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The early history of financial economics, 1478-1776 : from commercial arithmetic to life annuities and joint stocks
Poitras, Geoffrey - 2000
invaluable to scholars of financial economics and the history of economic thought …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473873
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Public enterprise revisited : a closer look at the 1954-79 UK labour productivity record
Iordanoglou, Chrisafis H. - 2001
The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public sector industries' labour productivity growth was significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851212
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The life and times of J. Neville Keynes : a beacon in the tempest
Deane, Phyllis - 2001
This fascinating biography of an economist who was also a logician and administrator, is based mainly upon his …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851772
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A comparative history of central bank behavior : consistency in monetary policy in the US and UK
Wood, John H. - 2022
"It is widely believed that central banks have grown (the Bank of England) or were established (the Federal Reserve) to … and US over the course of the last two centuries. Professors and students of finance will find A Comparative History of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537820
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Markets versus hierarchies : a political economy of Russia from the 10th century to 2008
Brancato, Ekaterina - 2009
This unique book uses a transaction cost perspective to illustrate how hierarchies influenced the structure of markets and behaviour of individual businesses and cartels in pre-revolutionary, Soviet and present-day Russia
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850770
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The economics and ideology of free trade : a historical review
Gomes, Leonard - 2003
The Economics and Ideology of Free Trade makes an important contribution to the debate on globalization by providing much needed intellectual and historical perspective on the issue of Free Trade versus Protection
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851318
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The challenges of capitalism for virtue ethics and the common good : interdisciplinary perspectives
Akrivou, Kleio (contributor); Sison, Alejo G. (contributor) - 2016
Introduction / Kleio Akrivou -- Part I the common good in history: virtue epistemology as knowledge foundation for the …'s influence in western history / Agustín González Enciso -- 2. The 'medieval', the common good and accounting / Alisdair Dobie … inspiration from European history and continental philosophical traditions on virtue. Editors Kleio Akrivou and Alejo José G …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419817
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Research handbook of expatriates
McNulty, Yvonne (contributor); Selmer, Jan (contributor) - 2017
Contents: Foreword / J. Stewart Black -- Part I History of expatriate studies and its current state of play -- 1 … expatriates / Yvonne McNulty and Chris Brewster -- 3. Expatriates : a thematic research history / Jan Selmer -- Part II Historical … the field's most distinguished academics, contributions review the history of the literature in relation to expatriates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419930
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Conversations on growth, stability and trade : an historical perspective
Snowdon, Brian - 2002
debates in economic history. The author examines the many controversies relating to the role of government in a modern economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420073
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Global control : information technology and globalization since 1845
McMahon, Peter - 2002
1. Social organization, control and information technology -- 2. Telecommunications and the nineteenth-century liberal-international world order -- 3. Information technology and US industro-military development -- 4. Telematics and the post-war international order -- 5. Telematics as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420112