Understanding the origins of business is fundamental to grasping modern life, yet most historians look only to the nineteenth century to build their narratives. While the industrial revolution profoundly remade business practice and established much of the corporate organization…
Understanding the origins of business is fundamental to grasping modern life, yet most historians look only to the nineteenth century to build their narratives. While the industrial revolution profoundly remade business practice and established much of the corporate organization…
"Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies researches the development of knowledge economies in Early Modern Europe. Starting with the Southern and Northern Netherlands as important early hubs for marketing knowledge, it analyzes knowledge economies in the dynamics…
Opening a capitalist window -- Closing the open door -- The Korean War and the fight for trade -- Commerce in the making of "Peaceful Coexistence" -- A "Great Leap" in trade -- Trading for salvation -- Markets and the rise and fall of "redness". "Chinese Communists have long em…
Silke van Dyk und Tine Haubner analysieren die Kehrseiten des Community-Kapitalismus, diskutieren seine Bedeutung angesichts neoliberaler Krisen und fragen nach solidarischen Alternativen. Nachbarschaftshilfe, Freiwillige Feuerwehr, Pflegepatenschaften, Tafeln, Flüchtlingshilfe …
Does a consumer who bought a shirt made in another nation bear any moral responsibility when the women who sewed that shirt die in a factory fire or in the collapse of the building? Many have asserted, without explanation, that because markets cause harms to distant others, cons…
In 11 chapters by leading scholars, 'The Market Makers' provides a detailed but highly readable analysis of how retailers have become the leading drivers of the new global economy.
The Invisible Hand offers a radical departure from the conventional wisdom of economists and economic historians, by showing that 'factor markets' and the economies dominated by them -- the market economies -- are not modern, but have existed at various times in the past. They r…
"Governments are busy liberating and encouraging market forces, trying to roll back the functions and expenditure of the state. Underpinning such reform programs is a range of economic dogmas stressing the necessity of continuous economic growth, liberalization of trade and capi…
"Governments are busy liberating and encouraging market forces, trying to roll back the functions and expenditure of the state. Underpinning such reform programs is a range of economic dogmas stressing the necessity of continuous economic growth, liberalization of trade and capi…
"Governments are busy liberating and encouraging market forces, trying to roll back the functions and expenditure of the state. Underpinning such reform programs is a range of economic dogmas stressing the necessity of continuous economic growth, liberalization of trade and capi…