The strictures of inheritance

the Dutch economy in the nineteenth century

A major feat of research and synthesis, this book presents the first comprehensive history of the Dutch economy in the nineteenth century--an important but poorly understood piece of European economic history. Based on a detailed reconstruction of extensive economic data, the authors account for demise ...

The nature of money

Mainstream economics fails to grasp the specific nature of money. It is seen either as a #neutral veil# over the operation of the #real# economy or alternatively as a #thing# # a special commodity. In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in ...

Growing public

social spending and economic growth since the eigteenth century.Vol.I.The story

Growing Public examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. Taxes and transfers have been debated for centuries, but only now can we get a clear view of the whole evolution of social spending. What kept prospering nations ...

Global capital markets

integration, crisis, and growth

This book presents an economic survey of international capital mobility from the late nineteenth century to the present. ÍNDICE: Part I. Preamble: 1. Global capital markets: overview and origins: 1.1 Theoretical benefits.1.2 Problems of supernational capital markets in practice.1.3 The ...

The political economy of Stalinism

evidence from the Soviet secret archives

This book uses the formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative command system. It concludes that the system failed not because of the 'jockey'(i.e. Stalin and later leaders) but because of the ...

The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain

.v.1.Industrialization, 1700-1860

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around ...

The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain

.v.2.Economic maturity, 1860-1939

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around ...

Historia y proyecto social

Jornadas de debate del Institut Universitari d'Història Jaume Vicens Vives

La obra reúne los estudios de Ramón Villares (Universidad de Salamanca), Francisco Comín (Universidad de Alcalá), Antonio Miguel Bernal (Universidad de Sevilla), Pedro Ruiz Torres (Universidad de Zaragoza) y Ramón López Facal (de Santiago de Compostela) que sirven de homenaje a la trayectoria del maestro ...

The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain

.v.3.Structural change and growth, 1939-2000

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around ...

Money and the early greek mind

homer, philosophy, tragedy

How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage which produced the ...

Markets in historical contexts

ideas and politics in the modern world

Markets in Historical Contexts is the result of a dialogue between historians and social scientists thinking about markets in modern society. How should we approach markets after the collapse of Marxism? What alternative ways of thinking about markets can we recover from the past? The ...

Contribución a la crítica de la economía política

Edward Said y la historiografía

El trabajo de Edward Said ha contribuido de manera sustancial a los debates contemporáneos sobre orientalismo, análisis del discurso, políticas disidentes y poscolonialismo. Nacido en Palestina, Said pasó gran parte de su vida en el exilio, por lo que conoce en profundidad la influencia que ...

Escritos sobre el Capital

(y textos afines)

La democracia industrial

The politics of property

labour, freedom and belonging

La fábrica de la estrategia

33 lecciones sobre Lenin

A principios del siglo XX, Lenin intervino en una coyuntura similar a la actual, cuando el capitalismo global conocía su primera gran crisis mundial pivotada en torno a la primera guerra imperialista, la composición de clase de la fuerza de trabajo rusa estaba experimentando una ...

Virginia political economy

Economía y cambio histórico

Estudios en homenaje a Luis Ángel Rojo. Volumen II

Crítica a la economía ortodoxa