A history of global consumption

1500-1800

In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 - 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using a combination of chronological and thematic discussion, taking a comprehensive and wide-reaching view of a subject that has long been on the historical ...

La economía española en perspectiva histórica

siglos XVIII - XXI

Esta obra ofrece al lector una interpretación de la historia de la economía española en la época contemporánea, con la pretensión de que sirva de introducción al análisis de la situación actual y de apoyo para efectuar previsiones acerca de su desarrollo en el porvenir ...

A country merchant, 1495-1520

trading and farming at the end of the Middle Ages

Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a turning point. After a long period of slow change and even stagnation, an age of innovation and initiative was in motion, with enclosure, voyages of discovery, and new technologies. It was an age of fierce ...

Emilio Botín y el Banco Santander

historia de una ambición

El Banco Santander es hoy el primer banco español y de la zona euro, y está por derecho propio entre los diez más grandes del mundo. ¿Cuál fue el proceso que le llevó de ser un modesto banco fundado por un puñado de comerciantes en ...

¿Por qué manda occidente... por ahora?

las pautas del pasado y lo que revelan sobre nuestro futuro

Occidente desencadenó en su revolución industrial la impresionante energía del vapor y el carbón y, al hacerlo, cambió el mundo para siempre. Fábricas, ferrocarriles y barcos de guerra provocaron que Occidente se hiciera con el poder en el siglo xix y el desarrollo de los ...

East Indies

the 200 year struggle between Portugual, the Dutch East India Co and the English East India Co for Supremacy in the Eastern Seas

In 1497, Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and the Portuguese became the first Europeans to sail the Eastern Seas in search of spices, silks, gold, silver, porcelains, and other oriental goods. Over the next 100 years, the Portuguese spread their trading ...

A short history of economic thought

This book, now in its third edition, provides an elementary introduction to the history of economic thought. A chapter is devoted to each of the major developments in the history of the discipline, before a concluding chapter in which the authors draw together some of ...

Banking in crisis

the rise and fall of british banking stability, 1800 to the present

Can the lessons of the past help us to prevent another banking collapse in the future? This is the first book to tell the story of the rise and fall of British banking stability over the past two centuries, shedding new light on why banking ...

The first knowledge economy

human capital and the european economy, 1750-1850

Ever since the Industrial Revolution debate has raged about the sources of the new, sustained western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge in Europe's economic transformation during the period from 1750 to 1850, first in Britain and then ...

The foundations of worldwide economic integration

power, institutions, and global markets, 1850-1930

The essays in this volume discuss worldwide economic integration between 1850 and 1930, challenging the popular description of the period after 1918 as one of mere deglobalisation. The authors argue that markets were not only places of material exchange, but also socially structured entities, shaped ...

Financial innovation, regulation and crises in History

With present concerns over the regulation of the banking industry continuing to make headlines, an examination of the historiography of financial crises is timely. With contributions from world-renowned figures such as Niall Ferguson, Adair Turner and William R White, this volume investigates how financial institutions ...

Between monopoly and free trade

the English East India Company, 1600-1757

The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue ...

From Empire to Imperialism

the State and the rise of bourgeois civilisation

Translated from the original Russian, this book analyzes the economic development of leading European empires and the United States of America. The author exposes the myths of the spontaneous emergence of the market economy and the role of government as a disincentive towards private initiative ...

Keynes and his contemporaries

tradition and enterprise in the Cambridge School of Economics

This book examines how the Cambridge School economists, such as J. M. Keynes, constructed revolutionary theories and advocated drastic policies based on their ideals for social organizations and their personal characteristics. Although vast numbers of studies on Marshall, Keynes, and Marshallians have been published, there ...

Reality and accounting

ontological explorations in the economic and social sciences

This book discusses and summarizes the revived interest in reality issues (ontology) within accounting, economics, and the information sciences, with a view to informing scholars from these different disciplines about each other's endeavours in ontological research. Even more importantly, the book aims at familiarizing ...

The paretian tradition during the interwar period

from dynamics to growth

The years in-between the two World Wars were a crucial period for the building of economic dynamics as an autonomous field. Different competing research programs arose at international level. Great progress was achieved by studies on the business cycle, with the first statistical applications. Outside ...

Historia de Florencia

Tres son las principales características de esta obra: la búsqueda del equilibrio entre las diferentes épocas de realce histórico de la ciudad, la presencia del hecho cultural, en contrapunto con la continuidad histórica, y el proceso intelectual.Así podemos acercarnos al conocimiento de uno de ...

The moral economy

poverty, credit, and trust in Early Modern Europe

The Moral Economy examines the nexus of poverty, credit, and trust in early modern Europe. It starts with an examination of poverty, the need for credit, and the lending practices of different social groups. It then reconstructs the battles between the Churches and the State ...

Lecciones breves de una crisis económica

2007-2014

El más destacado de los economistas keynesianos españoles dejó escrito: «Si las ideas de Keynes alimentaron alguna vez la ilusión de que habíamos encontrado el camino para lograr una regulación cada vez más precisa y certera de las economías, hemos vivido el fin de aquella ...

Historia general aduanera de España

Edades Antigua y Media

Este Libro constituye una Historia General Aduanera de España. Es estudio global que se extiende desde el nacimiento de las formas de escritura hasta los albores de la Edad Moderna. Destaca por dos aspectos. En primer lugar, la contemplación conjunta de un fenómeno tan complejo ...