"Capitalism didn't fail, it was ruined... What went wrong with capitalism? Ruchir Sharma's account is not like any you will have heard before. He says progressives are right, in part, when they mock modern capitalism as "socialism for the rich." For a century, governments have expanded in just...

Introduction / John T. Fitzgerald, David B. Hollander, and Thomas R. Blanton IV -- The extramercantile economy : an assessment of the new institutional economics : paradigm in relation to recent studies of ancient Greece and Rome / Thomas R. Blanton IV and David B. Hollander -- Early Greek...

Die Zeit nach 1864, als die Marinestation Ostsee nach Kiel verlegt wurde und Schleswig und Holstein zur preußischen Provinz wurden, marktiert den Beginn gravierender Veränderungen. Verbunden mit dem Marinestandort und dem rasanten Aufstieg der modernen Industrie setzte ein schnelles...

States of Credit provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras. In this pioneering book, David Stasavage argues that unique advances in political representation allowed certain...