Le antiche leggi del commercio

produzione, scambi, regole

Tradizionalmente la nascita del diritto commerciale è collocata nel basso Medioevo, nel contesto di quei centri urbani che dopo l’anno 1000 cominciano a fiorire in Italia e in Europa. Come se l’antichità non avesse espresso alcun sistema di regole dell’economia degno di ...

Securing the world economy

the reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920-1946

Securing the World Economy explains how efforts to support global capitalism became a core objective of the League of Nations. Based on new research drawn together from archives on three continents, it explores how the world's first ever inter-governmental organization confronted the powerful forces ...

These United States

a nation in the making 1890 to the present

Acclaimed historians Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Thomas J. Sugrue forge the panoramic and the personal into an authoritative narrative history of America in the twentieth century. They give us insightful accounts of the century's large events-war, prosperity and depression, astute leadership and arrogant power ...

The war on alcohol

prohibition and the rise of the american state

Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers and speakeasies. Now Lisa McGirr dismantles this myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government ...

Dinero, lenguaje y pensamiento

la economía literaria y la filosófica, desde la Edad Media hasta la Época Moderna

Reflexiones en torno a los distintos significados y niveles estimativos que se le han dado al dinero a lo largo de la historia en la literatura. Se analizan sus implicaciones técnicas, simbólicas, filosóficas, materiales y políticas, todas ellas en interacción permanente.

A concise economic history of the world

from Paleolithic times to the present

A Concise Economic History of the World offers a broad sweep of economic history from prehistoric times to the present. Comprehensive and now even more global in scope, the fifth edition examines the ongoing effects of globalization on both past civilizations and our current global ...

El Imperio del Banano

las compañías bananeras contra la soberanía de las Naciones del Caribe

Dos tipos de sangre corren por este libro: la estadística, del investigador Charles Kepner, y la experiencia, de Jay Henry Soothill, quien fuera superintendente y testigo de la empresa más poderosa de transporte y producción de fruta en Centroamérica durante la primera mitad del siglo ...

Crash!

how the economic boom and bust of the 1920s worked

Speculation - an economic reality for centuries-is a hallmark of the modern US economy. But how does speculation work? Is it really caused, as some insist, by popular delusions and the madness of crowds, or do failed regulations play a greater part? And why is it ...

Ricos

de la esclavitud a los superyates. Dos mil años de historia

Solo un pequeño grupo llegará arriba, por medios justos o turbios. Y deberán agradecérselo a gobiernos dóciles, parlamentos reguladores y bancos centrales, como siempre han hecho. Pues la victoria de los superricos en el siglo XXI es un producto de dos mil años de historia ...

Sociedades comparadas

un pequeño libro sobre grandes temas

Jared Diamond comenzó su carrera académica como naturalista: observaba a los pájaros y deducía reglas de su comportamiento. Cuando cambió de foco y empezó a estudiar organismos complejos como las sociedades humanas, no cambió de método, y en este breve libro explica cuánto se puede ...

El Estado absolutista

La naturaleza política del absolutismo ha sido tema de frecuente controversia histórica. Prosiguiendo el análisis iniciado en Transiciones de la Antigüedad al feudalismo, Anderson sitúa a los estados absolutistas de comienzos de la Edad Moderna sobre el telón de fondo del anterior feudalismo europeo y ...

The city

a world history

The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to ...

Indalecio Prieto, ministro de Hacienda

INDICE: Capítulo I. Biografía política de Indalecio Prieto Capítulo II. Indalecio Prieto como gestor de la economía Española Capítulo III. Notas para la historia de una gestión: Prieto en Hacienda (abril-diciembre 1931) Ilustraciones Caricturas Documentos Capítulo IV. El ministro antes las Cortes. Discursos parlamentarios

The making of the ancient greek economy

institutions, markets, and growth in the city-states

This comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy revolutionizes our understanding of the subject and its possibilities. Alain Bresson is one of the world's leading authorities in the field, and he is helping to redefine it. Here he combines a thorough knowledge of ancient ...

Avaricia

los documentos que revelan las fortunas, los escándalos y secretos del Vaticano de Francisco

Los documentos que revelan las fortunas, los escándalos y secretos del Vaticano. Que en el Vaticano anida el vicio de la avaricia es algo que se ha denunciado con bastante frecuencia, desde Dante hasta las páginas de los periódicos de nuestros días, pero casi siempre ...

El legado de Gonzalo Anes (1931-2014)

alumnos y discípulos

INDICE: Gonzalo Anes: Cuatro rasgos. Semblanza de Gonzalo Anes: Trayectoria académica, labor investigadora y magisterio intelectual. Agricultura y Mesta, crisis agrarias y crisis demográficas: Los discípulos segovianos de Gonzalo Anes. El joven Gonzalo (1952/1967). Mi aprendizaje de investigador con Gonzalo Anes. Verdugos y pregoneros ...

Fiscal regimes and the political economy of premodern states

Inspired by the New Fiscal History, this book represents the first global survey of taxation in the premodern world. What emerges is a rich variety of institutions, including experiments with sophisticated instruments such as sovereign debt and fiduciary money, challenging the notion of a typical ...

The morality of money

an exploration un analytic philosophy

The morality of sex, violence and money is at the centre of much human life, but while the first two have been subject to intensive historical and philosophical investigation, the latter, until now, has largely been neglected. This book remedies that neglect. - Does everything have ...

Lehman Brothers

a crisis of value

Using extensive documentary evidence and interviews with former Lehman employees, Oonagh McDonald reveals the decisions that led to Lehman's collapse, investigates why the government refused a bail-out and whether the implications of this refusal were fully understood. In clear and accessible language she demonstrates ...

Crises in economic and social history

a comparative perspective

This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, applicable across (amongst others) the histories of agriculture, disease, finance and trade. Yet there has been little attempt ...