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An economic history of Sweden
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ISBN: 0415181674 0415407036 9786610318971 0203451155 1134675968 128031897X 020326522X 0429232209 9780203265222 9780203451151 9780415181679 6610318972 9781134675968 9781134675913 1134675917 9781134675951 113467595X 9780415407038 0674228006 Year: 2000 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Based upon comprehensive and original research, An Economic History of Sweden represents an invaluable resource for both economic historians and students of economic theory.

Understanding the Industrial Revolution
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ISBN: 0415184045 0415184053 9786610354436 020319019X 0203136977 1280354437 1134670087 9780203190197 9780203136973 9780415184045 9780415184052 9781134670086 9781134670031 1134670036 9781134670079 1134670079 Year: 2000 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Each aspect of the Industrial Revolution in Britain is discussed in depth, focusing on the important debates and reviewing the most recent research.


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The rise of fiscal states : a global history, 1500-1914
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ISBN: 9781107013513 9781139004237 9781107521278 1107013518 1107229545 1107521270 1139004239 1139366068 1139371770 1139375768 1139377191 1139378627 1139380052 1280773588 9786613684356 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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From the Netherlands to the Ottoman Empire, to Japan and India, this groundbreaking volume confronts the complex and diverse problem of the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia between 1500 and 1914. This series of country case studies from leading economic historians reveals that distinctive features of the fiscal state appeared across the region at different moments in time as a result of multiple independent but often interacting stimuli such as internal competition over resources, European expansion, international trade, globalisation and war. The essays offer a comparative framework for re-examining the causes of economic development across this period and show, for instance, the central role that the more effective fiscal systems of Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries played in the divergence of east and west as well as the very different paths to modernisation taken across the world.


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The Oxford handbook of the Italian economy since unification
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ISBN: 9780199936694 0199936692 9780199971480 0199936706 019997148X 9780199936700 9781299600881 1299600883 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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'The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy Since Unification' provides, for the first time, a comprehensive, quantitative 'new economic history' of Italy.

L'argent des campagnes : échanges, monnaie, crédit dans la France rurale d'Ancien Régime.
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ISBN: 2110926015 2111294659 Year: 2003 Publisher: Paris Histoire économique et financière de la France

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On a longtemps décrit les campagnes d’Ancien Régime comme un monde de l’argent rare, gouverné par le troc et l’auto-consommation. Et bien des études de la « modernisation » rurale ont fait la part belle, par conséquent, au lent développement des échanges monétaires et à la fameuse « ouverture » des campagnes au marché, assimilant celle-ci à une monétarisation progressive des échanges. Or, avec le renouvellement récent de l’historiographie du monde rural, bien des remises en cause sont venues bousculer nos anciennes représentations. La journée d’études L’argent des campagnes. Échanges, monnaie et crédit dans la France rurale d’Ancien Régime a permis de rouvrir le dossier des formes de l’échange dans le monde rural, en s’attachant à repérer toutes les modalités de micro-circulations de valeurs et de biens, en se plaçant en somme le plus possible « au ras du sol ». L’argent caché, ou masqué, apparaît alors un peu mieux, dans l’étendue de ses multiples canaux d’irrigation. Et l’on aperçoit bien que les pratiques économiques ne peuvent être considérées en dehors de leur signification sociale et des mentalités qui les sous-tendent.


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Crisissen en groei van de economie in de 20e eeuw
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ISBN: 9028900861 Year: 1975 Volume: vol *43 Publisher: Antwerpen De Nederlandsche Boekhandel


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L’Histoire économique en mouvement : entre héritages et renouvellements

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L’histoire économique ne jouit plus aujourd’hui en France du prestige qui était le sien du temps de Braudel et de Labrousse, mais loin d’être le refuge d’une poignée de nostalgiques, elle ne cesse de se renouveler. Fruit d’une initiative du CNRS, ce livre s’interroge sur sa situation actuelle et ses perspectives de développement : poids des héritages, crise des paradigmes, rapports avec les autres secteurs de l’histoire et les disciplines voisines, chantiers en cours et thématiques émergentes y sont étudiés par les meilleurs spécialistes. De surcroît, sortant de l’hexagone, il donne à découvrir des travaux qui, au niveau international, sont en train de renouveler l’histoire économique et représentent autant de défis pour les historiens français. Faisant justice des stéréotypes réducteurs, il montre enfin que l’histoire économique aide à penser la complexité et, en éclairant le présent par le passé, contribue à rendre intelligibles les problèmes de notre temps - des crises financières à la montée de la Chine en passant par la fin des campagnes ou l’accroissement des inégalités.


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The age of equality
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ISBN: 9780674062177 0674062175 0674063309 9780674063303 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

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In 1900 the global average life expectancy at birth was thirty-one years. By 2000 it was sixty-six. Yet, alongside unprecedented improvements in longevity and material well-being, the twentieth century also saw the rise of fascism and communism and a second world war followed by a cold war. This book tells the story of the battles between economic systems that defined the last century and created today's world.The nineteenth century was a period of rapid economic growth characterized by relatively open markets and more personal liberty, but it also brought great inequality within and between nations. The following century offered sharp challenges to free-wheeling capitalism from both communism and fascism, whose competing visions of planned economic development attracted millions of people buffeted by the economic storms of the 1930s. The Age of Equality describes the ways in which market-oriented economies eventually overcame the threat of these visions and provided a blueprint for reform in nonmarket economies. This was achieved not through unbridled capitalism but by combining the efficiency and growth potential of markets with government policies to promote greater equality of opportunity and outcome. Following on the heels of economic reform, rapid catch-up growth in countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Poland helped to reduce global inequality.At a time when inequality is on the rise in nations as disparate as the United States and Egypt, Pomfret's interpretation of how governments of market economies faced the challenges of the twentieth century is both instructive and cautionary.

The crisis in economics : the post-autistic economics movement : the first 600 days
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ISBN: 0415308976 0415308984 0203353986 1134393024 1280072032 0203180445 0429229283 9780203180440 9780415308977 9780415308984 9781134392971 9781134393015 1134393016 Year: 2003 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Economics can be pretty boring. Drier than Death Valley, the discipline is obsessed with mathematics and compounds this by arrogantly assuming its techniques can be brought to bear on the other social sciences. It wasn't going to be long, therefore, before students started complaining. The vast majority have voted with their feet and signed up for business and management degrees, but in the past two years there has grown an important new movement that has decided to tackle those who think they run economics head-on. This is the Post-autistic Economics Network.The PAE Network started in


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The invention of enterprise
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ISBN: 9780691154527 9780691143705 0691143706 9786612458026 1400833582 069115452X 9786612936043 1282458027 1282936042 9781400833580 9781282458024 9781282936041 661245802X 6612936045 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs--and their innovations--have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. The Invention of Enterprise gathers together, for the first time, leading economic historians to explore the entrepreneur's role in society from antiquity to the present. Addressing social and institutional influences from a historical context, each chapter examines entrepreneurship during a particular period and in an important geographic location. The book chronicles the sweeping history of enterprise in Mesopotamia and Neo-Babylon; carries the reader through the Islamic Middle East; offers insights into the entrepreneurial history of China, Japan, and Colonial India; and describes the crucial role of the entrepreneur in innovative activity in Europe and the United States, from the medieval period to today. In considering the critical contributions of entrepreneurship, the authors discuss why entrepreneurial activities are not always productive and may even sabotage prosperity. They examine the institutions and restrictions that have enabled or impeded innovation, and the incentives for the adoption and dissemination of inventions. They also describe the wide variations in global entrepreneurial activity during different historical periods and the similarities in development, as well as entrepreneurship's role in economic growth. The book is filled with past examples and events that provide lessons for promoting and successfully pursuing contemporary entrepreneurship as a means of contributing to the welfare of society. The Invention of Enterprise lays out a definitive picture for all who seek an understanding of innovation's central place in our world.

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