Der Sozialwissenschaftler und Soziologieprofessor veröffentlicht seit langem über Gewerkschaften, auch "Organisationssoziologie" (ID-G 50/03). Nach einem Kurzüberblick über die Entwicklung bis 1933 folgen die wichtigsten Stationen im Verhältnis zwischen Gewerkschaft und Wirtschaftspolitik,...

In this clear and engaging book, economist Louis Putterman places the economy and the study of economics in a broad historical and social perspective. He explores the history of the discipline, the history of the modern economy, different perspectives on the market economy, and the relations...

In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s,...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. 1808: The Napoleonic Wars and the Loss of the American Colonies -- Chapter 3. 1898: The “Fin de siècle” crisis -- Chapter 4. 1936: Frustrated hopes: the Great Depression, the Second Republic, and the Civil War -- Chapter 5. 1959: The Stabilization Plan...

Capitalism and Elite Feud: A Short Introduction -- PART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- A Unified Theory of Rent, Elite Feuds and Imperial Expansion -- PART II: RENT, ELITE FEUDS AND IMPERIAL EXPANSION IN EARLY MODERN AND MODERN EUROPE -- Atlanticism, the Slave Trade and Westward Expansion of...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Lure of Development Models -- Part One. The Chinese Model and its Global Reception -- Chapter 1 A China Model or Just a Broken Mould? -- Chapter 2 Latin America's View of China: Interest, but Scepticism -- Chapter 3 The China Model in Africa: A New...