"This book illuminates the real effects of regulations on people's everyday lives. It traces the effects of regulations on an economy by working through the ripple effects of changes. In so doing, the book provides a fundamental understanding for the economy as an organism rathe…
The Roman market economy
by Temin, Peter
fromThe Princeton economic history of the western world
The Roman market economy
by Temin, Peter
fromPrinceton economic history of the Western world
The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and…
"In this book Bernard Salanie studies the circumstances under which competitive markets fail to achieve a socially optimal equilibrium and the interventions that are used to remedy these market failures. The discussion focuses on the microeconomic aspects of market failures, enc…
"The Ancient Maya Marketplace, edited by Eleanor M. King, reviews the debate on prehispanic Maya markets. The volume's contributors challenge the model of a non-commercialized Maya economy and offer compelling new evidence for the existence and identification of ancient marketpl…
En la cub.: "Le monde actuel vit un paradoxe inouï. D'un côté, la cause semble entendue : il est plongé dans la crise par les comportements erratiques des marchés financiers. De l'autre, des millions d'êtres miséreux rêvent d'avoir accès au marché, au lieu où, à la ville, ils po…
"Le monde actuel vit un paradoxe inouï. D'un côté, la cause semble entendue : il est plongé dans la crise par les comportements erratiques des marchés financiers. De l'autre, des millions d'êtres miséreux rêvent d'avoir accès au marché, au lieu où, à la ville, ils pourraient tro…
Introducing innovative new research from international scholars working on Islamic fashion and its critics, this book provides a global perspective on Muslim dress practices. The book takes a broad geographic sweep, bringing together the sartorial experiences of Muslims in locat…
"Market Society" provides a review of changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought. This text is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students in sociology, economic theory and history, politics, social and political theory, anthropology and cultural studies.