America's economic way of war

war and the US economy from the Spanish-American War to the PersianGulf War

How did economic and financial factors determine how America waged war in the twentieth century? This important new book exposes the influence of economics and finance on the questions of whether the nation should go to war, how wars would be fought, how resources would ...

Revoluciones industriales, trabajo y Estado del Bienestar

la gran ruptura mundial contemporánea

Este libro trata de explicar sintéticamente los tres factores históricos de naturaleza socioeconómica, con referencias también al marco jurídico-político-institucional, que han producido la gran quiebra mundial en los casi tres últimos siglos (desde la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII hasta finales del siglo XX) y ...

Los mercados regionales de México en los siglos XVIII y XIX

El presente libro reúne una serie de trabajos sobre un tema que ha tenido un impulso importante en los últimos años: el mercado interno en México desde fines del periodo colonial hasta la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Esta línea de investigación, que debe mucho ...

Economic development in the Americas since 1500

endowments and institutions

This book brings together a number of previously published articles by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Its essays deal with differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin American and mainland North America, specifically the United States and Canada. It demonstrates how ...

Civilización

Occidente y el resto

Un viajero que recorriera el mundo en 1411 hubiera quedado deslumbrado por las imponentes civilizaciones orientales. La Ciudad Prohibida estaba en plena construcción en la China de los Ming; en Oriente Próximo, los otomanos acechaban Constantinopla. Por el contrario, los belicosos países de Europa occidental ...

Rodrigo Rato

el gran artífice

Más de cinco millones de desocupados, una herencia económica devastadora, autonomías técnicamente en quiebra, casi medio millón de pequeñas y medianas empresas desaparecidas en los últimos años... Esto es lo que el nuevo gobierno de Mariano Rajoy se encontró tras las elecciones del pasado 20 ...

Historia económica del Aragón comtemporáneo

El objetivo del libro es analizar la trayectoria de la economía aragonesa contemporánea. Consta de cuatro partes. Se abre con un análisis espacial del crecimiento económico moderno y continúa con una breve aproximación a la desigualdad regional en la España contemporánea, contextualizando dicha trayectoria a ...

La llave de todos los tesoros

la tesorería General de Carlos III

¿Quién gestionaba el dinero del estado de Carlos III? Esta es la principal pregunta que motiva este libro. La historiografía ha puesto el énfasis en conocer con cuántos recursos podía afrontar ese estado sus políticas, pero no ha habido el suficiente interés en explicar cómo ...

Krupp

a history of the legendary german firm

The history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between ...

The invention of enterprise

entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to modern times

Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs - and their innovations - have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. The "Invention of Enterprise" gathers together, for the first time, leading economic historians to explore the entrepreneur's ...

Comercio y pobreza

cuándo y cómo comenzó el atraso del Tercer Mundo

El profesor Williamson, de la Universidad de Harvard, considerado como el gran especialista en el estudio de la de la globalización, nos ofrece una explicación razonada de las causas que dieron lugar a que el aumento del comercio mundial que se desarrolló entre comienzos del ...

The prosperity of vice

a worried view of economics

What happened yesterday in the West is today being repeated on a global scale. Industrial society is replacing rural society: millions of peasants in China, India, and elsewhere are leaving the countryside and going to the city. New powers are emerging and rivalries are exacerbated ...

Cuban economic and social development

policy reforms and challenges in the 21st Century

The Cuban economy has been transformed over the course of the last decade, and these changes are now likely to accelerate. In this edited volume, prominent Cuban economists and sociologists present a clear analysis of Cuba's economic and social circumstances and suggest steps for ...

El oro de Moscú y el oro de Berlín

finanzas y expolio en tiempos de guerra

La apertura de los archivos de los bancos centrales, sobre todo de Francia y de Inglaterra, además del material desclasificado sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial en los archivos nacionales de Washington y de otros documentos de los archivos militares soviéticos y del Partido Comunista, permitieron ...

Birth of a market

the U.S. treasury securities market from the Great War to the Great Depression

The market for U.S. Treasury securities is a marvel of modern finance. In 2009 the Treasury auctioned 8.2 trillion of new securities, ranging from 4-day bills to 30-year bonds, in 283 offerings on 171 different days. By contrast, in the decade before World ...

The day after the Dollar crashes

a survival guide for the rise of the new world order

How to profit from the events leading up to the likely collapse of the U.S. dollar Society is at a crossroads. Here at home and around the world, we are living in a manner that is absolutely, unconditionally, irrevocably unsustainable. The Day After the ...

Money well spent?

the truth behind the trillion-dollar stimulus, the biggest economic recovery plan in History

The 2012 presidential campaign will, above all else, be a referendum on the Obama administration's handling of the financial crisis, recalling the period when Obama's "audacity of hope" met the austerity of reality. Central to this is the ''American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ...

The roman market economy

The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. "The Roman Market Economy" uses the tools of modern economics to show how ...

Taxation and debt in the Early Modern city

Fiscal relations between states and cities in early modern Europe is a major concern for economic and financial historians. It is often argued that taxes levied on cities by states were draconian and disastrous for economic growth. This study calls for a more nuanced understanding ...

Politics and trade cooperation in the Nineteenth Century

the "Agreeable customs" of 1815-1914

This 2008 book examines international trade cooperation in 1815-1914. Basing the theoretical analysis on the domestic political economy of states, Pahre develops theories of international cooperation, the spread of trade cooperation, and the effect of trade regimes. The book examines trade politics in the entire ...