Economic History

A Modern Guide to Financial Shocks and Crises

Edited by Giovanni Ferri, Vincenzo D’Apice

Offering a comprehensive guide to financial shocks and crises, this book explores their increasing occurrence in current market economies, as well as their power to wrench the macroeconomy. The book discusses three critical questions: wh...

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Paperback (June 2023)

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A Comparative History of Central Bank Behavior

John H. Wood

It is widely believed that central banks have grown (the Bank of England) or were established (the Federal Reserve) to pursue the twin objectives of monetary and price stability. But why should they? Central bankers are people, too, whos...

Hardback (2022)

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EU Industrial Policy in the Multipolar Economy

Edited by Jean-Christophe Defraigne, Jan Wouters, Edoardo Traversa, Dimitri Zurstrassen

This incisive book provides key interdisciplinary perspectives on the current challenges faced by EU policymakers in framing and implementing a coherent European industrial policy, employing specific case studies from the digital, automo...

Hardback (2022)

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Elusive Capital

François Gipouloux

Offering a fresh analysis of late imperial China, this cutting-edge book revisits the roles played by merchant networks, economic institutions, and business practices in the divergence between Europe and China during the trade revolution.

Hardback (2022)

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Neoliberalism and the Road to Inequality and Stagnation

Thomas I. Palley

Tom Palley has made a significant contribution to understanding the meaning and significance of neoliberalism. This chronicle collects some of his best work to explain how global adoption of neoliberal policies over the past thirty years...

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The Crisis of Risk

Scott M. Aquanno

For the last decade, progressive scholars determined to understand the 2008 financial crisis have examined the growth of US subprime mortgage debt in the period leading up to the collapse and how government policy supported this accumula...

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Fundamentals of Happiness

Lall Ramrattan, Michael Szenberg

Examining the fundamental thinking underpinning the foundation for economic studies of happiness, this book explores the theories of key economists and philosophers from the Greek philosophers to more modern schools of thought. Lall Ramr...

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Pandemic Economics

Peter A.G. van Bergeijk

Discussing the Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDs, SARS and Ebola against the background of Covid-19, Pandemic Economics demonstrates how scientists consistently warned the world about pandemics, and how, despite this, the possibility of global lockd...

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Evolution of the Corporation in the United States

Glen Atkinson, Eric R. Hake, Stephen P. Paschall

This insightful book traces the evolution of corporate power in the United States, from social control over corporate power under early state laws to the modern liberation of the corporation serving primarily private purposes. It illustr...

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Optimal Monetary Policy under Uncertainty, Second Edition

Richard T. Froyen, Alfred V. Guender

This book provides a thorough survey of the model-based literature on optimal monetary in a stochastic setting. The survey begins with the literature of the 1970s which focused on the information problem in policy design and extends to t...

Hardback (2019)

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Inequalities and the Progressive Era

Edited by Guillaume Vallet

Inequalities and the Progressive Era features contributors from all corners of the world, each exploring a different type of inequality during the ‘Progressive Era’ (1890s-1930s). Though this era is most associated with the United States...

Hardback (2020)

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