[This book] brings data on overshoot and global ecological collapse to the present moment. It provides a short course in the World3 computer model, types of growth, and the various kinds of over-shoot likely to occur in the current century. While it remains to be seen whether pu…
Combining a large amount of new data, more powerful computer modelling and the latest thinking on sustainability, ecological footprinting and limits, this updated edition of 'Limits to Growth' makes an even more urgent case for a rapid readjustment of the global economy toward a…
In this important book, the author explores how production was organised in the context of the economic development of modern Japan.
"In London, the world's foremost financial center, the week before the outbreak of the First World War saw the breakdown of the markets, culminating with the closure for the first time ever of the London Stock Exchange on Friday 31 July. Outside the Bank of England a long anxiou…
An economic history of Nigeria, 1860-1960
"This volume is the updated edition of the path-breaking study published in 1978, and translated into Chinese in 1990. The second edition extends the analysis from 1977 to 2004 in over 250 pages of new text." "Francine Frankel takes the reader through the tumultuous years of the…
"The history of prices is the history of change," writes David Hackett Fischer in this broad sweep of western history from the middle ages to our own time. His primary sources are price records, which are more abundant for the study of historical change than any other type of qu…
"The unthinkable has happened. The extraordinary success of the Asian economies has been stopped in its tracks by a series of devastating financial crises. Asia Meltdown gives a blow-by-blow account of how it all started, what caused it - from international currency speculation …