When money dies

the nightmare of the Weimar hyper-inflaction

When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation’s currency depreciates beyond recovery. In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic ...

Vicios y agravios de la contribución directa

Vicios y Agravios son dos textos representativos de una corriente de opinión especialmente crítica con el Decreto de 13 de Septiembre de 1813 sobre "Nuevo Planta de contribuciones", pero también reflejan el sentir de un amplio espectro de la sociedad aragonesa que percibió la contribución ...

An economic history of Europe

knowledge, institutions and growth, 600 to the present

This concise and accessible introduction to European economic history focusses on the interplay between the development of institutions and the generation and diffusion of knowledge-based technologies. The author challenges the view that European economic history before the Industrial Revolution was constrained by population growth outstripping ...

Modernidad, religión, democracia

crítica del eurocentrismo, crítica de los culturalismos

Sumario: Presentación. Introducción. I. Modernidad e interpretaciones religiosas: La modernidad. Modernidad e interpretaciones de las religiones. Materialismo histórico y marxismos históricos. II. Culturas tributarias centrales y periféricas: La formación de la ideología tributaria en el área euro-oriental. La cultura tributaria en las demás áreas culturales ...

En el alumbramiento de la estadística moderna

John Graunt

¿Cuándo comenzó el hombre a proceder con una lectura razonada y profunda de la información cuantificada? ¿En que instante histórico, una colección de datos dejó de ser una simple información numérica, para convertirse en un pozo casi inagotable de conclusiones y reflexiones sobre el colectivo ...

A history of the Federal Reserve.Vol.2

book 2, 1970-1986

Allan H. Meltzer's critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned the period from the institution's founding in ...

Rise of merchant banking

This is the first serious history of merchant banking, based on the archives of the leading houses and the records of their activities throughout the world. It combines scholarly insight with readability, and offers a totally new assessment of the origins of one of the ...

Making the market

victorian origins of corporate capitalism

Corporate capitalism was invented in nineteenth-century Britain; most of the market institutions that we take for granted today - limited companies, shares, stock markets, accountants, financial newspapers - were Victorian creations. So were the moral codes, the behavioural assumptions, the rules of thumb and the unspoken agreements ...

The silk road in world history

The Silk Road was the current name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads during the Han Dynasty ...

Catholic pirates and greek merchants

a maritime history of the mediterranean

A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans. "Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants" shifts attention to the Mediterranean, providing a major history of an ...

Lealtades firmes

redes de sostenibilidad de empresas: la "Carlos Casado S.A." entre la Argentina y el Chaco paraguayo (1860-1940)

La sociedad anónima Carlos Casado tuvo un rol fundamental en la victoria de Paraguay durante la cruenta guerra del Chaco que el país mantuvo contra Bolivia entre 1932 y 1935. El puerto en el que funcionaba la fábrica de tanino, Puerto Casado, fue la sede ...

Historia económica mundial

siglos X-XX

Eds., Francisco Comín, Mauro Hernández y Enrique Llopis. La investigación en historia económica ha cobrado en las últimas décadas tal auge que resulta difícil mantenerse al día de las nuevas investigaciones y enfoques. Si además se pretende no sólo examinar un arco de más de ...

Historia económica de España

siglos X-XX

Eds., Francisco Comín, Mauro Hernández y Enrique Llopis. Libro recomendado en la UNED. Una obra que combina la diversidad de los enfoques con una coordinación que los armoniza y que marcará, sin duda, una etapa en la historiografía española. Para realizar un proyecto tan ambicioso ...

Ensayo sobre el Congreso de Amiens (1801-1802) y su obra

contribución al estudio de los tratados ajustados por España con las principales naciones de Europa

Ed. Antonio Ortíz-Arce de la Fuente.INDICE: Estudio introductorio: el comercio y la extranjería en las relaciones de Espaañ con Gran Bretaña durante el largo Antiguo Régimen a través del Ensayo de Flores de Lemus y de la Memoeria de Hacienda al COngreso de Amiens ...

The invention of enterprise

entrepreneurship from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times

Edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr and William J. Baumol. 'There are other books on the history of entrepreneurship, but The Invention of Enterprise offers a substantial and fresh approach. These top-notch economic historians cover a vast geographic span and broad period of time ...

The relentless revolution

a history of capitalism

The unlikely development of a potent historical force, told with grace, insight, and authority by one of our best historians.

Manifiesto Utopía

Sí, otra forma de imaginar, de pensar y de hacer política es posible. Existen otras perspectivas que la resignación y la sumisión al modelo actual. Para Utopía no se trata tan sólo de hacer correcciones al margen del sistema capitalista que acentúa las desigualdades y ...

Beauty imagined

a history of the global beauty industry

The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estee Lauder, L'Oreal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book ...

Empire and globalisation

networks of people, goods, and capital in the british world, c.1850-1914

Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a new perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World through the ...

Jealousy of trade

international competition and the nation-state in historical perspective

This collection explores eighteenth-century theories of international market competition that continue to be relevant for the twenty-first century. 'Jealousy of Trade' refers to a particular conjunction between politics and the economy that emerged when success in international trade became a matter of the military and ...