The Late Middle Ages (c.1300–c.1500) saw the development of many of the key economic institutions of the modern unitary nation-state in Europe. After the ‘commercial revolution’ of the thirteenth century, taxes on trade became increasingly significant contributors to government finances,...

This book examines the politics of taxation in Ireland between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. Combining political, economic, and policy history, it contributes to a growing interdisciplinary literature on public finance, while also providing context for the ongoing debate on...

The publication of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America has kindled interest across disciplines to appraise the exceptional nature of U.S. activities. In general, however, all the published works have not focused their analyses from an economic point of view. While economics was for...

1. Introduction -- 2. Eucken’s Competition with Keynes: Beyond the Ordoliberal Allergy to the Keynesian Medicine -- 3. Third-Way Perspectives on Order in Interwar France: Personalism and the Political Economy of François Perroux -- 4. Corporatism and Planning in Monnet’s Idea of Europe --...

1.Italian Economics and Fascism: an Institutional View -- 2. Economists and the Fascist Regime: A Painful Continuity? -- 3 The Persistence of Tradition: The Economists in the Law Faculties and in the Higher Institutes of Business Studies (1922 – 1943) -- 4.The Faculties of Political Sciences...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Major Contributions -- 3. The First Phase: Thoughts on Socialist Development in a Backward Overpopulated Economy -- 4. The Second Phase: a 'Starry-Eyed Joan Robinson' -- 5. The Third Phase: Self-Criticism -- 6. Conclusion.

1. Economic Expertise and Political Militancy under Fascism: an Introduction -- 2. From Nationalism to Fascism: Protagonists and Journals -- 3. Planning and Discussing Corporatism and the “New International Order” -- 4. “Breaking down the Ivory Tower”: Economic Culture in Italian...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- PART I: 1905-1937 The Makings of an Applied Economist -- Chapter 2 Brilliant Beginnings -- Chapter 3 Cambridge and Fabianism -- Chapter 4 Becoming the World’s Economic Statistician -- Part II: 1937-1952 Australian Idyll -- Chapter 5 Great Southern Land -- Chapter 6...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Importance of Hayek and Friedman to the Neo-liberal Concept of Freedom -- 3. The Neo-liberal Concept of Freedom -- 4. Spheres of Government -- 5. The Rise of Neo-liberalism and Tyranny of Corporations -- 6. The Rise of Mass Consumption -- 7.The Rise of Neoliberalism and...

This book analyzes the various problems of growth, trade and public policy from the perspective of applied economics, based on research in areas such as public policies, trade and regulation, and development economics. Part 1 investigates the broad problems of growth and regional economy,...