The origins of globalization

world trade in the making of the global economy, 1500-1800

For better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this process of globalization begin, and what effects did it have on economies and societies? Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden ...

The Lion's share

inequality and the rise of the fiscal state in Preindustrial Europe

This is the most in-depth analysis of inequality and social polarization ever attempted for a preindustrial society. Using data from the archives of the Venetian Terraferma, and compared with information available for elsewhere in Europe, Guido Alfani and Matteo Di Tullio demonstrate that the rise ...

Francesc Moragas i Barret

el fundador de 'la Caixa'

La figura de Francesc Moragas i Barret es una de las más destacadas de la historia económica del siglo XX catalán. Fue un hombre afortunado, ya que en vida vio realizado su sueño: la caja de Pensiones para la Vejez y de Ahorros, que desde ...

Breve historia de la Economía

Breve Historia de la Economía ofrece un recorrido amplio por el desarrollo de la vida económica, desde las rudimentarias herramientas prehistóricas a la Globalización actual, pasando por la revolución neolítica, el origen del Estado, la propiedad privada, el tributo y la división del trabajo, del ...

La expansión comercial del siglo XVIII: Europa, España y América

el protagonismo de Cádiz

El libro que tienes entre las manos, lector, es el resultado de la colaboración de varios especialistas españoles y extranjeros de diversas universidades. Su objetivo es analizar la expansión comercial experimentada por Europa en el siglo xviii en el espacio americano y sus efectos en ...

A thirst for empire

how tea shaped the Modern World

How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerism Tea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about ...

Coal

By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age—and it still does. Coal today generates more electricity worldwide than any other energy source, helping drive economic growth in major emerging markets. And yet continued reliance on ...

Empires of the weak

the real story of european expansion and the creation of the New World order

How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world order What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and ...

Behemoth

a history of the factory and the making of the modern world

Factories, with their ingenious machinery and miraculous productivity, are celebrated as modern wonders of the world. Yet from William Blake's "dark Satanic mills" they have also fuelled our fears of the future. Telling the story of the factory, Joshua B. Freeman takes readers from ...

The promise and peril of credit

what a forgotten legend about jews and finance tells us about the making of european commercial society

How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalism The Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the Westâ_Ts centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the ...

La evolución del Banco de España como Banco Central (1782-1914)

una aproximación de historia comparada

El Banco de España es una de las instituciones económicas españolas más veteranas, sólo por detrás del Tesoro Público, y el tercer banco emisor más antiguo del mundo entre los hoy existentes, después del Banco de Suecia, creado en 1688, y del Banco de Inglaterra ...

En la periferia del centro

la hacienda de la Generalitat valenciana durante el siglo XVI

Durante el siglo XIV, las estructuras políticas, fiscales y financieras de los estados que formaban la Corona de Aragón sufrieron una profunda transformación. Como consecuencia de esta, surgieron las diputaciones del General, llamadas más tarde en Valencia y Cataluña Generalitat. Este libro pretende explicar, por ...

Humanomics

moral sentiments and the wealth of nations for the Twenty-First Century

While neo-classical analysis works well for studying impersonal exchange in markets, it fails to explain why people conduct themselves the way they do in their personal relationships with family, neighbors, and friends. In Humanomics, Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon L. Smith and his long-time co-author Bart ...

The european guilds

an economic analysis

Guilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy. They were sometimes viewed as efficient institutions that guaranteed quality and skills. But they also excluded competitors, manipulated markets, and blocked innovations. Did the ...

Soros

rompiendo España

La tarde del 5 de abril de 2018 los autores de este libro hacían llegar a la UDEF y al juez Pablo Llarena el resultado de una investigación que evidenciaba las conexiones de George Soros con el proceso separatista catalán. Dos meses después, la Policía ...

The story of silver

how the white metal shaped America and the Modern World

How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D ...

How America became capitalist

imperial expansion and the Conquest of the West

Has America always been capitalist? Today, the US sees itself as the heartland of the international capitalist system, its society and politics intertwined deeply with its economic system. This book looks at the history of North America from the founding of the colonies to debunk ...

The bookshop of the world

making and trading books in the Dutch Golden Age

The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the ...

Agua y servicios públicos en España y México

Los trabajos incluidos hacen referencia a experiencias concretas desarrolladas en España y México. Son resultado de Proyectos de Investigación y comunicaciones presentadas en congresos nacionales e internacionales. Desde una perspectiva histórica, económica y social, se realiza un acercamiento al complejo mundo de los servicios públicos ...

Americana

a 400-year history of american capitalism

From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a four-hundred-year journey of this spirit of innovation and ...