Intro -- Proving Up -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Thomas Jefferson's Agrarian Vision and the Changing Nature of Property -- 2. The Dialectics of Government Land Policies (1785-1862) -- 3. The Dialectics of Government Land Policies on Arid Land -- 4....

Purpose This paper aims to explain the nature of the economic agent in Islamic economics. He is commonly referred to as Homo Islamicus. Design/methodology/approach This is done by deriving the concept from the Qurʾān as the primary epistemological source in Islamic economics. The paper, thus,...

Chapter 1: The international connections of the Australian colonies -- Chapter 2: Foreign investment before World War One -- Chapter 3: Hidden from view. The multinational enterprise in colonial Australia -- Chapter 4: Early entrants: MNEs in Australia, c.1820-70 -- Chapter 5: The Spread of the...

Editor's IntroductionEditorial Foreword1. Liberalism2. The Transmission of the Ideals of Economic Freedom3. The Prospects of Freedom4. The Webbs and Their Work5. Closing Speech to the 1984 Mont Pèlerin Society Meeting6. 'Free' Enterprise and Competitive Order7. The Economic Conditions of...

This paper investigates the impact of hurricanes on school attendance in Jamaica from 1892 to 1942, a period marked by significant natural disasters, including four category two hurricanes. By integrating monthly school attendance data from the fourteen Jamaican parishes with assessments of...

This essay examines the relationship between Austrian economics and economic history. It notes their different origins as scholarly fields, and divergent trajectories over the course of the twentieth century, before discussing recent examples of cross-fertilization and pointing to areas of...