Defining a framework for the economic history of early-modern Egypt -- Artisan entrepreneurs: capitalist practices in a precapitalist environment -- A period of unprecedented social mobility for nonelites -- The Jalfis: oil pressers and emirs -- Competition between different forms of capitalism...

Population : modes of seventeenth-century demographic thought / Ted McCormick -- Labor : employment, colonial servitude, and slavery in the seventeenth-century Atlantic / Abigail Swingen -- Money : Hartlibian political economy and the new culture of credit / Carl Wennerlind -- Epistemology :...

The international financial crisis of 2007-08 and the ensuing scandals continue to raise important debates about the role of institutions in maintaining trust and fighting corruption, as well as in sustaining economic growth and political stability in a globalized world. This book proposes to...