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Cambridge University Press Medieval Merchants York Beverley and Hull in the Later Middle Ages 38 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series Series Number 38
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Cambridge University Press From Slave Trade to Legitimate Commerce The Commercial Transition in NineteenthCentury West Africa Author Robin Law Aug2002
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Cambridge University Press The Rise of Capitalism on the Pampas
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Cambridge University Press Settlers and the Agrarian Question
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Cambridge University Press Salt of the Desert Sun
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Cambridge University Press Economic Life in Ottoman Jerusalem
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Cambridge University Press The Ottoman Empire and the WorldEconomy
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Cambridge University Press Recovery from the Depression
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Cambridge University Press Regulation and the Revolution in United States Farm Productivity
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Cambridge University Press Russian National Income 1885 1913
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Cambridge University Press Coffee in Colombia 18501970 An Economic Social And Political History 36 Cambridge Latin American Studies Series Number 36
Book SynopsisIn this book, Marco Palacios explores the history of Colombia as a coffee-producer, and the implications that coffee has had for its economy, society, and politics since the middle of the nineteenth century. He provides a history of the commercialization of the crop, and relates it to the general evolution of Colombian society, an evolution often determined by coffee even in areas remote from the crop itself. The book also covers the development of the specific institutions that have been set up to manage coffee affairs, and their role in the Colombian state. Since the last quarter of the nineteenth century coffee has been the mainstay of the Colombian economy, and no historian, economist, or sociologist interested in the country can escape its importance; nor can anyone interested in the commodity ignore Colombia. This is the first work on the subject to appear in English.Table of ContentsList of tables; List of figures; List of maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The Colombian export economy in the second half of the nineteenth century; 2. The making of an oligarchy; 3. Land and society in central Colombia in the second half of the nineteenth century; 4. The internal structure of the coffee haciendas, 1870–1930; 5. Living conditions and internal contradictions in the hacienda structure; 6. Inflation, devaluation, and export taxes, 1870–1904; 7. Crisis and transition towards the second cycle of expansion, 1903–10; 8. Private appropriation of public lands in the west; 9. Sociopolitical elements of antiogueño colonization; 10. Coffee expansion and the strengthening of the Liberal model of development, 1910–50; 11. The international cycle and coffee policies confronting the peasant, 1930–70; Appendices; Weights and measures; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Historical Studies in International Corporate Business
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Cambridge University Press Growing Public Volume 1 The Story
Book SynopsisGrowing Public examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. Lindert argues that, contrary to the intuition of many economists and the ideology of many politicians, social spending has contributed to, rather than inhibited, economic growth.Trade Review'… a monumental history of two centuries of social spending …' The Economist'… an important new book …' Robert J. Samuelson, Newsweek'Peter Lindert has written a dazzling book. He takes on one of the grand topics of economics - the rise of social spending-and offers us a remarkable combination of new data, historical insight, political analysis, and economic assessment. Amazingly, Lindert comes up with fresh, convincing, and important insights on issues that have been debated for decades. Two of Lindert's major conclusions are that the spread of democracy has historically played a pivotal role in the rise of social expenditures; and that social spending has not gravely weakened economic incentives and long-term economic growth, despite the drumbeat of criticisms from free-market devotees. Indeed Lindert concludes that 'the net national costs of social transfers, and of the taxes that finance them, are essentially zero'. This powerful book will be widely read and debated for many years to come.' Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University'What determines social spending, also known as public education, also known as social security, also known as taking from the rich and giving to the poor? This question is the subject of much theoretical and empirical speculation and some moderately detailed previous work. Yet this magnificent summa by Peter Lindert blows away the field. He probes the historical and comparative rise of social spending in today's OECD countries and derives many new insights into the classic themes of social spending and elite behavior, democracy, inequality, religion, and ethnic divisions. He draws out the implications of his careful analysis for the future of the Third World and First alike. A must-read for anyone interested in big government, political economy, helping the poor, or simply the fate of human societies.' William Easterly, New York University'Peter Lindert has given us a treatise on the economic and political forces driving social spending and of the effects of the welfare state that sweeps over time, over nations, and over disciplines. It is simultaneously comparative-political-economic history, demography, applied econometrics, political theory, and political economy. While few will agree with all of the often-surprising answers he gives to the most fundamental questions regarding the existence and the effects of public social welfare policies, no one will suggest that they are not bold and provocative. Growing Public is a most readable and insightful and, yes, irreverent volume that will be discussed by all concerned with these front-page issues.' Robert Haveman, John Bascom Emeritus Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison'What determines how much governments spend on health, welfare, education, and social security? What effect does this social spending have on economic growth? Peter Lindert gives new answers to these big questions, in a lucid and engagingly written book that ranges across the globe and from the eighteenth century up to the current day. His surprising finding is that social spending does not slow growth, at least in western democracies, and his gem of a book will be essential reading for historians, economists, political scientists, and modern-day policy makers.' Philip T. Hoffman, Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of History and Social Science, California Institute of Technology'Growing Public offers economic historians, policy analysts, development gurus, and the general public - all of whom have reason to be deeply concerned about the growth implications of fiscal policy - the most comprehensive historical and econometric examination of the essential value of public expenditures I have seen anywhere. His lens of inquiry encompasses everything from early modern European charitable activities to the apex of the late-twentieth-century welfare state, from the 'Old Poor Law' to the rise of public schooling, from old-age pensions in the west to social transfers in the developing world. By the conclusion of this tour, the reader is left with a clear view of a world in which public expenditures on human welfare not only do no harm to national growth trajectories, but one in which investment in the infrastructure of human capital formation is itself growth-enhancing. This core finding of Lindert's exhaustive research will appear radical, perhaps even heretical, to a generation trained in neo-classical economics, but he arrives at it by employing the best of the theory and methodology of that discipline. As such it will be hard to refute.' Anne E. C. McCants, Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology'Lindert puts forward a compelling case … his conclusions are often illuminating and controversial … Lindert has uncovered new and tougher areas of debate as much as he has helped deal a telling blow to others.' Transfer'These volumes are the output of a remarkably ambitious project by a senioe economic historian. … these volumes deserve to be very widely read. They provide a tremendous historical context for present policy debates and are full of usefully provocative claimes while also providing a wealth of detail on the evolution of social spending.' Journal of Economic InequalityTable of ContentsPart I. Overview: 1. Patterns and puzzles; 2. Findings; Part II. The Rise of Social Spending: 3. Poor relief before 1880; 4. Interpreting the patterns of early poor relief; 5. The rise of mass public schooling before 1914; 6. Public schooling in the twentieth century: what happened to American leadership?; 7. Explaining the rise of social transfers since 1880; Part III. Prospects for Social Transfers: 8. The public pension crisis; 9. Social transfers in the second and third worlds; Part IV. What Effects on Economic Growth?: 10. Keys to the free-lunch puzzle; 11. On the well-known demise of the Swedish Welfare State; 12. How the keys were made: democracy and cost control.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Japan 15821941
Book SynopsisThis 2003 book offers a distinctive and penetrating overview of the internal and external forces responsible for the making of modern Japan. Louis Cullen takes an unusually broad approach that combines economic, social, and political approaches and which breaks with traditional Western historiography to provide an entirely new history of Japan.Trade Review'The book reads like a piece of scholarly work from an earlier and more careful time, when historiography was the result of careful research and distilled knowledge by an author dedicated to the craft … Wonderfully fluid telling of a key historical era …' David McNeill, Irish Times'… a thought-provoking book, providing interesting information and interpretation …'. Reviews in HistoryTable of Contents1. Introduction: Japan's internal and external worlds, 1582–1941; 2. Japan and its Chinese and European worlds, 1582–1689; 3. The Japanese economy, 1688–1789; 4. An age of stability: Japan's internal world in perspective, 1709–83; 5. Prosperity amid crises, 1789–1853; 6. Sakoku under pressure: the gaiatsu of the 1850s and 1860s; 7. Fashioning a state and a foreign policy, 1868–1919; 8. From peace to war, 1919–41.
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Cambridge University Press Poverty Progress and Population
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Cambridge University Press British Business in Asia since 1860
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Cambridge University Press The Survival of Empire
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Cambridge University Press Innovation as a Social Process
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Cambridge University Press AngloChinese Encounters since 1800 War Trade Science and Governance
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Cambridge University Press Treasure of the Land of Darkness The Fur Trade and Its Significance for Medieval Russia
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Cambridge University Press Central and Eastern Europe 19441993 Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History Series Number 1
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Cambridge University Press The Economic Development of Japan 18681941 2 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 2
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Cambridge University Press British Economic Performance 19451975 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press Explaining LongTerm Economic Change 10 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 10
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Cambridge University Press Banks and Industrial Finance in Britain 18001939
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Cambridge University Press Education Economic Change and Society in England 17801870
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Cambridge University Press The Development of the French Economy 17501914
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Cambridge University Press The Rise and Rise of Road Transport 17001990 21 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 21
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Cambridge University Press The Spanish Economy
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Cambridge University Press The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry 24 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 24
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Cambridge University Press Agriculture in Depression 18701940 26 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 26
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Cambridge University Press The Nazi Economic Recovery 19321938 27 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 27
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Economic History of the United States Volume 2
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Economic History of the United States
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Cambridge University Press After the Famine
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Cambridge University Press A History of Corporate Finance
A History of Corporate Finance by Jonathan Barron Baskin
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Cambridge University Press The Nazi Economic Recovery 2ed 27 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 27
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Cambridge University Press Agriculture in Depression 18701940 26 New Studies in Economic and Social History
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Cambridge University Press Rise Decline British Motor Ind 24 New Studies in Economic and Social History
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Cambridge University Press The Growth of Big Business in the United States and Western Europe 18501939 23 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 23
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Cambridge University Press The Rise and Rise of Road Transport 17001990 21 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 21
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Cambridge University Press The Development of the French Economy 17501914 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 17
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Cambridge University Press Explaining LongTerm Economic Change 10 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 10
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Cambridge University Press The Economic Development of Japan 18681941 2 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 2
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Cambridge University Press Escape from the Market
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Cambridge University Press Gas Pipelines and the Emergence of Americas Regulatory State
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Cambridge University Press Understanding Decline
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