Say's Law—the idea that "supply creates its own demand"—has been a basic concept in economics for almost two centuries. Thomas Sowell traces its evolution as it emerged from successive controversies, particularly two of the most bitter and long lasting in the history of the discipline, the...

During his successful campaign to become Conservative Party leader in the spring of 2004, Stephen Harper said of the Maritime provinces, "We will see the day when the region is not the place where you visit your grandparents, but instead more often than not the place where you visit your...

In a work with significant implications for present-day economic reform in the Soviet Union, Paul Gregory examines Russian and Soviet economic history prior to the installation of the administrative command system. By drawing on basic economic statistics from 1861 to the 1930s, Gregory's...

From about 1600 untill the Tay Son rebellion of the 1770s, there were two Vietnamese states. The southern one, with its centre around modern Hue and its southern frontier ever expanding into Cambodian territory in the Mekong delta, was the more dynamic, both economically cand military. Occupying...

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch führt griffig und präzise in die Wirtschaftsgeschichte Deutschlands der letzten 1500 Jahre ein. Jeder der drei zeitlichen Abschnitte (500-1350, 1350-1800, 19. und 20. Jh.) behandelt die wesentlichen Faktoren (Soziales, Bildung und Kultur, Bevölkerung und Umwelt,...

Die Relevanz der Mikroökonomischen Theorie kann am besten dadurch gezeigt werden, dass man zu den ursprünglichen Problemen zurückgeht und die Lösungsansätze aus der Zeit heraus von den Originalautoren darstellen lässt. Die heutige Gesellschaft und auch die heutige Gesellschaftstheorie ist...

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. The market and the state -- pt. 3. Markets, merchants and middlemen -- pt. 4. Markets and urban manufacture -- pt. 5. Market production and women's work -- pt. 6. Market structures and social institutions : commerce and customary context.

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