Historia y proyecto social

Jornadas de debate del Institut Universitari d'Història Jaume Vicens Vives

La obra reúne los estudios de Ramón Villares (Universidad de Salamanca), Francisco Comín (Universidad de Alcalá), Antonio Miguel Bernal (Universidad de Sevilla), Pedro Ruiz Torres (Universidad de Zaragoza) y Ramón López Facal (de Santiago de Compostela) que sirven de homenaje a la trayectoria del maestro ...

Money and the early greek mind

homer, philosophy, tragedy

How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage which produced the ...

The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain

.v.1.Industrialization, 1700-1860

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around ...

The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain

.v.2.Economic maturity, 1860-1939

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around ...

The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain

.v.3.Structural change and growth, 1939-2000

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around ...

Markets in historical contexts

ideas and politics in the modern world

Markets in Historical Contexts is the result of a dialogue between historians and social scientists thinking about markets in modern society. How should we approach markets after the collapse of Marxism? What alternative ways of thinking about markets can we recover from the past? The ...

La fábrica de la estrategia

33 lecciones sobre Lenin

A principios del siglo XX, Lenin intervino en una coyuntura similar a la actual, cuando el capitalismo global conocía su primera gran crisis mundial pivotada en torno a la primera guerra imperialista, la composición de clase de la fuerza de trabajo rusa estaba experimentando una ...

Edward Said y la historiografía

El trabajo de Edward Said ha contribuido de manera sustancial a los debates contemporáneos sobre orientalismo, análisis del discurso, políticas disidentes y poscolonialismo. Nacido en Palestina, Said pasó gran parte de su vida en el exilio, por lo que conoce en profundidad la influencia que ...

Storia del sistema bancario italiano

Questo volume è il primo tentativo di tracciare una storia complessiva del sistema creditizio italiano dall#Unità a oggi. Sono analizzati, insieme alla funzione del credito nell#economia reale e al suo ruolo costitutivo nei processi di sviluppo, i mutamenti istituzionali e operativi del sistema ...

Empresarios españoles en el proceso de independencia norteamericana

la Casa Gardoqui e hijos de Bilbao

El hilo conductor de ésta obra es la contribución de España al largo y costoso proceso de independencia de los Estados Unidos de América, materia poco conocida y cuyas fuentes han permanecido durantes éstos dos largos siglos prácticamente ignotas y vírgenes. La comprensión de los ...

The first crash

lessons from the south sea bubble

For nearly three centuries the spectacular rise and fall of the South Sea Company has gripped the public imagination as the most graphic warning to investors of the dangers of unbridled speculation. Yet history repeats itself and the same elemental forces that drove up the ...

Campomanes y su obra económica

Este libro es fruto del seminario propuesto por el Instituto de Estudios Fiscales y la Fundación Sepi, dedicado a la figura de Campomanes en el bicentenario de su muerte. La justificación de dicho seminario era sobrada, dada la enorme importancia de este personaje y la ...

Technology and human capital in historical perspective

One theme of this volume is whether the complementarity between technology and human capital is a recent phenomenon, or whether it can be traced through history. Different approaches to human capital as well as technology are applied, and besides historical surveys are total factor productivity ...

España contemporánea

Esta España contemporánea de Richard Herr es ya un ensayo clásico y constituye una síntesis ideal para aquellos que desean acercarse a la historia española de los dos últimos siglos. Cuando se concibió, en pleno franquismo, la Guerra Civil era todavía un tema de actualidad ...

The making of global finance 1880-1913

This book traces the roots of global financial integration in the first "modern" era of globalization, from 1880 to 1913. It analyzes the direction, destinations, and origins of international financial flows in order to determine the domestic policy choices that either attracted or deterred such ...

Deflaction

current and historical perspectives

Until recently fears of deflation seemed nothing more than a relic of the Great Depression. However, beginning in the 1990s, persistently falling consumer prices have emerged in Japan, China and elsewhere. Deflation is also a distinct possibility in some of the major euro area economies ...

English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit

1850-1980

England was the world#s first great industrial nation. Yet the English have never been comfortable with industrialism. Drawing upon a wide array of sources, Martin Wiener explores the English ambivalence to modern industrial society. His work reveals a pervasive middle- and upper-class frame of ...

From buildings and loans to bailt-outs

a history of the american savings and loan industry, 1831-1995

For most Americans, the savings and loan industry is defined by the fraud, ineptitude, and failures of the 1980s. These events, however, overshadow a long history in which thrifts played a key role in helping thousands of households buy homes. First appearing in the 1830s ...

Monetary policy implementation

theory-past-present

The first of its kind, this book is entirely dedicated to the implementation of monetary policy: how central banks go about achieving their monetary policy targets. Monetary policy implementation has gone through tremendous changes over the last twenty years, which have witnessed the quiet end ...

Negocio y servicio

finanzas públicas y hombres de negocios en Navarra en la primera mitad del siglo XVIII

Ofrece un exhaustivo análisis de la intervención del capital y de los recursos privados en la financiación y gestión de la hacienda pública navarra en un período de transición marcado por los intentos reformistas de los primeros Borbones. El estudio sistemático tanto de las diferentes ...