From airline reservations to sonic the hedgehog

a history of the software industry

From its first glimmerings in the 1950s, the software industry has evolved to become the fourth largest industrial sector of the US economy. Starting with a handful of software contractors who produced specialized programs for the few existing machines, the industry grew to include producers ...

Life under pressure

mortality and living standards in Europe and Asia,1700-1900

This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia -- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the authors examine 100,000 life histories in 100 ...

The company of strangers

a natural history of economic life

Human beings are the only species in nature to have developed an elaborate division of labor between strangers. Even something as simple as buying a shirt depends on an astonishing web of interaction and organization that spans the world. But unlike that other uniquely human ...

Capitalism and modernity

the great debate

This important new book investigates how the West attained its current position of economic and social advantage. In an incisive historical analysis, Jack Goody examines when and why Europe (and Anglo-America) started to outstrip all other continents in socio-economic growth. Drawing on non-Western examples of ...

The strictures of inheritance

the Dutch economy in the nineteenth century

A major feat of research and synthesis, this book presents the first comprehensive history of the Dutch economy in the nineteenth century--an important but poorly understood piece of European economic history. Based on a detailed reconstruction of extensive economic data, the authors account for demise ...

The nature of money

Mainstream economics fails to grasp the specific nature of money. It is seen either as a #neutral veil# over the operation of the #real# economy or alternatively as a #thing# # a special commodity. In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in ...

Growing public

social spending and economic growth since the eigteenth century.Vol.I.The story

Growing Public examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. Taxes and transfers have been debated for centuries, but only now can we get a clear view of the whole evolution of social spending. What kept prospering nations ...

Global capital markets

integration, crisis, and growth

This book presents an economic survey of international capital mobility from the late nineteenth century to the present. ÍNDICE: Part I. Preamble: 1. Global capital markets: overview and origins: 1.1 Theoretical benefits.1.2 Problems of supernational capital markets in practice.1.3 The ...

The political economy of Stalinism

evidence from the Soviet secret archives

This book uses the formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative command system. It concludes that the system failed not because of the 'jockey'(i.e. Stalin and later leaders) but because of the ...

The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain

.v.1.Industrialization, 1700-1860

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around ...

The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain

.v.2.Economic maturity, 1860-1939

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around ...

Historia y proyecto social

Jornadas de debate del Institut Universitari d'Història Jaume Vicens Vives

La obra reúne los estudios de Ramón Villares (Universidad de Salamanca), Francisco Comín (Universidad de Alcalá), Antonio Miguel Bernal (Universidad de Sevilla), Pedro Ruiz Torres (Universidad de Zaragoza) y Ramón López Facal (de Santiago de Compostela) que sirven de homenaje a la trayectoria del maestro ...

The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain

.v.3.Structural change and growth, 1939-2000

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around ...

Money and the early greek mind

homer, philosophy, tragedy

How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage which produced the ...

Markets in historical contexts

ideas and politics in the modern world

Markets in Historical Contexts is the result of a dialogue between historians and social scientists thinking about markets in modern society. How should we approach markets after the collapse of Marxism? What alternative ways of thinking about markets can we recover from the past? The ...

Edward Said y la historiografía

El trabajo de Edward Said ha contribuido de manera sustancial a los debates contemporáneos sobre orientalismo, análisis del discurso, políticas disidentes y poscolonialismo. Nacido en Palestina, Said pasó gran parte de su vida en el exilio, por lo que conoce en profundidad la influencia que ...

La fábrica de la estrategia

33 lecciones sobre Lenin

A principios del siglo XX, Lenin intervino en una coyuntura similar a la actual, cuando el capitalismo global conocía su primera gran crisis mundial pivotada en torno a la primera guerra imperialista, la composición de clase de la fuerza de trabajo rusa estaba experimentando una ...

Empresarios españoles en el proceso de independencia norteamericana

la Casa Gardoqui e hijos de Bilbao

El hilo conductor de ésta obra es la contribución de España al largo y costoso proceso de independencia de los Estados Unidos de América, materia poco conocida y cuyas fuentes han permanecido durantes éstos dos largos siglos prácticamente ignotas y vírgenes. La comprensión de los ...

Storia del sistema bancario italiano

Questo volume è il primo tentativo di tracciare una storia complessiva del sistema creditizio italiano dall#Unità a oggi. Sono analizzati, insieme alla funzione del credito nell#economia reale e al suo ruolo costitutivo nei processi di sviluppo, i mutamenti istituzionali e operativi del sistema ...

The first crash

lessons from the south sea bubble

For nearly three centuries the spectacular rise and fall of the South Sea Company has gripped the public imagination as the most graphic warning to investors of the dangers of unbridled speculation. Yet history repeats itself and the same elemental forces that drove up the ...