A culture of growth

the origins of the modern economy

During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all ...

Prácticas agrarias y relaciones sociales

la Casa-Modelo de Labranza de Yurreamendi, Gipúzcoa, 1856-1867

Propio de una provincia mayormente agraria y que surgió desde el núcleo de las instituciones forales provinciales, sin sujeción a ninguna entidad estatal. El caserío (baserria) era el eje económico de la provincia y los campesinos (baserritarrak) constituían el grueso de su población. Estos campesinos ...

El legado de la industria

archivos, bibliotecas, fototecas de empresas. Fábricas y memoria

El Legado de la Industria es el volumen 17 de la colección "Los Ojos de la memoria"tiene mas de setenta trabajos. El artículo introductorio es de Miguel A. Alvarez Areces titulado "Fabricas y Memoria"que junto a más de setenta trabajos en setecientas páginas ...

Auge y decadencia de Castilla

estudios de historia económica y social (siglos XVI-XX)

Ángel García Sanz (1946-2014) ha contribuido decisivamente a la renovación de nuestros conocimientos sobre la historia de España en los siglos XVI y XVII, vista sobre todo desde la perspectiva de la Corona de Castilla. En este volumen se han seleccionado algunos de sus mejores ...

How states pay for wars

Armies fight battles, states fight wars. To focus solely on armies is to neglect the broader story of victory and defeat. Military power stems from an economic base, and without wealth, soldiers cannot be paid, weapons cannot be procured, and food cannot be bought. War ...

El moderno sistema mundial

Tomo IV: El liberalismo centrista triunfante, 1789-1914

Obra fundamental y lectura ineludible, El moderno sistema mundial ofrece las claves para comprender la sociedad actual. Ejercicio de erudición único y rigurosísima investigación histórica, esta magna obra de Immanuel Wallerstein es una genuina reconstrucción del pasado del sistema-mundo en que vivimos. En ella, el ...

Time, capitalism, and alienation

a socio-historical inquiry into the making of modern time

In Time, Capitalism and Alienation: A Socio-Historical Inquiry into the Making of Modern Time, Jonathan Martineau offers an account of the histories of social time in Europe, from the innovation of the clock around 1300 to the making of World Standard Time around the turn ...

History of financial institutions

essays on the history of European finance, 1800–1950

History of Financial Institutions contributes to the analysis of how the modern corporation, business and finance have shaped and keep on shaping our world. In a collection of nine succinct essays, this volume looks at the role of finance in European history from the beginning ...

An age of risk

politics and economy in early Modern Britain

In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future. Focusing on the epistemological, political, and economic writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, and Adam Smith ...

The information nexus

global capitalism from the Renaissance to the present

Capitalism is central to our understanding of contemporary economic and political life and yet what does it really mean? If, as has now been shown to be the case, capital and property rights existed in pre-modern and pre-capitalist societies, what is left of our understanding ...

Capitalism

the reemergence of a historical concept

Capitalism has been a controversial concept. In the second half of the 20th century, many historians have either not used the concept at all, or only in passing. Many regarded the term as too broad, holistic and vague or too value-loaded, ideological and polemic. This ...

An economic history of twentieth-century Europe

economic regimes from Laissez-Faire to globalization

This new edition of Ivan Berend's leading overview of economic regimes and economic performance from the start of the twentieth century to the present is fully updated to incorporate recent events, including the causes and impacts of the 2008 financial-economic crisis. Praised for its ...

Anthropologists in the stock exchange

a financial history of victorian science

Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of global finance. Marc Flandreau tracks a group of ...

Banque et société XIXe-XXIe siècle

identités croisées. Hommage à Pierre de Longuemar

Après une carrière de banquier, Pierre de Longuemar a consacré vingt-cinq ans à l’histoire des banques et à la sauvegarde des archives bancaires, notamment au sein de la banque Paribas, puis du Groupe BNP Paribas. Cet ouvrage rassemble vingt contributions d’amis, de banquiers ...

Economic thought

a brief history

In this concise yet comprehensive history, Heinz D. Kurz traces the long arc of economic thought from its emergence in ancient Greece to its systematic presentation among the classical thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to the influential work of scholars such ...

The Aztec economic world

merchants and markets in Ancient Mesoamerica

Home > Books > History > South, Central America and Caribbean > Mexico Home > Books > History > North America > Native American ISBN: 9781107142770 - The Aztec Economic World Bookmark and Share The Aztec Economic World Free delivery on orders over £10 in the UK Merchants and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica Kenneth ...

Crónica de (una) capital en tránsito

crisis económica, luchas ciudadanas y cambio cultural en Madrid (1975-1985)

Este libro analiza en primer lugar las premisas y el perfil de la crisis económica experimentada en Madrid y su Área metropolitana desde mediados de los setenta, así como la transformación de su estructura productiva, extendida durante la primera mitad de los años ochenta en ...

Histoire mondiale de la guerre économique

La guerre économique est une vieille histoire. Elle est à l'économie ce que la science de la guerre est à la politique : un affrontement pour capter les ressources. Dès la préhistoire, les hommes s'affrontent pour conquérir les meilleurs territoires de chasse et de ...

Fixing economics

the story of how the dismal science was broken - and how it could be rebuilt

In Fixing Economics, bestselling financial writer George Cooper takes readers on a gripping tour of scientific revolution, social upheaval and the secrets of money and debt, in an unmissable read for anyone curious to understand how the world really works - and the amazing future of ...

El moderno sistema mundial

Tomo I: La agricultura capitalista y los orígenes de la economía-mundo europea en el siglo XVI

Obra fundamental y lectura ineludible, El moderno sistema mundial ofrece las claves para comprender la sociedad actual. Ejercicio de erudición único y rigurosísima investigación histórica, esta magna obra de Immanuel Wallerstein es una genuina reconstrucción del pasado del sistema-mundo en que vivimos. En ella, el ...