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Economic history

Paperback. Editor(s): Gereffi, Gary; Wyman, Donald L. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 434 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FP; 1KL; HBTK; KCZ; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
434
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691606743
ISBN
9780691606743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 76.98
€ 59.92

Paperback. Plucked from tropical America, the pineapple was brought to European tables and hothouses before it was conveyed back to the tropics, where it came to dominate US and world markets. This title presents the history of the world's tropical and temperate zones told through the pineapple's illustrative career. Series: California World History Library. Num Pages: 272 pages, 40 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration, 7 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QMT; HBG; HBTB; JFCV; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520265905
ISBN
9780520265905
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.25

Hardback. Throughout history, civilized advance has been propelled by man's pursuit of profit motive and financed by surplus capital won in that pursuit. This work explains the vital lessons learned from that history and explores what they posit for 21st century economic governance producing a message to public officials, entrepreneurs, and scholars alike. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742551909
ISBN
9780742551909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.37

Paperback. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 192 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Harbour Books (East) Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905128303
ISBN
9781905128303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.40

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845455521
ISBN
9781845455521
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.55

Paperback. * The book is written by a "legend" (Hahn) in the field of industrial statistics. The content is based on a combined 75 years of work and academic experience. * Chapters conclude with a summary of "major take-aways" and a series of discussion and/or technical questions to stimulate further thought and creativity. Num Pages: 358 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QFM; HBJF1; KCLT; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470404416
ISBN
9780470404416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 85.96

Hardback. Karl Menger (1902-1985) was the mathematician son of the famous economist Carl Menger. When he was professor of geometry at the University of Vienna from 1927 to 1938, he joined the Vienna Circle and founded his Mathematical Colloquium. This title offers the transcription of those parts of Menger's notes. Series: Advances in Austrian Economics. Num Pages: 156 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCA; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781848559981
ISBN
9781848559981
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.96

Hardback. Examines how developments in economics and the social sciences lead to greater government intrusion in our private lives. Exploring how behavioral economics contributes to the excessive rise of paternalistic interventions, this title presents a controversial challenge to the prevailing currents in economic and political discourse. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; KCA; KCP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691128177
ISBN
9780691128177
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.35

Paperback. Traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. This book concludes with an examination of the forces which have shaped and are poised to undermine America's world power. Num Pages: 400 pages, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; KCA; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 668.
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
New and Updated Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844673049
ISBN
9781844673049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.79

Paperback. In the last 2 centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding success story. Agriculture has fed population with a variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book explains how these feats were accomplished. It covers various factors that have affected agricultural performance. Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Num Pages: 416 pages, 4 line illus. 65 tables. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; KCZ; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 616.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691138534
ISBN
9780691138534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.48

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Haymarket Books United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
62
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608462544
ISBN
9781608462544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.68

Paperback. From Dreams to Disillusionment is the first book to cover the planning experiment of the 1960s in full historical detail. Other countries' planners made the approach seem successful, however, the experiment eventually failed, doomed to disappoint given unrealistic expectations, lack of time and an overburdened government. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349284740
ISBN
9781349284740
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.15

Hardcover. Market Power explores society and economy in medieval Iberia, examining the intersection of regional commercial interests, lordship, and royal authority as part of the evolution of a small village into a rural market town. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 259 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; HBLC1; KCCD; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230391703
ISBN
9780230391703
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.18

Paperback. Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? This title tackles these profound questions and suggests a fresh way in which culture explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations. Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Num Pages: 432 pages, 25 halftones. 78 line illus. 65 tables. BIC Classification: HBTB; HBTK; JHBL; KCA; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 149 x 28. Weight in Grams: 604.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691141282
ISBN
9780691141282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.43

Paperback. Argues that state policies that created conditions conducive to financialization allowed the state to avoid a series of economic, social, and political dilemmas that confronted policymakers as postwar prosperity stalled beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s. This book also focuses on deregulation of financial markets during the 1970s and 1980s. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCP; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Gld
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674066199
ISBN
9780674066199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL; JKSB; KCF; KCY; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 181 x 111. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141985480
ISBN
9780141985480
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Hardback. This books chronicles the steps that led to the downturn of the Zimbabwean state and economy before assessing what can be done to resuscitate this once-thriving society. Editor(s): Besada, Hany. Num Pages: 324 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA; JPV; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 646.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
324
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110199
ISBN
9780230110199
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.68

Paperback. This text examines the history of one of America's most famous railroads, the Erie, and its successor after 1960, the Erie Lackawanna. It covers the period between the Erie's fourth bankruptcy in the late 1930s, and its final liquidation in 1976. Num Pages: 308 pages, 45 half-tones 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; KCZ; KNGT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 12. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804727983
ISBN
9780804727983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.39

Hardback. With fascinating stories of money men, from Alexander Hamilton to Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, and deft explanations of the ins and outs of monetary policy, Greenback Planet clarifies why the dollar rules the world--and why that should frighten us all Series: Discovering America. Num Pages: 147 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCBM; KCZ; KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 341.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
142
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292723412
ISBN
9780292723412
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 28.55

Hardback. Che Guevara remains an iconic figure, four decades after his death. Yet his most significant contribution - his work as a member of the Cuban government - is rarely discussed. This book explores his impact on Cuba's economy, through fascinating new archival material and interviews. Num Pages: 370 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JPFF; KCP; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 242 x 26. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
370
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2009th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230218208
ISBN
9780230218208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 189.97

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