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The University of Chicago Press Face Value The Entwined Histories of Money and
Book SynopsisFrom colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. The author provides a deep history and a penetrating analysis of American thinking about money and the ways that this ambivalence unexpectedly intertwines with race.Trade Review"Michael O'Malley's new book is a magnificent piece of scholarship on a topic that is at once timely and surprising. He shows our twin national obsessions - money and race - dancing together across economic policy reports, the pages of literary fiction, the stage, the screen, and the airwaves. I recommend this book wholeheartedly." (Benjamin Reiss, Emory University)"
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Cambridge University Press British Railways 194873
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University of Pennsylvania Press Hinterland Dreams
Book SynopsisIn the 1840s, La Crosse, Wisconsin, was barely more than a trading post nestled on the banks of the Mississippi River. But by 1900 the sleepy frontier town had become a thriving city. Hinterland Dreams tracks the growth of this community and shows that government institutions and policies were as important as landscapes and urban boosters in determining the small Midwestern city''s success. The businessmen and -women of La Crosse worked hard to attract government support during the nineteenth century. Federal, state, and municipal officials passed laws, issued rulings, provided resources, vested aldermen with financial and regulatory power, and created a lasting legal foundation that transformed the city and its economy. As historian Eric J. Morser demonstrates, the development of La Crosse and other small cities linked rural people to the wider world and provided large cities like Chicago with the lumber and other raw materials needed to grow even larger. He emphasizes the rTrade Review"An enjoyable and innovative look into the forging of American individualism and exceptionalism." * Urban History *"From the perspective of a small city in the Midwest, Morser impressively contributes to our understanding of how the 'hinterland dreams' of a small city could affect regional development." * Journal of American History *"Good history occasionally intersects with good storytelling to create a remarkable result. This book is one such happy achievement. . . . Fascinating . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"Hinterland Dreams is a clearly written, well organized, and thoroughly researched work. Urban history has focused on the giants like Chicago. Smaller cities have largely been neglected until now. By examining La Crosse, Wisconsin, Morser breaks new ground and offers a needed reminder of the importance of government in urban development." * Jon C. Teaford, Purdue University *Table of ContentsPrologue: Professor Turner's Audience Part I. Paving the Way Chapter One. Red Bird's Tale Chapter Two. A Story of Settlement Chapter Three. Politics and Pine Part II. Boosting Municipal Power Chapter Four. Iron Tracks to the City Chapter Five. "The Most Necessary Reformes" Part III. New Economic Voices Chapter Six. From White Beaver to Working Man Chapter Seven. Fredericka's World Conclusion. "A City of Bustling Trade" Notes Index Acknowledgments
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Perilous Passage Mankind and the Global
Book SynopsisFor the appendixes mentioned in the book, Click Here.In this innovative and ambitious global history, distinguished economic historian Amiya Kumar Bagchi critically analyzes the processes leading to the rise of the West since the sixteenth century to its current position as the most prosperous and powerful group of nations in the world. Integrating the history of armed conflict with the history of competition for trade, investment, and markets, Bagchi explores the human consequences for people both within and outside the region. He characterizes the emergence and operation of capitalism as a system driven by wars over resources and markets rather than one that genuinely operates on the principle of free markets. In tracing this history, he also charts what happened to the people who came under its sway during the last five centuries. Bagchi thus broadens our understanding of the nature and history of capitalism and challenges the fetishism of commodities that limits the perspective of most economic historians. The book also challenges the Eurocentrism that still underlies the conceptual framework of many mainstream historians, joining earlier narratives that chronicle the history of human beings as living persons rather than as puppets serving the abstract cause of economic growth. His unflinching examination of the human costs of developmentnot only in the colonial periphery but in the core nationsincludes not only economic processes and issues of inequality within and among nations but also the intertwining of economics and war-making on a world scale. The book also contributes to our knowledge of how and in what sequence human health has been shaped by public health care, sanitation, modern medicine, income levels and nutrition. Written with extraordinary range and depth, Perilous Passage will change the ways in which we think about many of the largest issues in world history and development.Trade ReviewA good deal that we have seen before is still or again relevant to today's global capitalism, and Bagchi usefully reminds us of how many of these parallels are harrowing rather than hopeful; one hopes this book will reach the people who believe the stories Bagchi debunks and enrich a vital set of debates. -- Kenneth L. Pomeranz, University of Chicago * Economic and Political Weekly *Explores the numerous ways the armed ascendancy of European capital has impacted the human development of the nonwhite dependencies of Europe and the Europeans themselves. Discusses human development and capitalist growth; capitalist competition and human development in Europe; the world beyond Europe in the age of the emergence of European dominance; and the antisystemic struggles, wars, and challenges to global capital. * Journal of Economic Literature *This stimulating synthesis . . . has an excellent bibliography, incorporates recent specialist work in global economic history, and is genuinely erudite. A valuable reference for all world historians . . . Highly recommended. * CHOICE *A hard-headed examination in facts and figures of how capitalism has insidiously but inexorably destroyed human happiness and ravaged our ecological system. . . . A compelling and thoughtful account with the lucidity of argument of someone compressing the essence of a lifetime's research into a philosophical framework. * The Statesman *Magisterial. . . . [Bagchi] presents a comprehensive comparative picture of the historical economic development of China, India, and Japan, and their relation to what happened in Europe and North America. It is hard to suggest another work that does this in as small a space, so clearly, and based on such extensive acquaintance with the empirical literature. . . . It is refreshing to have Bagchi’s voice added to the rather small list of important works on the origins and development of the modern world. . . . One can only hope that the book will have a wide international reading public. -- Immanuel Wallerstein, Fernand Braudel Center, Yale University * Monthly Review *Bagchi has written a great book, a history of human development as he calls it, which offers a fascinating account of global capitalism as it evolved over a period of four centuries. . . . Writing a 'grand history' as Bagchi has done will inevitably create controversy . . . but this does not in any way diminish the significance of this monumental history of the human costs of economic growth. * Development and Change *An ambitious work that essays to rethink the extent to which the transition to capitalism did not accomplish significant human development until well into the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . . . Bagchi's 'human development' frame is one that stimulates and appropriately outrages. * Journal of World History *An impressive book that, in the tradition of world systems analysis and dependency theory, challenges Eurocentric understandings of capitalism. . . . This book makes an important contribution to that struggle. * Science & Society *[Bagchi] challenges Eurocentric views on the rise of capitalism and argues that Europeans gained a decisive advantage over China and India thanks only to the maturing of the machine-based Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century. * International Review Of Social History *Amiya Kumar Bagchi's Perilous Passage is a book that deserves our attention in this historical moment. It is born of our moment and offers us crucial intellectual resources in our attempts to understand the beast we must confront. Perilous Passage is a global history and in many respects perhaps one of the first truly global histories of our epoch to appear. . . . Bagchi's Perilous Passage is a weapon in the intellectual arsenal of social justice activists everywhere. . . . Perilous Passage may contribute to the development of a newer kind of understanding that will allow us to begin undoing the layers of injustice, ecological destruction, and human immiseration such ascendancy has created. * Labour *A combative and spirited book telling the story of the economic emergence of the contemporary world in a radically different way from the standard accounts. It will not end debates, but begin them in a robust way, which surely is the function of fine 'alternative history.' -- Amartya Sen, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPart I: Conceptual Issues: Human Development and Capitalist Growth Chapter 1: The History of Human Development as the Subject of History Chapter 2: The Construction of the European Miracle Chapter 3: Profit Seeking under Actually Existing Capitalism and Human Development Part II: Capitalist Competition and Human Development in Europe Chapter 4: Combat for Dominance Among the Western European Countries Since the Sixteenth Century Chapter 5: Population Growth and Mortality Between the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A First Look Chapter 6: The Netherlands: Rise and Fall of a Hegemonic Power Chapter 7: The Delayed Transition of Europe and North America to a Low-Mortality Regime Chapter 8: Literacy in Western Europe Since the Sixteenth Century Part III: Non-European Peoples in the Age of Emergence of European Dominance Chapter 9: Economic Development and the Quality of Life in China Between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries Chapter 10: India under Mughal Rule and After Chapter 11: Conducting Trade in Asia Before and After the European Advent Chapter 12: Reconsidering Japanese Exceptionalism Chapter 13: Capitalist Competition, Colonialism, and the Physical Well-Being of Non-European Peoples Chapter 14: The Civilizing Mission and Racialization: From the Native Americans to the Asians Chapter 15: The Civilizing Mission in Lands Taken by the European Settlers from the Original Inhabitants Chapter 16: Intercontinental Resource Flows Sustaining the Ascent of the European Powers Chapter 17: Colonial Tribute and Profits, 1870s Onward Chapter 18: Demographic Disasters in the Colonies and Semi-Colonies in the High Noon of European Colonialism Part IV: The Twentieth Century: Anti-Systematic Struggles, Wars, and Challenges to Global Capital Chapter 19: Setting the Stage for Megawars Chapter 20: Revolution, Nazism, Japanese Militarism and the Second World War Chapter 21: Imperialism and Wars in the Late Twentieth Century Chapter 22: Capitalism and Uneven Development in the Twentieth Century Chapter 23: Destruction and Renewal in the Global Order of Imperialism and Neoliberalism Chapter 24: Contradictions, Challenges, and Resistance
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Princeton University Press The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2016 Douglass C. North Research Award, Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE) Shortlisted for the 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society One of Flavorwire's 10 Must-Read Academic Books for 2015 One of HistoryBuff.com's 10 Can't-Miss History Books of 2015 "Superb."--Armand Marie Leroi, New York Times "In the late fourth century B.C., Aristotle and his students collected the constitutions of more than 150 [...] city-states. The scholar who would today follow in Aristotle's footsteps has to deal with a far more formidable mass of data. Few of today's scholars control more of this data, or write about it more insightfully, than Josiah Ober. [T]hose willing to put in the effort will learn much from the deep meditations of an expert historian and political philosopher."--James Romm, Wall Street Journal "[T]his could turn out to be Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for classical Greece."--Jonathan Sturgeon, Flavorwire "Ober marshals a wealth of new data to make the case for a much different view of Greek history ... there was something distinct about the Greek world, he argues. What set the Greeks apart, he says, was their choice of a particular kind of order--and the cultural attitudes that went with it. Citizen self-government. Equality of standing among persons. Fair and open institutions. These ideas, unusual in history, were well developed in the Greek world, Ober notes. If we care about them, he says, we should pay attention."--Marc Parry, Chronicle of Higher Education "[Ober's] central argument is that the achievements of Greek civilization were rooted in its prosperity, and that was the result of a rough economic and political equality... [He] ranges over a half millennium of Greek history, from the 8th to the 3rd centuries BCE, seeking the roots of Greek "efflorescence"--its material and cultural flourishing... [The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece] is rife with parallels to the present."--Brian Bethune, Macleans "An attractive, informative, and timely picture of Greece from Homer to Aristotle... It's an absorbing story full of excitement, drama and hope."--Evaggelos Valiantos, Huffington Post "A sharp and insightful economic history."--Daisy Dunn, History Today [The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece] is by far [Ober's] most ambitious work to date, a magisterial tour of the successes and failures of various city-states throughout the Greek world from the archaic through the Hellenistic periods... The thrust of the book is not just provocative but persuasive."--Adriaan Lanni, The New Rambler "This book is a groundbreaking examination of what Ober (political science, Stanford) calls the 'efflorescence' of ancient Greece, which, divided into some 1,100 city-states as it was, developed a unified, dominant culture."--Choice "His narrative history of Greek efflorescence is engaging and full of insights."--Richard Seaford, Literary Review "A thought-provoking book with great depth. As the great political theorists of the modern era have always known, the ancient Greek experience provides immense empirical material to mine for insights into political science: how we design rules of politics to secure human freedom and well-being. We ignore the experience of classical civilization to our own disadvantage."--Jason Sorens, The American Conservative "This challenging book is like no other history of the ancient world... [Ober] produces some engaging and striking analyses of familiar historical episodes."--American Historical Review "Intriguing... [Y]ou can think of this book as how an economist might think about ancient Greece."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution "[Ober's] work will be of interest to anyone who is serious about the history of political economy, or who wants to know more about the relationship between democracy, economic growth, and human flourishing, whether in the ancient or modern world... The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece ... will richly reward a serious lay reader. One of its most appealing qualities is its multidisciplinary approach, which is the fruit of Ober's extensive and generously acknowledged collaboration with scholars from around the world as well as with his Stanford colleagues in a number of fields, including the sciences. In this respect, it points in a direction that future humanities scholars will need to go if they, too, wish to flourish."--David Wharton, Weekly Standard "A fresh and vigorous account about the roots of democracy."--Brian A. Pavlac, Canadian Journal of HistoryTable of ContentsList of Images and Tables xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxi Abbreviations xxv 1 The Efflorescence of Classical Greece 1 2 Ants around a Pond: An Ecology of City-States 21 3 Political Animals: A Theory of Decentralized Cooperation 45 4 Wealthy Hellas: Measuring Efflorescence 71 5 Explaining Hellas' Wealth: Fair Rules and Competition 101 6 Citizens and Specialization before 550 BCE 123 7 From Tyranny to Democracy, 550-465 BCE 157 8 Golden Age of Empire, 478-404 BCE 191 9 Disorder and Growth, 403-340 BCE 223 10 Political Fall, 359-334 BCE 261 11 Creative Destruction and Immortality 293 Appendix I: Regions of the Greek World: Population, Size, Fame 317 Appendix II: King, City, and Elite Game, Josiah Ober and Barry Weingast 321 Notes 329 Bibliography 367 Index 401
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Princeton University Press Beyond Our Means Why America Spends While the
Book SynopsisWhat can we learn from East Asian and European countries that have fostered enduring cultures of thrift over the past two centuries? This title tells how other nations aggressively encouraged their citizens to save by means of special savings institutions and savings campaigns.Trade Review"Garon makes a powerful case that savings isn't about culture. It's policy... You'll think about savings policies differently after [you] pick up a copy of Beyond Our Means."--Christopher Farrell, economics editor of Marketplace Money "Professor Garon offers brilliant scholarship, engaging reading, and some practical insights for dealing with our current financial crisis worldwide. An insightful and provocative book that ... will be a unique and important volume for historians, policymakers, and the general public."--Claude Ury, San Francisco Book Review "How the Anglo-world came to live 'beyond their means ... while the world saves' is the big question of Sheldon Garon's fascinating book. It could not be more timely. Readers who worry that it might be too technical, do not fear. This is a history of flesh and blood, as Garon reclaims the topic from the economists. Facts and figures are surrounded by real people and rich illustrations that convey how passionate societies came to be about saving. Postal saving has never been so sexy."--Frank Trentmann, BBC History Magazine "Garon's policy recommendations could help shift the national trend towards saving more and position Americans towards greater financial health."--Worth "[O]ne of the world's leading authorities on the history of saving."--Joshua Rothman, Boston Globe "[A] fascinating new book... Garon believes the tide can turn, and offers some levelheaded policy suggestions for how America can restore a lasting balance between spending and saving."--Larry Cox, King Features Weekly Service "[A] very important book for critics of capitalism... Garon explains in an ambitious book that roams across centuries and continents ... why much of Europe and Asia embraced, and stuck with, a savings culture while the US first adopted and then abandoned one. It's intriguing social history."--Stephen Matchett, Australian "Garon's story is interesting and informative when focused on the history of small saving and is a recommended read."--Thomas F. Cargill, Pacific Affairs "This book is a model for how historians might re-engage with matters of economy and business using the insights and tools developed during the cultural turn."--American Historical Review "This book is a model for how historians might re-engage with matters of economy and business using the insights and tools developed during the cultural turn."--Kenneth Lipartito, American Historical Review "Garon has provided an account that shows, as with the study of consumption, the limitations of economic understandings of this routine aspect of human behaviour. It is doubtful that there will now be a scholarly turn to savings on a level equal to the outpouring of work on consumer society that has occurred over the last thirty years. But should there be so, then Beyond Our Means would be an excellent place to start."--Matthew Hilton, Social History "Transnational history at its most compelling, Beyond Our Means reveals why some nations save so much and others so little."--World Book Industry "Beyond Our Means is a big book that is very engagingly written, and it deserves a wide general readership. It concerns modern international history in general, though it grows out of work in Japanese history... The kind of constructive reaching out to wider audiences shown in this book is a model for scholars in the various fields of Japan studies."--Mark Metzler, Journal of Japanese Studies "[A] historian of modern Japan, driven by his concerns for America's financial future, has devoted years of research to writing a global history of saving, and he has produced a superb book... [A] timely history book of great contemporary relevance [that] has already embarked on a journey in new directions for public policy and global historical studies."--Elya J. Zhang, Reviews in American HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter 1: The Origins of Saving in the Western World 17 Chapter 2: Organizing Thrift in the Age of Nation-States 48 Chapter 3: America the Exceptional 84 Chapter 4: Japanese Traditions of Diligence and Thrift 120 Chapter 5: Saving for the New Japan 143 Chapter 6: Mobilizing for the Great War 168 Chapter 7: Save Now, Buy Later: World War II and Beyond 194 Chapter 8: "Luxury is the Enemy": Japan in Peace and War 221 Chapter 9: Postwar Japan's National Salvation 255 Chapter 10. Exporting Thrift, or the Myth of "Asian Values" 292 Chapter 11. "There IS Money. Spend It": America since 1945 317 Chapter 12. Keep on Saving? Questions for the Twenty-fi rst Century 356 Acknowledgments 377 Appendix 381 Abbreviations 383 Notes 385 Selected Bibliography 435 Index 449
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Princeton University Press The Gifts of Athena
Book SynopsisShows that changes in the intellectual and social environment and the institutional background in which knowledge was generated and disseminated brought about the Industrial Revolution, followed by sustained economic growth and continuing technological change.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003 Winner of the 2003 Don K. Price Award "For most economists, Mr. Mokyr included, the Industrial Revolution is categorically different from everything that preceded it... [He] suggests that, over time, growth will win out, if only because the power of certain ideas is greater than the resistance to them. So much the better."--Nic Schulz, Wall Street Journal "[A] masterful addition to literatures of economic history and economic growth. The product of a lifetime of scholarly study and reflection, Mokyr's book plainly did not spring full-blown from the head of Zeus. It merits a wide readership."--William F. Shughart II, EH.Net "The Gifts of Athena is an impressive study that clearly reveals Mokyr's mastery of a large literature on industrialization and economic growth... Joel Mokyr has long concerned himself with big questions and making connections that delineate historical processes in new and interesting ways. The Gifts of Athena with its special emphasis on the centrality of the 'knowledge economy,' amply testifies to his stature as a leading historian of the Industrial Revolution."--Merritt Roe Smith, Isis "[A] fascinating, magisterial investigation into the wellsprings of modern economic growth and improved living standards... The Gifts of Athena is a big-idea history book, a complex tale that interweaves science, technology, economics, sociology, and political science... This is one that will stand the test of time."--Christopher Farrell, Business Week "Mokyr argues that knowledge is the key to understanding many of the most important developments in the past two centuries. The book is impressively wide ranging in its scope, containing a vast array of information and ideas... I would hesitate to say the Mokyr has solved the problems of why the industrial revolution happened, but he would appear to have advanced the story a long way. This book is a fascinating integration of intellectual and economic history"--Roger E. Backhouse, American Historical Review "Situated firmly at the intersection of several disciplines--the history of science and technology, economic history, and economics--this fascinating and stimulating book explores the relationships among the expansion of knowledge, technological change, and economic growth since the 18th century."--Choice "Joel Mokyr, as one of the most important economic historians of our time, has written an instructive book about the knowledge-based origins of the rise and the future persistence of the Western World... This book should be read not only by scholars, but also by politicians!"--Helmut Braun, Journal of European Economic HistoryTable of ContentsPreface xi Chapter 1: Technology and the Problem of Human Knowledge 1 Chapter 2: The Industrial Enlightenment: The Taproot of Economic Progress 28 Chapter 3: the Industrial Revolution and Beyond 78 Chapter 4: Technology and the Factory System 119 Chapter 5: Knowledge, Health, and th Household 163 Chapter 6: the Political Economy of Knowledge: Innovation and Resistance in Economic History 218 Chapter 7: Institutions, Knowledge, and Economic Growth 284 References 299 Index 339
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Johns Hopkins University Press Other Peoples Money
Book SynopsisBy helping readers understand the financial history of this period and the way banking shaped the society in which ordinary Americans lived and worked, this book broadens and deepens our knowledge of the Early American Republic.Trade ReviewThis is a brisk, well-researched tour of how the American finance and banking sector got its start.—Financial HistoryMurphy has provided what should be the go-to source for anyone looking to understand the differences among savings banks, investment banks, and commercial banks in pre-Civil War America; to know what it meant for banks to provide discounts on commercial paper; and to know what terms like fractional reserve, independent treasury, bimetallism, shinplasters, wildcat banks, and bills of exchange meant.—Civil War Book ReviewMurphy has written what this financial historian considers a sound and reliable introductory or companion text to early American banking that is both engaging and easy-to-read, and at the same time broadly consistent with recent economic research on the topics covered.—EH.netIt [Other People's Money] does much to further our understanding of an important feature of international capital markets, and it raises crucial policy issues.—EH.NetThe strengths of this work are numerous. In addition to narrating some intriguing vignettes on Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Herman Melville, this book contains a fascinating array of cartoons and images of credit instruments, many of which are drawn from the author’s extensive personal collection. Murphy’s writing is also straightforward; her analysis, insightful.—Common-PlaceI recommend Other People’s Money highly to anyone seeking a brief but accurate introduction to this fascinating era in banking and monetary history.—Business History ReviewOther People’s Money is a beautifully written book on “how banking worked in the early American Republic.” Part of Johns Hopkins University Press’s How Things Worked series, the target audience for this book is undergraduates studying U.S. history or economic history. The book condenses a large literature from American history and economic history as well as contemporary material from periodicals and novels into an interdisciplinary narrative of the political battles over money and banking from the early Republic to the Civil War. Murphy’s book shows that the politics of money shaped how money worked.—Jane Knodell, University of Vermont, Enterprise and SocietyIt is difficult to overstate the quality of Murphy's work. Other People's Money is an outstanding contribution that brilliantly accomplishes the herculean task of digesting the complexities of banking in the early republic. Moreover, Murphy manages to convey these points clearly in immensely readable prose. Helpful for both the layperson and the scholar, this book deserves a place on syllabi and the bookshelves of anyone with an interest in capitalism during this period. Murphy reminds the reader that the story of American banking has a long and complex history, and this erudite study does an excellent job of explaining that complexity in accessible terms.—Aaron L. Chin, University of New Hampshire, American Nineteenth Century HistoryThe real strength of Other People's Money can be found in its clear explanation of early American banking. Murphy makes a complex topic simple, but her treatment is anything but simplistic . . . Because of the book's engaging and lively discussions, I suspect that if it is assigned in classrooms Other People's Money will inspire more than a few students to dive more deeply into the complex and fascinating world of early American banking history.—Andrew J. B. Fagal, Princeton University, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue. How the Bank War Worked1. How Money Worked2. How Banks Worked3. How Panics Worked4. Experiments in Money and Banking5. How Civil War Finance WorkedConclusion. Andrew Jackson, Other People's Money, and the Creation of the Federal ReserveEpilogue. Why Is Andrew Jackson Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill?NotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Merchant Families Banking and Money in Medieval Lucca Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics
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Yale University Press The Overseas Trade of British America
Book SynopsisA sweeping history of early American trade and the foundation of the American economyTrade ReviewRecipient of The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York’s 69th Annual Distinguished Book Award“Thomas Truxes demonstrates that trade was the essential element in the success of Britain’s American colonies—and of their revolution. He weaves together contemporary opinion and modern analysis in highly readable prose, always with the telling detail.”—Karen Ordahl Kupperman, author of Pocahontas and the English Boys“A dazzling tour de force of erudition and empirical heft. This is an indispensable and extraordinary work, immediately the authority in the field.”—Trevor Burnard, University of Hull“We could have no better guide than Truxes explaining incisively how American colonial merchants enriched their communities through licit and illicit trade, and how this enrichment was the product of slavery and the slave trade.”—Nicholas Canny, author of Imagining Ireland’s Pasts“Sailing across four centuries and comprehending multiple perspectives, Thomas Truxes offers us a fascinating new understanding of a complex development that subjugated black laborers, strengthened white enterprisers and inhabitants, and ultimately facilitated an uneasy independence.”—David Hancock, University of Michigan
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Princeton University Press The New Lombard Street
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A well-written, scholarly dissection that should be required reading for all graduate courses (and perhaps some advanced undergraduate) in macroeconomics or monetary economics." * Choice *"With lucid precision, Mehrling traces the history of how Fed policy makers became biased toward 'excessive elasticity'. . . . Mehrling saves the best for the end, where he describes the Fed's battle to save the system with an alphabet soup of lending programs."---James Pressley, Bloomberg News"An important book about the new Fed."---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution"In The New Lombard Street, Perry Mehrling . . . provides a lucid account of how the system worked when it was working—and of the growing role assumed by the Fed in an era of global economic volatility and 'credit-fueled bubbles.'"---Glenn C. Altschuler, Tulsa World"[A] fantastic book."---Rortybomb, Mike Konczal blog"Important. . . . Mehrling's new book tries to do just what Bagehot did: to give an account both of how and why the Fed acted when it reinvented the rules in the middle of a financial crisis, and of what the implications for future monetary policy will be."---Harold James, Central Banking Journal"This is an excellent and accessible analysis for anyone wishing to understand the origins of the financial crisis and how the Fed came to respond as it did."---Larry Hatheway, Business Economist"The book can be read as an important contribution in the ongoing debate on the future of central banks. In terms of monetary policy thinking, this book is another contribution to the increasing awareness that central banks, perhaps lured by seeming success of inflation targeting, in the years before 2008 did not manage to strike the right balance between monetary and financial stability."---Lars Fredrik Øksendal, Enterprise & Society
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Markus Wiener Publishing Inc The Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century
Book SynopsisAn account of the golden trade of the Moors, and a source book on Saharan trade routes, caravan organization and Sudanese history. The author covers anthropology and economic geography as well as history, as he examines and explores the hot little towns, sharp traders and the brutal rulers. He seeks to encourage and inspire a generation of scholars to discover more about parts of Africa still surprisingly little known to the outside world.
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OUP USA Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to make accessible to students, scholars, and the lay public annotated, up-to-date information regarding the major coinages of the Greco-Roman world. An international group of experts has been asked to treat their areas of expertise, and the result is a broadly illustrated introduction to the subject.Trade Review"As Metcalf notes (xvii), it is over 100 years since the last single volume guide to Greek coinage was produced, and there has never been an equivalent work for Rome. This new handbook is, therefore, long overdue and hugely welcome. All involved are to be congratulated and, while in a project as broad as this there are inevitably some omissions, we now have something where there was nothing, and for that we should be very gratefulEL. It is much to be hoped that students of the history of all periods will find their way to this rich new resource." --Andrew Meadows, Bryn Mawr Classical Review "This book represents an unprecedented innovation in numismatic literature and is becoming widely regarded as the best introduction to classical ancient coins. It is far more than a guide written solely for collectors. Instead, it was written to serve also as an introduction for graduate or post-doctoral students in the ancient cultures who seek training in classical numismatics. As a work in the renowned Oxford Handbooks series, this volume was written to offer an authoritative and annotated state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research in the subject area. However, it is just that focus that makes it such a valuable text for serious collectors of ancient coins." -- Roger Kuntz, Rochester Numismatic AssociationTable of ContentsPreface ; Abbreviations ; Introduction, William E. Metcalf ; 1. The Substance of Coinage: The Role of Scientific Analysis in Ancient Numismatics, Matthew Ponting ; Archaic and Classical Greek Coinage ; 2. The Monetary Background of Early Coinage, John H. Kroll ; 3. Asia Minor to the Ionian Revolt, Koray Konuk ; 4. The Coinage of the Persian Empire, Michael Alram ; 5. The Coinage of Athens, 6th - 1st century B.C., Peter van Alfen ; 6. Aegina, the Cyclades and Crete, Kenneth Sheedy ; 7. The Coinage of Italy, N. K. Rutter ; 8. The Coinage of Sicily, Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert ; 9. Greece and the Balkans to 360 B.C., Selene Psoma ; The Hellenistic World ; 10. Royal Hellenistic Coinages from Alexander to Mithridates, Francois de Callatay ; 11. The Hellenistic World: The Cities of Mainland Greece and Asia Minor, Richard Ashton ; 12. The Coinage of the Ptolemies, Catharine C. Lorber ; 13. The Seleucids, Arthur Houghton ; 14. Greek Coinages of Palestine, Oren Tal ; 15. The Coinage of the Parthians, Fabrizio Sinisi ; The Roman World ; 16. Early Roman Coinage and its Italian Context, Andrew Burnett ; 17. The Denarius Coinage of the Roman Republic, Bernhard E. Woytek ; 18. The Julio-Claudians, Rienhold Wolters ; 19. Ancient Spain, Pere P. Ripolles ; 20. Flavian Coinage, Ian Carradice ; 21. The Coinage of the Provinces through Hadrian, Michel Amandry ; 22. Trajan and Hadrian, Martin Beckmann ; 23. Antonine Coinage, Liv Mariah Yarrow ; 24. The Provinces after Commodus, RAnn Johnston ; 25. Syria in the Roman Period, 64 B.C. - A.D. 260, Kevin Butcher ; 26. Roman Coinages of Palestine, Haim Gitler ; 27. The Severans, Richard Abdy ; 28. From Gordian III to the Gallic Empire (A.D. 238-74), Roger Bland ; 29. The Later Third Century, Sylviane Estiot ; 30. The Coinage of Roman Egypt, Angelo Geissen ; 31. Tetrarchy and the House of Constantine, Richard Abdy ; 32. The Coinage of the Later Roman Empire, A.D. 364-498, Sam Moorhead ; 33. The Transformation of the West, Alan M. Stahl ; Appendix 1: Marks of value on later Roman coins, Roger Bland ; Appendix 2: The earliest Christian symbols on Roman coins, Richard Abdy ; Indices ; a. Mints ; b. Persons ; c. General
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Yale University Press The Innovation Illusion
Book SynopsisTimely, compelling, and certain to be controversiala deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growth Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel refute this idea, bringing together a vast array of data and case studies to tell a very different story. With expertise spanning academia and the business world, Erixon and Weigel illustrate how innovation is being hampered by existing government regulations and corporate practices. Capitalism, they argue, has lost its mojo. Assessing the experiences of global companies, including Nokia, Uber, IBM, and Apple, the authors explore three key themes: declining economic dynamism in Western economies; growing corporate reluctance to contest markets and innovate; and excessive regulation limiting the diffusion of innovation. At a time of low growth, high unemployment, and increasing income inequality, innovation-led growth is more necessary than ever. This book unequivocally details the obstacles hindering our future prosperity.Trade Review"Fredrik Erixon and Björn Weigel make a thought-provoking and refreshingly non-ideological argument that a bleak future lies ahead unless capitalism undergoes a shake-up."—Matthew Rees, Wall Street Journal"Erixon and Weigel know how to make their case seductive and entertaining. They describe the four horsemen of capitalist decline riding down innovation before it has any chance of reaching the wider world . . . liberally sprinkled with colourful examples . . . nourished with statistics. . . . The book is eloquent in laying out its thesis."—Peggy Hollinger, Financial Times"Faceless owners, risk-averse managers, globalisers and regulators are the villains of this book that challenges the idea that we are in an age of endless innovation. On the contrary, the authors point out, many innovations are more fun than fundamental."—Andrew Hill, "Best Books of 2016: Business," Financial Times"For a serious book of its kind on economics, one that attempts to bridge the divide between think-tank land and the general reader, The Innovation Illusion is unusually clear and leavened with popular culture references. The Smiths and James Joyce are both quoted. . . . This is an important book that diagnoses the extent of the economic problem and prescribes a strong dose of disruption."—Iain Martin, TimesEconomic stagnation afflicts the developed world, and the puzzle of slow productivity growth is the leading economic question of our age. Erixon and Weigel have developed a profoundly original and multi-faceted explanation rooted in the dead weight of corporate bureaucracy, with its striving for short-term profits and avoidance of risk, as well as government-created regulatory complexity and policy uncertainty. The book is concise, lively, full of examples, and deeply researched from sources that span economics and management science."Economic stagnation afflicts the developed world, and the puzzle of slow productivity growth is the leading economic question of our age. Erixon and Weigel have developed a profoundly original and multi-faceted explanation rooted in the dead weight of corporate bureaucracy, with its striving for short-term profits and avoidance of risk, as well as government-created regulatory complexity and policy uncertainty. The book is concise, lively, full of examples, and deeply researched from sources that span economics and management science."—Robert J. Gordon, Stanley G. Harris Professor in the Social Sciences, Northwestern University, and author of The Rise and Fall of American Growth Innovation is the life blood of the modern economy and our economies seem to be a litre or two short. This highly accessible book argues convincingly that the problems we are having with R&D is not the ‘R’ part, it is the ‘D’ part. We are not lacking invention, we are lacking the policy and competitive environment needed to turn new science into new, economically useful product and processes. This is an important and insightful read for all those concerned by big-picture economic problems."A very well written account of how corporate bureaucracy, rent-seeking and regulation are slowing the pace of innovation."—John Kay, Financial Times and author of Other People’s Money"Today's hidebound capitalism is throttling not just the west’s economic growth, but even the aspirations of its people. If dynamism is to be regained, argues this thought-provoking book, we must reject the rentier capitalism that masquerades as the real thing. This argument for a more dynamic market economy is not just challenging; it is also of huge importance."—Martin Wolf, Financial Times
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Harvard University Press The Palestinian Peasant Economy under the Mandat
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Princeton University Press Secular Cycles
Book SynopsisIncorporating theoretical and quantitative history, this book examines a specific model of historical change and, more generally, investigates the utility of the dynamical systems approach in historical applications. It is of interest to practitioners of economic history, historical sociology, complexity studies, and demography.Trade Review"This book is an audacious and ambitious attempt to promote the viewpoint that historical progression runs according to certain regular patterns... I am fascinated by this book, particularly by the theoretical framework which is laid out in the introductory and concluding chapters... [T]he main strength of the book lies in its scope, reminiscent of the broad perspectives of classical economists. It is the type of scholarship which proves that historical narrative can be fascinating."--Harry Kitsikopoulos, EH.net "Those who are interested in grand social theories will want to read and reflect. I suspect that there will be many who then will rebut."--Brian J. L. Berry, American Journal of Sociology "Turchin and Nefedov have set a very ambitious task for themselves... [T]hey should be applauded for producing a work of very broad historical sweep and reminding us that developing general laws--or more plausibly, general tendencies--of historical dynamics remains a tantalizing proposition."--David S. Jacks, Australian Economic History Review "[T]he standard of historical scholarship is excellent and opens the floor to interesting challenges for further empirical explorations."--Laura Panza, Economic RecordTable of ContentsTable of Units and Currencies ix Chapter 1: Introduction: The Theoretical Background 1 1.1 Development of Ideas about Demographic Cycles 1 1.2 A Synthetic Theory of Secular Cycles 6 1.3 Variations and Extensions 21 1.4 Empirical Approaches 29 Chapter 2: Medieval England: The Plantagenet Cycle (1150-1485) 35 2.1 Overview of the Cycle 35 2.2 The Expansion Phase (1150-1260) 47 2.3 Stagflation (1260-1315) 49 2.4 Crisis (1315-1400) 58 2.5 Depression (1400-1485) 69 2.6 Conclusion 77 Chapter 3: Early Modern England: The Tudor-Stuart Cycle (1485-1730) 81 3.1 Overview of the Cycle 81 3.2 Expansion (1485-1580) 87 3.3 Stagflation (1580-1640) 91 3.4 Crisis (1640-60) 97 3.5 Depression (1660-1730) 101 3.6 Conclusion 107 Appendix to Chapter 3 108 Chapter 4: Medieval France: The Capetian Cycle (1150-1450) 111 4.1 Overview of the Cycle 111 4.2 Expansion (1150-1250) 115 4.3 Stagflation (1250-1315) 117 4.4 Crisis (1315-65) 121 4.5 Depression (1365-1450) 129 4.6 Conclusion: "A Near Perfect Multi-secular Cycle" 141 Chapter 5: Early Modern France: The Valois Cycle (1450-1660) 143 5.1 Overview 143 5.2 Expansion (1450-1520) 147 5.3 Stagflation (1520-70) 149 5.4 Crisis (1570-1600) 153 5.5 A Case Study: The Norman Nobility 156 5.6 Depression (1600-1660) 169 5.7 Conclusion 174 Chapter 6: Rome: The Republican Cycle (350-30 BCE) 176 6.1 Overview of the Cycle 176 6.2 An Unusually Long Expansion (350-180 BCE) 185 6.3 Stagflation (180-130 BCE) 189 6.4 The Late Republican Crisis (130-30 BCE) 201 6.5 The End of the Disintegrative Trend 205 6.6 Conclusion 208 Chapter 7: Rome: The Principate Cycle (30 BCE-285 CE) 211 7.1 Overview of the Cycle 211 7.2 Expansion (27 BCE-96 CE) 224 7.3 Stagflation (96-165 CE) 229 7.4 Crisis (165-97 CE) 233 7.5 Depression (197-285 CE) 236 7.6 Conclusion 238 Chapter 8: Russia: The Muscovy Cycle (1460-1620) 240 8.1 The Fifteenth-Century Crisis 240 8.2 Expansion (1460-1530) 241 8.3 Stagflation (1530-65) 244 8.4 Crisis (1565-1615) 252 8.5 Conclusion 258 Chapter 9: Russia: The Romanov Cycle (1620-1922) 261 9.1 Expansion (1620-1800) 261 9.2 Stagflation (1800-1905) 274 9.3 Crisis (1905-22) 287 9.4 Conclusion 299 Chapter 10: General Conclusions 303 10.1 Population Numbers 303 10.2 Elite Dynamics 304 10.3 The State 306 10.4 Sociopolitical Instability 307 10.5 Are There General Laws of Historical Dynamics? 311 Acknowledgments 315 References Cited 317 Index 341
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Princeton University Press Money Changes Everything
Book Synopsis"[A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review "Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Financial Times In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something that destroys fortunes and jobs, and undermines governments and banks. In MoTrade ReviewHonorable Mention for the 2017 Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History Conference One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2016 One of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2016 "It is a fascinating thesis, brilliantly illuminated by scores of vivid examples, generously illustrated with a wealth of pictures, comprehensive in its geographical and temporal scope, and in my view almost entirely convincing."--Felix Martin, New York Times Book Review "In Money Changes Everything, Mr. Goetzmann draws on objects in Yale's extensive historical collections to tell his exciting story... His excitement with such artifacts is palpable."--Edward Chancellor, Wall Street Journal "[A]n accessible survey that does a fine job of reallocating past, present, and future."--Kirkus "Let me say simply that everyone who is curious about the history of finance will be richly rewarded by reading this book."--Linda Jubin, Investing.com "Money Changes Everything is ... A tactile and visual history. It is rich with illustrations, and often reported from ground level as Goetzmann travels to dusty European archives or to sites of historical financial significance... Goetzmann's careful, brick-by-brick approach to financial history convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Pietra Rivoli, Financial Times "In the fallout from the Great Recession, it's been commonplace to vilify those working in the financial-services industry. But Goetzmann argues that finance is a worthwhile endeavor, beyond just earning a ton of money: Its innovations have made the growth of human civilization possible."--Bourree Lam, TheAtlantic.com "Full of fascinating nuggets and extremely well researched."--Tim Harford, Undercover Economist "A remarkable work of synthesis and scholarship, the book affords a deep perspective to anyone trying to grapple with current problems in the role of finance and financial regulation in a civilized society."--Elie Canetti, Finance & Development "Its strength is the effort it makes to set money not only in its economic context, but also in its wider social and cultural setting."--Warwick Lightfoot, Financial World "[A] fascinating book."--Martin Wolf, Financial Times "[A] magnificent history of money and finance."--Minneapolis Star Tribune "Money Changes Everything is a treasure, unequalled in scope, unparalleled in depth of insight... This is a must-read for anyone in finance or who wants to find out what it's about."--Financial Post "A most pertinent and brave publication... This hefty, worthy book, really is a historical eye-opener."--David Marx Book Reviews "A panoramic historical sweep packed with interesting nuggets... All very enjoyable, and I'd say essential for anyone interested in financial history."--Enlightened Economist "Money Changes Everything is altogether a splendid book."--Mark Gamin, D&O Diary Blog "Rigorously researched and extremely enjoyable to read, Money Changes Everything enhances investors' understanding of contemporary markets."--Bruce Grantier, Financial Analysts Journal "William Goetzmann's Money Changes Everything is a thorough look at finance and world history, a 5,000-year journey that demonstrates the pivotal role of free market capitalism in building nations and serving human interests."--Washington Free Beacon "Goetzmann offers an extraordinarily wide-ranging and thorough investigation of financial activity from earliest times to the present day, and his enthusiasm for the subject and his lively writing style make the topic much more engaging than one might expect. The immense breadth of his research means that every reader, no matter how expert in history or finance, will learn much... The book has something for everyone."--Peter Acton, Australian Book Review "The book is replete with fascinating historical tales and figures, including an option payoff diagram developed by Henri Lefevre in the mid-1800s. Well-written and engaging, Goetzmann's book is a wonderful resource for those interested in learning more about the historical role of finance and its potential for addressing future challenges."--Choice "Goetzmann weaves his expertise in finance, architecture, archaeology, sinology, and art history into a wonderfully rich tapestry. Goetzmann's enthusiasm for his topic is infectious... Goetzmann has written a wonderfully erudite book in a way which is accessible to a wide audience. This book should be compulsory reading for all finance professionals and anyone with an interest in economics, finance, or history. If you want to understand how money changes everything, then Goeztmann's magnum opus is a must-read."--John D Turner, Economic History Review "This fascinating book rehabilitates finance by examining its 5,000 years of history."--Martin Wolf, Financial TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I From Cuneiform to Classical Civilization 15 1 Finance and Writing 19 2 Finance and Urbanism 31 3 Financial Architecture 46 4 Mesopotamian Twilight 65 5 Athenian Finance 73 6 Monetary Revolution 92 7 Roman Finance 103 Part II The Financial Legacy of China 137 8 China's First Financial World 143 9 Unity and Bureaucracy 167 10 Financial Divergence 194 Part III The European Crucible 203 11 The Temple and Finance 207 12 Venice 221 13 Fibonacci and Finance 238 14 Immortal Bonds 249 15 The Discovery of Chance 258 16 Efficient Markets 276 17 Europe, Inc. 289 18 Corporations and Exploration 305 19 A Projecting Age 320 20 A Bubble in France 347 21 According to Hoyle 363 22 Securitization and Debt 382 Part IV The Emergence of Global Markets 401 23 Marx and Markets 405 24 China's Financiers 423 25 The Russian Bear 443 26 Keynes to the Rescue 454 27 The New Financial World 467 28 Re-Engineering the Future 493 29 Post-War Theory 504 Conclusion 519 Notes 523 Bibliography 541 Illustration Credits 555 Index 557
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Threads of Global Desire: Silk in the Pre-Modern
Book SynopsisConsidering silk as a major force of cross-cultural interaction, this book examines the integration of silk production and consumption into various cultures in the pre-modern world. Silk has long been a global commodity that, because of its exceptional qualities, high value and relative portability, came to be traded over very long distances. Similarly, the silk industry - from sericulture to the weaving of cloth - was one of the most important fields of production in the medieval and early modern world. The production and consumption of silks spread from China to Japan and Korea and travelled westward as far as India, Persia and theByzantine Empire, Europe, Africa and the Americas. As contributors to this book demonstrate, in this process of diffusion silk fostered technological innovation and allowed new forms of organization of labour to emerge. Its consumption constantly reshaped social hierarchies, gender roles, aesthetic and visual cultures,as well as rituals and representations of power. Threads of Global Desire is the first attempt at considering a global history of silk in the pre-modern era. The book examines the role of silk production and use in various cultures and its relation to everyday and regulatory practices. It considers silk as a major force of cross cultural interaction through technological exchange and trade in finished and semi-finished goods. Silks mediated design and a taste for luxuries and were part of gifting practices in diplomatic and private contexts. Silk manufacturing also fostered thecirculation of skilled craftsmen, connecting different centres and regions across continents and linking the countryside to urban production. DAGMAR SCHÄFER is Director of Department 3 'Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge'at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Professor h.c. of the History of Technology at the Technical University, Berlin. GIORGIO RIELLO is Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick. He has published extensively on the history of material culture and trade in early modern Europe and Asia and in particular on textiles and fashion. LUCA MOLA is Professor of Early Modern Europe: History of the Renaissance and the Mediterranean in a World Perspective at the European University Institute in Fiesole. Contributors: JOSÉ L. GASCH-TOMAS, SURAIYA FAROQHI, KAROLINA HUTKOVA, FUJITA KAYOKO, BEN MARSH, RUDOLPHMATTHEE, LESLEY ELLIS MILLER, DAVID MITCHELL, LUCA MOLA, LISA MONNAS, AMANDA PHILLIPS, GIORGIO RIELLO, DAGMAR SCHÄFER, ANGELA SHENGTrade ReviewErudite...fascinating [and] well worth reading...as an exercise in comparative history and material culture. * ANGLICAN AND EPISCOPAL REVIEW *Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Silk in the Pre- Modern World - Luca Molà and Giorgio Riello and Dagmar Schäfer Power and Silk: The Central State and Localities in State-owned Manufacture during the Ming Reign (1368-1644), - Dagmar Schäfer Why Velvet? Localised Textile Innovation in Ming China, - Angela Sheng The Dutch East India Company and Asian Raw Silk: From Iran to Bengal via China and Vietnam - Rudi Matthee The Localisation of the Global: Ottoman Silk Textiles and Markets, 1500-1790 - Amanda Phillips Ottoman Silks and their Markets at the Borders of the Empire, c. 1500-1800 - Suraiya Faroqhi A Study in Contrasts: Silk Consumption in Italy and England during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries - Lisa Monnas What d'ye lack Ladies? Hoods, Ribbands, very fine silk stockings: The Silk Trades in Restoration London - David M. Mitchell From Design Studio to Marketplace: Products, Agents and Methods of Distribution in the Lyons Silk Manufactures, 1660-1789 - Lesley Ellis Miller The Manila Galleon and the Reception of Chinese Silk in New Spain, c. 1550-1650 - José L. Gasch-Tomás 'The Honour of the Thing': Silk Culture in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania - Ben Marsh A Global Transfer of Silk Reeling Technologies: The English East India Company and the Bengal Silk Industry - Changing Silk Culture in Early Modern Japan: On Foreign Trade and the Development of 'National' Fashion, from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century - Fujita Kayoko Textile Spheres: Silk in a Global and Comparative Context - Giorgio Riello Glossary Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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Harvard University Press Ukrainian Economic History
Book SynopsisThis volume contains papers presented at the Third Quinquennial Conference on Ukrainian Economics. It contains 14 essays dealing with the one thousand years of Ukrainian economic history prior to World War I. The contributions are divided into three parts, covering the periods of Kievan Rus', the 16th and 17th centuries, and the 19th century.
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to
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Princeton University Press Why Not Default
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award, Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association""Roos has given us a thought-provoking book that will repay the investment of any reader with an interest in sovereign debt."---Michael Reddell, Central Banking Journal"[A] fresh and painstakingly researched approach that raises vital questions for economists, political scientists and policymakers."---Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan, LSE Review of Books"[A] timely and thoroughly researched book—destined to become an obligatory reference in the field."---Veronica Santarosa, Journal of Economic History"[I've] been reading Why Not Default? at an excruciating pace for the best reason: every page or so I get inspired some subtheme or footnote and go off chasing it down."---Quinn Slobodian"Roos makes a powerful and provocative argument." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *"A fantastic contribution to the growing literature on sovereign debt. . . . Why Not Default? will be a mandatory reference for scholars working on financialization, debt, and structural power."---José Tomás Labarca, Finance and Society"[Why Not Default?] does a great service . . . by synthesizing a huge amount of detailed information about these crises in one place, and by clarifying the interlocking effects of a host of social, economic and political changes over the past century."---Shaina Potts, Antipode
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Princeton University Press Labor in the Age of Finance
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the EGOS Book Award, European Group for Organizational Studies""Jacoby brilliantly illustrates the Sisyphean character of labor’s exertions on the tilted terrain of finance. Yet, equally importantly, he wisely shows how unions began learning to fight on a battlefield likely to become even more decisive in coming years. Anyone who seeks to understand labor’s present predicament or fight those future battles simply must read this indispensable book."---Joseph A. McMartin, Labour History"A must read for labor, management, and finance scholars and their students. . . . At a time when financialization, extreme inequality, and calls for ‘accountable capitalism’ are center stage, Jacoby’s book is timely. He offers a landscape of historical examples of labor’s financial strategies, what has worked and what hasn’t, and why it is so difficult to change deeply embedded government rules and corporate norms that favor the rich and powerful. His research is painstaking and impeccable—bringing to life his inside stories of union shareholder campaigns and political struggles over financial regulation."---Rosemary Batt, Industrial and Labor Relations Review"Jacoby’s book is an impressive and vital addition to the history of organised labour. By also getting readers to think about the question of what modern financialization has wrought, it has much broader relevance. It deserves a wide readership."---Jeff Borland, Economic Record"Jacoby focuses on explaining his source material, rather than belaboring broad lessons. This will make the book of interest to employment relations practitioners and to academics across multiple disciplines. But, several general themes emerge . . . labor’s role (both as handmaid and as critic) in the shareholder revolution and financialization. . . . the ubiquity of feuds and bedfellows in strategic campaigning. . . . Jacoby demonstrates how these webs of ownership and employment intermediation, often identified as a barrier to traditional worker bargaining power, also offer new sources of worker leverage. Beyond these core themes, Jacoby litters the book with insights that could fill a whole shelf of future dissertations."---Nathan Wilmers, Perspectives on Work"Readers of this book will encounter numerous lessons of value."---Laura J. Owen, Economic History Association"Jacoby’s account offers a wealth of detail. . . . All of this material is organized into a coherent and compelling argument, and it will benefit those interested in corporate governance, the history of corporate social responsibility, and the role firms play in mediating economic inequality."---Bruce G. Carruthers, Administrative Science Quarterly"[Jacoby] documents, with remarkable clarity, the processes which led to the union movement changing its strategic direction towards financialisation, and in doing so more or less abandoning its historical priorities. . . . My strong recommendation is to read and follow the book in its entirety, and with care and attention to detail."---Gaby Ramia, Labour & Industry"[Labor in the Age of Finance] is clearheaded. . . . Jacoby recognizes that there are still broad structural political and economic forces arrayed against a real resurgence of unions."---Neil Fligstein, Contemporary Sociology"[A] fine book. . . .This smart and sober volume is unsurpassed as a starting point for anyone who seeks to understand both the urgent necessity and the enormous difficulty of making financial markets more accountable to the common good."---Joseph A. Mccartin, Finance & Development"Jacoby’s book provides a major contribution to the literature in political economy of corporate governance and labor."---Thibault Darcillon, Competition & Change"By connecting two bodies of scholarship that do not often draw illumination from one another—labor and financial history—Jacoby succeeds in shedding light on a critical episode in the American union movement’s ongoing efforts to reinvent itself for the twenty-first century."---Max Fraser, Political Science Quarterly"Sanford Jacoby has achieved a truly rare feat: taking a narrow, specialized, and somewhat obscure topic and shaping it into a magisterial narrative that provides true understanding of the players and the drama involved. Labor in the Age of Finance is a tour de force that captures the labor movement’s efforts to muddle through during the ascendance of corporate finance without losing its way."---Matt Bodie, Jotwell"Sanford Jacoby has produced a series of highly important books that trace the evolution of the modern corporation in the United States, its employment practices, and examined the consequences for organized labour and working people."---Peter Gahan, Journal of Industrial Relations"Excellent."---Matthew Soener, International Journal of Comparative Sociology"Jacoby’s analysis . . . will prove helpful for labor advocates as much as for historians and social scientists interested in labor’s place in an economy dominated by finance capitalism."---Jeffrey Helgeson, Journal of American History
£29.75
Yale University Press Trading with the Enemy
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking account of British and French efforts to channel their eighteenth-century geopolitical rivalry into peaceful commercial competitionTrade Review“Shovlin challenges the conventional perception of unbridled Franco-British rivalry and aggression in the 18th century by giving greater emphasis to the cumulative process by which diplomats negotiated and merchants lobbied to cut cross-channel tariffs and pursue other means of enabling free trade.”—Christopher Silvester, Financial Times“A highly original account. . . . With skill, Shovlin challenges the conventional understanding of Franco-British rivalry and belligerence in the eighteenth-century in emphasising the process by which diplomats negotiated, and merchants lobbied, to cut tariffs and in turn to facilitate free trade.”—Paul Ridgway, Africa Ports & Ships“Original, thought-provoking, and deeply researched. Shovlin topples textbook oppositions of war and peace, rivalry and collaboration, and protection and free trade.”—Lauren Benton, author of A Search for Sovereignty“Lucid, subtle, and wide-ranging. Trading with the Enemy decisively revises views of eighteenth-century Franco-British relations as a scene of endless war, imperial rivalry, and jealousy of trade. Its recovery of more cooperative and peaceful history provides both lessons for the present and signposts for the future.”—David Armitage, author of Civil Wars: A History in Ideas“A refreshing interpretation. Through his skilful unpacking of the intertwined histories of capitalism and the state, Shovlin shows us once and for all how mythic was the supposed opposition between free trade and protectionism.”—Renaud Morieux, author of The Channel
£26.12
e-artnow The Engineers and the Price System
£9.52
Yale University Press Europe Didnt Work Why We Left and How to Get the
Book SynopsisA timely and provocative account of why the euro has failed and why, as a result, the Union will unravel Examining key economic indicators and assessing the situation across Europe, two British journalists assess why the euro has failedand what will happen when the European Union completely unravels. This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of Europeand progressive politics. Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson correctly predictedthe euro would prove a calamity. They are right today that the euro crisisis far from over. Their demand for a radical change of approach must betaken seriouslyby policy makers and politicians alike.Ed Balls, UK Shadow Chancellor from 2011 to 2015 [The book] offers useful insight into why so many people thought the euro was a good idea in the first place.Harvard Business ReviewTrade Review“Europe Isn’t Working is… entertaining, informative [and] iconoclastic … This is a valuable resource for anyone wishing to ground their arguments against the EU in hard facts, told in an easy to read and engaging fashion.”—Richard Allday, Counterfire -- Richard Allday * Counterfire *
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Princeton University Press American Default
Book SynopsisThe untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economy.Trade Review"Brilliantly told."—Steve Hanke, Forbes“A superb history.”—David Frum“The story is fascinating and the lessons eternal.”—Martin Wolf, Financial Times“American Default is the history of that mighty legal, moral, political and monetary controversy, the effects of which are with us still.”—James Grant, Wall Street Journal“A magnificent piece of scholarship . . . [that] illustrates the benefits of historical distance in evaluating major events.”—Kenneth Rogoff, Project Syndicate“Admirably accessible and illuminating.”—Benn Steil, Financial World
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Harvard University Press VC
Book SynopsisFrom nineteenth-century whaling to a multitude of firms pursuing entrepreneurial finance today, venture finance reflects a deep-seated tradition in the deployment of risk capital in the United States. Tom Nicholas’s history of the venture capital industry offers a roller coaster ride through America’s ongoing pursuit of financial gain.Trade Review[An] incisive history of the venture-capital industry. * New Yorker *A detailed, fact-filled account of America’s most celebrated moneymen…It provides a valuable look into their world…Nicholas is at his best when he is charting just how reliant venture capital has been on the government—and just how far the industry has gone to try and shape government policy in its favor. -- Avi Asher-Schapiro * New Republic *An excellent and original economic history of venture capital. -- Tyler Cowen * Marginal Revolution *Though it’s no secret that Pentagon money helped Silicon Valley to develop into a technology hub, Nicholas’s history sheds light on the less explored role of venture capital firms in bringing these new technologies to civilian markets. -- Jamie Martin * Bookforum *Whatever your view of venture capitalists, it’s worth studying where they came from. I had a vague familiarity with the role of U.S. postwar policy in the creation of the species, but I learned a lot more from Nicholas. And I’d never thought about their precursors in the old whaling industry! -- Stephen L. Carter * Bloomberg Opinion *Not only an insightful study of an asset class but a fascinating history which touches on fundamental questions of political economy. VC is distinctive mainly because it offers such a long view of venture capital’s evolution…[It] offers many lessons for attentive readers, explaining not only the present features of the venture landscape but also how we might address some of the widely recognized problems facing the U.S. economy today. -- Julius Krein * American Conservative *A penetrating history of the industry…I enthusiastically recommend it. -- Laurence B. Siegel * Advisor Perspectives *In his extremely interesting, readable, and informative VC, Tom Nicholas tells you most everything you ever wanted to know about the history of venture capital, from the financing of the whaling industry to the present multibillion-dollar venture funds. -- Arthur Rock, Arthur Rock & Co.VC is a captivating book that casts a historical light on the contemporary landscape of venture capital. Nicholas brilliantly explains the surprising origins of the financial practices and organizational structures of the VC industry we know today. -- Toby E. Stuart, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and venture partner, Avid Park VenturesRalph Waldo Emerson once called America ‘the country of tomorrow,’ and Nicholas’s book does a great job of showing how venture capital, a rocket fuel for entrepreneurial risk, played a fundamental and unique role in proving Emerson right. -- Mike Maples, Jr., partner, Floodgate
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Stanford University Press History in Financial Times
Book SynopsisCritical theorists of economy tend to understand the history of market society as a succession of distinct stages. This vision of history rests on a chronological conception of time whereby each present slips into the past so that a future might take its place. This book argues that the linear mode of thinking misses something crucial about the dynamics of contemporary capitalism. Rather than each present leaving a set past behind it, the past continually circulates through and shapes the present, such that historical change emerges through a shifting panorama of historical associations, names, and dates. The result is a strange feedback loop between now and then, real and imaginary. Demonstrating how this idea can give us a better purchase on financial capitalism in the post-crisis era, History in Financial Times traces the diverse modes of history production at work in the spheres of financial journalism, policymaking, and popular culture. Paying particular attention to narrative and to notions of crisis, recurrence, and revelation, Amin Samman gives us a novel take on the relation between historical thinking and critique. Trade Review"In History in Financial Times, Amin Samman brilliantly exposes the intricate workings of the historical imagination in our present financialized times. Effortlessly weaving together political economy, philosophy, historiography, and cultural studies, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding financial life today."—Jacqueline Best, University of Ottawa"Amin Samman has written a strikingly original book that brings the theory of history to issues of finance and economics in ways that I have not seen. His approach pushes both disciplines into new and productive territory. It is exciting, fresh, and strange in the most provocative and productive way."—Ethan Kleinberg, Wesleyan University"Samman argues that the inescapable recursiveness of historical reasoning requires a new politics that eschews metahistorical cul-de-sacs for a more honest and flexible reckoning with the conditions of life. An interesting and provocative application of poststructural theory to a field that is normally the province of materialists, this book is best suited to scholars of historiography and theory. Recommended."—S. P. Harshner, CHOICE"History in Financial Times draws on and synthesizes an impressive array of concepts, theories, and disciplines only gestured at here. The book shows a great deal of range in its method....[The] insistence on history in financial times serves as a necessary corrective to narrow-minded theories of economic or financial subjectivity and the self-serving significations of economic elites."—John Macintosh, Los Angeles Review of Books"[History in Financial Times] offers means to analyse the minutiae of how historical narratives (for instance, analogies between the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Depression) become a shorthand to help explain what is happening in the present....Samman's emphasis on narrative throughout the book is hugely important at a moment of widespread narrative dysfunctionality in which the distinction between fact and fiction comes to be widely contested."—Emily Rosamond, Finance and Society"History in Financial Timesis a deeply original and impressive contribution to critical studies of finance, the history of capitalism, and historical theory."—Joel Isaac, The American Historical Review"In its many luminous moments, Samman's text pushes the reader to rethink history itself (as a field, as a discourse, as an imaginary) as embedded in and impacting the dynamics of late financial capitalism. In particular, he helps us see the intricate interweaving of immaterial financial operations and the factual and fictional representations of those phenomena."—C. N. Biltoft, History & TheoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: "We Live in Financial Times" 1. Crisis Thinking 2. Historical Imagination 3. Return and Recurrence 4. Repetition and Revelation 5. Names of History Afterword: Exits to the Future
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Yale University Press Tea War
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Mr Liu ranges widely in his carefully researched and well-crafted narrative. He is most concerned with the conduct and impact of the tea trade, but punctuates the story of profit and exploitation with fascinating cultural titbits.”—The Economist“Maritime historians interested in capitalism studies will find it rewarding to read Liu’s brilliant (re)interpretations of political-economy theories.”—Dan Du, International Journal of Maritime History“An impressive and insightful examination of the tea production competition between China and India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . . . Tea War is an important assessment of the significance of global trade and production via a refreshing pivot to the emerging industrial capitalist economies of China and Asia.”—Troy Bickham, Cultural and Social HistoryWinner of the 2022 Ralph Gomory Prize, sponsored by the Business History ConferenceLonglisted for the International Convention of Asia Scholars’ Prize for the Best Book in the Humanities, sponsored by the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS)“Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but it also intervenes in larger debates about the nature of capitalism, global modernity, and global history.”— Alexander F. Day, Occidental College“In Tea War, Andy Liu grapples with the question of how to write the history of capitalism beyond the North Atlantic. His comparative study of two Asian frontier regions presses us to rethink the conventional signposts around which the history of capitalism has conventionally been written. He shows how careful empirical inquiry and social theory can inform each other in innovative and exciting ways.”—Andrew Sartori, New York University“Andy Liu’s Tea War opens worlds by closing in on the processes of tea production in nineteenth-century India and China. Liu’s contentions about capitalism provoke; his meticulous empirical excavations persuade.”—Rebecca E. Karl, New York University
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Golden Constant: The English and American
Book SynopsisThe Golden Constant is a unique examination of how gold's purchasing power has remained consistent over the centuries. First published in 1977, this new edition has additional material to bring it up to date. The book is the only in-depth examination of how the purchasing power of gold has performed over the centuries in both England and the USA. It contains a thorough explanation of how the gold market evolved and how this is related to economic and political developments, from 1560 in England, and from 1800 in the USA, up to 2007. The book also contains detailed historical statistics on gold, wholesale and consumer prices and the real price of gold.This important book will be an essential resource for institutional and individual investors in the gold industry. Academics, economic historians and economists interested in monetary and financial history will find this book to be a fascinating read.Trade Review'A timely update of Roy Jastram's 1977 book, The Golden Constant, with updated material from Jill Leyland, latterly of the Gold Council, provides a fascinating insight into the price and purchasing power of gold over the past close to 450 years. . . Jill Leyland has done sterling work in expanding the geographical coverage to France, Germany, Japan and Switzerland, as well as bringing the book up-to-date.' -- Gabriel Stein, The Business Economist'Roy Jastram's classic book has been updated, to the delight of all students of gold.' -- Lord William Rees-Mogg, former Editor of The Times'As gold holds its value over the long run, so, I predict, will this superb book. Must reading for the investor and scholar alike.' -- James Grant, Editor, Grant's Interest Rate ObserverTable of ContentsContents: About the New Edition Preface Previously Written by Roy W. Jastram Foreword to the New Edition by Pierre Lassonde Introduction Part I: The English Experience 1. The Price of Gold 2. Historical Fluctuations in the Price of Gold 3. Commodity Prices and the Construction of Index Numbers 4. The Purchasing Power of Gold 5. The Purchasing Power of Gold in Inflation and Deflation Part II: The American Experience 6. The Evolution of the Gold Standard and Historical Fluctuations in Gold Prices 7. The Purchasing Power of Gold 8. Reflections on the Golden Constant Part III: After the Gold Price was Freed, 1971–2007 9. The Gold Market and the Purchasing Power of Gold, 1971–2007 10. Further Explorations into the Gold Price and its Purchasing Power Appendices Index
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Cambridge University Press The Collapse of Nationalist China
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The University of Chicago Press The Continental Dollar
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Grubb has written a splendid book that explains a great deal about the financing of the Revolution that we did not know. It will be a cornerstone of future research." * EH.Net *"Grubb’s analysis brings together new evidence on the amount and timing of Continental emissions and an insightful theoretical model of what determined their value. . . .This masterful work brings together decades of research and explains its insights in a clear, convincing manner." * Choice *"Economists and historians have been telling us the wrong story about Continental currency for two centuries. . .Farley Grubb [sets] the record straight on Continental currency. . .an interesting and valuable contribution to our understanding the Revolutionary War." * Journal of the American Revolution *“Well written and convincing, The Continental Dollar proposes a new view of the early American monetary system, representing an impressive scholarly effort that advances our understanding of how money works.” -- Christopher M. Meissner, University of California, Davis“Bringing together the author’s important, and even controversial, work, future generations of financial historians will benefit from this book—yet one need not be a monetary historian to follow The Continental Dollar because it makes this material clear and accessible.” -- Jane Knodell, University of Vermont"The Continental Dollar provides an innovative, painstakingly thorough study of how the Americans used paper money to finance their War of Independence. While these events happened long ago under very different economic conditions, Grubb demonstrates valuable information about the flexible nature of the boundary between money and government debt and how money and debt influence the economy. All future studies of the financing of the Revolution, and many studies of other macroeconomic events, will lean heavily on this masterful analysis." -- Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University"In this arresting account, Farley Grubb overturns existing interpretations of the Continental dollar. Unmatched in his erudition on early American money, Grubb adds immeasurably to our knowledge about how Americans financed the Revolution and how they redesigned money in its aftermath. This book is a game-changer." -- Christine A. Desan, Harvard University"Understanding how and why the continentals circulated and were valued lies at core of the early American experience and how the nation won its independence nearly 250 years ago. Professor Grubb’s new treatise and career achievement is an authoritative account of Revolutionary War finance that distills the essence of the continental dollars as money and the rationale for and risks of holding them. A result of in-depth archival research and analysis over many years, the work will be of great interest to historians and others seeking a comprehensive guide to and fresh perspective on this classic tale." -- Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University"Farley Grubb has performed a massive historical reconstruction of the dollar and its history. In the process, he has overturned myths and misconceptions about the financing of the American Revolution and cast new light on how the fourteen governments of the new republic attempted to finance a war with the world's greatest military power. This is an enormous achievement, one that historians, economic historians, and economists will want on their shelves." -- John Joseph Wallis, University of MarylandTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures A Note on Citation Format Preface Introduction Part I What Was the Continental Dollar? The Intended Structural Design Chapter 1 Emitting Continental Dollars Chapter 2 Richard Smith and New Jersey’s Influence Chapter 3 Denominational Spacing and Value Size Chapter 4 Informing the Public Chapter 5 Descriptions by Contemporary Leaders Chapter 6 Congressional Spending Chapter 7 Legal Tender Chapter 8 Loan Office Certificates Part II Value and Performance Chapter 9 Modeling Value Chapter 10 Rational Bond Pricing Chapter 11 The Current Market Exchange Value Chapter 12 Time-Discounting versus Depreciation Chapter 13 1779: The Turning Point Chapter 14 1780–1781: The Road to Abandonment Part III Epilogue Chapter 15 State Redemption of Continental Dollars Chapter 16 The 1790 Funding Act and Final Default on the Continental Dollar Chapter 17 The Constitutional Transformation of the US Monetary System Acknowledgments Appendices Getting the Numbers Right Appendix A Reconciling the Disparate Statements in the Secondary Literature Regarding Continental Dollar Emissions Appendix B The Denominational Structure of American Paper Monies, 1755–1781 Appendix C The Cumulative Value of Continental Dollars Emitted, 1775–1780: Face Value versus Present Value Appendix D The Redemption of Continental Dollars by Individual States over Time Notes References Index
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Princeton University Press A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""[Blinder is] an engaging writer."---Geoff Mann, London Review of Books"Blinder has given us a very nice read. His book lets us ride shotgun along the extremely rocky road that US policymakers have traveled in their quest for price stability, full employment, financial resilience, and robust investment. Each episode produced by the Wheel of Fortuna is strikingly and—I believe—almost completely accurately described. Read and absorb Blinder’s account, and you will be qualified to present yourself as a respected elder statesmen who has seen much macroeconomic policymaking up close, and whose advice warrants attention."---J. Bradford DeLong, Project Syndicate"Blinder writes with the verve for which he is justly famous. . . . A book of history written for our time."---Peter Conti-Brown, Finance & Development"As America’s go-to economics whisperer and explainer, Blinder faithfully translates the esoteric language of Federal Reserve monetary macroeconomics into a popular vernacular that is consistently illuminating and broadly accessible to both policy-makers and students in lecture halls. . . . A splendid and thrilling read. . . . A work that is breathtakingly comprehensive in its scope and nuanced in its analysis."---Sarah Bloom Raskin, Central Banking"Alan Blinder’s sparkling writing is always insightful, entertaining, and persuasive. I would read his grocery shopping list."---Eric M. Leeper, Journal of Economic Literature"Alan Blinder is an economist’s economist, the go-to for informed, level-headed analysis and advice on macroeconomic policy. . . . Did I mention Blinder writes like the wind? . . . [A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021] is both an invitation to think and a pleasure to read."---Peter Passell, Milken Institute Review"A very good introduction."---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution"Essential." * Choice *"Enjoyable. . . .Full of both well-known facts and little-known facts whilst placing all the developments in context and helping debunking a few myths along the way."---Maximilian Magnacca, The Society of Professional Economists
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Taylor & Francis Business Cycles and Economic Crises
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Yale University Press Empire of Silver
Book SynopsisA thousand-year history of how China’s obsession with silver influenced the country’s financial well-being, global standing, and political stabilityTrade Review“Makes a good case for how monetary choices can have wider political implications...Its message that China's development has been hampered by weak rule of law and a lack of accountability could not be timelier.”—Matthew Partridge, Money Week"Empire of Silver is superbly written and a great joy to read. Ingeniously blending literary evidence from materials as diverse as Chinese classical novels with serious academic research, the book gives extraordinary theoretical and historical insights on big questions about politics, money, finance, and the Great Divergence. It is a wonderful book for understanding one thousand years of Chinese monetary history."--Debin Ma, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan "Empire of Silver is a fascinating, in-depth and scholarly work. It traces China's obsession with the precious metal for better and for worse over the centuries. Particularly interesting is the relationship between silver and the decline of the Qing dynasty in the 19th century - a passage of history that maintains crucial relevance to the China of today."--James Kynge, author of China Shakes the World
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd India and the Silk Roads: The History of a
Book SynopsisIndia's caravan trade with central Asia was at the heart of the complex web of routes making up the Silk Roads. But what was the fate of these overland connections in the ages of sail and steam? Jagjeet Lally sets out to answer this question by bringing the world of caravan trade to life--a world of merchants, mercenaries, pastoralists and pilgrims, but also of kings, bureaucrats and their subjects in the countryside and towns. The livelihoods of these figures did not become obsolete with the advent of 'modern' technologies and the consequent emergence of new global networks. Terrestrial routes remained critically important, not only handling flows of goods and money, but also fostering networks of trade in credit, secret intelligence and fighting power. With the waning of the Mughal Empire during the eighteenth century, new Indian kingdoms and their rulers came to the fore, drawing their power and prosperity from resources brought by caravan trade. The encroachment of British and Russian imperialism into this commercial arena in the nineteenth century gave new significance to some people and flows, while steadily undermining others. India and the Silk Roads is a global history of a continental interior, the first to comprehensively examine the textual and material traces of caravan trade in the 'age of empires'. By showing how no single ruler could control the nebulous yet durable networks of this trading world, which had its own internal dynamics even as it evolved in step with global transformations, Lally forces us to rethink the history of globalisation and re-evaluate our fixation with empires and states as the building blocks of historical analysis. It is a narrative resonating with our own times, as China's Belt and Road Initiative brings terrestrial forms of connectivity back to the fore--transforming life across Eurasia once again.Trade Review'India and the Silk Roads takes the reader on a tour de force through a two-century history of trade, technology and geopolitics straddling India, Afghanistan and Central Asia. Important and outstanding--it will gain much attention and praise.' -- T.C.A. Raghavan, former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore, and author of 'The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan''India and the Silk Roads goes much beyond trade and looks at the geopolitical, economic and technological environment of the Silk Road. Careful and with a wealth of detail, it is a balance and corrective to existing literature on the silk route.' -- Benjamin D. Hopkins, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at the George Washington University, Washington DC, and author of 'The Making of Modern Afghanistan''India’s overland interactions with Afghanistan and Central Asia have largely been sidelined by recent decades of sea-facing scholarship. In this astute, holistic analysis, Lally makes a compelling case for the continued impact of the caravan trade on Indian economic and cultural life well into the twentieth century.' -- Nile Green, Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History, UCLA, and author of 'Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915''India and the Silk Roads is a scholarly exposition of the Trans-Eurasian caravan trade, providing a fresh look at India's historical overland trade routes to Afghanistan and Central Asia. Riveting and refreshing--a breath of fresh air amongst existing literature on the Silk Routes.' -- Nasir Raza Khan, Associate Professor, India Arab Cultural Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Any Happy Returns
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface xvii Acknowledgements xxi About the Author xxv Chapter 1: An Introduction to Cycles and Secular Trends 1 Repeating Cycles 3 The Social and Political Cycle 4 The Business Cycle 8 Super Cycles in Financial Markets 9 Psychology and Financial Market Super Cycles 11 Part I: Structural Trends and Market Super Cycles 19 Chapter 2: Equity Cycles and Their Drivers 21 The Four Phases of the Equity Cycle 22 1. Despair 23 2. Hope 23 3. Growth 24 4. Optimism 24 The Drivers of the Four Phases 24 The Cycle and Bear Markets 28 Identifying the Transition from Bear Market to Bull Market 30 Valuations and the Market Inflection 30 Growth and the Market Inflection 32 Combining Growth and Valuation as a Signal 36 Inflation, Interest Rates and the Market Inflection 37 Combining Growth and Interest Rates 39 Chapter 3: Super Cycles and Their Drivers 41 Super Cycles in Economic Activity 42 The Modern Era: Growth from the 1820s 47 Super Cycles in Inflation 50 Super Cycles in Interest Rates 53 Super Cycles and Government Debt 55 Super Cycles in Inequality 56 Super Cycles in Financial Markets 59 Super Cycles in Equities 63 Structural upswings 1. 1949–1968: Post-World War II Boom 66 2. 1982–2000: The Modern Cycle 66 3. 2009–2020: The Post-Financial-Crisis Cycle and Zero Interest Rates 67 ‘Fat and Flat’ super cycles 1. 1968–1982: Inflation and Low Returns 68 2. 2000–2009: Bubbles and Troubles 68 Part II: Analysing Post-war Super Cycles 71 Chapter 4: 1949–1968: Post-World War II Boom 73 International Agreements and Falling Risk Premia 75 Strong Economic Growth 76 Technological Innovation 79 Low and Stable Real Interest Rates 81 A Boom in World Trade 83 A Baby Boom 83 The Consumer and Credit Boom 85 All-Consuming Consumerism 87 Chapter 5: 1968–1982: Inflation and Low Returns 91 A Lost Decade for Investors 92 The Bubble Before the Bust 93 High Interest Rates and Low Growth 95 The Collapse of Bretton Woods 96 Social Unrest and Strikes 100 Collapsing Trade, Increased Protectionism and Regulation 104 Increased Public Spending, Lower Margins 105 The End of the Downturn 107 Chapter 6: 1982–2000: The Modern Cycle 109 1. The Great Moderation 110 2. Disinflation and a Lower Cost of Capital 112 European Interest Rate Convergence 112 Monetary Policy and the ‘Fed Put’ 114 3. Supply-Side Reforms (Including Deregulation and Privatisation) 117 Tax Reforms 118 Deregulation and Privatisation 121 4. The End of the Soviet Union (Lower Geopolitical Risk) 123 5. Globalisation and Cooperation 124 Technology and the Labour Market 128 6. The Impact of China and India 128 7. Bubbles and Financial Innovation 129 The Japan Bubble and the Tech Bubble 130 Chapter 7: 2000–2009: Bubbles and Troubles 133 The Bursting of the Technology Bubble 135 The Financial Crisis of 2007–2009 138 Leverage and Financial Innovation 140 The Decline in Long-Term Growth Expectations 147 The Rise in the Equity Risk Premium 148 The Negative Correlation Between Bonds and Equities 150 Chapter 8: 2009–2020: The Post- Financial- Crisis Cycle and Zero Interest Rates 153 1. Weak Growth but High Equity Returns 154 The Aftershock of the Financial Crisis 157 2. The Era of Free Money 160 The Collapse in Government Bond Yields 162 3. Low Volatility 166 4. Rising Equity Valuations 168 5. Technology and the Outperformance of Growth versus Value 171 The Extraordinary Gap between Growth and Value 172 6. The Outperformance of the United States Over the Rest of the World 176 Zero Rates and the Demand for Risk Assets 179 Chapter 9: The Pandemic and the Return of ‘Fat and Flat’ 183 Pandemic Pandemonium 183 The Pandemic Shock 184 Another Tech Bubble 189 The Medicine Worked 193 The Pandemic and Inflation 196 From Disinflation to Reflation 197 Getting Real – The Shift Higher in the Real Cost of Capital 200 The Golden Rules Resurface 202 Sector Leadership and the Rotation Towards Value 202 Part III: the Post-modern Cycle 207 Chapter 10: The Post-Modern Cycle 209 Structural Shifts and Opportunities 210 Differences from the Modern Cycle 212 1. A Rise in the Cost of Capital 213 The Re-emergence of Inflation 215 2. A Slowdown in Trend Growth 218 3. A Shift from Globalisation to Regionalisation 220 4. A Rise in the Cost of Labour and Commodities 225 Post-Pandemic Reversal 229 The Consequences and Investment Implications 230 AI and the Labour Market 232 5. An Increase in Government Spending and Debt 234 The Rise in Regulation and Industrial Policy 237 Energy Transition Spending to Increase 239 6. A Rise in Capital and Infrastructure Spending 242 7. Changing Demographics 245 Ageing Populations and Deficits 246 Ageing Populations and New Markets 247 8. An Increase in Geopolitical Tensions and the Multipolar World 249 Chapter 11: The Post-Modern Cycle and Technology 251 Why Technology Wins 254 Characteristics of Technology Revolutions 255 Exuberance, Speculation and Bubbles 256 The Dominance Effects 259 The Emergence of Secondary Technologies 260 Can Technology Remain the Biggest Sector? 262 Can the Current Group of Dominant Technology Companies Remain Leaders? 264 Why Newer Technologies May Enhance Productivity 268 Weak Productivity in the Internet World 271 From ‘Nice to Have’ to ‘Need to Have’ 271 Productivity and the Impact of AI 272 The PEARLs Framework for AI and Technology 274 The Pioneers 275 The Enablers 275 The Adaptors 277 The Reformers 278 The Laggards 279 Chapter 12: The Post- Modern Cycle: Opportunities in the ‘Old Economy’ 285 Opportunities in the ‘Old Economy’ 286 Defence Spending 289 Infrastructure Spending 291 Green Spending 292 Government Policy and Spending 294 Commodities Spending 298 How Investment Markets Can Help Fund the Capex Boom 300 The Future of Jobs 301 Don’t Forget the Power of Nostalgia 303 On Your Bike 305 Chapter 13: Summary and Conclusions 309 Cycles 309 Super Cycles 311 The Post-Modern Cycle 313 References 315 Suggested Reading 335 Index 343
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Money Matters: How Money and Banks Evolved, and
Book SynopsisThis book explores the nature of money and banking throughout their history, and applies this to the study of financial crises. The first part of the book covers the evolution of monetary arrangements, money creation and the business of banking since their earliest manifestations to the present day, showing how changes in the business of banking led to a transformation in the money we use. The second part of the book applies the understanding acquired during the first part to the study of financial crises, showing that money is taken out of circulation when bank loans are paid back. This key insight is at the core of the mechanism that explains financial crises, since an economy that sees its money supply diminish is also an economy that cannot generate enough demand for its own goods and services. Financial crises result when bank lending slows down or comes to a halt – while outstanding bank loans are still due for repayment. The mechanism is discussed in detail, and the crucial role of banks highlighted. Adequate policy measures to prevent crises, or to mitigate their effects, are then put forward in light of this mechanism. The book will be of interest to researchers and students of economic and financial history, as well as those working in finance, banking and economics more widely. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- 1 What is money?.- A History of Money and Banking.- 2 Money from the very beginning.- 3 Banks enter the scene.- 4 The dawn of modern banking.- 5 The creation of a paper currency.- 6 Modern banking comes of age.- 7 The role of banks in a modern economy.- II An Analysis of Financial Crises.- 8 The role of money and the logic of recessions.- 9 Describing financial crises.- 10 The mechanics of financial crises - part one.- 11 The mechanics of financial crises - part two.- 12 Fighting off financial crises.- 13 Preventing financial crises.- Further Reading.- References.
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Penguin Random House India The Creation of Wealth The Tatas from the 19th to
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MIT Press Ltd The Economics of Contemporary Latin America
Book SynopsisAnalysis of Latin America's economy focusing on development, covering the colonial roots of inequality, boom and bust cycles, labor markets, and fiscal and monetary policy.Latin America is richly endowed with natural resources, fertile land, and vibrant cultures. Yet the region remains much poorer than its neighbors to the north. Most Latin American countries have not achieved standards of living and stable institutions comparable to those found in developed countries, have experienced repeated boom-bust cycles, and remain heavily reliant on primary commodities. This book studies the historical roots of Latin America's contemporary economic and social development, focusing on poverty and income inequality dating back to colonial times. It addresses today's legacies of the market-friendly reforms that took hold in the 1980s and 1990s by examining successful stabilizations and homemade monetary and fiscal institutional reforms. It offers a detailed analysis of trade and
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Yale University Press The End of the Asian Century War Stagnation and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"No sooner had we got used to thinking of ourselves as living in the 'Asian century' than it might be all over. . . . The book is a crash course on the risks in Asia."—Lucy Hornby, Financial Times"[Auslin] argues persuasively that most predictions for Asia are unrealistically rosy."—Tony Abbott, Wall Street Journal"Informative, thoughtful, and wide-ranging . . . well-researched, insightful . . . a wake-up call."—Publishers Weekly"Informative, thoughtful, and wide-ranging . . . well-researched, insightful . . . a wake-up call."—Publishers Weekly“If America’s pivot to Asia is to mature into a meaningful long-term strategy . . . it will require more books like this.”—John Bew, New Statesman“A worthwhile read for those interested in Asia and its future.”—Aron Shai, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs"Michael Auslin combines an historian's perspective with the art of diagnosis to map Asia's possible futures. The surprising result is anticipatory, cautionary, and contrarian. Written with verve and a readable style, Auslin urges us to weigh the wide-ranging implications of these risks for America and the rest of the world."—Robert B. Zoellick, former President of the World Bank, US Trade Representative, and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State"The End of the Asian Century is the essential user’s guide to the gathering risks in the dynamic Indo-Pacific crescent. Not since Robert D. Kaplan’s The Coming Anarchy and Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations has a study so originally and presciently captured the risks to the emerging international order."—James Kraska, Howard S. Levie Professor of International Law, U.S. Naval War College"Michael Auslin has built a reputation as an astute and forward-looking observer. In his new book, Auslin paints a vivid picture of a region waiting to see the full extent of Beijing's ambitions while wondering how the United States will ultimately respond. Those wishing to understand the scale of the challenge posed by China's destabilizing behavior would be well-served by this timely book."—Congressman J. Randy Forbes (R-Va), Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower & Projection Forces and Co-Chairman of the Congressional China Caucus"For years, many Americans have seen a rising Asia as a region of opportunity. But Asia scholar Michael Auslin has come to see it as a region of risks—military, economic, demographic. In The End of the Asian Century, he provides a 'risk map' of a region of great promise and great problems."—Michael Barone, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Washington Examiner senior political analyst"Auslin argues powerfully for a dose of reality when assessing the current situation in Asia and its future problems and prospects."—George P. Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury, and Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Yale University Press Adventurers
Book SynopsisThe unlikely beginnings of the East India Company—from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch—to laying the groundwork for future British expansionTrade Review“Howarth tells some hair-raising tales from the maiden voyage of the Company ship Peppercorn. . . . Packed with tales, as well as gruesome accounts of clashes between rival traders in the east.”—Dan Jones, Times (UK) “Adventurers is essential reading.”—Dan Jones, Times (UK)“[Adventurers] details the early years of what would become the world’s biggest corporation…By no means a defence of the empire, this dizzying work makes its emergence all the more remarkable.”—Daniel Brooks, Sunday Telegraph“Howarth’s study [is] quite different from its rivals, and overflowing with surprises.”—William Dalrymple, The Spectator“This is a book [Howarth] has wanted to write for 50 years. . . . The frequent exuberance of his prose echo[es] the voices of larger-than-life venturers and seafarers who fill his pages.”—Alan Mallinson, Country Life“Adventurers is an important counterpoint to received knowledge of Anglo-Indian history, and the foundations of what was perhaps the world’s first and most controversial corporation.”—Lubaaba Al-Azami, BBC History Magazine“I’m keeping my fingers crossed that there might be a further volume. . . . Perhaps Howarth, like those first Adventurers, will have the right amount of intrepid bravery and insanity to attempt it.”—Debbie Kilroy, Get History“Howarth’s book is a joy of revelation, page by page… beautifully written” —Robert Lyman, The Critic“The history of the East India Company is so often read backwards. This wonderfully well-written book restores its early development to its true context—it is, like cold water in a desert, the picture for which we’ve gasped.”—James Evans, author of Merchant Adventurers“Fascinating and authoritative. David Howarth weaves a rich and rewarding tapestry of the uncertain, often chaotic development of the company, moving with style from London to Southeast Asia, and amassing a colourful cast list of princes, merchants and politicians. Adventurers will become the standard book on the subject, and deservedly so.”—Jerry Brotton, author of This Orient Isle“Howarth’s keen eye for intrigue weaves together a tale of commercial competition and imperial ambition that carries us from the Tudor court to the coasts of Japan. Adventurers is a quick-paced romp through the chaotic early history of Britain’s most infamous corporation.”—Edmond Smith, author of Merchants
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Cambridge University Press Science and Civilisation in China Volume 7 The Social Background Part 2 General Conclusions and Reflections
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Cambridge University Press Consumerism in TwentiethCentury Britain The Search for a Historical Movement
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Liberty Fund Inc The Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises
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Liberty Fund Inc Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises Volume 2
Book SynopsisLudwig von Mises, the author of such classics as ''Socialism and Human Action'' is universally acknowledged as one of the most important classical liberals and economists of the twentieth century. In 1934, he left his native Austria in fear of the Nazis, who seized all his papers in 1938 in Vienna and Mises thought, destroyed them. But the papers were not destroyed. In 1996, Richard and Anna Ebeling discovered the papers in an archive in Moscow. This is the second volume in the Selected Writing of Ludwig von Mises series.
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Liberty Fund Inc Mavericks Defense of Freedom
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