A history of the World in seven cheap things

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives- these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap ...

A business of State

commerce, politics, and the birth of the East India Company

At the height of its power around 1800, the English East India Company controlled half of the world’s trade and deployed a vast network of political influencers at home and abroad. Yet the story of the Company’s beginnings in the early seventeenth century ...

Mendizábal y el liberalismo económico español

Volumen I: El ideario de Mendizábal y su realización efectiva. Obras económicas y hacendísticas

Mendizábal y el liberalismo económico español

Volumen II: Las políticas sectoriales de Mendizábal. Memoria de 17 de agosto de 1837

Romanzo di uno scandalo

la Banca Romana tra finzione e realtà

Scoppiato alla fine del 1892, il caso politico-finanziario della Banca Romana resta uno dei più memorabili scandali istituzionali di tutti i tempi. Portò a galla le magagne di un’intera classe dirigente, minacciò di travolgere personaggi del calibro di Crispi e Giolitti, culminò in un ...

A telephone for the world

Iridium, Motorola, and the making of a Global Age

The first book to tell the story of Iridium in this context, A Telephone for the World is a fascinating look at how people, nations, and corporations across the world grappled in different ways with the meaning of a new historical era.

Los escaparates de la moda

sistemas de comercialización, espacios de consumo y oferta textil en la Valencia preindustrial (1675-1805)

El giro metodológico que representa la historia del consumo ha contribuido a desarrollar enfoques nuevos sobre temas y fuentes clásicas, dando lugar a una línea de investigación todavía en construcción. El trabajo que tienen entre sus manos pretende incidir en esta dirección, analizando los sistemas ...

Cataluña en la España Moderna

Volumen II: El siglo XVIII: las transformaciones agrarias y la formación del capital comercial

En esta obra histórica monumental el profesor Pierre Vilar sitúa en una nueva perspectiva el pasado de Cataluña en relación con el de los restantes pueblos peninsulares, y nos explica el complejo proceso que hizo surgir el «hecho diferencial» y, con él, el «problema catalán ...

Corporate spirit

religion and the rise of the modern corporation

In this groundbreaking work, Amanda Porterfield explores the long intertwining of religion and commerce in the history of incorporation in the United States. Beginning with the antecedents of that history in western Europe, she focuses on organizations to show how corporate strategies in religion and ...

The open sea

the economic life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome

A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean world In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of ...

El negocio fiscal en la Sevilla del siglo XV

el almojarifazgo mayor y las compañías de arrendatarios

Esta obra es el resultado de casi treinta años de investigación que, de forma intermitente pero continuada, ha dedicado su autor al estudio del almojarifazgo en general, y al sevillano en particular. Impuesto apenas conocido antes de sus aportaciones, y de una extraordinaria complejidad, pues ...

Trading in war

London's maritime world in the Age of Cook and Nelson

A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain's military campaigns ...

Capitalismo canalla

una historia personal del capitalismo a través de la literatura

Este ensayo propone una historia personal del capitalismo desde el siglo XIX hasta hoy. Un recorrido a través de obras literarias esenciales, de sus personajes, tramas y escenarios, para entender la evolución de un capitalismo salvaje. Capitalismo canalla es un ensayo heterodoxo que entremezcla novelas ...

Termites of the State

why complexity leads to inequality

In Termites of the State, renowned public economist Vito Tanzi presents a sweeping account of the industrialized world's economic development during the twentieth century to today. In the tradition of grand economic histories, Tanzi connects the biggest issues of the modern world including extreme ...

American fair trade

proprietary capitalism, corporatism, and the 'New Competition', 1890-1940

Rather than viewing the history of American capitalism as the unassailable ascent of large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the twentieth century ...

Alexander Hamilton on finance, credit, and debt

While serving as the first Treasury Secretary from 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. Hamilton established the Treasury debt market, the dollar, and a central bank, while strategically prompting private entrepreneurs to establish securities markets and stock exchanges and encouraging state governments ...

The roman retail revolution

the socio-economic world of the Taberna

Tabernae were ubiquitous in all Roman cities, lining the busiest streets and dominating their most crowded intersections in numbers far exceeding those of any other form of building. That they played a vital role in the operation of the city, and indeed in the very ...

Slavery's capitalism

a new history of american economic development

During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery ...

Política monetaria y moneda en el reinado de Carlos II

La política monetaria tiene una notable importancia en el devenir histórico y económico de cualquier estado monetarizado. Eso resulta evidente en la Castilla del siglo XVII, cuando la alteración monetaria se convirtió en un recurso más que sirvió para allegar recursos a la maltrecha hacienda ...

El gran nivelador

violencia e historia de la desigualdad desde la Edad de Piedra hasta el siglo XXI

El de la desigualdad es un problema que preocupa hoy en el mundo entero. Pero quienes lo estudian suelen reducirse a considerar los tiempos recientes y olvidan las lecciones a largo plazo de la historia. Este ambicioso e impresionante libro estudia la evolución de la ...