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Cambridge University Press Global Capital Markets
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Cambridge University Press Americas Economic Way of War
Book SynopsisThis revealing book exposes the influence of economics and finance on America's decisions to go to war, how those wars were fought, and the long-term consequences for the economy. Ranging from the Spanish-American War to the Gulf War it shows the true cost of these wars for the US economy.Trade Review'Based on extensive research, Rockoff provides an excellent analysis of the economic, financial, and human costs of America's wars between 1898 and 1991. This is a major contribution to the study of twentieth-century US life and thought.' Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester'Economic historians often tiptoe around wars as if they were accidental or incidental. In reality, warfare has generally been economically formative as well as destructive. America's Economic Way of War is packed with important new insights into how America fought and paid for the wars of the twentieth century in blood and treasure, and how these wars changed America.' Mark Harrison, University of Warwick'Hugh Rockoff calmly demonstrates that America's wars have been far costlier in economic terms than we have been led to believe. He carefully compiles the true costs and exposes the methods our leaders have used to disguise those costs and hide them from us. This is an informative and thought-provoking book.' Richard Sylla, New York University'America's Economic Way of War is essential reading for those interested in the history of the United States, the functioning of wartime economies, and how wars (even when they are over) continue to shape our lives.' Journal of Economic HistoryTable of Contents1. A century of war; 2. The economics of war; 3. The Spanish-American War; 4. The Philippine-American War; 5. World War I; 6. World War II; 7. The Korean War; 8. The Cold War; 9. The Vietnam War; 10. The Persian Gulf War; 11. The American way of war.
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Cambridge University Press The Reluctant Economist
Book SynopsisThese revised essays analyze the revolution in the human condition that is sweeping the world. Easterlin asks if free markets are the key to human improvement, as today's policy-makers often assert. His responses employ a rich social science approach, blending economic theory, history, sociology, and psychology.Trade Review'Reluctant? Richard Easterlin brings to his work such a striking combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, ambition, precision, and skepticism that we might better call him the Thoughtful Economist. Here we witness him applying his unique synthesis of demography, social psychology, and economic analysis to a vast but well disciplined array of evidence concerning multiple times, places, and social phenomena.' Charles Tilly, Columbia University'In this important and thought-provoking set of essays, Richard A. Easterlin draws upon history, demography, and related social sciences to supplement economic analysis and to provide a rich explanation of major questions concerning the Industrial, Demographic, and Mortality Revolutions and the links among them. The range of ideas and information presented make this a most significant contribution to understanding economic and demographic developments in the past, present, and future.' Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester'This is a must read book for students of economic and demographic history. Richard Easterlin is one of the founders of the field and continues to be one of its most original thinkers. As he does in this book, he has always challenged accepted ways of thinking by both economists and historians.' Elizabeth Hoffman, President, University of Colorado'Dick Easterlin has been reluctant to conform to economists' disciplinary prejudice against learning from 'subjective' data on people's motives and intentions or from the knowledge patiently built up in disciplines like history and demography. The resulting breadth of curiosity and knowledge has helped him produce an extraordinary body of work. Whether assessing the impact of economic growth on human well-being, the influence of aspiration levels on family size, or the role of preferences in explaining occupational choice, Easterlin's analyses are, over and over again, refreshingly non-dogmatic, richly informed and insightful. Other economists should be so reluctant.' Michael McPherson, Spencer Foundation'In this collection of well-written essays, one of the deepest and most wide-ranging scholars working in historical social science today raises a number of the most important and relevant issues of our time. Easterlin asks all the right questions: why is the Western World so rich and other are not? How did we get this way? What is the relationship between longer lives and higher incomes? His answers are as informed as they are thought-provoking.' Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University'This volume confirms that Easterlin has one of the most probing, original minds in the social sciences today. He ranges widely over economics, demography, psychology, and political science to help the reader understand the nature and causes of the great social transformations of the past several centuries.' Samuel Preston, University of Pennsylvania'It is a magnificent book - a fitting tribute to the career of one of the most imaginative and important economists of his generation. Nobody does a better job showing how the insights provided by economics can be enhanced by reaching out to other social sciences. This book has much to interest not only economists but also sociologists, psychologists, demographers, historians and others. There is certainly nothing 'dismal' in Dick Easterlin's version of economic science!' Morton Owen Schapiro, President, Williams College'Easterlin (University of Southern California) explains that he's a 'reluctant' economist because he's learned from experience that economists often look upon other social sciences with contempt, an attitude that's prevented economists from adopting more useful theories and proposing more relevant policies. Instead he embraces the tradition of his mentor, the polymath Simon Kuznets, to bring economics, psychology, demography and history together. This collection of essays, all but two originally published between 1975 and 2000, includes many gems that are perfect for classroom use because of Easterlin's ability to pose important questions and address them using clear, insightful, yet simple theories in conjunction with easy-to-interpret quantitative measures. Highlights include the classic Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? (which focuses on knowledge and schooling); Easterlin's well-known theories about the causes and consequences of the baby boom; thoughts on the relationship between the industrial and mortality revolutions; and an argument that economic growth's merits have been vastly oversold. Critics will complain that the essays' coherence comes from oversimplification, that they refuse to ferret out marginal effects using standard econometric techniques, and that they overstate economists' unwillingness to listen to what people say.' Choice'This is a very enjoyable and stimulating collection of essays.' Population studiesTable of ContentsList of tables and figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Economics: 1. The reluctant economist; 2. Economics and the use of subjective testimony; 3. Is economic growth creating a new postmaterialistic society?; Part II. Economic History: 4. Why isn't the whole world developed?; 5. Kuznets cycles and modern economic growth; 6. Industrial revolution and mortality revolution: two of a kind?; 7. How beneficent is the market? A look at the modern history of mortality; Part III. Demography: 8. An economic framework for fertility analysis; 9. New perspectives on the demographic transition; 10. Does human fertility adjust to the environment? Population change and farm settlement in the northern United States; 11. America's baby boom and bust, 1940–80: causes and consequences; 12. Preferences and prices in choice of career: the switch to business; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Big End of Town Big Business and Corporate Leadership in TwentiethCentury Australia
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Cambridge University Press The Wealth of Ideas A History of Economic Thought
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Cambridge University Press The Japanese Consumer An Alternative Economic History of Modern Japan
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Cambridge University Press A Concise History of the New Deal
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Cambridge University Press An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe 10001500
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
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Cambridge University Press Empire and Globalisation Networks of People Goods and Capital in the British World c18501914
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Cambridge University Press From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe since 1973
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Cambridge University Press Japan Rising The Iwakura Embassy to the USA and Europe
Book SynopsisIn 1871 Japan sent a delegation to the USA and Europe. The report of this journey played a key role in Japan's transformation into an industrial nation. This abridgement makes the report accessible to a wider range of scholars and students, and those interested in the rise of modern Japan.Table of ContentsIntroduction Ian Nish; Volume I. The United States of America: Preface; 1. The voyage across the Pacific; 2. A survey of the United States of America; 3. A record of San Francisco, 1; 4. A record of San Francisco, 2; 5. The railroad journey in the state of California; 6. The railroad journey in the state of Nevada and Utah territory; 7. The Rocky Mountain railroad; 8. The Chicago railroad; 9. The railroad journey from Chicago to Washington, D.C.; 10. A survey of the District of Columbia; 11. A record of Washington, D.C., 1; 12. A record of Washington, D.C., 2; 13. A record of Washington, D.C., 3; 14. The journey through the northern states, 1; 15. The journey through the northern states, 2; 16. The journey through the northern states, 3; 17. A record of Washington, D.C.: epilogue; 18. A record of Philadelphia; 19. A record of New York City; 20. A record of Boston; Volume II. Britain: 21. A survey of Britain; 22. A survey of London; 23. A record of London, 1; 24. A record of London, 2; 25. A record of London, 3; 26. A record of Liverpool, 1; 27. A record of Liverpool, 2; 28. A record of Manchester, 1; 29. A record of Manchester, 2; 30. A record of Glasgow; 31. A record of Edinburgh; 32. A tour of the Highlands; 33. A record of Newcastle, 1; 34. A record of Newcastle, 2; 35. A record of Bradford; 36. A record of Sheffield; 37. A record of Staffordshire and Warwickshire; 38. A record of Birmingham; 39. A record of Cheshire; 40. A record of London, 4; Volume III. Continental Europe, 1: 41. A survey of France; 42. A record of Paris, 1; 43. A record of Paris, 2; 44. A record of Paris, 3; 45. A record of Paris, 4; 46. A record of Paris, 5; 47. A record of Paris, 6; 48. A record of Paris, 7; 49. A survey of Belgium; 50. A record of Belgium, 1; 51. A record of Belgium, 2; 52. A survey of Holland; 53. A record of The Hague, Rotterdam and Leiden; 54. A record of Amsterdam; 55. A survey of Prussia; 56. The journey by rail through western Prussia; 57. A survey of Berlin; 58. A record of Berlin, 1; 59. A record of Berlin, 2; 60. A record of Berlin, 3; with a supplement on Potsdam; Volume IV. Continental Europe, 2: 61. A survey of Russia; 62. A survey of Russian railways and St. Petersburg; 63. A record of St. Petersburg, 1; 64. A record of St. Petersburg, 2; 65. A record of St. Petersburg, 3; 66. A record of Northern Germany, first part; 67. A record of Denmark; 68. A record of Sweden, 1; 69. A record of Sweden, 2; 70. A record of northern Germany, second part, 1; 71. A record of northern Germany, second part, 2; 72. A record of southern Germany; 73. A survey of Italy; 74. A record of Florence; 75. A record of Rome, 1; 76. A record of Rome, 2; 77. A record of Naples; 78. A record of Lombardy and Venice; 79. A survey of Austria; 80. Travels by rail in Austria, and a survey of Vienna; 81. A record of Vienna; Volume V. Continental Europe, 3; and the Voyage Home: 82. The Vienna universal exposition, 1; 83. The Vienna universal exposition, 2; 84. A record of Switzerland; 85. Switzerland's mountain scenery; 86. A record of Berne and Geneva; 87. A record of Lyons and Marseilles; 88. Spain and Portugal; 89. Political practices and customs in Europe; 90. European geography and transportation; 91. The climate and agriculture of Europe; 92. European industry; 93. European commercial enterprise; 94. The voyage through the Mediterranean; 95. The voyage through the Red Sea; 96. The voyage through the Arabian Sea; 97. A record of the island of Ceylon; 98. The voyage through the Bay of Bengal; 99. The voyage through the China Sea; 100. A record of Hong Kong and Shanghai.
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Cambridge University Press Antitrust and Global Capitalism 19302004
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Cambridge University Press Commerce before Capitalism in Europe 13001600
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Cambridge University Press Creating the Nazi Marketplace Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich
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Cambridge University Press Energy and the English Industrial Revolution
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Cambridge University Press Invisible Hands Russian Experience and Social Science
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Cambridge University Press Banking Panics of the Gilded Age
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Cambridge University Press Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic 45 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 45
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Cambridge University Press Industrial Constructions The Sources of German Industrial Power Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences 9 Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series Number 9
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Cambridge University Press The Transformation of Edinburgh Land Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century
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Cambridge University Press The Early Modern Atlantic Economy
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Cambridge University Press British Petroleum and Global Oil 19501975 The Challenge of Nationalism History of British Petroleum
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Cambridge University Press A Population History of the United States
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Cambridge University Press Exceptionalism and Industrialisation Britain and Its European Rivals 16881815
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Cambridge University Press European Commercial Enterprise in PreColonial India
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Cambridge University Press The History of Family Business 18502000 47 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 47
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Cambridge University Press Globalization and the American Century
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Cambridge University Press The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death 17002100 Europe America and the Third World 38 Cambridge Studies in Population Economy and Society in Past Time Series Number 38
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Cambridge University Press The Democratization of Invention Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development 17901920 NBER Series on LongTerm Factors in Economic Development
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Cambridge University Press The Market the State and the ExportImport Bank of the United States 19342000
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Cambridge University Press Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England
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Cambridge University Press The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered
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Cambridge University Press Just Taxes
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Cambridge University Press Ordinary Prussians Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers 15001840 New Studies in European History
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Cambridge University Press Antitrust and Global Capitalism 19302004
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Cambridge University Press The Rise of Commercial Empires England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism 16501770 10 Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History Series Number 10
Book SynopsisIn early modern Europe, and particularly in the Netherlands, commercial empires were held together as much by cities as by unified nation states. David Ormrod here takes a regional economy as his preferred unit of analysis, the North Sea economy: an interlocking network of trades shaped by public and private interests, and the matrix within which Anglo-Dutch competition, borrowing and collaboration took shape. He shows how England's increasingly coherent mercantilist objectives undermined Dutch commercial hegemony, in ways which contributed to the restructuring of the North Sea staplemarket system. The commercial revolution has rightly been identified with product diversification and the expansion of long-distance trading, but the reorganization of England's nearby European trades was equally important, providing the foundation for eighteenth-century commercial growth and facilitating the expansion of the Atlantic economy. With the Anglo-Scottish union of 1707, the last piece of a natiTrade Review'… this book is a thought-provoking interpretation of the rise of the English/British commercial empire, placed firmly in the context of recent theories of economic development …' History'… a very detailed analysis …' Reviews in History'Ormrod has produced a very detailed analysis on the basis of years of scholarship; the British and Dutch economies have been compared time and again but never in as much depth as in this study.' Institute of Historical ResearchTable of ContentsList of maps and illustrations; List of figures; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. National economies and the history of the market; Part I. England, Holland and the Commercial Revolution: 2. Dutch trade hegemony and English competition, 1650–1700; 3. English commercial expansion and the Dutch staplemarket, 1700–1770; Part II. English Trade with the Dutch Staplemarket: 4. Rivalry, crisis and reorganisation in the woollen export trade; 5. Import substitution and European linen imports; 6. The Dutch staplemarket and the growth of English re-exports; 7. England, Holland and the international grain trade; 8. The coal trade and energy resources; Part III. Dutch Decline and English Expansion: 9. The shipping industry and the impact of war; 10. Protectionism and Dutch economic decline; 11. Conclusion. Commercial growth and the divergence of England; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press International Financial History in the Twentieth Century
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Cambridge University Press Finance Intermediaries and Economic Development
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Cambridge University Press A History of Japan 1582 1941
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