1. Historical context: First Globalization, British Empire, effects on the colonies, Industrial revolution in Britain, Deindustrialization in Bengal, slave trade -- 2. New Globalization starts with the abolition of the Soviet Union in 1991. WTO in 1995, impacts on Yugoslavia, Brazil, India....

This book analyzes the dynamic growth of the U.S. scholarly publishing industry in the United States during 1939-1946, a critical period in the business history of scholarly publications in STM and the humanities and the social sciences. It explains how the key publishing players positioned...

This book provides a historical understanding of current debates over tax reform and offers a comparative framework for discussing the relationship between fiscal policy and the distribution of income and wealth. Topics covered include the evolution of income taxation since World War II; the...

This book - the second of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective. Each chapter discusses citizens, special interests, and government officials responding to economic incentives in both markets and politics. In doing so, the book provides...

This book is the third installment in a series of volumes looking at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective. Each chapter discusses citizens, special interests, and government officials responding to economic incentives in both markets and politics. In doing so,...

When we start to perceive that there is a problem in the market (such as monopoly, fraud or speculation), the legislature passes a law to correct it, a bureaucracy is created to interpret and enforce the new law, firms and other market participants comply, and the problem is solved. But is it?...

Chapter 1. General Introduction: Why Should We Study the History of Economic Theory? -- Chapter 2. Introduction -- Chapter 3. Economics in Cambridge: Alfred Marshall, the Old Cambridge School, and Their Opponents in England -- Chapter 4. Economics in Lausanne: Vilfredo Pareto and the Lausanne...

In diesem Buch wird die technische Pionierleistung des Wirtschaftstheoretikers Friedrich List (1789-1846), die er für den Ausbau der Eisenbahn in den USA vollbracht hat, eindrucksvoll dargestellt. Mit dem Bau der Little Schuylkill-Eisenbahn in Pennsylvania förderte List die Infrastruktur des...