Tiempo y dinero

la macroeconomía de la estructura del capital

La mirada del economista

biografía intelectual de un filósofo mundano de los 90

Hacia una reconstrucción del materialismo histórico

The rent-seeking society

Camino de servidumbre

Bruges, cradle of capitalism, 1280-1390

Teeming with merchants from all over Europe, medieval Bruges provides an early model of a great capitalist city. Bruges established a sophisticated money market and an elaborate network of agents and brokers. Moreover, it promoted co-operation between merchants of various nations. In this book James ...

Money and the rise of the modern papacy

financing the Vatican, 1850-1950

This is a pioneering study of the finances and financiers of the Vatican between 1850 and 1950. Dr Pollard, a leading historian of the modern papacy, shows how until 1929, the papacy was largely funded by #Peter#s Pence# collected from the faithful, and from ...

The first Wall Street

Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the birth of american finance

When Americans think of investment and finance, they think of Wall Street - though this was not always the case. During the dawn of the Republic, Philadelphia was the center of American finance. The first stock exchange in the nation was founded there in 1790, and ...

Issues in American economic history

Brief and accessibly written, Issues in American Economic History provides a look at important topics in the development of the American economy. It is designed to give students a sense of continuity and help to motivate their understanding of economics. ÍNDICE: PART 1. INTRODUCTION. 1 ...

Revista Investigaciones de Historia Económica, Nº 1, año 2005

INDICE: I. Nota necrológica II. Articulos: ¿Por qué se estancó la cabaña trashumante castellana en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII?. Una interpretación. El mercado internacional de cereales y harina, y el abastecimiento de la periferia española en el siglo XVIII: Cádiz, entre la regulación ...

History of the american economy

One of the first U.S. economic history books on the market, this classic text ties America#s past to the economic policies and debates of today and beyond. Presenting economic events chronologically for ease of understanding and to provide continuity, the authors equip students ...

Los orígenes de la economía europea

viajeros y comerciantes en la alta Edad Media

Una nueva y atrevida interpretación, que no sólo transforma las ideas establecidas acerca de los orígenes de la economía europea, sino también las que se refieren a la formación histórica de la Europa moderna. Analizando el gran caudal de datos proporcionados por los textos y ...

United we stand

a history of Britain's Trade Unions

Looking both at individual workers and the organizations that represent them, Reid shows how unions have, throughout the modern era, been a crucial element in British life, and that all governments have had to develop policies to deal with them.

Cinco lustros apenas

25 años de economía y sociedad españolas

Con la crisis del petróleo se desencadenaron todos los males de nuestra economía: déficit público, fuerte crecimiento de los precios, desequilibrio de la balanza de pagos, elevación de la tasa de paro. Todo ello complementado por una eclosión de demandas "sociales". Estas fueron las referencias ...

Cádiz en el sistema Atlántico

la ciudad, sus comerciantes y la actividad mercantil (1650-1830)

Pieza clave del sistema atlántico durante los tiempos modernos, entre 1650 y 1830 Cádiz pasó de ser el #Emporio del Orbe#, al amparo del monopolio español con América, a convertirse en una ciudad casi provinciana. En el libro se analiza, en primer lugar, el proceso ...

The experiment in the history of economics

Until recently, there was long resistance to the idea that economics can lend itself to experimentation. Going back at least as far as John Stuart Mill and continuing until very recently, it was widely held that economics was not an experimental discipline. The contributions in ...

La casa Rothschild en España

(1812-1941)

Más allá de la fascinación que despeirtan las grandes dinastías financieras, este reiguroso y completo estudio de Miguel A. López Morell pretende dar a conocer en qué consistió la contribución de los Rothschild de la definitiva modernización económica del país, una presencia no exenta de ...

Sloan rules

Alfred P. Sloan and the triumph of General Motors

Alfred P. Sloan Jr. became the president of General Motors in 1923 and stepped down as its CEO in 1946. During this time, he led GM past the Ford Motor Company and on to international business triumph by virtue of his brilliant managerial practices and ...

El sistema atlántico español (siglos XVII-XIX)

Frente a otros modelos interpretativos en torno a la historia atlántica 'directa o indirectamente modelado por la influencia ibérica', en palabras de Horst Pietschmann. Se trata, en definitiva, de un sistema que durante más de tres siglos tejió una densa red de relaciones económicas, polítcas ...

Jealousy of trade

international competition and the Nation-State in historical perspective

This collection explores eighteenth-century theories of international market competition that continue to be relevant for the twenty-first century. "Jealousy of trade" refers to a particular conjunction between politics and the economy that emerged when success in international trade became a matter of the military and ...