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Duke University Press The Provocative Joan Robinson
Book SynopsisA biography of the most important woman in the history of economic thought.Trade Review"This is a remarkable book. It is the first attempt of which I am aware to deal with the complexity of Joan Robinson's contributions to Cambridge economics in the 1930s. Robinson is an iconic figure, and a series of legends-mostly created by Robinson herself in a complex process of personality and career formation-makes such a historical reconstruction necessary. 'Necessary' is the right word, since the entire history of what is now called macroeconomics, and a number of elements of the history of neoclassical economics in the pre-Second World War period, have been told from the perspective of Cambridge, England, by individuals engaged in defending the Cambridge tradition." -- E. Roy Weintraub, author of How Economics Became a Mathematical Science "The Provocative Joan Robinson is an engaging, insightful, and highly original treatment of a significant figure and community in the history of economics." -- Steven G. Medema, author of The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic IdeasTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Collage with Woman in Foreground 1 1. The Improbable Theoretician 17 Excursus: Robinson and Kahn 51 2. The Making of The Economics of Imperfect Competition 89 3. Becoming a Keynesian 161 "Who Is Joan Robinson?" 235 Notes 247 Bibliography 279 Index 295
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Shadow Of The Mills WorkingClass Families in Pittsburgh 18701907 Pittsburgh Series in Social Labor History
Book SynopsisIn this study of the steel mills of Pittsburgh in the 1880s, S.J. Kleinberg focuses on the private side of industrialization and urbanization, and on how the mills structured the everyday existence of the women, men and children who lived in their shadows.
£49.56
University of Pittsburgh Press Bethlehem Steel
Book SynopsisBethlehem Steel presents an original and compelling history of a leading American company, examining the numerous factors contributing to the growth of this titan and those that eventually felled it—along with many of its competitors in the U.S. steel industry.Trade Review"[Warren's] research is impressive. Students of industrial history will find Bethlehem Steel a revealing and timely work, defining challenges that all sorts of companies face today, across the U.S. and around the world." - Wall Street Journal"
£46.10
University of Pittsburgh Press Salt and the Colombian State Local Society and
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University of Pittsburgh Press Big Business In Russia
Book SynopsisA highly original study of the Putilov Works—the most famous industrial conglomerate in the Russian Empire during the late 19th century, and a major challenge to conventional wisdom on the nature of the Russian economy in the years before the Bolshevik revolution.
£42.63
Fordham University Press The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial
Book SynopsisResponses to the financial crash of 2008 by a unique combination of scholars (primarily economists and political philosophers) and actual players in the world of finance-including from Wall Street, from watchdog nonprofit organizations seeking to monitor Wall Street, and from the U.S. Treasury itself.Trade Review"An important contribution to the discussions about the origins and character of the financial crisis." -- -Jacob Dahl Rendtorff Roskilde University "A novel, intriguing and fruitful angle from which to approach the recent financial crisis." -- -Gary Mongiovi St. John's UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Burden of Our Times Roger Berkowitz Part I: Hannah Arendt and the Burden of Our Times 1. Imperialism and the Current Financial Crisis Tracy B. Strong 2. No Revolution Required Jerome Kohn 3. Disdain for Politics and the Financial Crisis Antonia Grunenberg Part II: Business Values and The Financial Crisis 4. Capitalism, Ethics, and the Financial Crash David Callahan 5. An Interview with Paul Levy Roger Berkowitz 6. An Interview with Vincent Mai Roger Berkowitz 7. Brazil as a Model? Alexander R. Bazelow 8. Interview with Raymundo Magliano Filho Claudia Perrone-Moises 9. Roundtable: The Burden of Our Times Raymond Baker, Rebecca Berlow, Jack Blum, Zachary Karabel, Thomas Scanlon, and Taun Toay Part III: The Crisis of Economics 10. The Roots of the Crisis Sanjay G. Reddy 11. Where Keynes Went Wrong Hunter Lewis 12. Managed Money, the "Great Recession" and Beyond Dimitri B. Papadimitriou 13. Turning the Economy into a Casino David B. Matias and Sophia V. Burres
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Fordham University Press The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial
Book SynopsisResponses to the financial crash of 2008 by a unique combination of scholars (primarily economists and political philosophers) and actual players in the world of finance-including from Wall Street, from watchdog nonprofit organizations seeking to monitor Wall Street, and from the U.S. Treasury itself.Trade Review"An important contribution to the discussions about the origins and character of the financial crisis." -- -Jacob Dahl Rendtorff Roskilde University "A novel, intriguing and fruitful angle from which to approach the recent financial crisis." -- -Gary Mongiovi St. John's UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Burden of Our Times Roger Berkowitz Part I: Hannah Arendt and the Burden of Our Times 1. Imperialism and the Current Financial Crisis Tracy B. Strong 2. No Revolution Required Jerome Kohn 3. Disdain for Politics and the Financial Crisis Antonia Grunenberg Part II: Business Values and The Financial Crisis 4. Capitalism, Ethics, and the Financial Crash David Callahan 5. An Interview with Paul Levy Roger Berkowitz 6. An Interview with Vincent Mai Roger Berkowitz 7. Brazil as a Model? Alexander R. Bazelow 8. Interview with Raymundo Magliano Filho Claudia Perrone-Moises 9. Roundtable: The Burden of Our Times Raymond Baker, Rebecca Berlow, Jack Blum, Zachary Karabel, Thomas Scanlon, and Taun Toay Part III: The Crisis of Economics 10. The Roots of the Crisis Sanjay G. Reddy 11. Where Keynes Went Wrong Hunter Lewis 12. Managed Money, the "Great Recession" and Beyond Dimitri B. Papadimitriou 13. Turning the Economy into a Casino David B. Matias and Sophia V. Burres
£22.79
Fordham University Press Realizing Capital
Book SynopsisTraces modern rhetorical and ideological connections between finance and psychology first generated in the Victorian period in the journalism of Walter Bagehot and David Morier Evans; the novels of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope; and the critical works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud.Trade Review"This highly original and far-reaching book puts Marx and Freud into an exciting new dialogue with the Victorian novel. Kornbluh reads these imposing thinkers as engaged in the same project as the realist novelists, all of them struggling to defamiliarize the frighteningly fictitious character of capital. Offering thrilling new insights into Great Expectations, Middlemarch, and The Way We Live Now, this book culminates in a tour de force reading of Marx's Capital as a Bildungsroman and a radical rethinking of Freud's 'psychic economy.'" -- -Caroline Levine University of Wisconsin, Madison "Realizing Capital is not just about the psychic life of financial capital, about how the mad dance of the capital affects human psyche, and about how Victorian literature from Dickens onwards registered the psychic distortions imposed by the mad circulation of the capital. The underlying premise is a much more radical one: the psychic life of capital, the way individuals experience and fictionalize financial circulation, is a key ingredient of economic reality itself, since the reality of the financial capital is itself structured like a fiction. Although Kornbluh's book deals with Victorian England, it holds a mirror to our era - if you want to understand what goes on today, how a madness like the 2008 meltdown was possible, read Realizing Capital!" -- -Slavoj Zizek University of Ljubljana "By tracing the cultural circulation of two specific tropes - "fictitious capital" and "psychic economy" - Kornbluh makes a compelling argument about the complex figurative ties that bind the realist novel to our understanding of both capitalism and the psyche. This exciting and original book will make us reconsider the novel's cultural work as well as that of its criticism." -- -Mario Ortiz-Robles University of Wisconsin-Madison "'Realizing Capital' should be essential reading for anyone wishing to follow cutting edge work on the form of the Victorian novel." -- -Adela Pinch Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 "...impressively researched, highly inventive, and powerfully driven by original close readings of nineteenth-century fiction and non-fiction." -- -Zarena Aslami Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: "A Case of Metaphysics": Realizing Capital 1. Fictitious Capital/Real Psyche: Metalepsis, Psychologism, and the Grounds of Finance 2. Investor Ironies in Great Expectations 3. The Economic Problem of Sympathy: Parabasis and Interest in Middlemarch 4. "Money Expects Money": Satiric Credit in The Way We Live Now 5. London, Nineteenth Century, Capital of Realism: On Marx's Victorian Novel 6. Psychic Economy and Its Vicissitudes: Freud's Economic Hypothesis Epilogue: The Psychic Life of Finance Works Cited Notes Index
£35.10
Fordham University Press Realizing Capital
Book SynopsisTraces modern rhetorical and ideological connections between finance and psychology first generated in the Victorian period in the journalism of Walter Bagehot and David Morier Evans; the novels of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope; and the critical works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud.
£19.79
University of Hawai'i Press Hawaiis Russian Adventure A New Look at Old History
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£60.00
University of Hawai'i Press The Park Chung Hee Era
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of authoritative summaries and analyses of the most significant economic policies of the Park Chung Hee years (1961-1979). This volume is the product of a major project by Korean academics and officials to critically review and analyse policies aimed at the economic development and modernization of Korea.
£26.96
University of Hawai'i Press A Bowl for a Coin
Book SynopsisThe first book in any language to describe and analyse the history of all Japanese teas from the plant's introduction to the archipelago around 750 to the present day. A Bowl for a Coin makes a convincing case for how tea can serve as a broad lens through which to view the development of Japanese society over many centuries.Trade ReviewOne of the strengths of this book is Farris’s ability to draw the reader’s attention to continuities across time while also highlighting the many changes that took place. As all good macro-histories do, Farris gives the reader some key moments of change to consider. . . . Another strength of the book is the new perspective it gives on some of the oft-repeated points in the story of tea in Japan. Indeed, this alone makes it a must-read for all those interested in Japanese tea history, including the many practitioners of chanoyu tea culture and the increasing number of people working in tea-related business, who all communicate general information about the origins and early development of tea in Japan to public audiences.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Health Mortality and the Standard of Living in
Book SynopsisThese two volumes bring together important and influential articles and papers on different aspects of the history of health and welfare.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I Introduction Roderick Floud, Bernard Harris and Sok Chul Hong Obituary Robert William Fogel (1926–2013) Roderick Floud PART I THE DECLINE OF MORTALITY 1. Thomas McKeown and R.G. Brown (1955), ‘Medical Evidence Related to English Population Changes in the Eighteenth Century’, Population Studies, 9 (2), November, 119–41 2. Thomas McKeown and R.G. Record (1962), ‘Reasons for the Decline of Mortality in England and Wales during the Nineteenth Century’, Population Studies, 16 (2), November, 94–122 3. Thomas McKeown, R.G. Brown and R.G. Record (1972), ‘An Interpretation of the Modern Rise of Population in Europe’, Population Studies, 26 (3), November, 345–82 4. P.E. Razzell (1974), ‘“An Interpretation of the Modern Rise of Population in Europe” – A Critique’, Population Studies, 28 (1), March, 5–17 5. E.A. Wrigley (1983), ‘The Growth of Population in Eighteenth-Century England: A Conundrum Resolved’, Past and Present, 98 (1), February, 121–50 6. Robert Woods (1985), ‘The Effects of Population Redistribution on the Level of Mortality in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales’, Journal of Economic History, 45 (3), September, 645–51 7. Simon Szreter (1988), ‘The Importance of Social Intervention in Britain’s Mortality Decline c.1850–1914: A Re-interpretation of the Role of Public Health’, Social History of Medicine, 1, 1–37 8. Samuel H. Preston and Etienne van de Walle (1978), ‘Urban French Mortality in the Nineteenth Century’, Population Studies, 32 (2), July, 275–97 9. Edward Meeker (1971–2), ‘The Improving Health of the United States, 1850–1915’, Explorations in Economic History, 9 (1), 353–73 10. Samuel H. Preston (1975), ‘The Changing Relation between Mortality and Level of Economic Development’, Population Studies, 29 (2), July, 231 48 PART II FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MORTALITY CHANGE 11. Partha Dasgupta and Debraj Ray (1990), ‘Adapting to Undernourishment: The Biological Evidence and its Implications’, in Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen (eds), The Political Economy of Hunger: Volume 1 Entitlement and Well-Being, Chapter 7, Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 191–246 12. Sarah F. McMahon (1981), ‘Provisions Laid Up for the Family: Toward a History of Diet in New England, 1650–1850’, Historical Methods, 14 (1), Winter, 4–21 13. Carole Shammas (1984), ‘The Eighteenth-Century English Diet and Economic Change’, Explorations in Economic History, 21, 254–69 14. David Grigg (1995), ‘The Nutritional Transition in Western Europe’, Journal of Historical Geography, 22 (1), July, 247–61 15. Roy Porter (1991), ‘Cleaning Up the Great Wen: Public Health in Eighteenth-Century London’, in W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter (eds), Living and Dying in London (Medical History, Supplement no. 11), London, UK: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 61–75 16. John C. Brown (1988), ‘Coping with Crisis? The Diffusion of Waterworks in Late Nineteenth-Century German Towns’, Journal of Economic History XLVIII (2), June, 307–18 17. W. Robert Lee and Jörg P. Vögele (2001), ‘The Benefits of Federalism? The Development of Public Health Policy and Health Care Systems in Nineteenth-Century Germany and their Impact on Mortality Reduction’, Annales de Démographie Historique, 101 (1), 65–96 18. William H. Hubbard (2000), ‘The Urban Penalty: Towns and Mortality in Nineteenth-Century Norway’, Continuity and Change, 15 (2), September, 331–50 19. Karin Johannisson (1994), ‘The People’s Health: Public Health Policies in Sweden’, in Dororthy Porter (ed.), The History of Public Health and the Modern State, Chapter 4, Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Editions Rodopi B.V., 165–82 20. David Cutler and Grant Miller (2005), ‘The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: The Twentieth-Century United States’, Demography, 42 (1), February, 1–22 PART III EARLY-LIFE ORIGINS OF ADULT DISEASE 21. Dugald Baird (1974), ‘The Epidemiology of Low Birth Weight: Changes in Incidence in Aberdeen, 1948–72’, Journal of Biosocial Science, 6 (3), July, 323–41 22. L.H. Lumey (1998), ‘Reproductive Outcomes in Women Prenatally Exposed to Undernutrition: A Review of Findings from the Dutch Famine Birth Cohort’, Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 57, 129–35 23. Siddiq Osmani and Amartya Sen (2003), ‘The Hidden Penalties of Gender Inequality: Fetal Origins of Ill-Health’, Economics and Human Biology, (1), January, 105–21 24. D.J.P. Barker and C. Osmond (1986), ‘Infant Mortality, Childhood Nutrition, and Ischaemic Heart Disease in England and Wales’, The Lancet, 327(8489), May, 1077–81 25. Irma T. Elo and Samuel H. Preston (1992), ‘Effects of Early-Life Conditions on Adult Mortality: A Review’, Population Index, 58 (2), Summer, 186 212 26. Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Lindström (2003), ‘Airborne Infectious Diseases during Infancy and Mortality in Later Life in Southern Sweden, 1766–1894’, and G. Doblhammer (2003), ‘Commentary: Infectious Diseases during Infancy and Mortality in Later Life’, International Journal of Epidemiology, 32 (2), April, 286–95 27. W.O. Kermack, A.G. McKendrick and P.L. McKinlay (1934), ‘Death-Rates in Great Britain and Sweden: Some General Regularities and their Significance’, The Lancet, 223 (5770), March, 698–703 28. Gunnar Fridlizius (1989), ‘The Deformation of Cohorts: Nineteenth Century Mortality Decline in a Generational Perspective’, Scandinavian Economic History Review and Economy and History, XXXVII (3), 3–17 29. Graziella Caselli and Riccardo Capocaccia (1989), ‘Age, Period, Cohort and Early Mortality: An Analysis of Adult Mortality in Italy’, Population Studies, 43 (1), March, 133–53 30. Bernard Harris (2001), ‘Commentary: “The Child is Father of the Man.” The Relationship between Child Health and Adult Mortality in the 19th and 20th Centuries’, International Journal of Epidemiology, 30 (4), 688–96 31. F. Janssen and A.E. Kunst for the Netherlands Epidemiology and Demography Compression of Morbidity research group (2005), ‘Cohort Patterns in Mortality Trends among the Elderly in Seven European Countries, 1950–99’, International Journal of Epidemiology, 34 (5), October, 1149–59 PART IV LIVING STANDARDS, INCOME AND WEALTH 32. Stanley L. Engerman (1997), ‘The Standard of Living Debate in International Perspective: Measures and Indicators’, in Richard H. Steckel and Roderick Floud (eds), Health and Welfare during Industrialization, Chapter 1, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 17–45 33. M.K. Bennett (1937), ‘On Measurement of Relative National Standards of Living’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 51 (2), February, 317–36 34. Richard A. Easterlin (1974), ‘Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence’, in Paul A. David and Melvin W. Reder (eds), Nations and Households in Economic Growth: Essays in Honor of Moses Abramovitz, New York, NY and London, UK: Academic Press, 89–125 35. Partha Dasgupta and Martin Weale (1992), ‘On Measuring the Quality of Life’, World Development, 20 (1), 119–31 36. Sherwin Rosen (1994), ‘The Quantity and Quality of Life: A Conceptual Framework’, in George Tolley, Donald Kenkel and Robert Fabian (eds),Valuing Health for Policy: An Economic Approach, Chapter 11, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 221–48, references 37. Amartya Sen (1993), ‘Capability and Well-Being’, in Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen (eds), The Quality of Life, Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 30–53 38. Martha C. Nussbaum (2003), ‘Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements: Sen and Social Justice’, Feminist Economics, 9 (2–3), 33–59 Index Volume II Acknowledgements An Introduction to both volumes by the editors appears in Volume I PART I ANTHROPOMETRIC STUDIES 1. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ([1973] 1979), ‘The Conscripts of 1868: A Study of the Correlation between Geographical Mobility, Delinquency and Physical Stature, and Other Aspects of the Situation of the Young Frenchmen Called to Do Military Service in that Year’, in The Territory of the Historian, translated from the French by Ben and Siân Reynolds, Chapter 4, Brighton, UK: Harvester Press Ltd, 33–60 2. Robert W. Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman, James Trussell, Roderick Floud, Clayne L. Pope and Larry T. Wimmer (1978), ‘The Economics of Mortality in North America, 1650–1910: A Description of a Research Project’, Historical Methods, 11 (2), Spring, 75–108 3. Robert William Fogel (1993), ‘New Sources and New Techniques for the Study of Secular Trends in Nutritional Status, Health, Mortality, and the Process of Aging’, Historical Methods, 26 (1), Winter, 5–43 4. Robert A. Margo and Richard H. Steckel (1982), ‘The Heights of American Slaves: New Evidence on Slave Nutrition and Health’, Social Science History, 6 (4), Fall, 516–38 5. Kenneth L. Sokoloff and Georgia C. Villaflor (1982), ‘The Early Achievement of Modern Stature in America’, Social Science History, 6 (4), Fall, 453 81 6. John Komlos (1987), ‘The Height and Weight of West Point Cadets: Dietary Change in Antebellum America’, Journal of Economic History, XLVII (4), December, 897–927 7. Joseph M. Prince and Richard H. Steckel (2003), ‘Nutritional Success on the Great Plains: Nineteenth-Century Equestrian Nomads’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XXXIII (3), Winter, 353–84 8. Lars G. Sandberg and Richard H. Steckel (1980), ‘Soldier, Soldier, What Made You Grow so Tall? A Study of Height, Health, and Nutrition in Sweden, 1720–1881’, Economy and History, XXIII (2), 91–105 9. Roderick Floud and Kenneth W. Wachter (1982), ‘Poverty and Physical Stature: Evidence on the Standard of Living of London Boys 1770–1870’, Social Science History, 6 (4), Fall, 422–52 10. Roderick Floud (1998), ‘Height, Weight and Body Mass of the British Population since 1820’, NBER Working Paper Series on Historical Factors in Long Run Growth, Historical Paper 108, i, ii, 3–38, figures, 39–44 11. John Komlos (2003), ‘An Anthropometric History of Early-Modern France’, European Review of Economic History, 7 (2), August, 159–89 12. John Komlos (1985), ‘Stature and Nutrition in the Habsburg Monarchy: The Standard of Living and Economic Development in the Eighteenth Century’, American Historical Review, 90 (5), December 1149–61 13. Jörg Baten (2001), ‘Climate, Grain Production and Nutritional Status in Southern Germany during the XVIIIth Century’, Journal of European Economic History, 30 (1), Spring, 9–47 14. Brian A’Hearn (2003), ‘Anthropometric Evidence on Living Standards in Northern Italy, 1730–1860’, Journal of Economic History, 63 (2), June, 351–81 15. José M. Martínez Carrión (1994), ‘Stature, Welfare, and Economic Growth in Nineteenth-Century Spain: The Case of Murcia’, in John Komlos (ed.), Stature, Living Standards and Economic Development: Essays in Anthropometric History, Chapter 5, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 76–89, bibliography PART II HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND MORTALITY 16. T.J. Cole (2003), ‘The Secular Trend in Human Physical Growth: A Biological View’, Economics and Human Biology, 1 (2), June, 161–8 17. Richard H. Steckel (1983), ‘Height and Per Capita Income’, Historical Methods, 16 (1), Winter, 1–7 18. Roderick Floud (1994), ‘The Heights of Europeans since 1750: A New Source for European Economic History’, in John Komlos (ed.), Stature, Living Standards, and Economic Development: Essays in Anthropometric History, Chapter 1, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 9–24 19. L.H. Schmitt and G.A. Harrison (1988), ‘Patterns in the Within-Population Variability of Stature and Weight’, Annals of Human Biology, 15 (5), 353 64 20 . Dora L. Costa (1993), ‘Height, Weight, Wartime Stress, and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Union Army Records’, Explorations in Economic History, 30, 424–49 21. Timothy Cuff (1993), ‘The Body Mass Index Values of Mid-Nineteenth-Century West Point Cadets: A Theoretical Application of Waaler’s Curves to a Historical Population’, Historical Methods, 26 (4), Fall, 171–82 22. George Alter (2004), ‘Height, Frailty, and the Standard of Living: Modelling the Effects of Diet and Disease on Declining Mortality and Increasing Height’, Population Studies, 58 (3), 265–79 23. Thomas T. Samaras, Harold Elrick, and Lowell H. Storms (2003), ‘Is Height Related to Longevity?’, Life Sciences, 72 (16), March, 1781–802 PART III ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF HEALTH CHANGES 24. James F. Fries (1980), ‘Aging, Natural Death, and the Compression of Morbidity’, New England Journal of Medicine, 303 (3), July, 130–35 25. Robert W. Fogel (1994), ‘Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology: The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy’, American Economic Review, 84 (3), June, 369–95 26. Robert W. Fogel and Dora L. Costa (1997), ‘A Theory of Technophysio Evolution, with some Implications for Forecasting Population, Health Care Costs, and Pension Costs’, Demography, 34 (1), February, 49–66 27. Christopher J.L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez (1997), ‘Mortality by Cause for Eight Regions of the World: Global Burden of Disease Study’, The Lancet, 349 (9061), May, 1269–76 28. Christopher J.L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez (1997), ‘Regional Patterns of Disability-Free Life Expectancy and Disability-Adjusted Life Expectancy: Global Burden of Disease Study’, The Lancet, 349 (9062), May, 1347–52 29. Christopher J.L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez (1997), ‘Global Mortality, Disability, and the Contribution of Risk Factors: Global Burden of Disease Study’, The Lancet, 349 (9063), May, 1436–42 30. Christopher J.L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez (1997), ‘Alternative Projections of Mortality and Disability by Cause 1990–2020: Global Burden of Disease Study’, The Lancet, 349 (9064), May, 1498–504 31. Theodore W. Schultz (1961), ‘Investment in Human Capital’, American Economic Review, LI (1), March, 1–17 32. John Strauss and Duncan Thomas (1998), ‘Health, Nutrition, and Economic Development’, Journal of Economic Literature, XXXVI (2), June, 766–817 33. Anne Case, Darren Lubotsky, and Christina Paxson (2002), ‘Economic Status and Health in Childhood: The Origins of the Gradient’, American Economic Review, 92 (5), December, 1308–34 34. T. Paul Schultz (2002), ‘Wage Gains Associated with Height as a Form of Health Human Capital’, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 92 (2), May, 349–53 35. Anne Case and Christina Paxson (2008), ‘Stature and Status: Height, Ability, and Labor Market Outcomes’, Journal of Political Economy, 116 (3), June, 499–532 36. Chulhee Lee (2005), ‘Wealth Accumulation and the Health of Union Army Veterans, 1860–1870’, Journal of Economic History, 65 (2), June, 352–85 37. Ann Bartel and Paul Taubman (1979), ‘Health and Labor Market Success: The Role of Various Diseases’, Review of Economics and Statistics, LXI (1), February, 1–8 38. Suchit Arora (2001), ‘Health, Human Productivity, and Long-Term Economic Growth’, Journal of Economic History, 61 (3), September, 699–749 Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Asian Mediterranean Port Cities and Trading
Book SynopsisThis insightful book draws upon a wide range of disciplines â political economy, geography and international relations â to examine how Asia has returned to its central position in the world economy.Trade Review'This intensive monograph, The Asian Mediterranean, is a great synthesis of East-West Maritime worlds under emerging global world. Professor Gipouloux has combined historical studies on global maritime seas with regional economic studies on Asia. He also integrates historical interaction between maritime seas and coastal port cities by creating the imaginative geo-economical concept of the ''East Asian economic corridor'', running between Vladivostok and Singapore and locating China, Japan and Southeast Asia into this maritime area. To attain this goal, Professor Gipouloux globalises China through north-south, east-west and past-present combinations, using cross disciplinary approaches -- political economy, geography and international relations -- under wide historical perspectives. The Asian Mediterranean opens a new horizon to look into Asia from a global perspective and at the same time, reminds us of the connection beyond contrast between East and West.' --Takeshi Hamashita, Tokyo University, Japan and Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China'This excellent and very original book will help to a better understanding on the long run dynamics of a region that is today taking more and more importance in the world economy, and a major contribution to the internal renewal of the social sciences, that need to overcome their traditional eurocentric point of view. François Gipouloux is a very bright geographer and economist. . . I am sure that The Asian Mediterranean will open the way to other further steps, and will have an important impact on an international English-reading scholarly public.' --Maurice Aymard, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, France'Gipouloux's narrative is clear and accessible, and his conclusions are innovative and insightful. This short review can barely scratch the surface of this impressively sophisticated study.' --S.C. Levi, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: The ‘Mediterraneans’ of Europe and Asia Part I: Two Models of Expansion Without Borders: The European Mediterraneans 1. The Mediterraneans and Global Expansion 2. Long Distance Trade and Urban Sovereignty: The Competitive Model of the Mediterranean at the Time of the Repubbliche Marinare 3. The Hanseatic League: A Model of Cooperation on the Baltic Sea Part II: Early Outlines of an Asian Mediterranean: The Predominance of Tributary Trade 4. Asian Trading Kingdoms and Independent Urban Entities: From the 7th to the 17th Century 5. The Organisation of Trade in Asia: The Weight of Government Monopolies 6. Tributary Trade and Unofficial Trade 7. Japan’s Place in Intra-Asian Trade: Resisting Chinese Hegemony 8. The Asian Maritime System Part III: The Overlapping of Western and Asian Trading Networks 9. European Expansion or Asian Force of Attraction? 10. Forced Openings and Treaty Ports 11. The Cosmopolitanism of Asian Trade Networks Part IV: The Arena of Re-globalisation: The Second Birth of the Asian Mediterranean 12. Chinese Coastal Cities Confronting the Challenge of Globalisation 13. The East Asian Manufacturing Belt 14. Hong Kong versus Shanghai: Rivalry between Middlemen 15. Competition between Logistic Hubs in Asia 16. Hong Kong, Shanghai, or Peking: Where Will China’s International Financial Centre be Located? Part V: The Asian Mediterranean and the Challenges to State Sovereignty 17. Transnational Regions and the East Asian Economic Corridor: An Asian Mediterranean 18. The Asian Mediterranean and the Reshaping of China’s Economic Space 19. Local Protectionism and Trade Wars: Market Fragmentation in China 20. China’s Power Base Shifts Back Towards the Sea Conclusion Bibliography Index
£129.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Dissemination of Economic Ideas
Book SynopsisThis highly illuminating book marks a significant stage in our growing understanding of how the development of national traditions of economic thought has been affected by both internal and external factors.Trade Review‘This book is highly recommended for the richness and novelty of its case studies. Leaving aside the positive contribution made in enhancing our understanding of Japanese economic thought, by giving voice to economic traditions that had been previously neglected, and by showing the complexity of the interaction between the ‘centers’ of economic theorizing and the ‘periphery,’ the book has a great capacity to raise deep questions on the ways in which economic ideas originate, travel, adapt, and eventually become institutionalized.’ -- Gerardo Serra, Journal of the History of Economic ThoughtTable of ContentsContents: The Dissemination of Economic Ideas: Introduction Heinz D. Kurz, Tamotsu Nishizawa and Keith Tribe PART I: SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 1. Cameralism as an Intermediary between Mediterranean Scholastic Economic Thought and Classical Economics Bertram Schefold 2. The Ideal Statesman: The Influence of Richelieu on Davenant’s Political Thought Seiichiro Ito 3. Polizei and the System of Public Finance: Tracing the Impact of Cameralism in Eighteenth-Century Portugal Alexandre Mendes Cunha PART II: EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN INTERACTIONS 4. The Development of Economic Theories in Germany: From Karl Heinrich Rau to Wilhelm Roscher Yukihiro Ikeda 5. German Influences in the Making of American Economics, 1885–1935 Bradley W. Bateman 6. Marshall’s Ideas on Progress: Roots and Diffusion Katia Caldari and Tamotsu Nishizawa PART III: THE DIFFUSION OF ECONOMIC IDEAS IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE AND BEYOND 7. The Dissemination of Economic Thought in South-Eastern Europe in the Nineteenth Century Michalis M. Psalidopoulos and Nicholas J. Theocarakis 8. Adventures of an Austrian Trio Ahead: The Influence of Schumpeter, Polanyi and Hayek in Turkey and the Dissemination of their Work Eyüp Özveren PART IV: THE EXCHANGES OF IDEAS BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE REST OF THE WORLD 9. The Diffusion of Economic Ideas: Lionel Robbins in Italy and Japan Atsushi Komine and Fabio Masini 10. The Kyoto University Economic Review (1926–44) as Importer and Exporter of Economic Ideas: Bringing Lausanne, Cambridge, Vienna and Marx to Japan Robert W. Dimand and Masazumi Wakatabe 11. The Background of K. Akamatsu’s Gankou Keitai Ron and its Development: Early Empirical Analysis at Nagoya Tadashi Ohtsuki 12. Was Sozialforschung an Aesopian Term? Marxism as a Link between Japan and the West Kiichiro Yagi 13. The Contributions of Two Eminent Japanese Scholars to the Development of Economic Theory: Michio Morishima and Takashi Negishi Heinz D. Kurz Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Regional Impact of National Policies The Case
Book SynopsisResearchers and students in economics, economic history, political science and regional studies, and others interested in the economics of transition to a market system will find this comprehensive collection an invaluable resource.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Werner Baer 2. The Regional Impacts of Juscelino Kubitschek’s Targets Program André Villela 3. Regional Imbalances in Brazil According to Social Inclusion Roberto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque 4. Social Programs, Industrial Deconcentration and the Recent Decrease in Regional Income Inequality in Brazil Raul da Mota Silveira-Neto and Carlos Roberto Azzoni 5. Labor Policies in Brazil Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de Moraes, Fabíola Cristina Ribeiro de Oliveira and Camila Kraide Kretzmann 6. The Impact of Privatization on Brazil’s Regions Edmund Amann and Werner Baer 7. Science, Technology and Innovation Policies in the Regional Development of Brazil Luiz Ricardo Cavalcante and Simone Uderman 8. FDI in Brazil from a Regional Perspective Marcos C. Holanda and André Matos Magalhães 9. Stabilization Policies and Regional Development in Brazil Alexandre Rands Barros 10. The Use of Native Forests versus Economic Growth in Brazil: Is it Possible to Reach a Balance? Carlos José Caetano Bacha 11. Regional Development and Agricultural Expansion in Brazil’s Legal Amazon: The Case of the Mato Grosso Frontier Charles C. Mueller 12. Embrapa: Its Origins and Changes Geraldo B. Martha Jr., Elisio Contini and Eliseu Alves 13. The Regional Impact of Federal Government Programs in Brazil: The Case of Rio de Janeiro Thomas J. Trebat and Nicholas M. Trebat Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Japanâs Great Stagnation
Book SynopsisThis timely book presents a critical examination of the developmental premises of Japan’s high-growth success and its subsequent drift into recession, stagnation and piecemeal reform.Trade ReviewRecent events have rendered Japan's lost decades all the more relevant to the rest of us. Rick Garside, in this wide-ranging and accessible account, explores the political economy of Japan's great stagnation with an eye toward describing how other advanced economies can avoid going down the same path. - Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley, US Professor Garside's timely book transcends the national preoccupation suggested by its title. From one viewpoint this is a case study (admittedly on a grand scale) of the experience of one country in one historical period. But in analyzing the dynamic relationship between Japan's post-war economic miracle and its chronic stagnation from the 1990's he offers a penetrating insight into the links between profound and embedded institutional and ideological influences, global upheaval, and almost disastrous national economic performance. Hence, Japan's Great Stagnation - the unfolding story of that country's declining experience from masterful economic power to seeming economic paralysis - provides us with an all-too familiar scenario with which to approach the contemporaneous ills of the world's developed economies. The interaction between banking crises, unwieldy institutions (especially, but not only, financial institutions), policy frailties, and stagnating demand - all conspired to create crisis and then handicap or prevent recovery. And the familiarity of the story is aggravated by the global financial crisis which now threatens to engulf us. History never fully repeats itself, but Professor Garside's illuminating examination of Japan's recent experiences must surely provide important points of relevance for the world's current malaise. He is to be congratulated on the depth and scope of what he has achieved - and for its relevance to what we are experiencing. --- Barry Supple, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Before Stagnation: Legacies of the High-growth Period 2. Catch-up Growth and Maturity: Developmentalism in Retrospect 3. Developmentalism as Ideology 4. Economic and Financial Policy in a Changing International Environment: The Origins and Course of the Bubble Economy 5. ‘Losing a Decade’: Economic and Financial Hubris in Recessionary Japan, 1990–97 6. Funding a Recovery: The Impact and Fate of Fiscal Policy, 1990–97 7. Banking Crises, Monetary Policy and Deflation, 1997–2000 8. Reform Without Salvation: Japan 1997–2000 9. Recession, Stagnation and the Labour Market: Continuity and Change in the 1990s 10. ‘Lost Decades?’ Japan’s Political Economy in the New Millennium Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Trade and Trust in the EighteenthCentury Atlantic
Book SynopsisShows how merchants sought to minimise losses by forging strong bonds of interpersonal trust amongst a range of employees, partners, and clients.Fruitfully combining approaches from economic history and the cultural history of commerce, this book examines the role of interpersonal trust in underpinning trade, amid the challenges and uncertainties of the eighteenth-centuryAtlantic. It focuses on the nature of mercantile activity in two parts of Spain: Cadiz in the south, and its trade with Spain's American empire; and Bilbao in the north, and its trade with western and northern Europe. In particular, it explores the processes of trade, trading networks and communications, seeking to understand merchant behaviour, especially the choices made by individuals when conducting business - and specifically with whom they chose to deal. Drawing from a broad range of Spanish, Peruvian and British archival sources, the book reveals merchants' experiences of trusting their agents and correspondents, and shows how different factors, from distance to legalframeworks and ethnicity, affected their ability to rely on their contacts. Xabier Lamikiz is Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of the Basque Country. .Trade Review[This] well-written and interesting book is a welcome addition to the growing sub-field of research that situates the history of the Atlantic world on the Atlantic Ocean itself. * JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES *A valuable addition to the field. * H-SOZ-U-KULT *This lucid study will interest all scholars of long-distance trade, the Atlantic world, early modern Spain, and Colonial Latin America. * EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY *A valuable addition to the field. * H-SOZ-U-KULT *This lucid study will interest all scholars of long-distance trade, the Atlantic world, early modern Spain, and Colonial Latin America. * EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY *This marvellous book brings theoretical rigour and insightful analysis to bear on an exceptional body of previously unknown primary-source material. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Sheds very welcome light on how Spaniards and foreign merchants in Spain traded with other markets. [...] It is both a very enjoyable and a very intelligent book. * JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES *[An] excellent book. [The] arguments are sophisticated, nuanced and well supported, and the clarity of their presentation makes them wholly accessible to all historians. This superb book is highly recommended. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *A major contribution not only to Atlantic history, but to colonial Latin American history in general. * COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Very well written, with a good index, an extensive bibliography, and several useful maps and tables. Anyone interested in the Early Modern period would profit from reading it. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY *Table of ContentsIntroduction Bilbao merchants Basque ship captains and seamen Trading with Peru Long distance communications Merchants and networks Confidentiality Risk and competition Conclusion Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Creating Capitalism
Book SynopsisThe growth of joint-stock business in Victorian Britain re-evaluated, showing in particular the resistance to it.Winner of the Economic History Society's Best First Monograph award 2009 The emergence of the joint-stock company in nineteenth-century Britain was a culture shock for many Victorians. Though the home of the industrialrevolution, the nation's economy was dominated by the private partnership, seen as the most efficient as well as the most ethical form of business organisation. The large, impersonal company and the rampant speculation it was thought to encourage were viewed with suspicion and downright hostility. This book argues that the existing historiography understates society's resistance to joint-stock enterprise; it employs an eclectic range of sources, fromnewspapers and parliamentary papers to cartoons, novels and plays, to unearth this forgotten economic debate. It explores how the legal system was gradually restructured to facilitate joint-stock enterprise, a process culminatingin the limited liability legislation of the mid-1850s. This has typically been interpreted as evidence for the emergence of new, positive attitudes to speculation and economic growth, but the book demonstrates how traditional outlooks continued to influence legislation, and the way in which economic reforms were driven by political agendas. It shows how debates on the economic culture of nineteenth-century Britain are strikingly relevant to current questions over the ethics of multinational corporations. James Taylor is Senior Lecturer in British History at Lancaster University.Trade ReviewA very interesting, well-argued, and well documented study of the rise of joint-stock enterprise that explores the political and cultural milieu within which legal reforms occurred. * NINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES *A splendid addition to the Royal Historical Society's series 'Studies in History', which is providing a valuable outlet for some of the best new post-doctoral research in Britain. [...] Anyone reading it cannot fail to be struck by its quality. It should enhance considerably [the author's] reputation as one of the finest historians in the country. * ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW *Makes an important contribution to our understanding of why joint-stock enterprise became such an established element within Britain in the mid-nineteenth century. * . *[A] well researched and well written book. EH.NET-Review * . *Taylor breaks with earlier historiography [and] develops his own explanation of events by the bold concept of invading the nineteenth-century imagination. This is achieved with aplomb, through a wise and convincing blend of sources conventionally used by business historians, along with more novel material, notably cultural and literary sources, peppered with a dozen pertinent cartoons reproduced in these pages. * ENTERPRISE AND SOCIETY, *Table of ContentsIntroduction Companies, character and competition The sins of speculation Change contained, 1800-1840 Reform or retrogression? Free incorporation, 1840-1862 Limited liability on trial: the commercial crisis of 1866
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Cornell University Press The Politics of Industrialization in Tsarist
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Cornell University Press Saint Paul Pacific Railroad
Book SynopsisBeginning in 1862 as a small carrier connecting St. Paul and Minneapolis with outlying towns, the Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad became the foundation of the vast rail system that would open the entire Northwest. As a pioneering line in virgin territory, it played a vital role in the early development of Minnesota''s economy. When railroad tycoon James J. Hill took over the troubled company in 1879, its tracks were extended into westward lines that eventually, as the Great Northern Railway, reached the Pacific Ocean. Written by leading railroad historian Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr. this finely researched book examines the growth of the fledgling Saint Paul & Pacific as it struggled to lay track, meet the schedule, and make the payroll. The railway''s leaders and workers took risks of injury and ruin during these years on the frontier, when everything except hardship was in short supply. Veenendaal devotes an entire chapter to the accidents and disasters that befell the neTrade Review"Fascinating.... Leading railroad historian Augustus J. Veenendaal examines one of America's most significant pioneer pikes. The Saint Paul & Pacific typifies early roads, especially those firms that threw rails ahead of major settlements."—H. Roger Grant, author of The North WesternTable of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Introduction 1. Early Minnesota 2. The First Railroads 3. The Minnesota & Pacific Railroad Company 4. The Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad Company 5. Finances 6. Dutch Interests in Minnesota 7. Traffic and Operations 8. Management and Staff 9. Accidents 10. Locomotives 11. Default and Reorganization 12. The Sale of the Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad Company 13. The Saint Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railroad Company Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Women and the Birth of Russian Capitalism
Book SynopsisBy the mid-1990s, shuttle trade - a practice in which individual peddlers travel abroad and then return with foreign merchandise in their suitcases for resale-constituted the backbone of Russian consumer trade and was a substantial source of revenue. This book assesses the reasons why women were attracted to this business.Trade ReviewThis book is a valuable work in the field and fills an existing scientific void on the subject.... The author artfully connects international and national contexts and assesses the links between an economic transformation and a social shift. The book is also a meaningful testimony of an important period of Russian history. * Europe-Asia Studies *This volume is an important addition to student reading lists on socioeconomic and political change of the 1980s and 1990s, and on gender studies. It is a most rewarding read. * The Russian Review *The book was thoroughly researched and well written and it would be of interest to historians as well as scholars interested in the economic and political transition, migration, and gender. * Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society *Mukhina provides a succinct, perceptive history that adds depth to a growing appreciation of how economic and political change can affect the lives of ordinary people-particularly Russian women-in the post-Soviet era. * Choice *
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Cornell University Press A Sarong for Clio
Book SynopsisA Sarong for Clio testifies to an ongoing intellectual dialogue between its ten contributors and Craig J. Reynolds, who inspired these essays. Conceived as a tribute to an innovative scholar, dedicated teacher, and generous colleague, it is this volume''s ambition to make a concerted intervention on Thai historiographyand Thai studies more generallyby pursuing in new directions ideas that figure prominently in Reynolds''s scholarship. The writings gathered here revolve around two prominent themes in Reynolds''s scholarship: the nexus of historiography and power, and Thai political and business culturesoften so intertwined as to be difficult to separate. The chapters examine different types of historical texts, Thai political discourse and political culture, and the media production of consumer culture.Contributors: Chris Baker; Patrick Jory, University of Queensland, Brisbane; Tamara Loos, Cornell University; Yoshinori Nishizaki, National University of Singapore; JamesTrade Review"A Sarong for Clio offers bold explorations into several critical areas of Thai studies. Its essays will certainly reshape our understanding of Thailand in the modern era. Audacious and uncompromising—and splendidly engrossing—it is a worthy tribute to Craig Reynolds, the scholar whose work it honors." -- Richard A. Ruth, U.S. Naval AcademyTable of ContentsIntroduction. On History, Thailand, and the Scholarship of Craig J. Reynolds by Maurizio PeleggiPart I. Historiography, Knowledge, and Power1. The Revolt of Khun Phaen: Contesting Power in Early Modern Siam by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit2. Fabrication, Stealth, and Copying of Historical Writings: The Historiographical Misconducts of Mr. Kulap of Siam by Thongchai Winichakul3. Renegade Royalist: Autobiography and Siam's Disavowed Prince Prisdang by Tamara Loos4. The Plot of Thai Art History: Buddhist Sculpture and the Myth of National Origins by Maurizio PeleggiPart II. Political and Business Culture5. Republicanism in Thai History by Patrick Jory6. Madness, Authoritarianism, and Political Participation: The Curious Case of Cham Jamratnet by James Ockey7. Big Is Good: The Banharn-Jaemsai Observatory Tower in Suphanburi by Yoshinori Nishizaki8. Marketing Business Knowledge and Consumer Culture before the Boom: The Case of Khoo Khaeng Magazine by Villa Vilaithong9. "Governance" in Thailand by Kasian TejapiraAppendix. Publications by Craig J. ReynoldsContributors
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Cornell University Press A Sarong for Clio
Book SynopsisConceived as a tribute to an innovative scholar, dedicated teacher, and generous colleague, it is this volume's ambition to make a concerted intervention on Thai historiography and Thai studies.Trade Review"A Sarong for Clio offers bold explorations into several critical areas of Thai studies. Its essays will certainly reshape our understanding of Thailand in the modern era. Audacious and uncompromising—and splendidly engrossing—it is a worthy tribute to Craig Reynolds, the scholar whose work it honors." -- Richard A. Ruth, U.S. Naval AcademyTable of ContentsIntroduction. On History, Thailand, and the Scholarship of Craig J. Reynolds by Maurizio PeleggiPart I. Historiography, Knowledge, and Power1. The Revolt of Khun Phaen: Contesting Power in Early Modern Siam by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit2. Fabrication, Stealth, and Copying of Historical Writings: The Historiographical Misconducts of Mr. Kulap of Siam by Thongchai Winichakul3. Renegade Royalist: Autobiography and Siam's Disavowed Prince Prisdang by Tamara Loos4. The Plot of Thai Art History: Buddhist Sculpture and the Myth of National Origins by Maurizio PeleggiPart II. Political and Business Culture5. Republicanism in Thai History by Patrick Jory6. Madness, Authoritarianism, and Political Participation: The Curious Case of Cham Jamratnet by James Ockey7. Big Is Good: The Banharn-Jaemsai Observatory Tower in Suphanburi by Yoshinori Nishizaki8. Marketing Business Knowledge and Consumer Culture before the Boom: The Case of Khoo Khaeng Magazine by Villa Vilaithong9. "Governance" in Thailand by Kasian TejapiraAppendix. Publications by Craig J. ReynoldsContributors
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East European Monographs HungarianRussian Economic Relations 19201941
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA well-written account of the development of economic relations between two countries that had emerged after the First World War from empires that did not survive that conflict... -- Carl H. McMillan, Carleton University The Russian Review
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The Peterson Institute for International Economics How Latin America Weathered the Global Financial
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Commerce and Society in Sung China
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London Record Society The Views of the Hosts of Alien Merchants
Book SynopsisEdition of the returns made by English merchants, recording the transactions of foreign traders.The "Views of Hosts" is the name given to the returns which merchant "hosts" in London, Southampton and Hull were required to provide for the Exchequer. They listed the imports and purchases made by their foreign merchant "guests", who came mostly from Italy, Spain and the Low Countries. The returns, printed here in full for the first time, provide details of the goods traded in and out of these ports, and also the names of the foreign merchants, and of the local men and women who bought their wares and sold English goods to them in return. The volume thus not only throws light on individual merchants and craftsmen living and working in these ports, but will also be of interest tothose concerned with the patterns and practices of English trade in the fifteenth century. The returns themselves are complemented with full apparatus and notes; introduction; biographies of more than 500 English people mentionedin the texts, as well almost 130 foreign merchants; and a glossary of commodities.Trade ReviewThe scholarship behind this volume is impressive. * SOUTHERN HISTORY *Dr Bradley has provided a full and accurate edition of an interesting set of documents and opened them to a range of historians who might want to trace people, goods, networks, prices, and medieval administrative practices. * THE RICARDIAN *Table of ContentsIntroduction Editorial Method The Views of Hosts Biographical Notes Glossary Index of People and Places
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Oxford Historical Society Oxford City Apprentices 15131602
Book SynopsisEdition of records of Oxford apprentices provides valuable evidence for historians.Oxford greatly expanded and flourished under the Tudors, as the reviving University provided a growing body of consumers and trade for shopkeepers and craftsmen. They needed apprentices - and in huge numbers, as the material inthis volume demonstrates. It calendars the enrolments of over two thousand apprenticeship contracts made during this period; they are a familiar source for social and economic history and genealogy, but the Oxford material, in both quantity and detail, is quite exceptional. Moreover, sixteenth-century enrolments are much fuller than their more familiar seventeenth-century successors, containing miscellaneous information of great interest, notably lists ofworking tools, details of journeymen's wages, and stipulations about apprentices' behaviour. The data is discussed in an Introduction which re-examines the apprenticeship system on the basis of the unusually plentiful statistics, throwing new light on such matters as length of service, payment of premiums, and the rates of career failure and success. Oxford recruited apprentices from an astonishingly wide area; their places of origin are identified and mapped, and an analysis of their social and geographical origins breaks new ground in the field of migration studies. More prosaically the calendar provides the genealogist and local historian with the names, parentage, and places of origin of thousands of young men from all over England and Wales - crucial raw material for much-needed further research.on the later movements of qualified apprentices. Alan Crossley is a member of the modern history faculty, University of Oxford.Trade ReviewApprenticeship records are important tools for social and economic historians, and the appearance of this new calendar of enrollments in Tudor Oxford is a welcome addition to previously published material. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *This volume is a testament to the meticulous work of the editor in translating, transcribing and analysing these documents [...] It also demonstrates the vital work of record societies in general in making more easily accessible a wide variety of historical records. * THE LOCAL HISTORIAN *For their use and future potential as a source for early modern urban history these calendars can be recommended to any student recommended in the subject. * FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Manuscripts Editorial Note Calendar of Oxford City Apprentices 1513-1602 Appendix [transcripts of four enrolments]
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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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Liverpool University Press Merchant Organization and Maritime Trade in the
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Liverpool University Press Merchants and Mariners Selected Maritime
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Liverpool University Press The Trade Makers Elder Dempster in West Africa
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Liverpool University Press Management Finance and Industrial Relations in
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Liverpool University Press The Exploited Seas New Directions for Marine
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Liverpool University Press The Globalisation of the Oceans Containerisation
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Liverpool University Press Registering Interest Waterfront Labour Relations
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Liverpool University Press New Directions in Mediterranean Maritime History
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Liverpool University Press The British Whaling Trade
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Liverpool University Press Scott Lithgow Dej225 Vu All Over Again The Rise
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Liverpool University Press Maritime Transport and Migration The Connections
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Liverpool University Press Policing the Seas AngloAmerican Relations and
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Liverpool University Press International Merchant Shipping in the Nineteent
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International Maritime Economic History Association Taiwanese DistantWater Fisheries in Southeast
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Liverpool University Press The Vital Spark
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Liverpool University Press Rough Waters American Involvement with the
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Liverpool University Press New Directions in Norwegian Maritime History
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Aristotles Economics
Book SynopsisAristotle’s Economics is a thoughtful and comprehensive account of Aristotle's intellectual system. Drawing upon all of his surviving writings, this book deftly illustrates how Aristotle considered economics to be just one of many topics which made up the social and political whole.Trade Review‘With a unique and astute approach, David Reisman shows that Aristotle espoused a political economy which promoted a middle ground between free markets and government control. In doing so, he weaves together the many strands of Aristotle's thinking, explores his kinship to a variety of theories of political economy and offers lessons for contemporary economics.’ -- Donald Stabile, St. Mary's College of Maryland, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction 2 A code of conduct 3 A science of society 4 Property 5 Exchange 6 Exchange gone wrong 7 Consumption 8 Nature in motion 9 The state 10 Intervention and reform 11 The constitution 12 Aristotle today References Index
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