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The Rise of Empires : The Political Economy of Innovation

Ramesh, Sangaralingam - 2018

Age (10,000BC to 800BC) -- 4. The Babylonian Empire (1900BC to 539BC) -- 5. Ancient Greece (1100BC to 30BC) -- 6. The …

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Suspicions of Markets : Critical Attacks from Aristotle to the Twenty-First Century

Rutherford, Donald - 2016

In this work, Rutherford reviews why Adam Smith, Hayek, Mises and others praised economic markets, with a view to understanding, in contrast, historical attacks on markets dating as far back as Aristotle. The market has long been criticized as an inappropriate method of allocation, encouraging...

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Central Asia and the Silk Road : Economic Rise and Decline over Several Millennia

Barisitz, Stephan - 2017

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the pre-modern economic history of Central Asia and the Silk Road, covering several millennia. By analyzing an abundance of sources and materials, it illustrates the repeated economic heydays of the Silk Road, during which it linked the Orient and...

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Essays in Contemporary Economics : A Festschrift in Memory of A. D. Karayiannis

Bitros, George C. - 2015

Preface -- Part I: Greece and European Integration -- Part II: Issues in the Methodology of Economics -- Part III …: Institutions and the Free Market Economy -- Part IV: Insights for Today from Ancient Greece -- Part V: Indices -- Author Index …This book is a collection of original essays grouped into four parts under the headings “Greece and European …

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The Global Gold Market and the International Monetary System from the late 19th Century to the Present : Actors, Networks, Power

Bott, Sandra (ed.) - 2013

Using an inter-disciplinary and global approach this book examines the different roles gold played in the international economy from the late 19th century until today. It gives a complete and comprehensive overview of the many facets of the global gold market's organization from the extraction...

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Manias, Panics and Crashes : A History of Financial Crises

Aliber, Robert Z. - 2005 - Fifth Edition

Manias, Panics and Crashes , is a scholarly and entertaining account of the way that mismanagement of money and credit has led to financial explosions over the centuries. Covering such topics as the history and anatomy of crises, speculative manias, and the lender of last resort, this book has...

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The Enigma of Money : Gold, Central Banknotes, and Bitcoin

Nishibe, Makoto - 2016

This book provides a new way of understanding modern money and markets by stressing their self-fulfilling/self-destructive properties as institutions from evolutionary perspectives. In contrast to an unrealistic view of the neoclassical general equilibrium theory that models the price mechanism...

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The Book of Payments : Historical and Contemporary Views on the Cashless Society

Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo (ed.); Efthymiou, Leonidas (ed.) - 2016

This book examines the nature of retail financial transaction infrastructures. Contributions assume a long-term outlook in their exploration of the key financial processes and systems that support a global transition to a cashless economy. The volume offers both modern and historic accounts that...

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Coping with Financial Crises : Some Lessons from Economic History

Rockoff, Hugh (ed.); Suto, Isao (ed.) - 2018

This edited volume is based on original essays first presented at the World Economic History Conference, Kyoto, Japan, in August 2015. It also includes three essays subsequently written especially for this volume. All of the essays focus on financial markets in the periods leading up to, during,...

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British Imperialism and the Making of Colonial Currency Systems

Narsey, Wadan Lal - 2016

Covering the colonial Empire (including West Indies, India, Singapore, West Africa and East Africa), this book is a detailed revisionist history of the British imperial manipulations of colonial currency systems to facilitate the rise of sterling to world supremacy via the gold standard, and to...

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