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Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Num Pages: 334 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 40 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; HBTB; KCZ; KFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 217 x 25. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137531094
- ISBN
- 9781137531094
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Condition: New
€ 139.33
€ 139.33
Hardback. Diwan and Galal looks at the structure and prospects of the Middle East economies after the 2011 Uprisings, focusing on issues of economic growth, inequality, the impact of oil, and the unfolding political transitions. Editor(s): Galal, Ahmed. Series: International Economic Association Series. Num Pages: 359 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; KCG; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 730.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 359
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137529763
- ISBN
- 9781137529763
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€ 129.41
€ 129.41
Hardcover. This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, it traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; KCZ; KNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137525505
- ISBN
- 9781137525505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.54
€ 127.54
Hardback. Public Choice Economics and the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria provides an economics perspective on the witchcraft episode, and adds to the growing body of work analyzing prominent historical events using the tools of economics. Num Pages: 135 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; KCK; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 135
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137506344
- ISBN
- 9781137506344
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Condition: New
€ 66.06
€ 66.06
Hardback. This book argues that ancient democracy did not stop at the door of economic democracy, and that ancient Athens has much to tell us about the relationship between political equality and economic equality. Athenian democracy rested on a foundation of general economic equality, which enabled citizens to challenge their exclusion from politics. Num Pages: 106 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3D; HBLA; JPHV; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 288.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 106
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137503473
- ISBN
- 9781137503473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.82
€ 65.82
Hardback. A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCZ; KJMV6; KNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137503251
- ISBN
- 9781137503251
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Condition: New
€ 127.95
€ 127.95
Hardcover. This book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their labor and knowledge to direct the impact and experience of hunting. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 229 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1H; HBTQ; JFSJ; KCZ; WSXH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137494429
- ISBN
- 9781137494429
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Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Hardback. This book studies the growth and reconstriuction of the Spanish fiscal-military state. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137478658
- ISBN
- 9781137478658
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.05
€ 183.05
Hardcover. By taking the long view on the evolution of this country's tax policies through the past few decades, Henrekson and Stenkula explain how Sweden developed the highest tax-to-GDP ratio in the world, until the beginning of the 2000s. Editor(s): Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael. Num Pages: 352 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DNS; 3JH; 3JJ; KCZ; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 676.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137478146
- ISBN
- 9781137478146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.99
€ 128.99
Hardback. This book presents an original review of past and present research of national historiographies on medieval financial history from Central Europe. Editor(s): Zaoral, Roman. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 figures, 16 black & white tables, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1DF; 3H; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137460226
- ISBN
- 9781137460226
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.15
€ 150.15
Economic Ironies Throughout History: Applied Philosophical Insights fo...
Szenberg, Michael, Ramrattan, Lall
Hardcover. Economic Ironies Throughout History explores, explains, predicts, and harnesses these ironies for economists and scholars alike. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCA; KCK; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137450814
- ISBN
- 9781137450814
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. Institutions and Small Settler Economies provides a comprehensive improvement in our understanding of institutional contributions to economic growth. Num Pages: 290 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSU; 1MBN; 3JH; 3JJ; KCG; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137448286
- ISBN
- 9781137448286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
Hardcover. The book chronicles the Occupation Loan that was forcibly obtained by the Third Reich from the Greece in 1942-1944 and demonstrates why Greece's claim for the repayment of the loan is still valid. To overcome the absence of a normal debt agreement between the two countries, various assessments of its current value are presented and discussed. Num Pages: 85 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; KCX; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137441942
- ISBN
- 9781137441942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.58
€ 65.58
hardcover. James Tobin, 1981 Nobel laureate in economics, was the outstanding monetary economist among American Keynesian economists. This book, the first written about James Tobin, examines his leading role as a Keynesian macroeconomist and monetary economist, and considers the continuing relevance of his ideas. Series: Great Thinkers in Economics. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCA; KCB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137431943
- ISBN
- 9781137431943
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Hardback. This volume of essays contains 16 papers the author has written over the last 40 years on various aspects of the life and work of John Maynard Keynes and Nicholas Kaldor. It covers both theoretical and applied topics and highlight the continued relevance of Keynesian and Kaldorian ideas for understanding the functioning of capitalist economies. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought Series. Num Pages: 391 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCA; KCG; KCL; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 625.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 391
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137409478
- ISBN
- 9781137409478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.77
€ 128.77
Hardcover. Using new data on real wages, Caruana Galizia analyses the extent to which regions around the Mediterranean were part of the same labour market during the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QRM; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137401083
- ISBN
- 9781137401083
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.13
€ 127.13
Hardcover. What has gone wrong with economics? Economists now routinely devise highly sophisticated abstract models that score top marks for theoretical rigour but are clearly divorced from observable activities in the current economy. This creates an 'uneconomic economics', where models explain relationships in blackboard rather than real-life markets. Series: Building a Sustainable Political Economy: Speri Research & Policy. Num Pages: 118 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCA; KCL; KCP; KCX; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137385482
- ISBN
- 9781137385482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.94
€ 65.94
Hardcover. British monetary policy was reactivated in 1951 when short-term interest rates were increased for the first time in two decades. The book explores the politics of formulating monetary policy in the 1950s and the techniques of implementing it, and discusses the parallels between the present monetary situation and that of 1951. Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History Series. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; KCP; KCX; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383815
- ISBN
- 9781137383815
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.39
€ 128.39
Hardback. At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. This book explains how international bankers moved French money across Europe, and how the foreign exchange system was so overloaded by the demands of war that a massive banking crash resulted. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; KCX; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381781
- ISBN
- 9781137381781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.15
€ 139.15
Hardcover. This work is a theoretical reconstruction of the labour and job market, which explores the fundamental implications for the theories of consumption and growth. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCB; KCF; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137373601
- ISBN
- 9781137373601
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Hardback. Understanding the American stock market boom and bust of the 1920s is vital for formulating policies to combat the potentially deleterious effects of busts on the economy. Using new data, Kabiri explains what led to the 1920s stock market boom and 1929 crash and looks at whether 1929 was a bubble or not and whether it could have been anticipated. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; KCX; KCZ; KFFM2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372888
- ISBN
- 9781137372888
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.87
€ 138.87
Hardcover. Monetary Policy and the Onset of the Great Depression challenges Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz's now consensus view that the high tide of the Federal Reserve System in the 1920s was due to the leadership skills of Benjamin Strong, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; KCBM; KCX; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372543
- ISBN
- 9781137372543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. The book aims to show that the deterministic vision embodied in conventional economic modelling is neither consistent with nor supported by the state of the art in mathematics, logic, and physical science. DeCanio recognizes that economic agents are intrinsically free and somewhat unpredictable, which is essential for economic and social theory. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCK; KCN; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137371928
- ISBN
- 9781137371928
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.58
€ 127.58
Hardcover. This short volume provides an incisive critical history of the evolution of the euro and a devastating critique of the economic doctrines that have informed its institutional design. Num Pages: 170 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; KCBM; KCL; KCP; KCS; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 146
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137371898
- ISBN
- 9781137371898
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.46
€ 66.46