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Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLL; JFFA; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 166 x 252 x 31. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719075049
ISBN
9780719075049
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.01

Hardcover. Tells the story of the disastrous housing market during the Great Depression and the extent to which an immensely popular New Deal relief program, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC), was able to stem foreclosures by buying distressed mortgages from lenders and refinancing them. Series: National Bureau of Economic Research - Long Term Factors in Economic Development. Num Pages: 200 pages, 14 line drawings, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226082448
ISBN
9780226082448
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.69

Hardcover. We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn't the case. This book is simultaneously a history of a key period of economic thought and a testament to the power of applied ideas. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226256610
ISBN
9780226256610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB; HRAM2; KCA; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penn State University Press United States
Condition
New
Edition
Revised
SKU
V9780271063768
ISBN
9780271063768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.57

Hardcover. Num Pages: 270 pages, 84. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; HBJD; KCZ; WCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
East European Monographs
Edition
1st English
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880337052
ISBN
9780880337052
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.47
€ 42.58

paperback. Argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies - especially the rural economy of Tuscany. This title shows how sectoral relations are crucial to transitions to capitalism and how capitalist development can also contract markets. Series: Politics, History, & Social Change. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 tables, 1 map, 3 line art. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781592136193
ISBN
9781592136193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Hardcover. Few events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. This title offers an account of how dramatic changes in institutions - the formal and informal rules that govern a society - resulted from the unprecedented economic development that took place during the Industrial Revolution. Series: Markets and Governments in Economic History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; KCZ; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226014746
ISBN
9780226014746
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.96

Paperback. An attempt to gauge the impact of Chile's neo-liberal reform policies and of the Chilean "economic miracle" on various groups of workers Editor(s): Winn, Peter A. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 3JJP; JFC; KCF; KCZ; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822333210
ISBN
9780822333210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. Presents a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. This book challenges the popular notion of "red state" conservatism as a devil's bargain between culturally conservative rural workers and economically conservative demagogues in the Republican Party. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 halftones. 12 tables. 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCD; KCZ; KNGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691160924
ISBN
9780691160924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.79

hardcover. Studying the years from 1880 to 1930, this text traces the origins, evolution and implications of the fruit industry in California, the creation of America's first industrial countryside and its repercussions. The text examines the growers' corporations and their political influence. Num Pages: 302 pages, 9 b/w illustrations and 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; KCZ; KNAC; KNDF; RN; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
Edition
New
SKU
V9780520211728
ISBN
9780520211728
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.98
€ 49.59

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674006980
ISBN
9780674006980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.39

hardcover. A survey of governmental industrial policy in Britain from 1900 to 1990, revealing both the macroeconomic context of such policy and the microeconomic effects. Dr Tomlinson is a reputable scholar of government policy over this period, and this book illuminates both the formation of policy, and the capacity of each government to fulfil its aims. Num Pages: 470 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; KCC; KCZ; KFFD; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 33. Weight in Grams: 730.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
470
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780198287490
ISBN
9780198287490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.49

paperback. A comprehensive account of British economic policy since 1900, covering both macro and micro issues. Offers both a coherent analysis and a clear narrative description of policy-making through the century. Series: Clarendon Paperbacks. Num Pages: 392 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780198287742
ISBN
9780198287742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.36

hardcover. Offers a reassessment of the haphazard and regionally diverse process of state formation and market integration in early modern Spain, showing how local and regional agency paradoxically led to legitimate governance but economic backwardness. Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 line illus. 16 tables. 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JD; 3JF; KCG; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 175 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780691144849
ISBN
9780691144849
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.99
€ 19.95

paperback. A re-issue of this classic study of President Roosevelt's adminstrative policy toward monopoly during the period of the New Deal, updated with a new introduction by the author. Num Pages: 525 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 30. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
525
Condition
New
Edition
2nd Edition
SKU
V9780823216093
ISBN
9780823216093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 42.18

Paperback. Provides an alternative overview of the 18th-century British economy. Recent macroeconomic history has presented a male industrial revolution as the general experience, but new textiles and metal industries were primarily employers of women. This edition covers these industries. Num Pages: 352 pages, 17 line drawings, 18 figures, 19 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; KCB; KCZ; KND. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415069359
ISBN
9780415069359
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.62

hardcover. This book is a detailed study of the modern silk industry in a county in the Yangzi delta. It reopens and restructures the grand debate on Chinese economic development, combining quantitative analysis of both industry and agriculture with study of how local politics, class, culture, and gender also shaped the modern Chinese economy. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; KCZ; KND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729987
ISBN
9780804729987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Hardcover. Farming to halves is the English version of sharefarming, a system of letting land familiar in Europe and the New World, but thought to never have existed in England. This book reveals its hidden history in England, overturning traditional accounts of the relationship between landlords and tenants in the course of English Agrarian development. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; KCZ; KFFR; KNAC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230202238
ISBN
9780230202238
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Hardcover. This book deals with three main aspects of the history of Indian business: The relationship between business and politics, the position of merchants and businessmen in the economy and society of late colonial India, and how particular merchant networks extended the range of their operations to the entire subcontinent and the wider world. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; HBJF; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 515.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230205987
ISBN
9780230205987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.36

Hardcover. This book is a comprehensive reconstruction of the successful attempt by rural professionals in late imperial Russia to engage peasants in a common public sphere. Covers a range of aspects, from personal income and the dynamics of the job market to ideological conflicts and psychological transformation. Based on hundreds of individual life stories. Num Pages: 335 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW; JFSC; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 147 x 1. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230229471
ISBN
9780230229471
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.11

Hardcover. This book examines the banking crisis of July/August 2007 and its ensuing after-effects in 2008-2009: economic crisis, credit crunch, massive recapitalization of some banks and nationalization of other banks. The author offers his views on the factors which led to this global financial catastrophe and how it could have been avoided. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Num Pages: 281 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KCX; KCZ; KFFK; KNST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230233461
ISBN
9780230233461
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.95

Hardcover. This is the first book to put together Asia and the developed world in the subprime crisis context and to combine macro and micro analysis to draw lessons from it. The crisis has valuable lessons for the dergulation of China's insurance industry, which is seen as the 'goldmine' in the future of global financial development. Num Pages: 144 pages, 53, 51 charts, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1F; KCX; KCZ; KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288. Lifting the Veil on the Financial Tsunami. 144 pages, 53, 51 charts, 2 black & white tables. This is the first book to put together Asia and the developed world in the subprime crisis context and to combine macro and micro analysis to draw lessons from it. The crisis has valuable lessons for the dergulation of China's insurance industry, which is seen as the 'goldmine' in the future of global financial development. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; KCX; KCZ; KFF. Dimension: 222 x 136 x 13. Weight: 288.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230236196
ISBN
9780230236196
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.01

Paperback. This sweeping survey of the history of work, from hunter-gatherers to dotcom telecommuters, deftly compresses thousands of years of human evolution into an incisive volume It is a book about work, about the organization and management of work, but it is also a book about people. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCF; KCZ; KJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230238930
ISBN
9780230238930
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 101.27

Hardcover. The book describes the birth and growth of financial institutions and stock exchanges in Scandinavia and Finland from 1656 to 2010, including their banking crises and the history of banking regulation. It argues that quantitative regulations cannot, in the long run, produce the desired results and bear the seeds of future financial crises. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; KCP; KCX; KCZ; KFFK; KFFL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230241558
ISBN
9780230241558
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.15

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