Economic history Books
John Wiley & Sons Inc It Was a Very Good Year
Book SynopsisWhat, if anything, do the most spectacular, high-performance periods of the twentieth-century stock market have in common? And most importantly: Can we predict when they will occur again? In this fascinating investigation, acclaimed author and financial authority Martin S. Fridson probes the past, leading an exhilarating tour through each of the twentieth-century stock market''s golden years. Illuminating, entertaining, and rich in historical anecdotes, Fridson''s book treats us to the opinions and investment strategies of some of the most prominent and intriguing figures on the scene. Timely, informative, and highly readable . . . It Was a Very Good Year offers wonderful insights into the years that provided spectacular gains in the past. There are important lessons in this book for all investors.-Henry Kaufman, President, Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc. A useful and extremely entertaining book. It''s loaded with fascinating stock market lore and helpful investment approacheTable of Contents1908. 1915. 1927. 1928. 1933. 1935. 1954. 1958. 1975. 1995. Epilogue: What Causes the Very Good Years? Selected Readings. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Once in Golconda
Book SynopsisOnce in Golconda In this book, John Brooks-who was one of the most elegant of all business writers-perfectly catches the flavor of one of history''s best-known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It''s packed with parallels and parables for the modern reader. -From the Foreword by Richard Lambert Editor-in-Chief, The Financial Times Once in Golconda is a dramatic chronicle of the breathtaking rise, devastating fall, and painstaking rebirth of Wall Street in the years between the wars. Focusing on the lives and fortunes of some of the era''s most memorable traders, bankers, boosters, and frauds, John Brooks brings to vivid life all the ruthlessness, greed, and reckless euphoria of the ''20s bull market, the desperation of the days leading up to the crash of ''29, and the bitterness of the years that followed. Praise for Once in Golconda A fast-moving, sophisticated account.embracing the stock-market boom of the twenties, the crash of 1929, the Depression, and the cominTable of ContentsOverture: The Outrage. Ticker Tyranny. The Almost Aristocracy. So Near the Apes. Things Fall Apart. Enter the White Knight. Gold Standard on the Booze. Ordeal in Washington. The White Knight Unhorsed. Rising Action. Catastrophe. Denouement. Acknowledgments. Sources. Index.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Economy of Communist China 19491969
Book SynopsisEconomic development in mainland China during the first two decades of Communist control provides a typical example for the difficult task to transform a vast underdeveloped agrarian economy into a modern industrial one. The Economy of Communist China reviews selected aspects of this economic transformation.
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The University of Michigan Press The HalfLife of Deindustrialization
Book SynopsisExamines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communitiesTrade ReviewAn important and timely contribution to studies of working-class culture in this period of economic and social transformation."" - Nick Coles, University of Pittsburgh""Linkon’s compelling study opens up a new set of texts and new critical problematics—the aftermath of downsizing, the impact of neoliberalism on everyday life, the politics of memory—with great verve and insight."" - Joseph Entin, Brooklyn College
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The University of Michigan Press The HalfLife of Deindustrialization
Book SynopsisThrough analysis of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, film, and drama, The Half-Life of Deindustrialization shows why people and communities cannot simply ""get over"" the losses of economic restructuring. The past provides inspiration and strength for working-class people, even as the contrast between past and present highlights what has been lost in the service economy.Trade ReviewAn important and timely contribution to studies of working-class culture in this period of economic and social transformation."" - Nick Coles, University of Pittsburgh""Linkon’s compelling study opens up a new set of texts and new critical problematics—the aftermath of downsizing, the impact of neoliberalism on everyday life, the politics of memory—with great verve and insight."" - Joseph Entin, Brooklyn College
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Getting Rich in Late Antique Egypt
Book SynopsisPapyrologists and historians have taken a lively interest in the Apion family, which rose from local prominence in rural Middle Egypt to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the Eastern Roman Empire. Getting Rich in Late Antique Egypt discusses how the Apions' wealth was generated and what role their Egyptian estate played in that growth.Trade Review"[T]his volume deserves to be read more widely as it offers us a rare glimpse of one particular Egyptian family and the role they played in the wider agricultural and economic machinery of Byzantine Egypt." — Ancient Egypt
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The University of Michigan Press Bankruptcy and Debt Collection in Liberal
Book SynopsisDrawing on perspectives from anthropology and social theory, this book explores the quotidian routines of debt collection in nineteenth-century capitalism. Ultimately, the book advances an empirically grounded and theoretically informed history of quotidian legal practices in the everyday economy.
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University of California Press The Making of a Hinterland State Society and
Book SynopsisThis reassessment of the critical issues in modern Chinese history traces social, economic and ecological change in northern China during the late Qing Dynasty. It maps changes in local finance, farming, transportation, taxation and popular protest, and analyzes their consequences.
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University of California Press Rediscovering Palestine
Book SynopsisThis text paints a portrait of Palestinian society on the verge of modernity. Through the voices of merchants, peasants and Ottoman officials, the book investigates the ways in which urban-rural dynamics in a provincial setting gave meaning to Ottoman rule and European economic expansion.Table of ContentsList of Maps, Plates, and Tables Preface List of Abbreviations Note on Translation and Transliteration INTRODUCTION: PALESTINE AND THE OTTOMAN INTERIOR Toward a History of Provincial Life in the Ottoman Interior Rethinking Ottoman Palestine Sources Approach and Methodology 1. THE MEANINGS OF AUTONOMY Jabal Nablus as a Social Space Boundaries in Time and Space Conclusion 2. FAMILY, CULTURE, AND TRADE Textile Merchants The Arafat Family Regional Trade Networks Local Trade Networks Conclusion J· COTTON, TEXTILES, AND THE POLITICS OF TRADE Cotton and the Politics of Monopoly The Politics of Free Trade Textiles: Resilience and Restructuring Conclusion 4· THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF OLIVE OIL From the Hands of the Peasants A Forced Marriage? Redefining Identity and Political Authority Conclusion 5. SOAP, CLASS, AND STATE Soap and the Economy Soap and Society Soap and the State Conclusion CONCLUSION The Labyrinthine Journey The Discourses of Modernity Appendix 1. Weights and Measures Appendix 2. Court Records, Judges, and Private Family Papers Appendix 3· Soap Factories and the Process of Production Glossary Notes Select Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Encountering Chinese Networks
Book SynopsisThe text studies how various Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses struggled with the persistent dilemma in China of how to retain control over corporate hierachies while adapting to dramatic changes in Chinese society, politics and foreign affairs from 1880-1937.
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University of California Press From Settler to Citizen New Mexican Economic
Book SynopsisAn analysis of Pueblo Indian pottery, Pueblo and Spanish blankets, and Spanish religious images that links economic change to social and cultural change in the New Mexico. It charts the creation of a culturally innovative and dominating Hispanic settler - or vecino - community during the final decades of the eighteenth century.
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University of California Press Orange Empire
Book SynopsisBrings together the story of the orange industry - how growers, scientists, and workers transformed the natural and social landscape of California, turning it into a factory for the production of millions of oranges.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue. An Allegory of California Part I. Fabricating Eden Introduction 1. Manifesting the Garden 2. A Cornucopia of Invention 3. Pulp Fiction: The Sunkist Campaign Part II. Work in the Garden Introduction 4. The Fruits of Labor 5. "The Finished Products of Their Environment" Part III. Reclaiming Eden Introduction 6. A Jungle of Representation: The EPIC Campaign versus Sunkist 7. A Record of Eden's Erosion 8. "A Profit Cannot Be Taken from an Orange": Steinbeck's Case for Environmental Justice Epilogue. By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them Notes Select Bibliography Index 00
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University of California Press The Economy of the Greek Cities
Book SynopsisThis introduction to the Ancient Greek economy has proved popular in France, and has also been translated into Italian and Greek; this first English edition is of the second French edition of 2007.Trade Review"A very mature and thought-provoking book introducing an immense range of aspects in very little space." Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR) "The book's main strength lies in its clarity of structure and exposition and in its masterful control of the evidence." Journal Of Interdisciplinary History "This is an excellent, concise introduction into the main branches of the economy of the Greek worlds." Klio "[A] compact but impressive volume... Accessible to students new to the field of study." Ancient West & EastTable of ContentsForeword Introduction The Purpose and Nature of This Book Sources 1. The Greek Cities and the Economy Constants and Constraints Economy and Oikonomia The Economic Space of the Cities Primary Text 2. The World of Agriculture Agricultural Labor and Products Foodstuffs and How They Were Used Cultivating the Soil Self-sufficiency and Markets Primary Texts 3. Craft Industries and Business Ventures Private Crafts Public Works Primary Texts 4. Trade Trading Conditions Different Levels of Trading The Business World Public Interventions Primary Texts Conclusion Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Drink Water but Remember the Source
Book SynopsisWhile many have studied China's rise as an economic power, China itself does not exist solely in the economic realm. This study explores the moral sphere as a key to understanding how rural Chinese experience and talk about their lives in a period of rapid economic transformation.Trade Review"Original and important contribution to the fast-growing literature on contemporary China ... Two thumbs up!" Journal Of China Quarterly "Commendable" Chinese Historical Review "Very well written, entertaining like a novel, but with an evident scholarly background." -- Dominique Tyl Chinese Cross Currents "Stories ... are told with care and compassion, allowing Oxfeld to develop a nuanced analysis of moral discussions in rural China." Asia Pacific World "Drink water is Oxfeld's insightful call to arms." Social Anthropology "A significant contribution to the anthropology of morality." -- David A. Palmer The China JournalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Notes on the Text Preface and Acknowledgments Part I. Morality in Rural China: Contexts and Categories 1. Moonshadow Pond: Moral Expectations and Daily Life 2. Liangxin Part II. Moral Discourse in Social Life 3. Weighty Expectations: Women and Family Virtue 4. Everlasting Debts 5. The Moral Dilemmas of Return Visits 6. Property Rights and Wrongs 7. "Money Causes Trouble" Conclusion: Ethnography and Morality Notes Chinese Character Glossary References Index
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University of California Press From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean
Book SynopsisPresents a study that explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. This book discusses the trans-imperial cosmopolitan world of the New Julfans. It also explores the effects of long distance trade on the organization of community life.Trade Review"Fascinating." Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "Exceeds, by far, all previous scholarship on the Armenian merchants of New Julfa." Ararat "A fascinating book." Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "Aslanian has unearthed a veritable treasure trove, and this book, which is written in a lucid style, is of great interest." The Historian "An extensively researched study ... that is both scholarly and interesting to read... Well written and well-documented." -- Daphne Abeel Armenian Mirror-Spectator "This is the kind of book that entices readers to spend time not only with the text but also with the bibliography and endnotes, retracing research steps and finding new paths to benefit their own work." -- Patricia Risso American Historical Review "Ground-breaking ... Superb." -- Sossie Kasbarian Journal of Global History
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University of California Press The Modern WorldSystem IV Centrist Liberalism
Book SynopsisTraces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. This title encompasses the nineteenth century from the revolutionary era of 1789 to the First World War.Trade Review"Wallerstein offers a timely topic that answers our dilemmas about modern society and the historical sense of the Western civilization." Theory & Society "In this new volume [Wallerstein] answers critics who complain that he pays little attention to culture... Definitely worth reading." Choice "A fresh look at global history ... tracing the evolution of contemporary political ideologies from the 18th to the 20th centuries." -- Benjamin W. Gittelson Columbia College Today "Provocative... Radically original." -- Jennifer Pitts New Left ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: On Writing about the Modern World-System 1. Centrist Liberalism as Ideology 2. Constructing the Liberal State, 1815--1830 3. The Liberal State and Class Conflict, 1830--1875 4. The Citizen in a Liberal State 5. Liberalism as Social Science 6. The Argument Restated Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern
Book SynopsisDrawing on three detailed case studies the sewing machine, a glass bottle blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refining, this book explores a central paradox of economic growth in nineteenth-century Mexico.Trade Review"Beatty's book is a groundbreaking study, a tour de force that should be required reading for anyone interested in economic development or the history of technology in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world." American Historical Review
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University of California Press Dear China Emigrant Letters and Remittances 18201980
Book SynopsisQiaopi is one of several names given to the silver letters Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times. Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of the qiaopi trade. The authors explore the characteristics and transformations of qiaopi, showing how such institutionalized and cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending regions' socioeconomic development. Dear China contributes substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration.Trade Review"Makes substantial and significant contributions to our ongoing struggles to attain better understanding of migration as a most human, yet greatly disruptive, element of our global society and economy." * Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review *"A pertinent contribution to extant scholarship on the history of Chinese migration and diasporic ties between 1820 and 1980. . . . Students of oral history, social memory, in addition to migration researchers, will find this book an intelligible and informative read." * International Migration Review *"No matter what a reader of Dear China might think they know at the beginning, by the end of their perusal of this intensively researched and wide-ranging work they will know and appreciate a great deal more." * Journal of Chinese Overseas *"This fascinating volume by Benton and Liu proposes many noteworthy arguments for Southeast Asian history research because it pays heed to overseas Chinese society as one of the key factors in the region’s historical changes." * Southeast Asian Studies *Table of ContentsList of Maps and Tables Foreword by Wang Gungwu Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Genealogy of Qiaopi Studies 2. The Structure of the Qiaopi Trade and Transnational Networks 3. The Qiaopi Trade as a Distinctive Form of Chinese Capitalism 4. Qiaopi Geography 5. Qiaopi and Modern Chinese Economy and Politics 6. Qiaopi, Qiaoxiang, and Charity 7. Qiaopi and European Migrants’ Letters Compared Conclusions Appendix: Selected Qiaopi and Huipi Letters Glossary Notes References Index
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University of California Press Dear China
Book SynopsisQiaopi is one of several names given to the silver letters Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times. Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of the qiaopi trade. The authors explore the characteristics and transformations of qiaopi, showing how such institutionalized and cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending regions' socioeconomic development. Dear China contributes substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration.Trade Review"Makes substantial and significant contributions to our ongoing struggles to attain better understanding of migration as a most human, yet greatly disruptive, element of our global society and economy." * Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review *"A pertinent contribution to extant scholarship on the history of Chinese migration and diasporic ties between 1820 and 1980. . . . Students of oral history, social memory, in addition to migration researchers, will find this book an intelligible and informative read." * International Migration Review *"No matter what a reader of Dear China might think they know at the beginning, by the end of their perusal of this intensively researched and wide-ranging work they will know and appreciate a great deal more." * Journal of Chinese Overseas *"This fascinating volume by Benton and Liu proposes many noteworthy arguments for Southeast Asian history research because it pays heed to overseas Chinese society as one of the key factors in the region’s historical changes." * Southeast Asian Studies *Table of ContentsList of Maps and Tables Foreword by Wang Gungwu Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Genealogy of Qiaopi Studies 2. The Structure of the Qiaopi Trade and Transnational Networks 3. The Qiaopi Trade as a Distinctive Form of Chinese Capitalism 4. Qiaopi Geography 5. Qiaopi and Modern Chinese Economy and Politics 6. Qiaopi, Qiaoxiang, and Charity 7. Qiaopi and European Migrants’ Letters Compared Conclusions Appendix: Selected Qiaopi and Huipi Letters Glossary Notes References Index
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University of California Press Worker Cooperatives in America
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University of California Press The Thrift Debacle
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University of California Press Money in SixteenthCentury Florence
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University of California Press Worker Cooperatives in America
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University of California Press Delinquent
Book SynopsisPublisher's Weekly Top 10 Fall Release in Business and Economics?A consumer credit industry insider-turned-outsider explains how banks lure Americans deep into debt, and how to break the cycle. Delinquenttakes readers on a journey from Capital One's headquarters tostreet corners in Detroit, kitchen tables in Sacramento, and otherplaces where debt affects people's everyday lives. Uncovering the true costs of consumer credit to American families in addition to thebenefits, investigative journalist Elena Botellaformerly an industry insider who helped set credit policy at Capital Onereveals the underhanded and often predatory ways that banks induce American borrowers into debt they can't pay back. Combining Botella's insights from the banking industry, quantitative data, and research findings as well as personal stories from interviews with indebted families around the country, Delinquent provides a relatable and humane entry into understanding debt. Botella exposes the ways that baTrade Review"An ambitious insider’s critique of the 'debt machine' created by credit card companies and financial culture. . . . Original, passionate fusion of progressive polemic and stark portrait of the labyrinth of contemporary consumer finance." * Kirkus *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface A Note PART I THE PRINCIPAL ARGUMENT 1. The Time before the Debt Machine 2. How the Machine Was Built 3. The Debtor Class 4. A Broken Net 5. The Quickest Levers PART II THE INTEREST ARGUMENT 6. Divergent 7. A Fair Deal PART III THE FUTURE 8. The Last Frontier 9. Transformational Lending Acknowledgments Appendix A: About My Research Process Appendix B: Advice for Consumers Notes Index
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University of California Press Cooperative Rule
Book SynopsisWhile many have interpreted the cooperative movement as propagating a radical alternative to capitalism, Cooperative Rule shows that in the late British Empire, cooperation became an important part of the armory of colonialism. The system was rooted in British rule in India at the end of the nineteenth century. Officials and experts saw cooperation as a unique solution to the problems of late colonialism, one able to both improve economic conditions and defuse anticolonial politics by allowing community uplift among the empire's primarily rural inhabitants. A truly transcolonial history, this ambitious book examines the career of cooperation from South Asia to Eastern and Central Africa and finally to Britain. In tracing this history, Aaron Windel opens the door for a reconsideration of how the colonial uses of cooperation and community development influenced the reimagination of community in Europe and America from the 1960s onward.Trade Review"An electric account of the cooperative movement’s role in rural modernization. . . .an ambitious and clear-headed. . . .contribution to these literatures and to courses on colonial development, anti-colonial politics, and late imperial history." * H-Soz-Kult *"[An] original book." * Contemporary British History *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Cooperative Rule 2. Pedagogies of Community Development 3. Anti-empire, Development, and Emergency Rule 4. Uganda’s Anti-colonial Cooperative Movement 5. Cooperatives and Decolonization in Postwar Britain Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Can Legal Weed Win
Book SynopsisTwo economists take readers on a tour of the economics of legal and illegal weed, showing where cannabis regulation has gone wrong and how it could do better. Cannabis legalization hasn't lived up to the hype. Across North America, investors are reeling, tax collections are below projections, and people are pointing fingers. On the business side, companies have shut down, farms have failed, workers have lost their jobs, and consumers face high prices. Why has legal weed failed to deliver on many of its promises?Can Legal Weed Win? takes on the euphoric claims with straight dope and a full dose of economic reality. This book delivers the unadulterated facts about the new legal segment of one of the world's oldest industries. In witty, accessible prose, economists Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner take readers on a whirlwind tour of the economic past, present, and future of legal and illegal weed. Drawing upon reams of data and their own experience working with California cannabis Trade Review"In this lucid and pragmatic analysis, U.C. Davis economists Goldstein and Summer extinguish overheated predictions about the potential size and profits of the legal marijuana market. . . . Jargon-free and data-rich, this is a clear-eyed analysis of a hazy market." * Publishers Weekly *“Economists Goldstein and Sumner argue that government bureaucracy has made legal pot expensive to grow and sell, incentivizing illegal operations instead. Legal weed, their punny, breezy book shows, can only win once 'legal' isn’t an anticompetitive word.” * Bloomberg Businessweek *"An excellent primer on the state of the cannabis industry in America today." * Jacobin *"Explains how burdensome licensing requirements, regulations, and taxes have frustrated plans to displace the black market." * Reason *"Written in a fun, witty tone that makes reading about finances more engaging than ever." * CBD Oracle *Table of ContentsContents Preface: Fear and Stoning in Las Vegas Acknowledgments 1 We Call It Weed 2 Legal versus Illegal: A Market Battle 3 Prices Get High 4 We Ask Our Data: Where’s the Cheapest Legal Weed? 5 California Dreamin’ 6 Sabrina’s Story 7 Legal Weed in 2050 8 How to Survive Legalization Conclusion: Five Pipe Dreams about Legal Weed Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Japan the Sustainable Society
Book SynopsisBy the late twentieth century, Japan had gained worldwide attention as an economic powerhouse. Having miraculously risen from the ashes of World War II, it was seen by many as a country to be admired if not emulated. But by the early 1990s, that bubble burst in spectacular fashion. The Japanese economic miracle was over. In this book, John Lie argues that in many ways the Japan of today has the potential to be even more significant than it was four decades ago. As countries face the prospect of a world with decreasing economic growth and increasing environmental dangers, Japan offers a unique glimpse into what a viable future might look likeone in which people acknowledge the limits of the economy and environment while championing meaningful and sustainable ways of working and living. Beneath and beyond the rhetoric of growth, some Japanese are leading sustainable lives and creating a sustainable society. Though he does not prescribe a one-size-fits-all cure for the world, Lie makes th
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Britain in the 1930s
Book SynopsisWere the 1930s in Britain a decade of growing prosperity, unprecedented levels of ownership and sane, competent government? Or was it a time of grinding poverty, long-term unemployment and political timidity? In this new book Andrew Thorpe cuts through the welter of dispute and mythology to provide fresh analysis of politics, economics and society in this most controversial of decades.Trade Review"Likely to be an introductory text widely used by students in schools and universities: it is short, the format is accessible, the paperback edition is cheap and it is a new addition to the successful series of Historical Association Studies published by Blackwell." Labour History ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Part I: Introduction:. Part II: Politics:. 1. The Conservatives and the National Governments. 2. The Labour Party and Socialism. 3. The Liberals. 4. The Communists. 5. The Fascists. 6. Conclusion. Part III: Economy:. 1. Cyclical Trends. 2. Structural Change. 3. Government Economic Policy: Causes and Effects. 4. Conclusion. Part IV: Society:. 1. A Class-Ridden Society?. 2. Domestication and Privatization? Housing and Leisure. 3. Health, Welfare, and Social Policy. 4. Conclusion. Part V: Conclusion:. Appendix 1: General Election Results, 1924-45. Appendix 2: Unemployment, 1929-40. References and Guide to Further Reading.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Postwar Japan
Book SynopsisWithin forty years of the end of the Second World War, Japan was transformed from a nation in defeat to one of the most successful economic forces in the world. In this book, Paul Bailey draws on the most recent research to analyse the significance of the American Occupation (1945-52) as well as the later political, social and economic factors that contributed to postwar recovery.Trade Review"This book will provide historians of modern Japan with a reliable, readable and engaging text to assign in new undergraduate courses that desperately need such an anchor." Professor Jeffrey Eldon Hanes, University of Oregon Table of ContentsList of Figures. Outline Chronology. Introduction. 1. The Path to 1945. 2. The American Interregnum (1945-1952). 3. The Creation of the Liberal-Democratic Party and Political Conflict in the 1950s and 1960s. 4. The Emergence of an Economic Superpower. 5. A New Imperial Era and the End of the LDP Hegemony. Guide to Further Reading. Bibliography. Glossary of Japanese Terms.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Industrial Revolutions in Europe I Volume 4
Book SynopsisModern European economic history is marked by an endeavour to transcend the traditional national case study approach, to use comparisons and to deploy economic theory in order to draw the manifold and diverse experiences of the regions, countries and multicultural empires of Europe onto a unified frame of reference. These two volumes exemplify this modern approach. This Volume 4 of the eleven part set entitled Industrial Revolutions contains thirteen papers, with an introduction, which adopt and apply a conceptual and explicitly comparative approach to European economic history as a whole. Volume 5 includes sixteen national case studies, again organized around or set within the context of theoretical principles and ideas derived largely from macroeconomic theory, social accounting, productivity measurement and regional analysis.Table of ContentsVOLUME 4. General editors' introduction: R. A Church and E. A. Wrigley. Introduction: P.K. O'Brien. 1. Foreign trade and the industrialization of the European periphery in the nineteenth century: I. T. Berend and G. Ranki. 2. Banking in the early stages of industrialization: conclusion: R. Cameron. 3. Patterns of development in nineteenth century Europe: N. F. R. Crafts. 4. Wars, blockades and economic change in Europe, 1792-1815: F. Crouzet. 5. Economic backwardness in historical perspective: A. Gerschenkron. 6. Commercial expansion and the industrial revolution: C. P. Kindleberger. 7. Proto-industrializaton: theory and reality. General Report: F. Mendels. 8. An economic theory of the growth of the western world: D. C. North and R. P. Thomas. 9. Transport and economic development in Europe, 1789-1914: P. K. O'Brien. 10. The pre-history of the nineteenth century: W. N. Parker. 11. Industrialization and the European economy: S. Pollard. The take-off into self-sustained growth: W. W. Rostow. 13. Urban growth and agricultural change: England and the continent in the early modern period. Acknowledgements
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Industrial Revolutions Volume 8
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together nineteen significant articles on the role of textile industries in the Industrial Revolutions of Britain, Europe, Japan, and the United States. In his introduction, the editor surveys the contribution the textile industries have made to economic change. Textiles have played a major role in industrial transition. Traditional notions of industrial revolutions have, to a great extent, been built on interpretation of changes in the textile industries and the broader implications of these changes for society. The heroic advances in textile technology have been used as benchmark dates in the chronology of industrialization, and theories of industrialization and development have often depended on the models provided by the experiences of these trades.Table of ContentsGeneral editor's introduction: R. A. Church and E. A. Wrigley. Introduction: D. T. Jenkins. 1. Textile growth: D. C. Coleman. 2. Proto-industrialization: the first phase of the industrialization process: Franklin F. Mendels. 3. An innovation and its diffusion: the 'new draperies': D. C. Coleman. 4. The supremacy of the Yorkshire cloth industry in the eighteenth century: R. G. Wilson. 5. Proto-industrialisation: the case of the West Riding wool textile industry in the eighteenth century and early nineteenth centuries: P. Hudson. 6. Hargreaves, Arkwright and Crompton. Why three inventors?: R. L. Hills. 7. Concentration and specialization in the Lancaster cotton industry, 1825-1850: A. J. Taylor. 8. Labour, power and the size of firms in Lancashire cotton in the second quaretr of the nineteenth century: V. A. C. Gatrell. 9. Financial Restraints on the growth of firms in the cotton industry 1790-1850.: S. D. Chapman. 10. The rise of protection and the English linen trade, 1690-1790: N. B. Harte. 11. Technology, transaction costs, and the transition to factory production in the British silk industry, 1700-1870: S. R. H. Jones. 12. Enterprise and innovation in the British hosiery industry, 1750-1850: S. D. Chapman. 13. Managers and machinery: an analysis of the rise of factory production: Jon S. Cohen. 14. The launching of an 'infant industry'?: the cotton industry of Troyes under protectionism, 1793-1860: C. Heywood. 15. Regional integration and specialization in the French worsted industry, 1819-1910: an aspect of industrialization in France: K. Honeyman and J. Goodman. 16. The textile industries in Silesia and the Rhineland: a comparative study in industrialization: Herbert Kisch. 17. Product quality and vertical integration in the early cotton textile industry: Peter Temin. 18. The growth of cotton textile production after 1815: Robert Brooke Zevin. 19. The diffusion of cotton processing and trade in the Kinai region in Tokugawa Japan: William B. Hauser. Acknowledgements.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Industrial Revolutions in Europe II Volume 5
Book SynopsisModern European economic history is marked by an endeavor to transcend the traditional national case study approach, to use comparisons and to deploy economic theory in order to draw the manifold and diverse experiences of the regions, countries and multicultural empires of Europe onto a unified frame of reference. These two volumes exemplify this modern approach. This Volume 5, of the eleven part set entitled Industrial Revolutions contains thirteen papers, with an introduction, which adopt and apply a conceptual and explicitly comparative approach to European economic history as a whole. Volume 5 includes sixteen national case studies, again organized around or set within the context of theoretical principles and ideas derived largely from macroeconomic theory, social accounting, productivity measurement and regional analysis.Table of ContentsVOLUME 5. . General editor's introduction: R. A. Church and E. A. Wrigley. Introduction: P. K. O'Brien. 1. Foreign Trade and the Industrialization of the European periphery in the nineteenth century: I. T. Berend and G. Ranki. 2. Banking in the early stages of industrialization: conclusion: R. Cameron. 3. Pattersn of Development in nineteenth century Europe: N. F. R. Crafts. 4. Wars, blockades and economic change in Europe, 1792-1815: F. Crouzet. 5. Economic backwardness in historical perspective: A.Gerchenkron. 6. Commercial expansion and the industrial revolution: C. P. Kinidleberger. 7. Proto-industrialization: theory and reality. General Report: F. Mendals. 8. An economic theory of the growth of the western world: D. C. North and R. P. Thomas. 9. Transport and economic development in Europe, 1789-1914: P. K. O'Brien. 10. The pre-history of the nienteenth century: W.N. Parker. 11. Industrialization and the European economy: S. Pollard. 12. The take-off into self-sustained growth: W. W. Rostow. 13. Urban growth and agricultural change: England and the continent in the early modern period: E. A. Wrigley. Acknowledgements.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The West and the Third World
Book Synopsisaeo Addresses the question of whether Third World countries have benefited or suffered from close relationships with the West aeo Provides an historical perspective on an issue of continuing debate aeo Interdisciplinary work of relevance to students in history, geography, economics and the social sciences.Trade Review"The West and the Third World will be enjoyed by a wide audience. Richly flavoured with comparative insights, this book will appeal to specialists and students alike." English Historical Review "This is an impressive and useful work, providing historical perspective for crucial contemporary issues of economic development in the Third World." The Historian "This is a large project requiring deep understanding of the way in which the world economy has evolved and of the changing political relations between Europe, America and the rest of the world. Indeed, it is difficult to think of anyone better qualified for this task than Fieldhouse; and the result is a book of great authority ... The book is also written clearly and can be easily followed by the non-expert." History "Recommended for general readers; lower division undergraduate through beginning graduate students." Choice "An interesting introduction for students from a range of disciplines interested in the relations between different world regions." Progress in Development StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: The Debate over an Integrated World System:. 1. The Optimists. 2. The Pessimists. Part II: Instruments of Empire:. 3. Imperial Government and the Development Imperative. 4. Imperial Economies and Third World Development. Part III: Trade, Colonialism and Development:. 5. Trade and Development in the Settler Societies. 6. The Concept of a Colonial Economy. 7. The Colonial Economy in Practice: Trade and Development in India and Ghana. Part IV: After Colonialism: The New International System: . 8. Aid and Development. 9. The Multinational Corporation and Development. 10. Trade and Development after 1950: Black Africa and India. 11. Trade and Development after 1950: East and South-East Asia. 12. Some Conclusions. Select Bibliography.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The British Economy Since 1945
Book SynopsisIn this fully revised and updated second edition, Sir Alec Cairncross provides a lucid overview and analysis of British economic policy and performance from 1945 to the present. The author takes a chronological approach, introducing the events of the period with an account of changing ideas on economic policy and performance. He concludes with a survey of major developments over the period.Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. General Editor's Preface. Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Acknowledgements. 1. Changing Ideas on Policy and Performance. 2. Reconversion, 1945-1950. 3. The 1950s. 4. The 1960s. 5. The 1970s. 6. The 1980s. 7. Epilogue: The Early 1990s. 8. Half a Century in Retrospect, 1945-95. Appendix 1: Main Economic Events. Appendix 2: Key Figures in Economic Policy, 1945-95. Appendix 3: Definitions of Money. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Spain in the Liberal Age
Book SynopsisThis book is the first single volume history of modern Spain to appear in over 30 years. It describes Spain''s emergence in the nineteenth century as the first modern post-imperial power and examines the vast social and economic changes which Spain witnessed during this period. In lucid and accessible prose, the author provides a gripping account of 131 years of politics, warfare and social conflict. Charles Esdaile places particular emphasis on crucial periods in the history of modern Spain. He shows how nineteenth century Spain was in many ways shaped by the Peninsular War of 1804-18, as the politicization of the army during this conflict cast a shadow over the century-long political struggle between liberalism and absolutism. Esdaile also demonstrates that the years between 1868 and 1874 were a watershed in the history of modern Spain. During this time the social and political changes of the century were consolidated and Spain emerged as a constitutional monarchy. ProvidingTrade Review"Esdaile has written a masterly work of synthesis, full of judicious assessment, outspoken at times and authoritative in tone." Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of Maps. Preface. 1. The Spanish Uprising. 2. The War of Independence. 3. Restoration and Revolution. 4. The Coming of Liberal Spain. 5. The Moderate Decade. 6. Revolution, Reconciliation and Relapse. 7. The Revolutionary Sexenio. . 8. The Restoration Monarchy. 9. The Gathering Storm. 10. End of Empire. 11. The Failure of Reform. 12. Spain and the Great War. 13. The Primo de Rivera Dictatorship. 14. The Republic Implanted. 15. The Republic Besieged. 16. The Republic Overthrown. Bibliographical Essay. Glossary of Spanish Terms. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Famous Fables of Economics
Book SynopsisThis text critiques some of our most cherished stories of market failure. Economists have used these colorful myths to justify a wide range of public policy interventions in the economy. It is concluded that economic analysis of market efficiency should rely on systematic analysis, not anecdotes.Trade Review"This book is important for understanding how economic principles can be applied to real-world problems. Professor Spulber discusses nine important myths that are often cited in the economics profession. These myths have important lessons for a number of current policy issues such as the Microsoft case, the supposed superiority of Betamax over VHS and the supposed current stock market bubble." Jack Carr, University of Toronto. "Famous Fables of Economics is a welcome addition. Students will learn that fables and myths should not be accepted at face value. More importantly, they will see how economics can be used to challenge these myths. The book will prove useful in an array of courses, especially those that deal with policy issues." Roger D Blair, University of Florida.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction: Economic Fables and Public Policy: Daniel F. Spulber. 1. The Lighthouse in Economics: Ronald H. Coase. 2. The Voluntary Provision of Public Goods? The Turnpike Companies of Early America: Daniel B. Klein. 3. The Fable of the Bees: An Economic Investigation: Steven N. S. Cheung. 4. The Fable of the Keys: Stan J. Liebowitz, and Stephen E. Margolis. 5. Beta, Macintosh, and Other Fabulous Tales: Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis. 6. Delivering Coal by Road and Rail in Britain: The Efficiency of the "Silly Little Bobtailed Wagons": Va Nee L. Van Vleck. 7. The Acquisition of Fisher Body by General Motors: Ronald H. Coase. 8. The Fable of Fisher Body: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Daniel F. Spulber. 9. Sharecropping: Steven N. S. Cheung. 10. Predatory Price Cutting: The Standard Oil (N.J.) Case: John S. McGee. 11. Another Look at Alcoa: Raising Rivals' Costs Does Not Improve the View: John E. Lopatka and Paul E. Godek. 12. How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Learn? New Evidence for an Old Case Study: Peter Thompson. 13. Financial Legends: The Economist. Index.
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Harvard University Press Class and Community
Book SynopsisIn this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of his Bancroft Prize-winning book, Dawley reflects once more on labor and class issues, poverty and progress, and the contours of urban history in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, during the rise of industrialism in the early nineteenth century.Trade ReviewAt a time when global forces often seem more important than any particular place, this classic study of America's industrial revolution reminds us that the local community can sometimes provide the most revealing setting for understanding larger social processes. -- Leon Fink, author of Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic CommitmentPraise for the first edition: Class and Community is an original study. It does far more than help liberate local history from town boosters ... It restores the American industrial revolution to historiography's center stage, where it belongs. * New York Times *The author brilliantly examines the structure and culture of Lynn shoemakers...Diligent research, unearthing of new information, sophisticated conceptualization, imaginative thinking...make this book an extraordinary contribution in American social and economic history. * Historian *This is a welcome re-issue of one of the first and best of the community studies of industrial change in the nineteenth-century United States that emerged with the "new social history" of the 1970s. First published in 1976, Dawley's book was widely influential as a model case study, as an application of class analysis to American social history, and as an example of social history with the politics left in. -- Christopher Clark * History *Table of ContentsPreface, 2000: Lynn Revisited Introduction: A Microcosm of the Industrial Revolution Entrepreneurs Artisans Factories The City Workers The Poor and the Less Poor Militants Politicians Conclusion: Equal Rights and Beyond Appendixes Tables on Population, Output, and Employment Research Methods The Ward 4 Factor Bibliography Notes Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center A Time of Crisis
Book SynopsisThis study of Japan's transformation by the economic crises of the 1930s focuses on efforts to overcome the effects of the Great Depression in rural areas, particularly the activities of local activists and Tokyo policymakers. Smith sheds light on how average Japanese responded to problems of modernization and how they re-created the countryside.Trade ReviewSmith has produced a groundbreaking study of the impact of the Great Depression on Japan in the 1930s. The early 1930s, when Japan was wracked by internal and external problems, was called a 'time of crisis' by contemporary Japanese...This unique and insightful look at a crucial time in modern Japanese history is highly recommended. -- M. D. Ericson * Choice *
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Harvard University, Asia Center A Political Explanation of Economic Growth
Book SynopsisBefore the late 1980s Taiwan’s successful exporters were overwhelmingly small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). What accounts for their success and their benign neglect by the state? The author argues that it was an unintended consequence of the state's policy toward the private sector and its political strategies for managing societal forces.
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Harvard University Press A Culture of Credit Embedding Trust and
Book SynopsisIn the growing and dynamic economy of nineteenth-century America, businesses sold vast quantities of goods to one another, mostly on credit. This book explains how business people solved the problem of whom to trusthow they determined who was deserving of credit, and for how much.Trade ReviewRowena Olegario has filled an important gap in American business history. A Culture of Credit is a straightforward, clearly written study of an important and understudied question: how did creditworthiness come to be determined in American mercantile trade? In this fascinating and informative history, Olegario illuminates much that was unknown about the workings of nineteenth-century commercial credit. Even more interestingly, she draws our attention to a difficult cultural problem that is often taken for granted by people with little business experience but is always of immense importance to creditors—the problem of "trust" and "transparency" in business dealings. -- Lendol Calder, Augustana CollegeWith great originality, Rowena Olegario brings together a wide variety of sources and weaves them into a compelling story about embedding trust and transparency in American business. All in all, this is a superb contribution to business history. -- Richard Sylla, New York UniversityThis incisive monograph retraces the emergence and maturation of the two largest American credit reporting firms, the Mercantile Agency, which became R. G. Dun and Company, and J. M. Bradstreet. Rowena Olegario shows how those dominant innovators tackled the fundamental problem of asymmetric information in mercantile trade...[T]his engaging book is a model of how to probe an evolving economic culture through a pivotal institution of modern capitalism and should receive close attention from business, social, and cultural historians of industrializing America. -- Edward Balleisen * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Mercantile Credit in Britain and America, 1700-1860 2 A "System of Espionage": The Origins of the Credit-Reporting Form 3 Character, Capacity, Capital: How To Be Creditworthy 4 Jewish Merchants and the Struggle Over Transparency: A Case Study 5 Growth, Competition, Legitimacy: Credit Reporting in the Late Nineteenth Century 6 From Competition to Cooperation: The Birth of the Credit Man, 1890-1920 Epilogue: Business Credit Reporting in the Twenty-First Century Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Pull
Book SynopsisIn retelling success stories from Benjamin Franklin to Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates, Laird goes beyond personality, upbringing, and social skills to reveal the critical common key--access to circles that control and distribute opportunity and information. She contrasts how Americans have prospered--or not--with how we have talked about prospering.Trade ReviewLaird offers an illuminating analysis of how exceptional achievers have combined individual talent with social assets…to rise in society. -- Hardy Green * Businessweek *[A] highly readable appraisal of the social dynamics that navigate some Americans towards opportunity while steering others away… Pamela Laird has written an important book about the social forces that have blocked individual endeavour. -- Margaret Walsh * Business History *Laird’s historical perspective yields fresh insights into the history of American business practices and offers an original perspective on the challenges made by feminism and civil rights in the last decades of the twentieth century. -- Kathy Peiss * Business History Review *Laird provides a comprehensive perspective and rich historical insight into the importance of social dynamics in achieving career success. She retells the success stories of famous Americans ranging from Horatio Alger, Benjamin Franklin, and Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates and beyond to make the point that none were simply ‘self-made men.’ -- T. Gutteridge * Choice *This eye-opening book helps explains why so many individuals—and nearly all African Americans and women—were so long left out when they exhibited the same intelligence and ambition as those who ‘made it.’ In emphasizing the social forces that blocked pathways up, in addition to those which held people down, Laird presents an exciting new way to think about success. -- Walter A. Friedman, author of Birth of a SalesmanA bold, ambitious, and important book. Laird shows that the key to understanding how people succeed is social capital—the networks, mentors, role models, manners, connections, and understanding of codes of behavior that enable some Americans but not others to advance. -- Daniel Horowitz, author of The Anxieties of AffluenceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Connections at Work 1. Social Capital and the Mechanisms of Success 2. Organizing and Synthesizing Social Capital 3. Social Rungs on Corporate Ladders 4. Contacts and Buffers 5. The Business of Integration 6. Strangers on the Ladder 7. Uncovering the Power of Pull 8. Social Tools for Self-Help Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Republic of Debtors
Book SynopsisDebt was a fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the 18th century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers and the right to imprison debtors was unquestioned. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack and insolvency was no longer seen as a moral failure. Mann illuminates this crucial transformation in early American society.Trade ReviewA landmark study of eighteenth-century financial failure. -- Jill Lepore * New Yorker *Back [in colonial days] debtors were treated worse than thieves. In prison they had to foot the bill for their own food and heat, or else go without. In 1798, when yellow fever swept Philadelphia, all prisoners from city jails were evacuated to safety—all, that is, but the deadbeats. Bruce Mann, a law and history professor at the University of Pennsylvania, says such harsh treatment reflected a culture in which failure to repay debt was regarded as a moral failing rather than a business one. How Americans’ attitude toward debt changed is the subject of Mann’s masterful (but largely overlooked) 2002 history, Republic of Debtors. -- Bernard Condon * Forbes *In this gripping account of being in debt in the land of the free, Bruce Mann illuminates the origins of Americans’ ambivalent relationship to business failure… Mann employs his considerable talents to bring to life a world where much that seems normal and logical to us now—like a unified currency, or the fact that you cannot pay off a debt if you are stuck in jail—was not. Mr. Mann’s genius is to explain in clear and human terms the legal and economic intricacies by which early American creditors and debtors lived and died. -- Evan Haefeli * Washington Times *Bruce Mann, a noted authority on early American law and society, offers an incomparable study of 18th-century indebtedness and insolvency, tackling a tough subject with clarity and sympathy… Anyone interested in the history of American law and business will find this an enlightening book. -- Christopher Clark * Times Higher Education Supplement *Bankruptcy scholars and conventional legal historians aim to capture [societal and political tensions] by directing their attention to high legal text and their framers’ original intentions. But for Mann, such documents serve only as points of reference on a journey whose aim is to understand contemporary cultural conceptions. Mann wisely identifies debtors’ prisons, rather than legal texts or political discourse, as the path into his world… Mann uses the correspondence, memoirs, and pamphlets written by inmates to portray not only their miserable daily lives but also their cries for help… The 1800 Bankruptcy Act, amid controversy, narrowly passed. Mann is the first to narrate its passage authoritatively. -- Ron Harris * American Historical Review *In his new illuminating book…[Bruce Mann] identifies a fundamental societal change in attitude toward debtors… He traces the evolution of American attitudes toward debt and insolvency throughout the 1700s, culminating in the first federal bankruptcy law in 1800. -- Stephen Smith * Books and Culture *Bankruptcy, that familiar constant in an age of boom and bust, has a moral as well as financial component. Deservedly or not, in the early days of the American republic, shame and mistrust attached to a debtor who sought shelter and relief under the law… A fascinating work of economic history that sheds light on daily life in the young Republic. * Kirkus Reviews *This new work from Mann…examines the relationship between creditors and debtors during late 18th-century America. He specifically focuses on the transformation of society’s view of indebtedness from a moral failing to an economic one… This thoroughly researched work is an excellent resource. -- Robert K. Flatley * Library Journal *Republic of Debtors is a superb, even dramatic, book about debt, the law on debt, and the experience of debt in the early American republic that reveals how problems over money, credit, and debt shattered lives and transfixed politics as thoroughly in the Revolutionary and early national eras as they still do in the twenty-first century. -- Jon Butler, Yale UniversityThis is a lucid, deeply researched, and powerfully insightful study of attitudes toward debt and bankruptcy in the ‘long eighteenth century.’ In sparkling prose, Mann introduces us to a key aspect of how Americans put their own spin on emergent capitalism while he also addresses the ambivalent legacies of the constitution-framing years. -- Cornelia H. Dayton, University of ConnecticutWriting with clarity, grace and wit, Bruce Mann tells a compelling tale that opens up fresh dimensions of the politics, imagination and nightmares of the founding generation. I emerged with a far better grasp of the complexities of paper money and credit than I ever hoped to have. As we struggle to handle our own credit cards, it is useful to reflect on the deeply ironic relationship among personal independence, personal identity, and personal indebtedness that has long characterized American life. -- Linda K. Kerber, University of IowaBruce Mann has given us a superb study of the evolution of early American cultural attitudes towards personal indebtedness and their impact on law and legal procedures. His vivid stories of imprisoned debtors are both eye-opening and instructive. Mann has made a fresh, original, and immensely significant contribution to the history of the Early Republic. -- Gloria L. Main, University of Colorado, BoulderReaders now owe Bruce Mann a hefty debt of their own for this imaginative and painstakingly researched account of changing ideas of credit, debt, and bankruptcy in eighteenth-century America. Debt is one of those pervasive aspects of society that we take for granted, yet its functions and complications require unusual diligence to master. But mastery of this rich subject is exactly what Mann has gained. This model study contributes at once to the legal, social, economic, moral, political, and intellectual history of early America, while telling an intriguing story of shifting attitudes and relations. -- Jack N. Rakove, Stanford UniversityTable of Contents* Acknowledgments * Introduction *1. Debtors and Creditors *2. The Law of Failure *3. Imprisoned Debtors in the Early Republic *4. The Imagery of Insolvency *5. A Shadow Republic *6. The Politics of Insolvency *7. The Faces of Bankruptcy * Conclusion * Notes * Index
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Harvard University Press Capital Rules
Book SynopsisIn this intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Abdelal argues that European policy makers promoted the liberal rules that compose the international financial architecture, while U.S. policy makers have tended to embrace unilateral, ad hoc globalization.Trade ReviewIn this era of globalisation, Rawi Abdelal's analysis of the foundations of global financial markets is a valuable contribution towards advancing the cause of global governance. -- Pascal Lamy, Director General of the World Trade OrganisationThis book addresses one of the most significant shifts in the organization of the international economy--the lowering of national border level controls to the entry and exit of capital--and explains how and why states renounced this powerful lever of national control over their economies. In place of the standard explanations, Abdelal develops a sociological argument about the construction of norms and their spread across institutions. Beautifully and engagingly written with brio and clarity, Capital Rules is a brilliant work that will become a mainstay of political economy literatures. -- Suzanne Berger, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDrawing on extensive documentary evidence, as well as dozens of interviews with high-level finance officials and midlevels bureaucrats, [Abdelal] tells a fascinating (and largely unknown) tale: how a clutch of French socialists helped to upend economic orthodoxy and lead the charge for lifting restrictions on capital flows within Europe and throughout the world...The book is a mix of accessible political history and counterintuitive insight, bringing to our attention one of the most important, and least appreciated, developments in the postwar global economy. -- Matthew Rees * Wall Street Journal *Brilliant and authoritative...Abdelal's book is the definitive account of the politics of global financial deregulation--and its increasingly disastrous consequences...This book deserves the widest general audience of serious people. -- Robert Kuttner * American Prospect *Capital Rules is an engaging description of the history behind changes in capital flow doctrine...Abdelal...accomplishes an excellent and quite thorough treatment of the subject matter. -- Ikee Gardner * Journal of Economic Issues *Offer[s] original insights into the politics of international financial regulation. -- Tim Büthe * Review of International Organizations *Rawi Abdelal supplies a valuable historical perspective. He explains that the liberalization of capital markets emerged not from a conspiracy of global financiers or the hegemony of Wall Street, but from a turn towards liberal economics by the French Socialists under François Mitterrand. -- Robert Howse * Harvard Law Review *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Orthodoxy and Heresy 2. The Rules of Global Finance: Causes and Consequences 3. Capital Ruled: Embedded Liberalism and the Regulation of Finance 4. The Paris Consensus: European Unification and the Freedom of Capital 5. Privilege and Obligation: The OECD and Its Code of Liberalization 6. Freedom and Its Risks: The IMF and the Capital Account 7. A Common Language of Risk: Credit Rating Agencies and Sovereigns 8. The Rebirth of Doubt 9. Conclusion Appendix: List of Archives and Interviewees Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Return to Keynes
Book SynopsisKeynesian economics has recently seen a rebirth, most dramatically illustrated when central banks pumped billions of dollars of liquidity into the world's financial system to address the crises of confidence, illiquidity, and insolvency triggered by the sub-prime lending crisis. The contributors assess this new era in economic policy making.Trade ReviewDuring the 1990s, John Maynard Keynes, and Keynesian economics, were declared to be well and truly dead. Then came the financial and economic crises of 2008 and they were reborn as a way of understanding economies with significant unemployment. This excellent collection of essays, brought together by three prominent scholars of Keynes and Keynesian policy, will be a convenient way for those who have forgotten Keynesian economics to refresh themselves, and for others to learn for the first time. -- Craufurd Goodwin, Duke UniversityThis fascinating collection of papers addresses the current status and relevance of Keynes from a number of perspectives: the return of macroeconomic policy activism, the state of modern macroeconomics, the recent scholarship of Keynes's life and work, and some elements of Keynes's work that might be relevant to the current crisis. The authors' backgrounds are diverse and their scholarship often cutting-edge. A fine guide to the present state of play. -- D.E. Moggridge, University of TorontoIt is a basic truth in the history of economics that great ideas never die. They attain this permanence because they are shaped by both the internal demands of economic theorizing as well as the external realities of the economy. The Return to Keynes, edited by three distinguished scholars, testifies to this truth and demonstrates that doing the history of economics is a part of doing economics well. Keynesian macroeconomic policy as a tool for stabilization is now firmly fixed in the toolbox of economics. -- Yuichi Shionoya, Hitotsubashi UniversityTable of Contents* Introduction: The Return to Keynes Bradley W. Bateman, Toshiaki Hirai and Maria Cristina Marcuzzo Part I: Keynesian Economic Policy: Past, Present and Future * Keynes Returns to America Bradley W. Bateman * Japan's Long-run Stagnation and Economic Policies Yoshiyasu Ono * European Macroeconomic Policy: A Return to Active Stabilization? Hans-Michael Trautwein Part II: Interpreting Keynesian Theory and Keynesianism * From the 'Old' to the 'New' Keynesian-Neoclassical Synthesis: An Interpretation Richard Arena * Tobin's Keynesianism Robert W. Dimand * The New Neoclassical Synthesis and the Wicksell-Keynes Connection Mauro Boianovsky and Hans-Michael Trautwein Part III: Re-reading and Interpreting Keynes * An Abstruse and Mathematical Argument: The Use of Mathematical Reasoning in the General Theory Roger E. Backhouse * The General Theory: Toward the Concept of Stochastic Macro-equilibrium Hiroshi Yoshikawa * Keynes's Economics in the Making Toshiaki Hirai * Keynes, Sraffa and the Latter's "Secret Skepticism" Heinz D. Kurz * Keynes and the War of Words Gilles Dostaler Part IV: Global Crisis: Lessons from Keynes * Keynes and Modern International Finance Theory Marcello De Cecco * Keynes's Influence on Modern Economics: Some Overlooked Contributions of Keynes's Theory of Finance and Economic Policy Jan A. Kregel * Current Global Imbalances: Might Keynes Be of Help? Anna M. Carabelli and Mario A. Cedrini * References * Contributors * Index
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Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Living Standards in Latin American History
Book SynopsisLatin America’s widespread poverty and multi-dimensioned inequalities have long perplexed and provoked observers. This edited volume with chapters by preeminent economists and social scientists brings together important scholarly efforts to measure and explain changes in Latin American living standards as far back as the colonial era.Trade ReviewThe average heights of most human populations are highly correlated with childhood nutrition. Building on this insight, a fascinating new field of study, anthropometric history, is demonstrating that extreme economic inequalities are reflected in the differing physical statures of social classes. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example, well-fed European aristocrats towered over their undernourished peasants. This volume reveals that even today, a shockingly high percentage of impoverished Guatemalans suffer from stunted growth, whereas Mayan immigrant children living in California grow significantly taller—suggesting that poverty, not genetics, is stunting their relatives back home. This innovative collection offers numerous surprises for conventional historians: in various periods when the urban poor were presumed to have suffered from economic austerity or authoritarian deprivation, for instance, anthropometry cannot find signs of worsening nutrition. The good news is that as a region, Latin America displays the lowest percentage of stunted growth in the developing world and has registered a dramatic drop, from 26 percent in 1980 to 13 percent in 2000. -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *
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Harvard University Press The Age of Equality
Book SynopsisAlongside unprecedented improvements in longevity and material well-being, the twentieth century saw the rise of fascism and communism and a second world war followed by a cold war. Governments with market economies won the battle against these competing systems by combining growth and efficiency with greater equality of opportunity and outcome.Trade ReviewThis book is a great achievement. The twentieth century was filled with different economic experiments and enormous economic and social changes. Pomfret covers the main developments in Western Europe and the United States, with separate chapters on the Soviet economic model, the collapse of central planning, and the developing countries. The book is complete but also succinct, well-informed, and interesting. -- Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth CollegeThe linking of history and sound economics in telling the story of the last two centuries (the author goes substantially beyond the twentieth-century emphasis of the title) is a terrific idea, and the application of different growth models in explaining twentieth-century growth in various institutional and political contexts is wonderful. The emphasis on equality and inequality is also very welcome and feeds into current and important contemporary concerns: does high inequality, especially in the U.S. and the U.K. jeopardize continued growth? -- Harold James, Princeton UniversityThis in-depth history examines economic growth over two centuries from a global perspective, outlining relationships between economic perspectives, governmental policymaking, monetary systems, marketplaces, wars, and cyclic events, such as inflations and recessions...Especially interesting is Pomfret's discussion of the history of the gold standard and its relationship to economic growth and equality, which is relevant in light of the current economic climate. -- Caroline Geck * Library Journal *[An] engaging history of the twentieth century. -- Richard N. Cooper * Foreign Affairs *
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Harvard University, Asia Center The Money Doctors from Japan
Book SynopsisThis study investigates the Japanese experiment with financial imperialism—or “yen diplomacy”—at several key moments between the acquisition of Taiwan in 1895 and the outbreak of the Sino–Japanese War in 1937, and how these practices impacted the development of receiving nations and defined their geopolitical position in the postcolonial world.
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Harvard University Press Creation and Destruction of Value The
Book SynopsisHarold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalization—above all in the Great Depression—to show how financial crises provoke backlashes against global integration.Trade ReviewNo one is better qualified than Harold James to explore the similarities and differences between recent events and the early 1930s. A model of lucid exposition, The Creation and Destruction of Value confirms that if you want to understand our current predicament, history is a much better guide than economics. -- Niall Ferguson, Harvard University, author of The Ascent of MoneyA masterly account. James commands his subject like no other. The lessons of 1931 for today's world are compelling. Like Humpty Dumpty, globalization is broken, and it will take time to put it together again. -- David Marsh, author of The Euro: The Politics of the New Global CurrencyThe reflections of Harold James, an economic historian at Princeton University and a long-time student of what makes globalization happen, would be of interest even in times more tranquil than these. But at a moment when the march of global integration has been stalled by a financial crisis unparalleled since the 1930s, Mr. James is a particularly fitting guide...At a time when economists are accused of having forgotten history, yet few historians can explain the world of bank bail-outs and the turmoil they cause, Mr. James has a rare gift for being able to marshal an impressive knowledge of economic and financial history in order to highlight previously unrecognized connections with the past. * The Economist *Unsurprisingly there have been a host of books about the banking crisis and its consequences. But they have mostly had a "whodunnit?" tone to them, seeking to explain what happened and apportion the blame, rather than giving us some feeling for how the world economy might dig itself out of the crisis and how effectively it might develop in the years to come. So Harold James' new book deserves a special welcome for giving us a framework to try to do this, for he is an historian rather than an economist...Anyone expecting his new book to explain why this current crisis will end the burst of globalization will be disappointed. His argument is more subtle and more interesting...Where he adds most value is in his effort to put the crisis into its international political context, asking some tough questions on the way. -- Hamish McRae * The Independent *From the current vantage point--rising stock prices amid a weak economic recovery and double-digit unemployment--it is too soon to know whether the current crisis will be remembered as a financial shock that failed to throw off the trajectory of globalization, or if it marks the start of a more fundamental re-ordering. James modestly and appropriately avoids trying to answer that question. But he asks all the right ones, offering a brilliant tour through the Great Depression and the current crisis. -- Edward Alden * Forbes.com *The recent U.S. financial meltdown that spread throughout the world stimulated a plethora of analyses of the causes and consequences of this catastrophe. However, few studies are as insightful as this short but important work. -- D. C. Messerschmidt * Choice *Table of Contents* Acknowledgments * Introduction * The End of Globalization: A Millennial Perspective * Which Historical Analogy Applies, 1929 or 1931? * The Crash of 2008: The Weekends That Made History * The Extent and Limit of the Financial Revolution * The Importance of Power Politics * Uncertainty of Values * Notes * Index
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