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Research in the history of economic thought and methodology
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (RHETM) is a book series dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to a broad range of topics related to the history and methodology of economics.
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Research in the history of economic thought and methodology
Volume 41A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on “Religion, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Rise of Liberalism,” a new research essay by Syed Mohib Ali, and a roundtable on the institutionalist economics of Geoffrey Hodgson.
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Research in the history of economic thought and methodology
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (RHETM) is a book series dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to a broad range of topics related to the history and methodology of economics.
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Restarting the future
From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today’s intangible economyThe past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of other ills that have left people wondering what...
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Rethinking innovation
How corporations have increasingly embraced the sharing of knowledge as a competitive strategyInnovation is more important than ever, yet breakthroughs are becoming harder to achieve. Modern technologies, from artificial intelligence and 5G networks to biotech, are so complex that they require co...
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Rethinking the industrial revolution
The feudal state is often viewed as a passive actor in the rise of capitalism. Žmolek here corrects the record.
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Risk, choice, and uncertainty
Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty offers a new narrative of the three-century history of the study of decision making, tracing how crucial ideas have evolved and telling the stories of the thinkers who shaped the field. George G. Szpiro examines economics from theories of optimal decision making to b...
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Rome and the rise of the west
How the Roman empire shaped the West and the emergence of the modern economyMost historians recounting the rise of the West begin their narratives somewhere in the Middle Ages. In this groundbreaking account, historian Taco Terpstra argues that if we want to understand how the rise of the West un...
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Sea of treasures
How goods and people in motion across the ancient world were entangled through consumptionThe ancient world was a far more interconnected place than is often assumed. Maritime routes across the Indian Ocean, by no means peripheral, made these connections possible. In Sea of Treasures, Jeremy Simm...
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Secular cycles
Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and states go through strong expansionist phases followed by periods of state fai...
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Selling the economic miracle
Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Soci...
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Slaving states
A pathbreaking new perspective on the ways ancient societies were shaped and transformed by slave tradingThe growing economies of ancient Greece and Rome created an ever-increasing demand for enslaved labor, which was supplied by states on the peripheries of their empires. In Slaving States, arch...
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Social-imperialism in britain
In this important volume, Redfern rigorously examines the relationship between British labour and British capital during the two world wars of the twentieth century.
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Socialism and commodity production
Chattopadhyay convincingly shows that Marx's conception of socialism bears little resemblance to the single-party states often termed "socialist."
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Strangers within
A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin—prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters—between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuriesIn Strangers Within, Francisco Bethencourt provides the first comprehensive history of New Christians, the descendants of Jews f...
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Subordinated development
Focusing on the processes of accumulation, concentration, and centralisation of capital, Rubens Sawaya traces the transnationalisation of capital and its impact on Latin America and Brazil
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Surviving rome
A radical revision—and worker’s-eye view—of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economyThe story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived throu...
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The abortion market
A revealing investigation into how businesses and businessmen selling abortion access shaped the experience of buying abortions for millions of women between 1962 and 1972The abortion market was a powerful economic force in American life. Before legalization lowered the cost, one million women ea...
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The academic scribblers
The Academic Scribblers offers a thoughtful and highly literate summary of modern economic thought. It presents the story of economics through the lives of twelve major modern economists, beginning with Alfred Marshall and concluding with Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman. In a very real sense, ...
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The age of machinery
An engagingly written account of textile engineering in its key northern centres, rich with historical narrative and analysis.The engineers who built the first generations of modern textile machines, between 1770 and 1850, pushed at the boundaries of possibility. This book investigates these pion...
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The battle of bretton woods
A sweeping history of the drama, intrigue, and rivalry behind the creation of the postwar economic orderWhen turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of...
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The big ditch
An incisive economic and political history of the Panama CanalOn August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an ex...
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The brazilian amazonia in change i
Looking back: The Brazilian Amazon in the 1970s.
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The central bank as crisis manager
In this important study, Patrick Honohan, former governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, calls on central banks to make preparation for crisis management a core activity.
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The chile project
How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment—and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globeIn The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the remarkable story of how the neoliberal economic model—installed in Chile during the Pinochet di...
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The chinese economy
Stephen Morgan’s analysis of China’s recent economic history examines the Chinese state’s quest to become the first economy to avoid the “middle income trap” without significant political and social liberalization. The book examines debates about the Chinese economic story from the time of the gr...
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The coming of neo-feudalism
Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw a mas...
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The company of strangers
The Company of Strangers shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter analyzing how the rise and fall of social trust explain the unsustainable boom in the global economy over the past decade and the ...
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The corporation and the twentieth century
A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism, brought forth what became a dominant narrati...
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The corsairs of saint-malo
Henning Hillmann examines the merchant community of Saint-Malo, Brittany, a key port in the French Atlantic economy, to shed light on the local networks that linked commerce and conflict in early modern Europe. He combines rich descriptions of privateering campaigns with quantitative network anal...
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The currency of politics
Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970sIn the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies—money. Yet despite the centrality of political strugg...
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The darwin economy
What Charles Darwin can teach us about building a fairer societyWho was the greater economist—Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, New York Times economics columnist and best-selling author of The Economi...
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The dead pledge
Today, the federal government underwrites a financial system built around mortgage lending. In The Dead Pledge, Judge Glock reveals the surprising origins of this entanglement in forgotten economic ideas and policies that held sway from the early twentieth century through the Great Depression.
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The debt system
This compelling, provocative, and accessible volume offers a rejoinder to the prevailing wisdom that views debt as holy writ.
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The decline of serfdom in late medieval england
An exciting, fresh look at one of the most important questions of medieval scholarship - the decline of serfdom and its implications.Scholars from various disciplines have long debated why western Europe in general, and England in particular, led the transition from feudalism to capitalism. The d...
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The demand for health
A seminal work in health economics first published in 1972, Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health introduced a new theoretical model for determining the health status of the population. His work uniquely synthesized economic and public health knowledge and has catalyzed a vastly influential bo...
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The dialectical meaning of offshored work
A thoughtful analysis of the developing interplay between post-socialist European communities and Western neoliberal actors.
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