lifetime's research, The Labor-Managed Firm lays out the failures of the classic model of cooperatives that assumes that they maximize income per worker instead of profits. It offers an array of ideas about the relation between labor and capital to account for the sparsity of coops in market economies.' Richard Freeman, Harvard University, Massachusetts'This book provides an expansive economic theory of firms controlled by their employees. It explores the birth, evolution and possible transformation of such firms in comparison to conventional investor-owned firms. Although it is a primarily theoretical work, it refers to the empirical literature so the reader gets a broad understanding of this sector of the economy. The theoretical analyses presented in this book provide guidance to practitioners. I highly recommend this book to all those interested in employee ownership.' Avner Ben-Ner, Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies, University of Minnesota'In this remarkable work, Dow synthesizes his extensive research on the economics of labor-managed enterprises. Economists working in the field will find both an indispensable assessment of the literature and a fruitful catalyst for fresh theoretical and empirical investigations. Those new to the subject will discover insights about the manifold ways in which market conditions shape how firms are governed.' Gilbert Skillman, Wesleyan University, Connecticut'Does current corporate governance reflect market efficiency, or are there potentially better ways to organize and run corporations? Gregory K. Dow takes this question to a new level by pulling together his own and others' theoretical work on labor-managed firms, providing a thoughtful comparison of the conditions favoring capital-managed and labor-managed firms. This is a masterful contribution to basic issues of economic organization, with implications for how we should design firms and public policy.' Douglas Kruse, Rutgers University, New Jersey'This is a lovely book, and one we have needed for several decades. It offers a genuinely novel perspective on the theory of labor-managed firms, informed at every step by a careful attention to empirical findings and by the institutional makeup of real-world worker cooperatives and employee-owned firms. Dow has spent some thirty years thinking about these issues, and brings his work together in an impressive whole. It will redefine the theoretical and empirical research agendas, as well as providing an invaluable text in support of a postgraduate course on economic democracy.' Virginie Pérotin, University of LeedsTable of ContentsPart I. Setting the Stage: 1. The puzzling asymmetry; Part II. Perfection and Symmetry: 2. Profit maximization and control rights; 3. The labor-managed firm in the short run; 4. The labor-managed firm in the long run; 5. The labor-managed firm in general equilibrium; Part III. Imperfection and Asymmetry: 6. Empirical asymmetries (I); 7. Empirical asymmetries (II); 8. The rarity of labor-managed firms; Part IV. Appropriation Problems: 9. Imperfect appropriation; 10. Firm formation with adverse selection; 11. Partnership markets with adverse selection; Part V. Public Good Problems: 12. Collective choice and investor takeovers; 13. Free riding and employee buyouts; Part VI. Opportunism Problems (I): 14. Transaction cost economics; 15. Firm-specific investments; Part VII. Opportunism Problems (II): 16. Asset ownership and work incentives; 17. Capital stocks and labor flows; 18. Honest and dishonest controllers; Part VIII. Synthesis and Agenda: 19. Breaking the symmetry; 20. Policy directions.

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Book SynopsisThe most provocative book written by any economist of Keynes's generation, propounding a fundamentally new approach that revolutionised economics.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. The general theory; 2. The postulates of the classical economics; 3. The principle of effective demand; Part II. Definitions and Ideas: 4. The choice of units; 5. Expectation as determining output and employment; 6. The definition of income, saving and investment; 7. The meaning of saving and investment further considered; Part III. The Propensity to Consume: 8. The propensity to consume - i. The objective factors; 9. The propensity to consume - ii. The subjective factors; 10. The marginal propensity to consume and the multiplier; Part IV. The Inducement to Invest: 11. The marginal efficiency of capital; 12. The state of long-term expectation; 13. The general theory of the rate of interest; 14. The classical theory of the rate of interest; 15. The psychological and business incentives to liquidity; 16. Sundry observations on the nature of capital; 17. The essential properties of interest and money; 18. The general theory of employment re-stated; Part V. Money-wages and Prices: 19. Changes in money-wages; 20. The employment function; 21. The theory of prices; Part VI. Short Notes Suggested by the General Theory: 22. Notes on the trade cycle; 23. Notes on mercantilism, the usury laws, stamped money and theories of under-consumption; 24. Concluding notes on the social philosophy towards which the general theory might lead.

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Book SynopsisBetween 1787 and 1798, the agricultural writer and land agent William Marshall (17451818) published a number of works on the rural economies of England. In this two-volume work, first published in 1796, he describes the farming, geography, public works and produce of districts in Devon, Somerset, Dorset and Cornwall.Table of ContentsAdvertisement; Introductory remarks on surveying a country; Division of this department of England into districts; Part I. Devonshire: 1. West Devonshire, including the eastern parts of Cornwall; 2. The South Hams of Devonshire; Retrospective view of south Devonshire; A list of rates in west Devonshire; Provincialisms of west Devonshire.

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Book SynopsisJan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India''s changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. When, in a remote past, tribal and low-caste communities were attached to landowning households, their lack of freedom was framed as subsistence-oriented dependency. Breman argues that with colonial rule came the intrusion of capitalism into India''s agrarian economy, leading to a decline in the idea of patronage in the relationship between bonded labour and landowner. Instead, servitude was reshaped as indebtedness. As labour became transformed into a commodity, peasant workers were increasingly pushed out of agriculture and the village but remained adrift in the wider economy. This footloose workforce is subjected to exploitation when their labour power is required and is left in a state of exclusion when it is surplus to demand. The outcome is progressive inequality that is thoroughly capitalist in nature.Trade Review'From Jan Breman's lifetime of research with labour in Gujarat have come original concepts of patronage and exploitation, circular migration, footloose labour, neo-bondage, exclusion and expulsion from social rights and habitat - all now essential to our understanding of India's labour-force. In this tour-de-force, Breman synthesises the history of coercive debt, bondage and servitude, tracing its persistence from colonial roots to the present where tied and contingent labour underpins capitalism with Indian characteristics. Shabash.' Barbara Harriss-White, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford'A masterful summing up of the six decades-long research of Jan Breman in and on India. The deep changes in the mode and manner of social exploitation and the failed promises of a sovereign state have been pursued by the author with a relentless critique of India's capitalist path while retaining a deep empathy for the labouring poor.' K. P. Kannan, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum'In sum, this book makes some valuable points about the capitalist nature of progressive inequality.' A. A. Batabyal, Choice'… Jan Breman's work will certainly stand the test of time not only as evidence to the sufferings and fights of the dispossessed laboring, but also as an exercise in academic excellence, fueled by empathy that ultimately generated profound and intricate scholarly insights.' Nikolay Kamenov, H-Soz-KultTable of ContentsPart I. Labour as Codified in Annals of the State: 1. The country liberated; 2. An end to servitude?; Part II. Constrained in Decrepitude: 3. The commodification of agricultural labour; 4. The class struggle launched and suppressed; 5. The Gandhian road to inclusion; Part III. The Political Economy of Boundless Dispossession: 6. The Agrarian Question posed as the social question; 7. Labour migration: going off and coming back; 8. Indebtedness as labour attachment; Part IV. Conclusion: 9. Capitalism, labour bondage and the social question.

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Book SynopsisDuring the interwar period, J.P. Morgan was the most important bank in the world and at the crossroads of US politics, international relations and finance. In J.P. Morgan & Co. and the Crisis of Capitalism, Martin Horn brings us the first in-depth history of how J.P. Morgan responded to the greatest crisis in the history of financial capitalism, shedding new light on the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the coming of World War II. Horn shows how J.P. Morgan & Co as a business responded to the 1929 Crash and the Depression, including its part in the New York Stock Exchange Crash, arguing that the Morgan partners misread the seriousness of the crash. He also offers new insights into the interactions of politics and finance, exploring J.P. Morgan''s relationship with the Hoover administration and the bank''s clash with Roosevelt over New Deal legislation.Trade Review'Drawing on a comprehensive command of the archival record, this fine study places J. P. Morgan & Co. – from partnership to incorporation – firmly within the history of capitalism. All scholars of modern American and business history will benefit from this authoritative account of a pivotal firm's history.' Jason Scott Smith, author of A Concise History of the New Deal'Numerous histories of the House of Morgan cover the years before 1914 when it was the pre-eminent American bank. Examining how the bank evolved to survive the Great Depression and federal regulation, Martin Horn's important new study is most welcome.' Eugene White, author of Conflict of Interest in the Financial Services IndustryTable of ContentsList of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'The Heart of Contemporary Capitalism': The Partners and their Bank; 2. J.P. Morgan & Co. at home and abroad in the 1920s; 3. The Young Plan, the Bank for International Settlements and the Wall Street Crash, 1929–30; 4. 'The End of the World'? The 1931 Crises; 5. 'Witchcraft': J.P. Morgan & Co., Hoover, and the Depression in the United States, 1930–1933; 6. 'In the storm cellar': J.P. Morgan & Co. and the New Deal 1933–36; 7. J.P. Morgan & Co., and the foreign policy of the New Deal: Germany, Italy, Japan and the Nye committee, 1933–37; 8. The Coming of War and the End of the Partnership, 1937–40; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisA history of sterling over half a century, using new archives, data and unseen photographs. This book follows the Bank currency dealers, the very people who tried to manage and manipulate the pound, to show how the Bank of England defended the pound and managed foreign exchange.Trade Review'Naef's financial history of the United Kingdom focuses on the management of the pound sterling exchange rate since World War II. He uses data on market operations from the Bank of England's archives to document the bank's efforts to defend and stabilize the rate during currency crises in 1949, 1967, and 1976.' Barry Eichengreen, Foreign AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Sterling's postwar role and lessons from the 1947 convertibility crisis; 2. The 1949 devaluation: readjusting the postwar parities; 3. The reopening of the London foreign exchange market: Sterling's window on the world. 4. The bank on the market; 5. The reopening of the London gold market in 1954: sealing the fate of sterling and the international system; 6. 1958 convertibility and its consequences. 7. The gold pool; 8. Cooperation and the fed swap network; 9. The 1964–7 currency crisis; 10. The 1967 devaluation and the fall of the gold pool; 11. The consequences of the devaluation: ongoing crisis and window dressing at the bank of England; 12. Britain, Nixon and the end of Bretton woods; 13. Was the IMF crisis 'natural' or 'manmade'; 14. Britain's last currency crisis; Conclusion; Data availability; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisHow did the Bank of England manage sterling crises? This book steps into the shoes of the Bank''s foreign exchange dealers to show how foreign exchange intervention worked in practice. The author reviews the history of sterling over half a century, using new archives, data and unseen photographs. This book traces the sterling crises from the end of the War to Black Wednesday in 1992. The resulting analysis shows that a secondary reserve currency such as sterling plays an important role in the stability of the international system. The author goes on to explore the lessons the Bretton Woods system on managed exchange rates has for contemporary policy makers in the context of Brexit. This is a crucial reference for scholars in economics and history examining past and current prospects for the international financial system.Trade Review'Naef's financial history of the United Kingdom focuses on the management of the pound sterling exchange rate since World War II. He uses data on market operations from the Bank of England's archives to document the bank's efforts to defend and stabilize the rate during currency crises in 1949, 1967, and 1976.' Barry Eichengreen, Foreign AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Sterling's postwar role and lessons from the 1947 convertibility crisis; 2. The 1949 devaluation: readjusting the postwar parities; 3. The reopening of the London foreign exchange market: Sterling's window on the world. 4. The bank on the market; 5. The reopening of the London gold market in 1954: sealing the fate of sterling and the international system; 6. 1958 convertibility and its consequences. 7. The gold pool; 8. Cooperation and the fed swap network; 9. The 1964–7 currency crisis; 10. The 1967 devaluation and the fall of the gold pool; 11. The consequences of the devaluation: ongoing crisis and window dressing at the bank of England; 12. Britain, Nixon and the end of Bretton woods; 13. Was the IMF crisis 'natural' or 'manmade'; 14. Britain's last currency crisis; Conclusion; Data availability; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis book charts the course of monetary policy in the UK from 1967 to 1982. It shows how events such as the 1967 devaluation, the collapse of Bretton Woods, the stagflation of the 1970s, and the IMF loan of 1976 all shaped policy. It shows that the 'monetarist' experiment of the 1980s was based on a fundamental misreading of 1970s monetary policy.Table of Contents1. From Devaluation to Competition and Credit Control, 1967-71 2. Competition and Credit Control, 1971-73 3. The PSBR Takes Over, 1974-76 4. Too Many Targets, 1977-79 5. The Lady is for Turning

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Book SynopsisEconomics is a broad and diverse discipline, but most economics textbooks only cover one way of thinking about the economy. This book provides an accessible introduction to nine different approaches to economics: from feminist to ecological and Marxist to behavioural. Each chapter is written by a leading expert in the field described and is intended to stand on its own as well as providing an ambitious survey that seeks to highlight the true diversity of economic thought. Students of economics around the world have begun to demand a more open economics education. This book represents a first step in creating the materials needed to introduce new and diverse ideas into the static world of undergraduate economics. This book will provide context for undergraduate students by placing the mainstream of economic thought side by side with more heterodox schools. This is in keeping with the Rethinking Economics campaign which argues that students are better served when they arTrade Review‘The 2008 financial crisis and its continuing aftermaths have starkly revealed the limitations of the practice of intellectual 'mono-cropping' in economics, that is, the near-total dominance by one approach to economics: Neo-classical economics. Leading the charge against this practice have been young economists from the Rethinking Economics movement. In this book, these young economists, rather than trying to replace one intellectual mono-cropping with another, provide a vision for a pluralist approach to economics. The volume, by presenting nine essays in which leading economists introduce the economic schools they represent, broadens our vision of economics and deepens our understanding of it. It is a highly relevant and enlightening contribution to a debate that will shape the future of the world economy as well as the way in which economics is taught and debated.’ — Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, author of Economics: The User's Guide 'The members of Rethinking Economics haven't just protested against the narrowness of the conventional economics curriculum, they have done something about it. This volume admirably addresses their need for excellent up-to-date expert accounts of a range of different approaches to economics, all with student input.' — Sheila Dow, Emeritus Professor, University of Stirling, UK. ‘Economics students have been short-changed by degrees that teach only Neoclassical economics despite its failures before, during and after the crisis. This book provides a useful introduction to alternative voices in economics at a time when, though none of them has all the answers, they are each at least posing questions that the mainstream failed to even consider.’ — Professor Steve Keen, Kingston University London, UK. ‘This book is much more than a rethink of economics, it’s a revolution in the economic landscape, democratizing theory and language for public benefit. This book builds a new corps of citizen economists and helps prevent economists-cum-pundits from pulling esoteric fast ones on the public. It’s a must read for anyone wanting to challenge the economic system’s dysfunctional status quo and an essential guide for advocates of social, economic and environmental sustainability. For genuine progress to occur, new economic theories, language and tools are needed. This book answers that call.’ – Dr. Michael Shank, New York University‘A timely and informative guide to competing schools of thought in economics. An excellent starting point for students looking for a broader economics education.’ - Dr Jo Michell, Senior Lecturer in Economics, UWE Bristol, UK.‘Is there life beyond mainstream economics?’, you ask. Well, here is your answer: nine approaches, clearly explained by top specialists in each approach. This book produced by members of Rethinking Economics is warmly recommended.’ — Victoria Chick, Emeritus Professor of Economics at University College London, UK. 'A very nice, accessible introduction to economics – each chapter is written by a leading expert, from feminist, through ecological to behavioural approaches.' - @Went1955 (Robert Went, Economist, Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy)Table of ContentsForeward — Martin Wolf Introduction Post-Keynesian Economics — Engelbert Stockhammer Marxist Economics — Ben Fine & Alfredo Saad-Filho Austrian Economics — Xavier Méra & Guido Hülsmann Institutional Economics — Geoffrey M. Hodgson Feminist Economics — Susan Himmelweit Behavioural Economics — Stephen Young Complexity Economics — Alan Kirman Co-operative Economics — Molly Scott Cato Ecological Economics — Clive L. Spash & Viviana Asara Epilogue: What is Rethinking Economics and how can you get involved?

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Book SynopsisThe financial crisis of 2008 brought new urgency to the question how best to organise national economies. This volume gives a business history perspective on the Varieties of Capitalism debate and considers the respective merits of the liberal and coordinated market economies. It looks at individual firms and business people as well as institutions and takes a long-term perspective by covering the whole 20th century. The authors examine both continuity and change with a particular focus on the Netherlands, a nation with an open economy, situated between two countries that oppose each other in the way they organize their economies: Germany and Great Britain. The Netherlands also provides an important case study with Dutch business maintaining strong links to the United States, widely considered to be the typical' liberal market economy. Contributors address the main topics of the capitalism debate, including labour relations, corporate governance, the firm anTable of Contents1. Introduction Keetie Sluyterman 2. The Evolving Role of Shareholders in Dutch Corporate Governance Abe de Jong, Ailsa Röell, and Gerarda Westerhuis 3. An Entrepreneurial Perspective on Varieties of Capitalism Jacques van Gerwen and Ferry de Goey 4. Multinationals as Agents of Change Keetie Sluyterman and Ben Wubs 5. Between Competition and Concentration: Business Interest Associations, Cartels, Mergers and Acquisitions Bram Bouwens and Joost Dankers 6. The Dutch ‘Polder Model’: The Prosperity of a Consultative Economy in an Era of Neoliberalism – A Paradox? Erik Nijhof and Annette van den Berg 7. Knowledge, Innovation Processes and Institutional Complementarities Mila David 8. Business Systems and Economic Performance in the Dutch Case Jan Luiten van Zanden

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Book SynopsisFor the first time, Early Modern Streets unites the diverse strands of scholarship on urban streets between circa 1450 and 1800 and tackles key questions on how early modern urban society was shaped and how this changed over time.Much of the lives of urban dwellers in early modern Europe were played out in city streets and squares. By exploring urban spaces in relation to themes such as politics, economies, religion, and crime, this edited collection shows that streets were not only places where people came together to work, shop, and eat, but also to fight, celebrate, show their devotion, and express their grievances. The volume brings together scholars from different backgrounds and applies new approaches and methodologies to the historical study of urban experience. In doing so, Early Modern Streets provides a comprehensive overview of one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship in early modern history.Accompanied by over 50 illustrations, Early MTable of ContentsPart 1: Contours and Foundations 1. Framing the street 2. Sources and methods for studying historical streets 3. Representing the street in words and images 4. Sensing the street Part 2: Street Use 5. Street politics 6. Street economies 7. Religion in the streets 8. Street crimes

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Book SynopsisIn the winter of 1933, the American financial and economic system collapsed. Since then economists, policy makers and financial analysts throughout the world have been haunted by the question of whether It can happen again. In 2008 It very nearly happened again as banks and mortgage lenders in the USA and beyond collapsed. The disaster sent economists, bankers and policy makers back to the ideas of Hyman Minsky whose celebrated ''Financial Instability Hypothesis'' is widely regarded as predicting the crash of 2008 and led Wall Street and beyond as to dub it as the ''Minsky Moment''. In this book Minsky presents some of his most important economic theories. He defines It, determines whether or not It can happen again, and attempts to understand why, at the time of writing in the early 1980s, It had not happened again. He deals with microeconomic theory, the evolution of monetary institutions, and Federal Reserve policy. Minsky argues that any economic theory which separates Trade Review"It is time to revive an old issue: Just how inherently unstable are economies? But instead of getting much guidance these days from contemporary economists, we need to turn to some of the giants from the past. The work of Hyman Minsky...is especially on the mark." The New York Times"Today, his views are reverberating from New York to Hong Kong as economists and traders try to understand what's happening in the markets... Indeed, the Minsky moment has become a fashionable catch phrase on Wall Street." The Wall Street Journal"There are few better places to begin the serious study of financial questions than with Can "It" Happen Again? – the work of the most insightful observer of finance in the economics profession today."Robert Pollin, Monthly Review"Minsky's essays are creative, sophisticated and wise. He has an important message for economists and a wider public." Journal of Economic Issues"The most significant economic event of the era since World War II is something that has not happened: there has not been a deep and long-lasting depression."From the Introduction.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Can "It" Happen Again?: A Reprise 1. Can "It" Happen Again? 2. Finance and Profits: The Changing Nature of American Business Cycles 3.The Financial Instability Hypothesis: An interpretation of Keynes and an Alernative to "Standard" Theory 4. Capitalist Financial Processes and the Instability of Capitalism 5. The Financial Instability Hypothesis: A Restatement 6. Financial Instability Revisited: The Economics of Disaster 7. Central Banking and Money Market Changes 8. The New Uses of Monetary Power 9. The Federal Reserve: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 10. An Exposition of a Keynesian Theory of Investment 11. Monetary Systems and Accelerator Models 12. The Integration of Simple Growth and Cycle Models 13. Private Sector Assets Management Policy: Theory and Practice Index

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Book SynopsisThis book, originally published in 1981, discusses the various welfare effects including ai, debt, trade and labour flows - of the rise in oil prices and revenues which took place in the 1970s. These complex effects and the negotiating stances of the developing countries are all examined an dinvestigated, drawing upon a wide range of sources and material for the more quantitative parts. Throughout, however, the treatment is non-mathematical and is written in clear English accessible not only to bankers and polititians, but also students of economics, international relationjs and area studies. Table of Contents1. Economic Divergences Between Developing Countries 2. The Changing World Economic Climate 3. The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries 4. Energy and the NOPEC’s Terms of Trade 5. OPEC and Debt in the Developing World 6. OPEC Aid 7. The Growth of Trade Between OPEC and the Developing Countries 8. Labour, Migration and Remittances 9. Interrupted Growth Patterns? 10. Oil, Debt and Development: An Assessment

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Book SynopsisThe World That Trade Created brings to life the history of trade and its actors. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes, filled with insights and amazing facts about things we tend to take for granted, the authors uncover the deep historical roots of economic globalization. Covering over seven hundred years of history, this book, now in its fourth edition, takes the reader around the world from the history of the opium trade to pirates, to the building of corporations and migration to the New World. The chapters are grouped thematically, each featuring an introductory essay designed to synthesize and elaborate on key themes, both familiar and unfamiliar. It includes ten new essays, on topics ranging from the early modern ivory and slave trades across the Indian Ocean, to the ways in which the availability of new consumer goods helped change work habits in both Europe and East Asia, and from the history of chewing gum to that of rare earth metals. The introduTrade Review‘In this collection of short essays, Pomeranz and Topik masterfully depict the story of the creation of the world economy. Without using academic jargon, they explain how trade with commodities, drugs, animals, people and ideas moved among continents and transformed the world.’ — Manel Ollé, associate tenure professor in Modern and contemporary Chinese history and culture, Director of the Master in Chinese Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain ‘How invisible networks of trade ultimately came to compel producers, merchants, and even whole societies to adapt to the networks' needs as they grew is a fascinating story, and one just as important for understanding the world as developments in politics or culture are. I know of no other book that introduces trade networks so well. It is an ideal text for survey courses.’ — Roland Spickermann - Chair, Dept. of History, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, USATable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1 The Making of Market Conventions The Fujian Trade Diaspora The Chinese Tribute System Funny Money, Real Growth When Asia Was the World Economy Treating Good News as No News Pearls in the Rubble: Rediscovering the Golden Age of Quanzhou, ca. 1000–1400 Aztec Traders Primitive Accumulation: Brazilwood A British Merchant in the Tropics How the Other Half Traded Deals and Ordeals: World Trade and Early Modern Legal Culture Traveling Salesmen, Traveling Taxmen Indian Ocean Commodity Circuit: How to Turn Cotton into Ivory Going Non-native: Expense Accounts and the End of the Age of Merchant Courtiers Empire on a Shoestring: British Adventurers and Indian Financiers in Calcutta, 1750–1850 Chapter 2 Transport and Tactics2.1 Human Ingenuity: Adapting to Natural Barriers, and Creating New Ones2.2 Power-Driven Transport: New Time, New Space, Old Conflicts2.3 Woods, Winds, Shipbuilding, and Shipping: Why China Didn’t Rule the Waves2.4 Better to Be Lucky Than Smart2.5 Seats of Government and Their Stomachs: An Eighteenth-Century Tour2.6 Pioneers of Dusty Rooms: Warehouses, Transatlantic Trade, and the Opening of the North American Frontier2.7 People Patterns: Was the Real America Sichuan?2.8 Winning Raffles2.9 Trade, Disorder, and Progress: Creating Shanghai, 1840–19302.10 Out of One—Many2.11 Guaranteed Profits and Half-Fulfilled Hopes: Railroad Building in British India2.12 A Brief Trip Across the CenturiesChapter 3 The Economic Culture of Drugs3.1 Chocolate: From Coin to Commodity3.2 Brewing Up a Storm3.3 Mocha Is Not Chocolate3.4 The Brew of Business: Coffee’s Life Story3.5 America and the Coffee Bean3.6 Sweet Revolutions3.7 Paying for Power: "Sin Taxes" and the Rise of the Modern State3.8 How Opium Made the World Go ‘Round3.9 Tobacco: the Rise and Decline of a Magical Weed3.10 Making Smoking Modern: From Pipes to Cigarettes in Egypt and Elsewhere3.11 Chewing Is Good, Snorting Isn’t: How Chemistry Turned a Good Thing BadChapter 4 Transplanting4.1 Unnatural Resources4.2 Bouncing Around4.3 Golden Misfortune: John Sutter in the Wilds of California4.4 California Gold and the World4.5 El Dorado or Wild Coast? How a Remote Place was washed by the Tides of World History4.6 Beautiful Bugs4.7 How to Turn Nothing into Something: Guano’s Ephemeral Fortunes4.8 As American as Sugar and Pineapples4.9 How the Cows Ate the Cowboys4.10 The Tie That Bound4.11 The Good Earth?4.12 One Potato, Two Potato4.13 Cocoa and Coercion: Advances and Retreats for Free Labor in West African Agriculture4.14 Trying to Get a Grip: Natural Rubber’s Century of Ups and DownsChapter 5 The Economics of Violence5.1 The Logic of an Immoral Trade5.2 As Rich as Potosí5.3 The Freebooting Founders of England's Free Seas5.4 Adventure, Trade, Piracy: Anthony Shirley and Pedro Teixeira, Two Early Modern Travelers5.5 The Luxurious Life of Robinson Crusoe5.6 No Islands in the Storm: Or, How the Sino-British Tea Trade Deluged the Worlds of Pacific Islanders5.7 The Violent Birth of Corporations5.8 Buccaneers as Corporate Raiders5.9 Looking for the Next Worst Thing: Emancipation, Indentures, and Colonial Plantations After Slavery5.10 Bloody Ivory Tower5.11 How Africa Resisted Imperialism: Ethiopia and the World Economy5.12 Never Again: The Saga of the RosenfeldersChapter 6 Making Modern Markets6.1 Silver and Gold in Mexico and Brazil6.2 Weighing the World: The Metric Revolution6.3 From Court Bankers to Architects of the Modern World Market: The Rothschilds6.4 Growing Global: International Grain Markets6.5 How Time Got That Way6.6 How the United States Joined the Big Leagues6.7 Clubs, Casinos, and Collapses: Sovereign Debt and Risk Management Since 18206.8 Fresher Is Not Better6.9 Packaging6.10 Trademarks: What’s in a Name?6.11 Learning to Feel Unclean: A Global Marketing Tale6.12 Chewing on global History: Wrigley, Adams, and the Yucatan6.13 Things Go Better with Red, White, and Blue: How Coca-Cola Conquered Europe6.14 Survival of the First6.15 It Ain’t Necessarily So6.16 Location, Location, Location: How History Trumped Geography in Andorra and PanamaChapter 7 World Trade, Industrialization, and Deindustrialization7.1 Sweet Industry: The First Factories7.2 Why We Work So Hard: The Industrious Revolution and the Early Modern World7.3 Fiber of Fortune: How Cotton Became the Fabric of the Industrial Age7.4 Combing the World for Cotton7.5 Killing the Golden Goose7.6 Sweet Success7.7 No Mill Is an Island7.8 Feeding Silkworms, Spitting Out Growth7.9 From Rocks—and Restrictions—to Riches: How Disadvantages Helped New England Industrialize Early7.10 Sideways Breakthroughs and Stalled Transitions: Crooked Paths from Coal to Oil, 1859–20127.11 American Oil7.12 Running on Oil, Building on Sand7.13 Not So Rare, But Pretty Strange: How Rare Earth Metals Became a Chinese "Monopoly"7.14 Minding the Store and Forgetting the Factory: U.S. "Fair Trade" Laws and the Rise of Offshore Manufacturing Since World War IIEpilogue: The World Economy in the Twenty-First Century

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Book SynopsisAdam Smith (17231790) is famous around the world as the founding father of economics, and his ideas are regularly quoted and invoked by politicians, business leaders, economists, and philosophers. However, considering his fame, few people have actually read the whole of his magnum opus The Wealth of Nations the first book to describe and lay out many of the concepts that are crucial to modern economic thinking. The Routledge Guidebook to Smith's Wealth of Nations provides an accessible, clear, and concise introduction to the arguments of this most notorious and influential of economic texts. The Guidebook examines: the historical context of Smith's though and the background to this seminal work the key arguments and ideas developed throughout The Wealth of Nations the enduring legacy of Smith's work The Routledge Guidebook to Smith's Wealth of Nations is essential reading for students oTrade Review"Maria Pia Paganelli’s latest volume upends this paradigm of economization. A leading Smith scholar and historian of economic thought, Paganelli’s book expands rather than narrows the def­i­nition of what it means to publish a condensed “guidebook” to Smith’s Wealth of Nations."-Glory M. Liu, Harvard UniversityTable of Contents1. Adam Smith and the Scotland of his days 2. Introduction and Book I, Chapters I–III 3. Book I, Chapters IV–VII 4. Book I, Chapters VIII–X 5. Book I, Chapter XI 6. Book II 7. Book III 8. Book IV, Chapters I–IV 9. Book IV, Chapters VII–IX 10. Book V, Chapter I 11. Book V, Chapters II–III 12. Legacy.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of the prominent Chinese merchant Houqua, whose trading network and financial connections stretched from China to India, America and Britain. John D. Wong examines the dynamics of global exchange configured around nineteenth-century Canton, illustrating how the Chinese economy was integrated with global networks well before the Opium Wars.Trade Review'John D. Wong's superbly researched study of Houqua brings together a vast array of disparate sources that show clearly how this remarkable global trader effectively outwitted the prevailing commercial politics.' Paul A. Van Dyke, Sun Yat-sen University, ChinaTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. A study of the structural context: the colliding worlds in Canton; 2. Lodging in an existing institution: taming the lion at home; 3. Weaving a trading network: breaking free with the eagle; 4. Sustaining trust: overcoming business uncertainties through time and space; 5. To reorganize or to be recognized? Reconstituting business in the reconfigured world of global business; 6. Houqua's 'Swiss account' in America: the legacy of a farsighted entrepreneur; Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisA detailed exploration of the influence and utility of Thomas Malthus'' model of population growth and economic changes in Europe since the nineteenth century. This important contribution to current discussions on theories of economic growth includes discussion of issues ranging from mortality and fertility to natural resources and the poverty trap.Table of ContentsDemographic Dynamics and Economic Changes in Europe before the 19th Century; B.Chiarini & P.Malanima Unified Growth Theory and Comparative Development; O.Galor Population Dynamics, Malthusian Crises and Boserupian Innovation in Pre-Industrial Societies; G.Alfani Energy and Economic Growth in Europe; S.Bartoletto The Path Towards the Modern Economy; P.Malanima Accounting for Child Mortality in the Pre-Industrial European Economy; B.Chiarini & M.Giannini A Basic Model of Take-Off and Fertility Choices in the Economic Development Process; E.Bucciarelli & G.Giulioni Population, Earth Carrying Capacity and Economic Growth; G.Scarano The Post-Malthusian Moment: Some Responses to Population Explosion in Britain c.1840; P.Bouche

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Book SynopsisOne of the biggest challenges in the study of history is the unreliable nature of traditional archival sources which omit histories of marginalised groups. This book makes the case that quantitative history offers a way to fill these gaps in the archive. Showcasing 13 case studies from the South African past, it applies quantitative sources, tools and methods to social histories from below to uncover the experiences of unchartered peoples. Examining the occupations of slaves, victims of the Spanish flu, health of schoolchildren and more, it shows how quantitative tools can be particularly powerful in regions where historical records are preserved, but questions of bias and prejudice pervade. Applying methods such as GIS mapping, network analysis and algorithmic matching techniques it explores histories of indigenous peoples, women, enslaved peoples and other groups marginalised in South African history. Connecting quantitative sources and new forms of data interpretation with aTable of ContentsList of Figures Foreword, Robert Ross Preface 1. Quantitative History and Uncharted People, Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 2. Bridal Pregnancy in the Mother City, 1900–1960, Laura Richardson (University of Cambridge, UK) and Jan Kok (Nijmegen University, The Netherlands) 3. Sex Ratios and Girl Preference in the Cape, 1894–2011, Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Francisco Marco-Gracia (University of Zaragoza, Spain) 4. Khoe Households in Swellendam, 1825, Calumet Links (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 5. Race Reclassification in Cape Town, 1950–1984, Brittany Chalmers (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Kris Inwood (Guelph University, Canada) 6. Advertising the Enslaved for Sale: A Quantitative Approach to the Zuid-Afrikaan, 1830–1834, Wouter Raaijmakers (Radboud University, The Netherlands) and Kate Ekama (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 7. Domestic Service in Cape Town Before the Second World War, Amy Rommelspacher (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 8. Female Investors at the Cape, 1892–1902, Lloyd Maphosa (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Edward Kerby (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 9. Black Africans in Cape Town, 1890-1939, Nobungcwele Mbem (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Michiel de Haas (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) 10. Political Innovation in African Nationalist Organisations, 1880–1890, Jonathan Schoots (University of Chicago, USA) 11. Petitions to the Cape Parliament, 1854-1909, Kara Dimitruk (Swarthmore College, USA) and Kelsey Lemon (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 12. Death During the Influenza of 1918, Jonathan Jayes (Lund University, Sweden) and Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 13. Quantitative History in Practice, Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

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Book SynopsisThe Economy of Renaissance Florence offers both a systematic description of the city's major economic activities and a comprehensive overview of its economic development from the late Middle Ages through the Renaissance to 1600.Trade ReviewRenaissance Florence has no more able defender in recent times than Professor Richard Goldthwaite. Washington Post Book World Richard Goldthwaite has served a long apprenticeship. As a dedicated student of the economy of Florence between the 13th and 16th centuries, he has published studies of the city's buildings and banks, its private wealth and the demand for its art. Now he has stood back and produced a magisterial history which brings all the strands of the story together and becomes, among its other virtues, a persuasive account of early capitalism. Economist 2009 Johns Hopkins University Press deserves praise for having so ably edited and published such a big book in this age of contraction and cost-cutting. It and the author have given us one of the most important books in Renaissance history to have appeared in many years: not simply a long-needed synthesis but a stimulating, insightful work that will guide research for a long time to come. -- Robert S. DuPlessis Renaissance Quarterly 2009 This book marks a crowning achievement of a distinguished academic career, and it achieves both authority in its exposition and modesty in its tone. An essential read for scholars interested in the study of Florence, and historical economics. -- Nicola Jones H-Italy, H-Net Reviews 2010 It is hard to do justice to so large, complex, and informative a work. A synthesis of the Florentine economy is a monumental undertaking. Goldthwaite offers a compelling image, which, like all such images, will draw its critics and admirers and set the parameters of the field for decades. -- Thomas Kuehn Journal of Modern History 2010 Masterful. So thorough, so inclusive, and so wide-ranging that its omission from the bibliography of on any future study on the Italian Renaissance will be a noticeable oversight. -- Brian Maxson Canadian Journal of History 2010Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures, and MapsPrefaceIntroduction: The Commerical RevolutionEconomic Growth and Development in Italy to 1300Trade with the LevantLinks to the NorthThe Tuscan TownsFlorenceRise to PredominanceThe Dynamics of GrowthPart I: International Merchant Banking1. The NetworkPerformanceDynamics of ChangePeriodizationThe Era of the FlorinBalance of PaymentsStructuresThe FirmThe Conduct of BusinessInterfirm RelationsThe CenterFlorence and Regional TradeFlorence as International Emporium2. The Shifting Geography of CommerceNorthwestern EuropeNaples and Southern ItalyThe Western MediterraneanA Transport RevolutionThe Iberian PeninsulaSouthern FranceThe Later Sixteenth CenturyCentral Italy and RomeVenice, the Adriatic, and the LevantCentral Europe3. Banking and FinanceBankingDeposits and LoansInternational Transfer and ExchangeThe Bill of Exchange as Credit InstrumentThe International Exchange MarketGovernment FinanceLoans to RulersRisksThe PapacyCompetition and Innovation in the Sixteenth CenturyPart II: The Urban Economy4. The Textile IndustriesGeneral PerformanceThe Wool IndustryThe Silk IndustryLinen DrapersBusiness OrganizationThe FirmOperations beyond the FirmProductionThe ShopThe Work ForceRecapitulation: Wool, Silk, and the Economy5. Artisans, Shop keepers, WorkersThe Work ForceGuildsArtisansWorks on the Margins of the MarketPerformance of the Artisan SectorDemand-Driven GrowthParameters of the Local Market6. Banking and CreditBanking Institutions through the Fifteenth CenturyHistoriographical ProblemsLocal BanksPawnbrokersWelfare InstitutionsBanks and the GovernmentLack of a Banking SystemPerformance of the Banking SectorPracticesEconomic FunctionsBankruptciesBanking outside of BanksOffsettingThe Private Credit MarketNew Directions in the Sixteenth CenturyA Public Savings- and- Loan BankA Central Clearance Bank?Conclusion7. ContextsGovernment and the EconomyEconomic PolicyFiscal PolicyBusiness Interests and GovernmentThe Region and the CityUrban GeographyIndustrial ResourcesAgricultureEconomic IntegrationPrivate WealthSocial MobilityA Profile of Wealth Distribution in 1427Redistribution of Wealth in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesConclusionEconomic CultureAttitudes and BehaviorNotions about the EconomyPerformanceThe Economy in the Short RunA Final JudgmentAppendix: Changing Values of the FlorinIndex

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Book SynopsisIn postwar Britain, journalists and politicians predicted that the class system would not survive a consumer culture where everyone had TVs and washing machines, and where more and more people owned their own homes. They were to be proved hopelessly wrong. Lifestyle revolution charts how class culture, rather than being destroyed by mass consumption, was remade from flat-pack furniture, Mediterranean cuisine and lifestyle magazines. Novelists, cartoonists and playwrights satirised the tastes of the emerging middle classes, while sociologists claimed that an entire population was suffering from 'status anxiety', but underneath it all, a new order was being constructed out of duvets, quiches and mayonnaise, easy chairs from Habitat, white emulsion paint and ubiquitous pine kitchen tables. More than just a world of symbolic goods, this was an intimate environment alive with new feelings and attitudes.Trade Review' What Highmore does beautifully is combine careful reading – he draws on a wealth of material, from writers including Angela Carter and Jonathan Raban – with concision and charm. In fact, one of the numerous strengths of Lifestyle Revolution is its quotes, which are well chosen and plentiful without overwhelming the text. The same could be said of its illustrations. He brings the best qualities of academic writing to a book the general reader will enjoy.'The Literary Review '...thought-provoking analysis of such a complex subject, done in such an entertaining style.' Shiny New Books 'Lifestyle revolution is a brilliant corrective to our lazy habit of condescending to the recent past by reducing it to the eccentric, the uncool and the kitsch. Through his richly evocative readings of chicken bricks, quiches, self-assembly furniture, duvets and dinghies, Ben Highmore tells the unwritten story of our collective life. Blending the personal and the political with great skill, this book is a joy to read.'Joe Moran, Professor of English and Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University and author of Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV‘If you ever wondered how a taste for wooden floors, duvets and flat-pack furniture became widespread in British homes, this book is for you. Ben Highmore’s focus on the feelings embedded in changing tastes allows him to investigate the meanings of material culture in the making of new middle-class identities. He brings to life a world of controlled casualness and spontaneous sociability – often around a stripped pine kitchen table – that will be familiar to many readers.’Deborah Sugg Ryan, Professor of Design History and Theory at the University of Portsmouth and author of Ideal Homes: Uncovering the History and Design of the Interwar House'An engrossing social and cultural history of the rise of consumerism, and a persuasive account of how it changed us.'Alwyn Turner, author of A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Taste and tastemakers 2 Instant good taste: the Habitat story3 The good life4 Colour supplement living5 Welcome to the village6 Through the plateglass window7 Status striving and other myths we live by8 But isn’t that a class thing?9 From the West Indian front room to Root10 Adrian Mole, the future of taste, and me…Index

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Book SynopsisThis book looks at London’s provision of financial and military support for parliament’s war against King Charles I. It explores for the first time a series of episodic, circumstantial and unique mobilisations that spanned from late 1641 to early 1645 and which ultimately led to the establishment of the New Model Army. Based on research from two-dozen archives, Civil war London charts the successes and failures of efforts to move London’s vast resources and in the process poses a number of challenges to longstanding notions about the capital’s ‘parliamentarian’ makeup. It reveals interactions between London’s Corporation, parochial communities and livery companies, between preachers and parishioners and between agitators, propagandists and common people. Within these tangled webs of political engagement reside the untold stories of the movement of money and men, but also of parliament’s eventual success in the English Civil War.Trade Review'Civil War London is a commendable and meticulously researched study, and one which should be read by all who are interested in the civil wars, civic history, popular politics, print culture, religion, and social and economic history. Hopefully it will also usher in a new age which restores and extends local (or in this case municipal) history in exciting and innovative directions.'CERCLES -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 London, Ireland and the Protestant cause2 Mobilising the metropolis3 A third house of parliament4 London’s levée en masse5 A 'rebellious city'?Index

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Book SynopsisThe Treasury is one of Britain’s oldest, most powerful and secretive institutions, one that has played a central role in shaping the country's economic system. But all too often it has escaped public scrutiny when it comes to investigating the ups and downs of the UK economy. When portrayed, it is usually as a bedrock of government stability in times of crisis, repeatedly rescuing the nation’s finances from the hands of posturing politicians and the combustions of world financial markets. However, there is another side to the story. In between the highs there have been many lows, from botched privatizations to dubious private finance initiatives, from failing to spot the great financial crisis to facilitating ever-growing inequalities.Davis’s book goes behind the scenes to offer an inside history of the Treasury, in the words of the chancellors, advisors and civil servants themselves. It shows the shortcomings as well as the successes, the personalities and the thinking which have shaped Britain’s economy since the mid-1970s. Based on interviews with over fifty key figures, it offers a fascinating, alternative insight on how and why the UK economy came to function as it does today, and why reform is long overdue.Trade Review'At the heart of British policymaking stands the mighty Treasury, instinctively pro-market, conservative and centralising. Its achievement is to preserve stability and its failure is to stifle innovation. In this superb book, Aeron Davis tells a somewhat depressing story of institutional continuity in the midst of change over half a century. Institutions matter. The example of Her Majesty's Treasury shows how and why.'Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial TimesOne of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2022: Economics'Aeron Davis's balanced, historical account of unaccountable, technocratic power is an essential read.' Ann Pettifor, author and Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics at PRIME'Through fascinating and surprisingly candid interviews with those who ran the Treasury over decades, Aeron Davis has put the politics back into UK economics, revealing the personalities and ideologies that have profoundly shaped the nation's most powerful institution and, through it, the whole economy. For anyone seeking to understand and influence UK policymaking - whichever political party is in power - this book is an essential and riveting read.'Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics'After all, as Aeron Davis shows in this perceptive and revealing history of the past half-century of the department that underwrites every British political decision, the Treasury has a very strong instinct for self-preservation. Many of the most important – and the most damaging – policies of recent decades have been developed and promoted by the Treasury’s institutional compulsion to settle the national balance sheet.'Will Dunn, The New Statesman'This is a splendid survey of a key department of state. The Treasury dominates the state machine.'Will Podmore, Morning Star 'It should be clear from this short review that this book is not just an interesting overview of the Treasury over the last 40+ years. It is also an invaluable record of what some of the key political and official actors involved in UK economic policy thought they were doing at the time and how they view that in retrospect. I thoroughly recommend reading it to anyone interested in the recent economic history of the UK.'Simon Wren-Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford 'Aeron Davis lucidly and accessibly illuminates an institution, the UK Treasury, that prides itself on being the salvation of the British economy when, in fact, it is a major contributory factor in its sub-par performance. Combining responsibility for controlling the public finances and economic management, the latter has very much played second fiddle, increasingly contracted out to third parties, with over-reliance on a bloated financial sector and successive property bubbles to keep everything afloat. The analysis thematically unfolds from the IMF debacle under the Callaghan Labour Government, to the Brexit and Covid crises under the Johnson Conservative Government. Essential reading for academics as a case study of the importance of an institutional perspective - and for a more general readership to understand all that has gone wrong with the British economy over the last half century.'Chris Painter, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and Management, Birmingham City University -- .Table of Contents1 Introduction: The Treasury as saviour?2 Creative destruction and the road to nowhere: A microeconomists’ story3 Financialization not neoliberalism: The City’s Trojan Horse enters the Treasury4 Pseudo-Keynesianism, debt and magic money trees: The financial fixers come to town5 Visions of Empire and globalisation: Rise of the internationalists6 The great financial crash and the great failed paradigm shift: A technocrats’ tale7 Austerity, spin, and the road to Brexit: Posh boys take charge8 Brexit and Covid postscript: Reckless opportunists gain control9 Conclusions: An institutional perspective on UK economic historyList of intervieweesAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book looks at London’s provision of financial and military support for parliament’s war against King Charles I. It explores for the first time a series of episodic, circumstantial and unique mobilisations that spanned from late 1641 to early 1645 and which ultimately led to the establishment of the New Model Army. Based on research from two-dozen archives, Civil war London charts the successes and failures of efforts to move London’s vast resources and in the process poses a number of challenges to longstanding notions about the capital’s ‘parliamentarian’ makeup. It reveals interactions between London’s Corporation, parochial communities and livery companies, between preachers and parishioners and between agitators, propagandists and common people. Within these tangled webs of political engagement reside the untold stories of the movement of money and men, but also of parliament’s eventual success in the English Civil War.Trade Review'Civil War London is a commendable and meticulously researched study, and one which should be read by all who are interested in the civil wars, civic history, popular politics, print culture, religion, and social and economic history. Hopefully it will also usher in a new age which restores and extends local (or in this case municipal) history in exciting and innovative directions.'CERCLES -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 London, Ireland and the Protestant cause2 Mobilising the metropolis3 A third house of parliament4 London’s levée en masse5 A 'rebellious city'?Index

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Book SynopsisIn this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers--General Motors, General Electric, Kodak, and Coca-Cola--he shows how big businesses once took responsibility for providing their workers and retirees with an array of social benefits. At the height of the post-World War II economy, these companies also believed that worker pay needed to be kept high in order to preserve morale and keep the economy humming. Productivity boomed.But the corporate social contract didn't last. By tracing the ups and downs of these four corporate icons over seventy years, Wartzman illustrates just how much has been lost: job security and steadily rising pay, guaranteed pensions, robust health benefits, and much more. Charting the Golden Age of the '50s and '60s; the turbulent years of the '70s and '80s; and the growth of downsizing, outsourcing, and instability in the modern era, Wartzman's narrative is a biography of the American Dream gone sideways.Deeply researched and compelling, The End of Loyalty will make you rethink how Americans can begin to resurrect the middle class.

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Book SynopsisMexico is the sixteenth largest economy in the world and Latin America’s biggest exporter and importer. Despite the country’s relative macroeconomic stability, there are two Mexicos: one more prosperous, advanced and modern, the other poor, isolated and disadvantaged, and this polarization characterizes much of the country’s recent economic development. Enrique Cárdenas provides a concise survey of Mexico’s recent economic history and examines its attempts to address the economic challenges thrown up by regional disparities, low productivity and an export-fuelled economy overwhelmingly dependent on demand from its largest neighbour. The book investigates the relative robustness of the macroeconomic fundamentals alongside specific industry-level economic trends, especially those sectors dependent on free trade agreements. Demographic trends, in particular migration to the north, urbanization, poor labour relations, organized crime and entrenched corruption are all shown to have impacted the economic path Mexico has taken. The book offers an up-to-date analysis of Mexico’s economic development, social reform programmes and political economy suitable for a range of courses in Latin American studies and development studies.Table of Contents1. Introducing the Mexican economy 2. The making of modern Mexico 3. The evolution and shape of development 4. Major components of the modern economy 5. A diverse society 6. Mexico’s uniquenesss 7. Prospects

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Book Synopsis Exchanges have always had more than economic significance: values circulate and encounters become institutionalized. This volume explores the changing meaning of the circulation of second-hand goods from the Renaissance to today, and thereby examines the blurring of boundaries between market, gifts, and charity. It describes the actors of the market - official entities such as corporations, recognized professions, and established markets but also the subterranean circulation that develops around the need for money. The complex layers that not only provide for numerous intermediaries but also include the many men and women who, as sellers or buyers, use these circulations on countless occasions are also examined.Trade Review “[This volume] gathers a rich collection of rigorous essays based on case studies. The topics selected exemplify the recent trends in social history, which reveal new areas for research.” · Sixteenth Century Journal “…this volume offers an array of insights into the multifaceted means employed to construct material advantage…and into a creative management that took many forms and varied across time.” · Journal of Social HistoryTable of Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Laurence Fontaine Chapter 1. Second-hand Dealers in the Early Modern Low Countries: Institutions, Markets and Practices Harald Deceulaer Chapter 2. Using Things as Money: An Example from Late Renaissance Rome Renata Ago Chapter 3. Prostitution and the Circulation of Second-hand Goods in Early Modern Rome Tessa Storey Chapter 4. “The Magazine of All Their Pillaging”: Armies as Sites of Second-hand Exchanges during the French Wars of Religion Brian Sandberg Chapter 5. The Exchange of Second-hand Goods between Survival Strategies and “Business” in Eighteenth-century Paris Laurence Fontaine Chapter 6. Uses of the Used: The Conventions of Renewing and Exchanging Goods in French Provincial Aristocracy Valérie Pietri Chapter 7. The Scope and Structure of the Nineteenth-century Second-hand Trade in the Parisian Clothes Market Manuel Charpy Chapter 8. “What Goes ’Round Comes ’Round”: Second-hand Clothing, Furniture and Tools in Working-class Lives in the Interwar USA Susan Porter Benson Chapter 9. Moving On: Overlooked Aspects of Modern Collecting Jackie Goode Chapter 10. The Second-hand Car Market as a Form of Resistance Bernard Jullien Chapter 11. Utopia Postponed? The Rise and Fall of Barter Markets in Argentina, 1995–2004 Ruth Pearson Chapter 12. Charity, Commerce, Consumption: The International Second-hand Clothing Trade at the Turn of the Millennium – Focus on Zambia Karen Tranberg Hansen Conclusion Laurence Fontaine Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry. This book explores the way in which he accounted for the tendency to overpopulation, the exhaustion of arable land and the deficiency of effective demand.Malthus relied on historical and empirical evidence in the spirit of Bacon and Hume, but also backed up his data with a priori hypotheses that link him to his contemporary, David Ricardo. Malthus was strongly in favour of free trade, the minimal State, the gold standard and the abolition of poverty relief. Always a pragmatist, however, he was just as much in favour of public education, contra-cyclical public works and a safety net of tariffs and bounties to encourage national self-sufficiency with regard to food. He was both an economist and a clergyman and saw the two roles as interconnected. Malthus believed that a benevolent Deity had created vice and misery in order to shake human beings out of their natural indolence that would otherwise have condemned them to still greater distress. This title provides a clear and comprehensive examination of Malthus’s economic and social thought. It will be of interest to students and scholars alike.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Induction and Deduction.- Chapter 3: The Law of Population.- Chapter 4: Public Policy.- Chapter 5: The Poor Laws.- Chapter 6: Balanced Growth.- Chapter 7: Tariffs and Bounties.- Chapter 8: The Circular Flow.- Chapter 9: Circular Flow and Social Class.- Chapter 10: Society and State.- Chapter 11: Foreign Trade.- Chapter 12: Money.- Chapter 13: God’s Design.- Chapter 14: Malthus’s Legacy: A System of Ideas.

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Book SynopsisThis monograph provides a comprehensive analysis of the political economy of the Turkish Cypriot governance in the northern part of Cyprus after 1974. Examining the political and state structure, labour market, social security, state economic enterprises and allocation of land, Ekici shines a light on the turbulent history of North Cyprus. What is its relationship with Turkey and the South? How does economic development compare across Cyprus? Who are the potential perpetrators of post-1974 developments? Such questions are addressed in this much-needed book.As a self-proclaimed internationally unrecognised state, neglected by the international community and scholarly literature, this book marks an important development in the study of North Cyprus and Turkey's role in its economy and politics.Trade Review“The Political and Economic History of North Cyprus: A Discordant Polity provides the reader with a comprehensive analysis of the ‘discordant’ economic development of northern Cyprus. It is an invaluable contribution to Cyprus studies and an essential book for an introduction to the political economy of the TRNC. It could be a handbook for those studying the politics of Cyprus as well as those interested in the economic relations between Turkey and North Cyprus.” (Ismail Yazici, Insight Turkey, Vol. 24 (1), 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: What kind of Polity?.- Chapter 3: Economic and Institutional Foundations of Turkish Cypriot Governance and the ‘ITEM’ Law.- Chapter 4: From Separation to Convergence: The Economic Development of the Republic of Cyprus and Turkification of Northern Cyprus.- Chapter 5: The Labour Market.- Chapter 6: The Social Security System.- Chapter 7: State Economic Enterprises (SEEs) and Revolving-Capital Enterprises.- Chapter 8: Private Sector Development.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the historical, current and future prospects of women’s entrepreneurial activities in the former Yugoslavia, a region that is currently in a process of transition from socialism to a free-market economy. Each chapter presents the past, present and future of female entrepreneurship for each individual country. Some of the questions that the book answers include: Have women been historically and culturally ignored, marginalized, or systematically forbidden to run their own businesses? What are the status quo and future prospects for this group? And, is the investment climate conducive to women-owned businesses? The book provides an extensive overview of female entrepreneurship, its promotion and development, the role of the state, and other key factors that shape the female entrepreneurship ecosystem. Readers will gain an overall perspective on the essential issues and challenges to women’s entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial initiatives and innovation, policy structures and institutional support to female entrepreneurship in the region.Table of ContentsContents Chapter 1 – Women’s Entrepreneurship in Former Yugoslavia: An Introduction Emil Knezović, RamoPalalić , Léo-Paul Dana Chapter 2 -Women’s Entrepreneurship in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ramo Palalić , Emil Knezović, AzraBranković, AzraBičo Chapter 3 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in Croatia MihaelaMikić , Maja Has CHAPTER 4 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in Kosovo Nora Sadiku-Dushi, VelandRamadani, Dianne H.B Welsh and Ramo Palalić Chapter 5 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in Montenegro BobanMelovic, Vladimir Djurisic Chapter 6 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in North Macedonia VelandRamadani, EsraMemili, Léo-Paul Dana and VisarRamadani Chapter 7 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in Serbia Maja IvanovićĐukić, SašaPetković Chapter8 - Women’s Entrepreneurship in Slovenia Jasna Auer Antoncic, BostjanAntoncic, Robert D. Hisrich CHAPTER 9 Women’s Entrepreneurship in Former Yugoslavia: Toward The FutureRamo Palalić, Léo-Paul Dana, Emil Knezović

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the economic history of the company and entrepreneurship in Spain from the 15th century to the present. It evaluates the economic theory, the formation of the figure of the entrepreneur, as well as the structure of the companies. This exploration of the businessmen in Spain over several centuries is something that has not been done until now. Joining the great Spanish historiographical debate about the existence or not of entrepreneurship, the book brings together research in very different historical contexts and junctures. It presents a selection of cases of companies and entrepreneurs from Spain, from different sectors, regions and periods, from boom to crisis, from the wine businessman to the railway sector, from private banking to the pioneers of the Spanish travel agency business. It will be of interest to academics and students in economic history, business and management history, as well as researchers in entrepreneurship & small business management.Table of Contents1. The historical evolution of the theory of the entrepreneur; Mariano Castro Valdivia. University of Jaen.- 2. How to do business in Castile: trade and financial companies (15th-16th centuries); David Carvajal. University of Valladolid.- 3. Simón Ruiz: a great entrepreneur in 16th-century Europe; Hilario Casado. University of Valladolid.- 4. Jakob Fugger, an early modern capitalist; Agustín González-Enciso. University of Navarre.- 5. Speculation and collusion in northern Castile in the mid-19th century; Rafael Barquín-Gil. UNED.- 6. Wine businessmen in Cadiz in the 19th century: Pedro Lacave Miramont; María Vázquez-Fariñas. University of Jaen.- 7. The commercialization of the Sociedad Azucarera Antequerana´s production (1890-1906); Mercedes Fernández-Paradas. University of Malaga Francisco José García-Ariza. University of Malaga.- 8. Private banking in the nineteenth century: merchants-bankers, banking houses and large national banks: the case of the province of Jaén (1800-1936); María José Vargas-Machuca. University of Jaen.- 9. Public services in Spain: the role of water supply companies; Juan Manuel Matés-Barco. University of Jaen.- 10. The railway sector in Spain in the long term; Pedro Pablo Ortúñez-Goicolea. University of Valladolid Miguel Muñoz Rubio. Spanish Railways Foundation.- 11. The pioneers of the Spanish travel agency business before mass tourism; Carlos Larrinaga. University of Granada.- 12. The path to success, the main explanations of the case of Mapfre; Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas. University of Granada.- 13. Spanish businesses and the negotiations for Spain’s entry into the European Economic Community; Jorge Lafuente del Cano. University of Valladolid.- 14. The automotive equipment and components industry of Castilla y León in the global automobile market: Lingotes Especiales group; Pablo Alonso. University of Valladolid Pedro Pablo Ortúñez-Goicolea. University of Valladolid.

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Book SynopsisThis book applies an economic and environmental perspective to the history of landscape and the rural economy, highlighting their inter-connections through specific case studies. After explaining how the author made his discoveries and when they started, it analyses relations between documentary and landscape evidence. It is based on exceptional first-hand observation of a dozen sites and close consideration of topics in the ecological and economic history of southern England. They range from reclaiming chalk down-land, occupying low-lying heaths and reconstructing parkland, to wool-stapling and the manufacture of gunstocks for the African slave trade. Additional themes include the tension between ecology and institutions in decisions about the location of economic activity; the decay of communal farming ahead of enclosure; and other interesting puzzles in rural economic history. This book offers an original approach to questions in economic history through its synthesis of different types of evidence. It will be of interest to a diverse range of readers because it addresses how economic change was registered in the landscape, and how that change was influenced by landscape. It is a book with highly original features, contributing simultaneously to economic, agricultural, environmental, and landscape history. Table of ContentsPart 1. Preliminaries.- Chapter 1. Strategic Locations.- Chapter 2. Sources: Artefacts.- Chapter 3. Sources: Documents.- Chapter 4. Post-war Time Shift.- Part Two: Localities.- Chapter 5. Chalk Downs.- Chapter 6. Heathland.- Chapter 7. Lot Meads.- Chapter 8. Drove Roads.- Chapter 9. Colonising the Hill Country.- Chapter 10. Parkland.- Chapter 11. Resources: Fodder.- Chapter 12. Resources: Wool & Wood.- Chapter 13. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the Westernization Movement in modern Chinese History, in the latter 19th century and the economic impact on manufacturing and enterprise evolution. It examines the rise, development, and performance of this movement on both the micro and macro-levels. This book reveals achievements in technology transfer without political changes, which set the limits for the westernization movement. It evaluates the link between the Westernization Movement and China’s economic reforms after 1978, and the factors that may have constrained the development of economic thought in China. The book provides valuable insights into how Chinese economic thought transitioned, and is a valuable contribution to the debate on how the early Westernization Movement in China caused a change in consumer thought. It will be of interest to academics in economic history and those interested in the development of modern China and the emergence of manufacturing and entrepreneurship in China.Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Change of Time and the Formation of the Westernization Thought.- Chapter 2. The Guiding Principle of Westernization Movement.-Chapter 3. The Development Strategies of the Self-Strengthening Modernization.- Chapter 4. Social Reformative Thought of Westernization Group.- Part 2. Business.- Chapter 5. Raising Capital.- Chapter 6. Improve the thought of technology.- Chapter 7. The thinking of cultivation personnel of running business.- Chapter 8. Thoughts of Hiring Free Labors.- Chapter 9. Theories of enterprise operation and management.- Chapter 10. Companies Organization System Thoughts.- Part 3. National Economy.- Chapter 11. Develop Thought of Modern Agriculture.- Chapter 12. Development of modern industry thought.- Chapter 13. The ideology of developing modern business.- Chapter 14. Development of transportation & Communication thought.- Chapter 15. The Development of Modern Financial Thinking.- Chapter 16. Thinking of Transferring the Surplus Workforce in Agricultural Society.- Part 4. Peroration.- Chapter 17. The Origins of Westernization Thought.- Chapter 18. Ideological evaluation of westernization movement.- Chapter 19. Qing Government and Westernization.

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Economic Transitions explains the genesis, operation, and transformation of the centrally-planned socialist economy, which figured prominently in the lives of billions of people in twentieth-century Europe and Asia. Just as importantly, the centrally-planned socialist economy’s demise coincided with the shift from nonindustrial to industrial economy (and de-industrialization in some cases) and the onset of ICT-driven globalization. Using theory, empirics, and selected country case studies, this book teases out the enduring lessons from the myriad and fraught pathways of transition from socialism to capitalism. Understanding Economic Transitions provides a self-contained, comprehensive, and authoritative treatment of modern economic systems. This textbook has four features of particular use to students: (i) Using the prism of comparative institutionalism, it melds theory and evidence to revisit the varieties of planned and market-driven systems today; (ii) It takes economic planning seriously in theory and practice (central, cooperative, or indicative) as the most prominent marker of the ever-changing boundaries between state and market; (iii) It focuses on the dynamics of systemic transition in formerly socialist countries by contextualizing them in terms of the whence (central planning), the how (modalities of transition), and the whither (illiberal or liberal capitalism) of politico-economic transformation; and (iv) It examines the profound impact on these structural processes of the post-1990 phase of economic globalization. With its clear, comprehensive content and useful pedagogical features, this textbook will prepare students to understand how economies transition and why.Table of ContentsPART ONE: THEORIES OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS.- 1. Economic Systems.- 2. Economic Planning in Various Settings.- PART TWO: TWO CANONICAL STATE SOCIALISMS.- 3. The Soviet CPE I: The Process of Planning.- 4. The Soviet CPE II: The Process of Implementation.- 5. The Chinese CPE: Planning in an Industrializing Economy.- PART THREE: SYSTEMIC TRANSITION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE.- 6. The Market-oriented Transition: Theory.- 7. The Isolationist Russian Road to Capitalism.- 8. The Nationalist Chinese Road to Capitalism.- 9. Two Integrationist Variants: Poland and Vietnam.- PART FOUR: TRANSITION UNDER THE NEW GLOBALIZATION.- 10. Market Integration in the Age of Global Value Chains.- 11. The Developmental State and Political Capitalism.- 12. Comparative Economics Redux.

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Book SynopsisLarge-scale economic change such as the rise of coinage occurred during the Persian-dominated centuries (6th -4th centuries BCE) in the Eastern Mediterranean and ancient Near East. How do the biblical texts of the time respond to such developments?In this study, Peter Altmann lays out foundational economic conceptions from the ancient Near East and earlier biblical traditions in order to show how Persian-period biblical texts build on these traditions to address the challenges of their day. Economic issues are central to the way that Ezra and Nehemiah approach the topics of temple building and of Judean self-understanding. Economic terminology and considerations also appear in Second Isaiah and the "Holiness Code." Following significant interaction with the material culture and extra-biblical texts, the author devotes special attention to the ascendancy of economics and its theological and identity implications as structuring metaphors for divine action and human community in the Persian period.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first study that analyses bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time. The work focuses on commercial treaties as an index of the challenges of eighteenth-century European politics, shaping a new understanding of these challenges and of how they were confronted at the time in theory and diplomatic practice. From the middle of the seventeenth century to the time of the Napoleonic wars bilateral commercial treaties were concluded not only at the end of large-scale wars accompanying peace settlements, but also independently with the aim to prevent or contain war through controlling the balance of trade between states. Commercial treaties were also understood by major political writers across Europe as practical manifestations of the wider intellectual problem of devising a system of interstate trade in which the principles of reciprocity and equality were combined to produce sustainable peaceful economic development. Trade Review“The volume at hand should be celebrated for highlighting their importance for early modern history in general and for political economy more specifically. … this excellent edited volume offers a welcome reminder not only of the high stakes of our current predicaments but also of how long they have been so and why peaceful international order remains so elusive in a world where wealth and power are positional goods.” (Sophus A. Reinert, Journal of Modern History, Issue 9, 2019)Table of Contents1. Trade and Treaties: Balancing the Interstate system; Antonella Alimento & Koen Stapelbroek.- 2. Égalité, réciprocité, souveraineté. The role of commercial treaties in Colbert’s economic policy; Moritz Isenmann.- 3. The Anglo-Portuguese Methuen Treaty of 1703: Opportunities and Constraints of Economic Development; José Luís Cardoso.- 4. The Anglo-French Treaty of Utrecht Revisited: The Politics of Alliance and Rivalry; Doohwan Ahn.- 5. The Anglo-Spanish Asiento treaty in the early eighteenth century; Maria Virginia León & Niccolò Guasti.- 6. Negotiating the balance of power: Russian-Spanish commercial relations in the early eighteenth century; Olga Volosyuk.- 7. Reinventing the Dutch Republic: Franco-Dutch commercial treaties from Ryswick to Vienna; Koen Stapelbroek,- 8. The conditions of trade in wartime: treaties of commerce and maritime law in the eighteenth century; Eric Schnakenbourg.- 9. From privilege to equality: commercial treaties and the French solutions for international competition (1705-1790); Antonella Alimento,- 10 Securing Asian Trade: Treaty Negotiations between the French and English East India Companies, 1753–1755; John Shovlin.- 11. The Rise of a Trading Nation. Prussia and the ‘Convention préliminaire de commerce’ with France (1753); Marco Cavarzere.- 12. War, Neutrality and Commercial Treaties: The Savoyard State 1660-1789; Christopher Storrs.- 13. Negotiating a trade treaty in the imperial context: The Habsburg Monarchy in the eighteenth century; Christine Lebeau.- 14. French Representations of the 1786 Franco-British Commercial Treaty; Pascal Dupuy.- 15 Haiti’s Commercial Treaties: Between Abolition and the Persistence of the Old Regime; Paul Cheney.- 16. What trade for a republican people? French Revolutionary debates about commercial treaties (1792-1799); Marc Belissa.

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