Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the creation of a dinasty

the critical years 1806-1816

This groundbreaking history explains how Nathan Mayer Rothschild rose from comparatively humble circumstances to become the founder of an extraordinary banking and financial empire - an empire that remained preeminent in Europe for more than a century. The book focuses on the critical years of Great ...

Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy

This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred by the majority of citizens, but opposed by elites. Dictatorship nevertheless ...

Modernizing nature

forestry and imperial eco-development 1800-1950

"Modernizing Nature" contributes to the debate regarding the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. It departs from the widely prevalent scholarly perspective that colonial science can be understood predominantly as a handmaiden of imperialism ...

The economic future in historical perspective

In this volume, leading modern economic historians show how analysis of past experiences contributes to a better understanding of present-day economic conditions; they offer important insights into major challenges that will occupy the attention of policy makers in the coming decades. The seventeen essays are ...

The Cambridge economic history of Latin America.Vol.I: The Colonial Era and the short Nineteenth Century

This volume includes the colonial and independence eras up to 1850, linking Latin America's economic history to the pre-Hispanic, European, and African background. It also synthesizes knowledge on the human and environmental impact of the Spanish conquest, the evolution of colonial economic institutions, and ...

The Cambridge economic history of Latin America.Vol.II: The long Twentieth Century

Volume Two treats the 'long twentieth century' from the onset of modern economic growth to the present. It analyzes the principal dimensions of Latin America's first era of sustained economic growth from the last decades of the nineteenth century to 1930. It explores the ...

A concise history of economic thought

from mercantilism to monetarism

Gianni Vaggi and Peter Groenewegen present a brief history of economic thought over three centuries. They sketch the history from the seventeenth century to the present day. Each chapter examines the key contributions of a major economist, or group of economists, and concludes with brief ...

València i Barcelona

retorn al futur

L'inici de les relacions econòmiques modernes, industrials -i capitalistes- entre valencians i catalans comença amb l'Exposició Regional de 1909. Aquesta és la tesi del llibre. Això no vol dir que abans no hi hagués cap contacte entre ambdues economies. Ben al contrari. Tanmateix ...

Momentos estelares de econolandia

Una novela de historia económica y social con rasgos diferentes a los habituales. No se centra en una época y unos personajes de ese momento, sino que recorre una parte de la gran aventura del mundo entre los siglos X y XX. La historia en ...

The history of company

the development of the business corporation 1700-1914

The company is core to the development of the last 300 years. This two-part collection of rare texts explores the changing economic, social and political role of the Anglo-American firm. Focusing on its formative development between the later seventeenth and the early twentieth centuries, the ...

On classical economics

Thomas Sowell's many writings on the history of economic thought have appeared in a number of scholarly journals and books, and these writings have been praised, reprinted, and translated in various countries around the world. The classical era in the history of economics is ...

A history of the theory of investments

my annotated bibliography

This is an invaluable resource on the history of investment research theory and asset pricing In this guide, a leading financial economist discusses the most important research in investment theory. Not only is this research referenced in the most comprehensive annotated bibliography in the field ...

The history of financial disasters

1763-1995

This three- volume reset edition looks at the origins and consequences of seminal financial crises throughout history, combining contemporary texts from nineteen financial disasters between 1763 and 1994 with academic interpretations of the major causes and consequences of each crisis. Rare public and private papers ...

Cultures merging

a historical and economic critique of culture

"Economists agree about many things - contrary to popular opinion - but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of "Cultures Merging", in which Eric Jones - one of the world's leading ...

Consumerism in world history

the global transformation of desire

This second edition of "Consumerism in World History" draws on recent research of the consumer experience in the West and Japan, while also examining societies less renowned for consumerism, such as Africa. By relating consumerism to other issues in world history, this book forces reassessment ...

Family capitalism

Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the continental european model

This history of three powerful family firms located in different European countries takes place over a period of more than 200 years. The interplay and the changing social and legal arrangements of the families shaped the development of a European capitalism quite different from the ...

La ciudad

una historia global

Desde tiempos muy remotos, las ciudades han sido testigos de excepción del progreso humano, han visto caer imperios y han renacido de sus propias cenizas. Antiguas ciudades-estado o modernas metrópolis contemporáneas como Shangai, son el material de investigación que el autor emplea para presentarnos una ...

La economía en la España moderna

Esta obra es un nuevo enfoque sobre la economía española durante los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII que recoge, por mano de especialistas de varias generaciones científicas, los últimos avances en este campo y, en definitiva, una suerte de «lo que hay que saber» sobre ...

Empresas y modernización en México desde las reformas borbónicas hasta el Porfiriato

Reúne cuatro estudios de caso sobre empresas familiares en México y sus intentos de modernización socio-económica en el período que va desde las reformas borbónicas (s. XVIII) hasta la dictadura de Porfirio Díaz (s. XX). Índice: Reinhard Liehr - Intruducción.- Alejandro Tortolero Villaseñor - Los caminos de ...

Artesanos y mercaderes

una historia social y económica de Madrid (1450-1850)

Con este libro presentamos una historia social y económica de la ciudad de Madrid y su alfoz entre 1450 y 1850. A lo largo de sus páginas se analizan las formas de adaptación de su comunidad artesana y comercial a los cambios acaecidos en ella ...