"Understanding the Great Depression has never been more relevant than in today's economic crisis. This edited collection provides an authoritative introduction to the Great Depression as it affected the advanced countries in the 1930s. The contributions are by acknowledged exper…
This text brings together contributions written by internationally distinguished economic historians. The editors explore the current fascination with the 1930s Great Depression and link it with the Great Recession which began in 2007 and still poses a threat to economic stabili…
"Professor Nicholas Mayhew is Professor of Numismatics and Monetary History at Oxford, a former Deputy Director of the Ashmolean Museum, Director of the Winton Institute for Monetary History and Fellow of St Cross College. Over the course of his forty-year career, Mayhew has mad…
Networks, norms, and alliances -- Japan's financial system and persistence of systemic support -- The politics of the Japanese credit rating industry -- Japan's ideational developments and corporate governance -- The dilution of systemic support and growing contradictions. "Thi…
A partir del siglo XII, la fiscalidad se convirtió en un componente esencial de la sociedad medieval en la mayor parte de Europa. El proceso de construcción del Estado y las relaciones entre los príncipes y sus ciudades súbditas o entre los ciudadanos y sus gobernantes estaban p…
Beginning in the twelfth century, taxation increasingly became an essential component of medieval society in most parts of Europe. The state-building process and relations between princes and their subject cities or between citizens and their rulers were deeply shaped by fiscal …
This book describes and analyzes the transformation of Indian economy taking into account historical changes and present dynamics of the rural-urban nexus. India has recently experienced a period as a high-performing economy, with the great improvement of indices of human develo…
"Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the intersection, conflict, and confluence of religion and the market before 1700. The interdisciplinary nature means that this volume is the perfect …
Introduction: the clerk problem -- Paperwork -- Market society -- Self-making men -- Desk diseases -- Counting persons, counting profits -- Conclusion: white collar
