For nearly three centuries the spectacular rise and fall of the South Sea Company has gripped the public imagination as the most graphic warning to investors of the dangers of unbridled speculation. Yet history repeats itself and the same elemental forces that drove up the price of South Sea...

This book explores geoeconomic insights into the global economy of superpowers. In ten chapters, the author explores causal relationships between global economic disparities and historical events, proceeding from the general to the specific.

This book provides a brief history of how foreign debt has shaped and influenced the development of China in the past 170 years. It discusses both government and non-government debt. In modern China, especially after the first Sino-Japanese War, the foreign debt problem was a huge burden and...

In The Origin of Capitalism in England, 1400-1600, Spencer Dimmock has produced a challenging and multi-layered account of a historical rupture in English feudal society which led to the first sustained transition to agrarian capitalism and consequent industrial revolution.

Since the 1950s, the Turkish economy has periodically been facing crises. Decisions taken after crisis do not only have economic effects, but also social, political and diplomatic consequences. For the country, total independence was considered the main principle; economic independence was one of...

Intro -- TOWARD A POST-MARKET SOCIETY -- TOWARD A POST-MARKET SOCIETY -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION -- COMMON ILLUSIONS -- A NEW LOGIC -- A NEW COLLABORATION -- ECONOMICS AND SOLIDARITY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES --...

Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Plates 1-20 -- Introduction -- 1. Southeast Asia Between India and China -- 2. Rise and Fall of the Southeast Asian "Charter" Kingdoms -- 3. Islamic Courts and Maritime Trading Ports -- 4. The Tribute Trade System and...

Marjorie L. Hilton presents a captivating history of consumer culture in Russia from the 1880s to the early 1930s. She highlights the critical role of consumerism as a vehicle for shaping class and gender identities, modernity, urbanism, and as a mechanism of state power in the transition from...

The Möbius Strip is an extensively researched study of the complex transformation of space--from the spatial politics of the state to the spatial practices of peasants--during three centuries of colonial rule in Mexico.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 The Economics of Corruption: An Overview George T. Abed and Sanjeev Gupta -- Part I Causes and Consequences of Corruption -- 2 Corruption Around the World: Causes, Consequences, Scope, and Cures Vito Tanzi -- 3 Bureaucratic...