La economía del Quijote

El dinero en la Sagrada Escritura

Constructing corporate America

history, politics, culture

This collection of cutting- edge research reviews the evolution of the American corporation, the dominant trends in the way it has been studied, and at the same time introduces some new perspectives on the historical trajectory of the business organization as a social institution. The ...

Understanding economic recovery in the 1930s

Endogenous propagation in the Great Depression

One of the watershed periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression was the defining event for at least one generation of world citizenry. Although much has been written about the almost four-year economic collapse that began in mid-1929, very little has been written about ...

The French economy in the Twentieth century

Is France still proving itself to be an exception to European economic development? Jean-Pierre Dormois surveys France's spectacular economic transformation over the past century. His general introduction to the major transformation of French society tackles the key themes associated with France, such as "Malthusianism ...

Poverty, progress and population

By the early nineteenth century England was very different economically from its continental neighbours. It was wealthier, growing more rapidly, more heavily urbanised, and far less dependent upon agriculture. A generation ago it was normal to attribute these differences to the #industrial revolution# and to ...

El país creado por Wall Street

la historia prohibida de Panamá y su Canal

La fuerza de Wall Street y el gobierno de Theodore Roosevelt, pusieron en marcha la construcción del canal de Panamá, y, pese a las objeciones planteadas por el Congreso de los Estados Unidos y la prensa, no se pudo parar. El autor pone de relieve ...

Quarter notes and banknotes

the economics of music composition in the eightenth and nineteenth centuries

In 1700, most composers were employees of noble courts or the church. But by the nineteenth century, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Verdi, and many others functioned as freelance artists teaching, performing, and selling their compositions in the private marketplace. While some believe that Mozart's career ...

Time in economic theory

No question has more intrigued the minds of scholars of economic thought throughout history than that of the nature and meaning of time. The articles in this insghtful collection attempt to privide satisfactory answers to fundamental issues on the use of time in economic theory ...

The strategy and consistency of Federal Reserve monetary policy, 1924- 1933

Today, most scholars agree that mismanaged monetary policy contributed to the length and severity of the Great Depression. There is little agreement, however, about the causes of the Federal Reserve's mistakes. Some argue that leadership and other organizational changes prior to the depression caused ...

Forbes greatest investing stories

A superb book on a subject of increasing consequence to rapidly growing numbers of Americans." #Steve Forbes, President, CEO, and Editor in Chief, Forbes Take the advice of some of the most successful investors Wall Street has ever seen and you will gain a lifetime ...

From airline reservations to sonic the hedgehog

a history of the software industry

From its first glimmerings in the 1950s, the software industry has evolved to become the fourth largest industrial sector of the US economy. Starting with a handful of software contractors who produced specialized programs for the few existing machines, the industry grew to include producers ...

Capitalism and modernity

the great debate

This important new book investigates how the West attained its current position of economic and social advantage. In an incisive historical analysis, Jack Goody examines when and why Europe (and Anglo-America) started to outstrip all other continents in socio-economic growth. Drawing on non-Western examples of ...

Life under pressure

mortality and living standards in Europe and Asia,1700-1900

This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia -- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the authors examine 100,000 life histories in 100 ...

The company of strangers

a natural history of economic life

Human beings are the only species in nature to have developed an elaborate division of labor between strangers. Even something as simple as buying a shirt depends on an astonishing web of interaction and organization that spans the world. But unlike that other uniquely human ...

The strictures of inheritance

the Dutch economy in the nineteenth century

A major feat of research and synthesis, this book presents the first comprehensive history of the Dutch economy in the nineteenth century--an important but poorly understood piece of European economic history. Based on a detailed reconstruction of extensive economic data, the authors account for demise ...

The nature of money

Mainstream economics fails to grasp the specific nature of money. It is seen either as a #neutral veil# over the operation of the #real# economy or alternatively as a #thing# # a special commodity. In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in ...

Growing public

social spending and economic growth since the eigteenth century.Vol.I.The story

Growing Public examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. Taxes and transfers have been debated for centuries, but only now can we get a clear view of the whole evolution of social spending. What kept prospering nations ...

Global capital markets

integration, crisis, and growth

This book presents an economic survey of international capital mobility from the late nineteenth century to the present. ÍNDICE: Part I. Preamble: 1. Global capital markets: overview and origins: 1.1 Theoretical benefits.1.2 Problems of supernational capital markets in practice.1.3 The ...

The political economy of Stalinism

evidence from the Soviet secret archives

This book uses the formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative command system. It concludes that the system failed not because of the 'jockey'(i.e. Stalin and later leaders) but because of the ...