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The Singularity of Western Innovation : The Language Nexus

Dudley, Leonard - 2017

This book highlights the contribution of language standardization to the economic rise of the West between 1600 and 1860. Previous studies have been unable to explain why during this period almost all industrial innovation was confined to small areas around the main cultural centers of three...

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Housing Economics : A Historical Approach

Meen, Geoffrey - 2016

The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often forgotten, whilst the difficulties hit the headlines....

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Die Entstehung des modernen Konsums : Entwicklungslinien von 1750 bis heute

Wallaschkowski, Stephan - 2019

zentralen Entwicklungslinien heraus, die die Geschichte des modernen Massenkonsums im Wesentlichen geprägt haben. Zum Schluss …. Der Inhalt Die Entstehung der Konsumgesellschaft im Windschatten der Industrialisierung Zentrale Entwicklungslinien des …Die Entstehung der Konsumgesellschaft im Windschatten der Industrialisierung -- Zentrale Entwicklungslinien des …

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Japan’s Industrious Revolution : Economic and Social Transformations in the Early Modern Period

Hayami, Akira - 2015

This book explains in fascinating detail how economic and social transformations in pre-1600 Japan led to an industrious revolution in the early modern period, and how the fruits of the Industrious Revolution are what have supported Japan since the eighteenth century, improving living standards...

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Economic History of Energy and Environment

Sugiyama, S. (ed.) - 2015

This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose of the series is to make works by Japanese scholars accessible to a wider readership and to increase the knowledge of scholars in this field, particularly in relation to Asia....

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A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II : Converging Trends and the Future of the Global Market

McNabb, David E. - 2016

A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise.

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Early Debates about Industry : Voltaire and His Contemporaries

Schui, Florian - 2005

Industry has been at the centre of some of the most formidable political and economic debates of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book explores the pivotal decades of the eighteenth-century in which the modern concept of industry was, for the first time, at the heart of...

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Macroeconometric Models

Welfe, Władysław - 2013

This book gives a comprehensive description of macroeconometric modeling and its development over time. The first part depicts the history of macroeconometric model building, starting with Jan Tinbergen's and Lawrence R. Klein's contributions. It is unique in summarizing the development and...

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Class Struggle on the Home Front : Work, Conflict and Exploitation in the Household

Cassano, Graham (ed.) - 2009

Home/Front examines the gendered exploitation of labor in the household from a postmodern Marxian perspective. The authors of this volume use the anti-foundationalist Marxian economic theories first formulated by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff to explore power, domination, and exploitation in...

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The Historical Consumer : Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850–2000

Francks, Penelope (ed.); Hunter, Janet (ed.) - 2012

This book explores the rise of consumerism and the expanding variety of goods available in Japan. Japan is placed within the comparative context of the 'consumer revolution' in Europe and North America, contributing to the analysis of the ways in which consumption and everyday life change in the...

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