Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Hunger and the Making of the Modern World -- 2 The Humanitarian Discovery of Hunger -- 3 Hunger as Political Critique -- 4 The Science and Calculation of Hunger -- 5 Hungry England and Planning for a World of Plenty -- 6 Collective Feeding and the Welfare of...

The Delusions of Economics presents a radical critique of neoclassical economics. Rather than entering into existing debates between different orthodoxies, Gilbert Rist explores the circumstances that prevailed when economics was 'invented' and that helped to construct it as a science. Rist...

This powerful and meticulously researched study explores the role of rural industry and entrepreneurship in the Chinese economic miracle. Linda Grove focuses on one weaving district in North China, exploring the ways in which small industrial firms have accumulated capital, organized their...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Graphs -- Acknowledgments -- Mystery Women-An Introduction -- 1-Origins of the Shuttle Trade, 1987-91 -- 2-The "Golden Age" of the Shuttle Tradeand Its Structure -- 3-Women Traders: Success in Numbers -- 4-The Price of Success -- 5-Where Did All...

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why the Motorcycle? -- 1 Japan's Transportation Revolution, 1896-1931 -- 2 Motorcycle and Empire: A Study in Industrial Self-Sufficiency -- 3 Know Your Customers: Designing Products for an Impoverished Postwar Market -- 4...

In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history, Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll trace the influence of two southern activist preachers, one black and one white, who used their ministry to organize the working class in the 1930s and 1940s across lines of gender, race, and geography. Owen...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: A NEW GROWTH NARRATIVE -- ONE: The Most Technologically Progressive Decade of the Century -- TWO: The Interwar Years -- THREE: The Second World War -- FOUR: The Golden Age and Beyond -- FIVE: The Information Technology Boom -- SIX: Fin de...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Cast of Characters -- 1. Storms in the Caribbean Sea and the Life of Lord Londonderry -- 2. The War of the Spanish Succession and the Jacobite Rebellion -- 3. The Diamond Deal -- 4. Learning by Doing: Law and Londonderry Before the Bet -- 5. The Bet of the Bubbles...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- The German Inflation of 1619-23 -- Note on Broadsheets -- Note on the Translations -- PLATE I. Sad Lamentation about My Moneybag -- PLATE II. The Purse's Wretched Howling, Ceaseless Lament, and Accusations against Its Master -- PLATE III. Coin Arrangement of the...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Trial and Error, 1878-1893 -- 3. Cooperation and Success, 1893-1902 -- 4. "The Nation's Future," 1902-1907 -- 5. Conflict and Disillusion, 1907-1912 -- 6. Isolation and Expertise, 1907-1912 -- 7. Retirement and Retreat, 1912-1916 --...