Economía y política en el tercer gobierno de Perón

Economía y política del tercer gobierno de Perón es una memoria comprometida de un período tan importante como ignorado de la historia de nuestro país. Perón retornó al gobierno (1973-1974) merced a una abrumadora mayoría electoral. El propósito del libro es revisar y analizar la ...

Foundations of social capital

#As theoretical paradigms develop, there comes a time when they need careful synthesis, deep reflection and wise criticism. It is now that time for the arguments regarding social capital. Political scientists are fortunate that a scholar as pre- eminent as Elinor Ostrom, and her able ...

Europe in the international economy 1500 to 2000

This thorough text offers a long-run perspective on the European economy from 1500 to the present day, and compares Europe's position of world dominance in the 19th century with its vacillating fortunes in the 20th century. Europe is set specifically within an international context ...

Social construction and the logic of money

financial predominance and international economic leadership

While other studies of international leadership have looked at a variety of measures to predict behavior, this book demonstrates that the key factor is international finance. J. Samuel Barkin uses an innovative blend of rationalist and constructivist methodologies, approaches to international political economy that normally ...

History of regional science and the Regional Science Association International

the beginnings and early history

A well-written and exciting historical account of the way in which regional science and the formation of the society associated with the field, Regional Science Association International, developed. It starts with the rise of Hitler, the advent of the Keynesian Revolution, the intense mathematization of ...

Minería y siderurgia en Sagunto

(1900-1936)

Este libro expone el origen y evolución de un negocio minero- siderúrgico que va a suponer la puesta en explotación de unas minas de mineral de hierro, hasta ese momento inexplotadas industrialmente por su lejanís de los centros siderúrgicos, la construcción de la siderurgia más ...

La Taula de Canvis

aportación histórica a la contabilidad valenciana, (siglos XIII-XVII)

Una mirada històrica a la Taula de Canvis de València, elaborada a partir de l'anàlisi de les lleis que en regulaven la gestió i de l'estudi dels llibres de comptabilitat, que posa de manifest que fou una institució financera modèlica i en certa ...

Minero siderúrgica de Ponferrada 1918-2010

historia y futuro de la minería leonesa

Minero Siderúrgica de Ponferrada es una empresa minera leonesa que se creó en 1918 para explotar las minas de carbón de Villablino y de hierro de El Bierzo y alimentar una fundición en Ponferrada. Tuvo su auge durante la autarquía y entró en quiebra en ...

The history of family business

1850-2000

The economic future in historical perspective

In this volume, modern economic historians show how analysis of past experiences contributes to a better understanding of present-day economic conditions. They offer insights into major challenges that will occupy the attention of policy makers in the coming decades. The 17 essays are organized around ...

A bitter living

women, markets, and social capital in Early Modern Germany

What role did women play in the pre-industrial European economy? Sheilagh Ogilvie tackles this question in an original way, using a rich body of new evidence. By examining women's contribution to a particular pre-industrial economy - the German state of Württemberg - Ogilvie casts doubt on ...

The field and the forge

population, production, and power in the pre-industrial West

The Field and the Forge offers an innovative approach to the pre- industrial history of Europe and the Mediterranean basin from Roman times through to the Industrial Revolution. This wide-ranging analysis demonstrates how technology changed the scope of state and empire building, and explores why ...

A new economic history of Argentina

Not since the publication of Carlos Díaz Alejandro's Essays on the Economic History of the Argentine Republic in 1970 has there been a new standard reference for those seeking a more quantitative understanding of Argentina's development. Research in the "new economic history" in ...

International financial history in the twentieth century

system and anarchy

International Financial History in the Twentieth Century examines the history of the international financial system in terms of the current debate about globalization and its limits. In the nineteenth century, international markets existed without international institutions. A response to the problems of capital flows came ...

Business history around the world

This book offers the first in-depth international survey of current research and debates in business history. Over the last two decades enormous advances have been made on the history of business enterprise and business systems. Historians are documenting and analyzing the evolution of a wide ...

Politiques et pratiques des banques d'émission en Europe

(XVIIe-XXe siècle). Le Bicentenaire de la Banque de France dans la perspective de l'identité monétaire européenne

On prête généralement beaucoup aux banques d'émission. Leur influence sur l'activité économique, face à la crise comme face à la croissance, leur action sur le cours des relations monétaires internationales fondent cette opinion largement répandue, hier comme aujourd'hui. Les études ici rassemblées ...

Historia de la economía europea, 1914-2000

Esta es la obra de referencia indispensable para el estudio de la historia económica de Europa durante el siglo XX. El texto se divide en períodos claramente definidos: la época posterior a la primera guerra mundial y la reconstrucción de la economía europea; la depresión ...

Finance, intermediaries, and economic developement

This volume includes ten essays dealing with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States since the seventeenth century. Each relates the development of institutions to economic change and describes their evolution over time, as well as discussing several ...

The unbound Prometheus

technological change and industrial development in Western Europe from 1750 to the present

For over thirty years David S. Landes#s The Unbound Prometheus has offered an unrivalled history of industrial revolution and economic development in Europe. Now, in this new edition, the author reframes and reasserts his original arguments in the light of current debates about globalisation ...

Cuando se originó el atraso económico de México

la economía mexicana en el largo siglo XIX, 1780-1920

Este libro ofrece una visión de la economía mexicana de 1780 a 1920 y responde a cuestiones como ¿hasta que punto la economía colonial estaba a punto de desplomarse? ¿qué causó esa crisis? ¿cómo se logró salir de ella? ¿qué papel jugó la política económica ...