Economic History

The Distribution of Wealth – Growing Inequality?

Michael Schneider, Mike Pottenger, J. E. King

This book is about the distribution of wealth among people, described by statisticians as the size distribution of wealth, and the way that this distribution has changed over time. It provides answers to a host of important questions inc...

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Sweden and the Revival of the Capitalist Welfare State

Andreas Bergh

This book tackles a number of controversial questions regarding Sweden’s economic and political development: • How did Sweden become rich? • How did Sweden become egalitarian? • Why has Sweden since the early 1990s grown fast...

Paperback (2016)

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Law and Economics from an Evolutionary Perspective

Glen Atkinson, Stephen P. Paschall

Law and economics are interdependent. Using a historical case analysis approach, this book demonstrates how the legal process relates to and is affected by economic circumstances. Glen Atkinson and Stephen P. Paschall examine this co-evo...

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Globalization and the Politics of Institutional Reform in Japan

Motoshi Suzuki

Globalization and the Politics of Institutional Reform in Japan illuminates Japan’s contemporary and historical struggle to adjust policy and the institutional architecture of government to an evolving global order. This focused and scho...

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Economic and Natural Disasters since 1900

John Singleton

In the wake of the global financial and Eurozone upheavals this timely book argues that the disaster cycle – a framework normally used in the context of natural disasters – is equally applicable to the analysis of other types of catastro...

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Complexity and Crisis in the Financial System

Edited by Matthew Hollow, Folarin Akinbami, Ranald Michie

With contributions from across the disciplines of law, history, finance, and economics, Complexity and Crisis in the Financial System offers a truly interdisciplinary study of the relationship(s) between crises and complexity in the US a...

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Monopolies and Underdevelopment

Calixto Salomão Filho

This ambitious analysis is centered on the evolution of economic structures in colonized economies, showing the effects of these structures on today’s global reality for all economies, whether they are considered ‘developed’ or ‘underdev...

Hardback (2015)

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The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile

Edited by Geoffrey Jones, Andrea Lluch

During the first global economy of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Argentina became one of the richest countries on earth, while Chile was an economic backwater. During the contemporary era of globalization, libe...

Hardback (2015)

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Individualism and Political Disorder

James M. Buchanan, Yong J. Yoon

Inspired by F.A. Hayek’s Individualism and Economic Order, this book also stands in contrast to the themes of that work, by emphasizing that collective action works differently from the way the market works. The chapters comprise papers ...

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Health, Mortality and the Standard of Living in Europe and North America since 1700

Edited by Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Bernard Harris, Sok Chul Hong

These two volumes bring together important and influential articles and papers on different aspects of the history of health and welfare. The collection includes classic and more recent essays on the origins and nature of mortality decli...

Hardback (2014)

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