El desarrollo económico mundial en perspectiva histórica

cinco siglos de revoluciones industriales, globalización y desigualdad

¿Por qué ha crecido el comercio mundial? ¿Desde hace cuánto vivimos en un mundo globalizado? ¿Por qué los primeros países en industrializarse fueron también pioneros en la emigración masiva de sus poblaciones? ¿Por qué la revolución industrial tardó tanto en llegar a varios puntos del ...

Historia económica de España

Este libro, configurado de modo que sirva tanto a cualquier lector interesado, como al estudiante o al profesor, ofrece un recorrido a largo plazo por los principales factores que han configurado la vida económica de España, desde una visión, más general, de la herencia legada ...

US credit and payments, 1800-1935

Recent financial crises have led many economists and policy makers to ask if it is possible to design a financial system that is both efficient and safe. Examining the history of credit and payments in America, this collection looks at the development of a number ...

Las grandes representaciones del mundo y la economía a lo largo de la historia

del universo mágico al torbellino creador

Un gran libro, una obra monumental, de las que surge una cada década, en la que el reconocido economista René Passet hace un recorrido por la historia de la humanidad, repasando los paradigmas culturales, científicos y económicos desde el big bang hasta nuestros días: la ...

Las empresas de la comarca de Valdeorras

un recorrido histórico desde el ferrocarril hasta el primer franquismo, 1883-1950

La comarca de Valdeorras, su economía y sus empresas, constituyen los protagonistas de este texto. La obra nos acerca a las peripecias empresariales de esta comarca orensana desde la llegada del ferrocarril en la década de 1880 hasta mediados del siglo XX. Los caminos de ...

La ola que arrasó España

ascenso y caída de la cultura del ladrillo

¿Por qué los precios de la vivienda empezaron a subir aceleradamente en 1998? ¿Por qué se creó una burbuja tremenda que hizo que se llegara a creer que los precios de la construcción ya no bajarían jamás? ¿Por qué la economía española llegó a depender ...

The economic history of the Caribbean since the Napoleonic Wars

This book examines the economic history of the Caribbean in the two hundred years since the Napoleonic Wars and is the first analysis to span the whole region. It is divided into three parts, each centered around a particular case study: the first focuses on ...

The sugar barons

family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies

To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some two hundred years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the Western world's greatest power struggles as ...

The great trade routes

a history of cargoes and commerce over land and sea

The ancient world saw the expansion of Western Asian, Mediterranean and Polynesian civilizations as transport networks for trade were established. Later, imperial expansion reached far flung corners of the world. The Great Trade Routes examines the principal trade networks throughout history, encompassing coastal and trans-oceanic ...

Why I left Goldman Sachs

a Wall Street story

On March 14, 2012, more than three million people read Greg Smith's bombshell Op-Ed in the New York Times titled "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs." The column immediately went viral, became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter, and drew passionate responses from former ...

Comercio, banca y sociedad en los reinos hispánicos

(siglos XIV-XVIII)

Conseguir y conservar las riquezas se acabaron por convertir en objetivos de notable importancia en los inicios del capitalismo. Las transformaciones ideológicas registradas en una nueva forma de entender el mundo, donde el lucro personal pasó de estar condenado a ser considerado un bien público ...

An economic history of Nineteenth-Century Europe

diversity and industrialization

Why did some countries and regions of Europe reach high levels of economic advancement in the nineteenth century, while others were left behind? This new transnational survey of the continent's economic development highlights the role of regional differences in shaping each country's economic ...

The great persuasion

reinventing free markets since the Depression

Just as today's observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasion is an intellectual history of that project. Angus ...

Metals, culture and capitalism

an essay on the origins of the Modern World

Metals, Culture and Capitalism is an ambitious, broad-ranging account of the search for metals in Europe and the Near East from the Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution and the relationship between this and economic activity, socio-political structures and the development of capitalism. Continuing his ...

The Atlantic in world history

As the Atlantic Ocean was transformed from a terrifying barrier into a highway uniting four continents, the lives of people all around the ocean were transformed. After 1492 merchants and political leaders around the Atlantic refocused their attention from trade highways in their interiors to ...

The history of mining

the events, technology and people involved in the industry that forged the Modern World

This book deals with the industry that forged the modern world. Throughout history metals and raw materials have underpinned human activity. So it is that the industry responsible for extracting these materials from the ground - mining - has been ever present throughout the history of civilisation ...

Sed de poder

la verdadera historia de Mario Conde

Una crónica de la disolución ética y de la desfachatez moral que ha llevado a España y a Europa a una crisis sin precedentes y que señala a sus autores intelectuales, económicos y políticos. La burbuja del dinero fácil facilitó el frenesí especulativo de una ...

The european economy since 1914

The fifth edition of The European Economy provides a succinct and lucid account of the development and problems of the European economy since the first world war. It covers the whole of Europe including Russia and Turkey. The text divides into several clearly defined sub-periods ...

A world connecting

1870-1945

Between 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. New technologies erased distance and accelerated the global exchange of people, products, and ideas on an unprecedented scale. A World Connecting focuses on an era when growing global interconnectedness inspired ...

España e Italia del nacionalismo económico a la globalización = La Spagna e l'Italia dal nazionalismo economico alla globalizzazione

El evidente paralelismo de la evolución económica de España e Italia justifica el interés por la historia comparada de ambos países. Los ensayos que se recogen en este volumen constituyen una nueva contribución al estudio de este argumento y se proponen mantener vivo el interés ...