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An Economist’s Guide to Economic History

Blum, Matthias (ed.); Colvin, Christopher L. (ed.) - 2018

Without economic history, economics runs the risk of being too abstract or parochial, of failing to notice precedents, trends and cycles, of overlooking the long-run and thus misunderstanding ‘how we got here’. Recent financial and economic crises illustrate spectacularly how the economics...

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German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Plumpe, Werner - 2016

history based on a selection of work by one of Germany's leading economic and business historians, Werner Plumpe, who places …. German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Century shows that Germany's economic history still warrants the … of Systems Theory -- 9. Germany as an Industrial Country 1945-2008 -- Part IV: The History of Industrial Relations -- 10 …

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Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe

Bellavitis, Anna - 2018

In the last decades, women’s role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of women in the labour market though and this book...

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Facets of India's Economy and Her Society Volume I : Recent Economic and Social History and Political Economy

Jha, Raghbendra - 2018

‘Jha is the right scholar and economist to take readers through the development of the Indian economy. Readers will be in good hands.’ -Edmund Phelps, Columbia University, USA, and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics ‘This is perhaps the best and most scholarly contribution to...

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Economic history of cities and housing

Baba, Satoshi (ed.) - 2017

Germany, focusing on the Genter system, in which the municipalities paid subsidies to the trade unions that provided their out … Controls (Hiroshi Ono) -- 3 Communal Unemployment Insurance in Wilhelminian Germany: A Case Study of the Greater Berlin … teki Kenkyū (Study on the Socio-economic History of Housing Problems in Germany) (Satoshi Baba) -- Index …

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Confucian Capitalism : Shibusawa Eiichi, Business Ethics, and Economic Development in Meiji Japan

Sagers, John H. - 2018

With the life story of Shibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931), one of the most important financiers and industrialists in modern Japanese history, as its narrative focal point, this book explores the challenges of importing modern business enterprises to Japan, where the pursuit of profit was considered...

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Contemporary Capitalism and Civil Society : The Japanese Experience

Yamada, Toshio - 2018

This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese theory of civil society proposed unique thinking about...

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Poland From Partitions to EU Accession : A Modern Economic History, 1772–2004

Koryś, Piotr - 2018

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;...

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Japan and the Great Divergence : A Short Guide

Francks, Penelope - 2016

This text offers an accessible guide to the ways in which our growing knowledge of development in early-modern and modernising Japan can throw light on the paths that industrialisation was eventually to take across the globe. It has long been taken as read that the industrial revolution was the...

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Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History : Volume 1

Hall, Joshua (ed.); Witcher, Marcus (ed.) - 2018

This book - the first 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 fresh...

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