Markets and Governments in Economic History – serie
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Clashing Over Commerce
A History of Us Trade Policy
Häftad, 2019
306 kr
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Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevitable, James Madison argued in The Federalist …
Institutional Revolution
Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World
Inbunden, 2011
332 kr
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Few events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. Following its onset in eighteenth-century Britain, sweeping changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and technology began to gain unstoppable momentum throughout Europe, North America, and eventually much of the …
Selling Power
Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940
Inbunden, 2016
936 kr
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We remember Thomas Edison as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, but he deserves credit for something much larger, an even more singular invention that profoundly changed the way the world works: the modern electric utility industry. Edison's light bulb was the first to work within a …
Public Good and the Brazilian State
Municipal Finance and Public Services in Sao Paulo, 1822-1930
Inbunden, 2018
569 kr
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Who and what a government taxes, and how the government spends the money collected, are questions of primary concern to governments large and small, national and local. When public revenues pay for high-quality infrastructure and social services, citizens thrive and crises are averted. When public …
Land of Milk and Butter
How Elites Created the Modern Danish Dairy Industry
Inbunden, 2018
622 kr
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How and why does Denmark have one of the richest, most equal, and happiest societies in the world today? Historians have often pointed to developments from the late nineteenth century, when small peasant farmers worked together through agricultural cooperatives, whose exports of butter and bacon …
Hawai'i
Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change
Inbunden, 2019
569 kr
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Relative to the other habited places on our planet, Hawai'i has a very short history. The Hawaiian archipelago was the last major land area on the planet to be settled, with Polynesians making the long voyage just under a millennium ago. Our understanding of the social, political, and economic …
Deconstructing the Monolith
The Microeconomics of the National Industrial Recovery Act
Inbunden, 2019
525 kr
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The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was enacted by Congress in June of 1933 to assist the nation's recovery during the Great Depression. Its passage ushered in a unique experiment in US economic history: under the NIRA, the federal government explicitly supported, and in some cases …
Bankrupt in America
A History of Debtors, Their Creditors, and the Law in the Twentieth Century
Av Mary Eschelbach Hansen, Bradley A Hansen
Inbunden, 2020
525 kr
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In 2005, more than two million Americans--six out of every 1,000 people--filed for bankruptcy. Though personal bankruptcy rates have since stabilized, bankruptcy remains an important tool for the relief of financially distressed households. In Bankrupt in America, Mary and Brad Hansen offer a vital …
Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy
India 1947 and Beyond
Av Tirthankar Roy, Anand V. Swamy
Inbunden, 2022
437 kr
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An essential history of India's economic growth since 1947, including the legal reforms that have shaped the country in the shadow of colonial rule.Economists have long lamented how the inefficiency of India's legal system undermines the country’s economic capacity. How has this come to be? The …
Easy Money
American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency
Inbunden, 2023
560 kr
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A sweeping history of the American invention of modern money.Economists endlessly debate the nature of legal tender monetary systems—coins and bills issued by a government or other authority. Yet the origins of these currencies have received little attention. Dror Goldberg tells the story of modern …
Continental Dollar
How the American Revolution Was Financed with Paper Money
Av Farley Grubb
Inbunden, 2023
657 kr
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An illuminating history of America’s original credit market. The Continental Dollar is a revelatory history of how the fledgling United States paid for its first war. Farley Grubb upends the common telling of this story, in which the United States printed cross-colony money, called Continentals, to …
False Dawn
The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947
Inbunden, 2025
315 kr
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CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL’S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025A definitive history of the United States’ recovery from the Great Depression—and the New Deal's true part in it.FDR’s New Deal has long enjoyed a special place in American history and policy—both because it redefined the government’s …
Young Fed
The Banking Crises of the 1920s and the Making of a Lender of Last Resort
Av Mark Carlson
Inbunden, 2025
358 kr
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A new history of crisis responses in the central bank’s formative years.The long-standing description of the Federal Reserve as a “lender of last resort” refers to the central bank’s emergency liquidity provision for financial entities in periods of crisis. As Mark Carlson shows, this function was …
Great Enrichment
A New History of American Growth and Inequality, 1865–1945
Inbunden, 2027
293 kr
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A revelatory economic history of America's Gilded Age—and how it wasn't just the Robber Barons who benefited.The Gilded Age, spanning the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was when Americans got rich. Or, rather, some Americans got rich. Because as much as the era is synonymous with …
Easy Money
American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency
Häftad, 2026
315 kr
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A sweeping history of the American invention of modern money.Economists endlessly debate the nature of legal tender monetary systems—coins and bills issued by a government or other authority. Yet the origins of these currencies have received little attention. Dror Goldberg tells the story of modern …
House Money
A History of the American Mortgage Market
Av Jonathan D. Rose, Kenneth Snowden
Inbunden, 2027
419 kr
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How the market that made the American Dream was made—and what that history tells us about its future and fluctuations.When Americans poured into cities and suburbs during the twentieth century, they needed capital to build and own homes. The market that emerged did more than merely provide it: the …
Pox of Liberty
How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection
Inbunden, 2015
385 kr
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The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world. But that wealth hasn't translated to a higher life expectancy, an area where the United States still ranks thirty-eighth-behind Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, and Greece, among many others. Some fault the absence of universal health care or …
Law and the Economy in Colonial India
Av Tirthankar Roy, Anand V. Swamy
Inbunden, 2016
383 kr
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Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment over the long run requires a well-developed legal infrastructure for conducting business, including cheap and reliable contract enforcement and secure property rights. But it's …
Golden Rules
The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush
Inbunden, 2015
469 kr
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Fresh water has become scarce and will become even more so in the coming years, as continued population growth places ever greater demands on the supply of fresh water. At the same time, options for increasing that supply look to be ever more limited. No longer can we rely on technological …
Clashing over Commerce
A History of US Trade Policy
Inbunden, 2017
331 kr
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Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevitable, James Madison argued in The Federalist …
From Old Regime to Industrial State – A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I
Av Richard H. Tilly, Michael Kopsidis
Inbunden, 2020
824 kr
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In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany’s industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead consider a long view, incorporating market demand, …
Charleston Orphan House
Children's Lives in the First Public Orphanage in America
Inbunden, 2013
332 kr
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The first public orphanage in America, the Charleston Orphan House saw to the welfare and education of thousands of children from poor white families in the urban South. From wealthy benefactors to the families who sought its assistance to the artisans and merchants who relied on its charges as …
