This book surveys Poland’s move from being a post-feudal, backward, peripheral country to being a modern, capitalist, European state: from the partition of the commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania to the abolishment of ‘second serfdom’; late industrialization to state socialism;...

Preface -- Chapter 1. A Preliminary Introduction -- Chapter 2. Puzzles of the Monetary Regime in Premodern China -- Chapter 3. The Divergence between China and Japan -- Chapter 4. The Worst Currency or The Best Arrangement? -- Chapter 5. An Epilogue -- Index.

Introduction -- Part I: Guggenheim Prize Lecture -- The Myth of Money as a Veil -- Part II: Financial History -- British Investment Trusts 1868 to 1928: Portfolio Diversification and the Beginnings of Institutional Investment -- Early Reflections on the Democratization of Organized Markets and...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Oil, Policy and Market Power -- Chapter 3: Looking at the Mirror: Early Days of the Oil Markets in the United States -- Chapter 4: From Competition to Monopoly -- Chapter 5: From Monopoly to Competition (Oil Markets Going Global) -- Chapter 6: Governments...

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Why Neoliberalism Spread in Some Countries, But Not Others -- Chapter 2: The spread of neoliberalism in French public policies: Is there a French exception ? -- Chapter 3: The Value of Public Opinion, Political Party Discourse and the Politics of Liberalisation in...

Chapter 1: The First Crisis 1949-1950 -- Chapter 2: The Second to Fourth Crises 1958-1976 -- Chapter 3: The Fifth to Seventh Crises 1978-1996 -- Chapter 4: The Eighth and Ninth Crises 1997 and 2008 -- Chapter 5: The Tenth Crisis 2013-the present.

Introduction -- Chapter 1 Revelation: State Capacity and Economic Development -- Chapter 2 Foundation Laying: From Old China to New China -- Chapter 3 Exploration: From New China’s First 30 Years to Next 40 Years -- Chapter 4 Adjust and Control: From Planning to Programming -- Chapter 5...

Chapter 1. Introduction to Entrepreneurial activity in Malaysia: A Country level perspective -- Chapter 2. An Overview of Entrepreneurship in Malaysia -- Chapter 3. Proximity, Collaborative Relationship and Entrepreneur's Knowledge Spill-Over Opportunity in a Malaysian Regional Innovation System...

Chapter 1. The Land They Found -- Chapter 2. Adapting to a New World -- Chapter 3. Colonial Latin America -- Chapter 4. The First Century of Independence -- Chapter 5. Industrialization -- Chapter 6. Alternatives -- Chapter 7. The Commodity Boom of the 1970s -- Chapter 8. The Lost Decade of the...

Introduction: Takahashi Korekiyo, the Man Who Brought Japan Out of the Great Depression -- Japan’s Plunge into and Emergence from the Great Depression -- Policy Innovation in the Great Depression -- Sustainability of Public Debt under Stress -- Origins of the Economic Ideas of Takahashi...