Economic History
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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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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China’s Long-Term Economic Development
Hongjun Zhao
This book examines the evolution of Chinese governmental governance and its long-lasting impact on Chinese economic development, firstly by examining the formation of Chinese style governance, the core contents of this governance and its...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Debt Default and Democracy
Edited by Giuseppe Eusepi, Richard E. Wagner
The original chapters in this book connect the microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches to public debt. Through their thought-provoking views, leading scholars offer insights into the incentives that individuals and governments may hav...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Value of Applied Economics
Kenneth Button
This biography of the applied English economist Arthur (A.J.) Brown, an English economist from the late 1930s to the 1980s, sets his work in the context of the Great Depression, the emergence of Oxford University as a centre of applied e...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Public Debt
Giuseppe Eusepi, Richard E. Wagner
Over the past decades, economists have witnessed with growing uneasiness their failure to explain the ballooning of public debt in most countries. This book provides an alternative orientation that explains why concepts of public debt th...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A History of American State and Local Economic Development
Ronald W. Coan
A History of American State and Local Economic Development relates the history of American local and state economic development from 1790 to 2000. This multi-variable, multi-disciplinary history employs a bottom-up policy-making systems ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Financial Crises, 1929 to the Present, Second Edition
Sara Hsu
This fascinating volume offers a comprehensive synthesis of the events, causes and outcomes of the major financial crises from 1929 to the present day. Beginning with an overview of the global financial system, Sara Hsu presents both the...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Political Economy of Public Debt
Richard M. Salsman
How have the most influential political economists of the past three centuries theorized about sovereign borrowing and shaped its now widespread use? That important question receives a comprehensive answer in this original work, featurin...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Distribution of Wealth – Growing Inequality?
Michael Schneider, Mike Pottenger, J. E. King
This book is about the distribution of wealth among people, described by statisticians as the size distribution of wealth, and the way that this distribution has changed over time. It provides answers to a host of important questions inc...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sweden and the Revival of the Capitalist Welfare State
Andreas Bergh
This book tackles a number of controversial questions regarding Sweden’s economic and political development: • How did Sweden become rich? • How did Sweden become egalitarian? • Why has Sweden since the early 1990s grown fast...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Law and Economics from an Evolutionary Perspective
Glen Atkinson, Stephen P. Paschall
Law and economics are interdependent. Using a historical case analysis approach, this book demonstrates how the legal process relates to and is affected by economic circumstances. Glen Atkinson and Stephen P. Paschall examine this co-evo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic and Natural Disasters since 1900
John Singleton
In the wake of the global financial and Eurozone upheavals this timely book argues that the disaster cycle – a framework normally used in the context of natural disasters – is equally applicable to the analysis of other types of catastro...eBook:Find out more$40.00