This book represents the first recent attempt to provide a comprehensive treatment of Sweden's economic development since the middle of the 18th century. It traces the rapid industrialisation, the political currents and the social ambitions, that transformed Sweden from a backward agrarian economy into what is now regarded by many as a model welfare state. Based upon comprehensive research, An Economic History of Sweden represents an invaluable resource for both economic historians and students of economic theory. Its central narrative provides historical material reaching right up to the...
This book represents the first recent attempt to provide a comprehensive treatment of Sweden's economic development since the middle of the 18th centu...
The increasing importance of the Pacific and Pacific Rim within the global economy places us on the brink of a Pacific Century. While many hold that the concept of a Pacific region has only emerged in the 20th century, this work demonstrates that such an economic region has existed for almost five hundred years. Starting with the 16th-century trade of Latin American silver for Chinese silk, researchers trace the economic, environmental and social history of the Pacific region. Chapters examine the trade of diverse commodities within the Pacific and analyze the ecological and social impacts of...
The increasing importance of the Pacific and Pacific Rim within the global economy places us on the brink of a Pacific Century. While many hold that t...
This book addresses issues in the current literature on corporate finance using historical evidence. In particular it looks at the role of universal banks in relaxing the credit constraints of firms, supervising managers and stabilizing share prices. The key issues is whether the Anglo-American asset based financing is more efective than the main-bank approach used in Germany and Japan. Earlier studies have found that firms with a close relationship with a major bank have high market value compared to book value, although it is difficult to determine whether this is cause or effect
This book addresses issues in the current literature on corporate finance using historical evidence. In particular it looks at the role of universal b...
Examines the legacy of economics and political aims and objectives formulated by the British government during, and immediately after, World War II. The book examines contemporary patterns of regulation by the state, and reform in the industrial relations system, as factors of historically-embedded influences on the state such as these. By doing so, the author develops a historically-informed yet contemporary theory of the British state. A significant proportion of post-war economic and political literature has highlighted the adverse effect of embedded patterns of industrial relations on...
Examines the legacy of economics and political aims and objectives formulated by the British government during, and immediately after, World War II. T...
Early Modern Capitalism takes stock of recent research on the development of the economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labour markets during the centuries that preceded the Industrial Revolution. An international collection of contributors discuss such issues as the nature of the Late Medieval Crisis that has typically been portrayed as the birth of European Capitalism, and an examination of the quantitive dimensions of econmomic growth, as well as more specifically the consumption of energy in early modern Europe. Issues such as proto-industry, proletarianization, and...
Early Modern Capitalism takes stock of recent research on the development of the economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labour mar...
This work describes and analyzes the management of the national debt of the United Kingdom from the Boer War (1899-1902) to the period of the Great Depression in the early 1930s. It therefore spans the expansion of the debt during the Great War of 1914-18 and the struggle to bring its structure and cost under control in the decade-and-a-half following Armistice.
This work describes and analyzes the management of the national debt of the United Kingdom from the Boer War (1899-1902) to the period of the Great De...
The studies in this volume explore the challenges and opportunities presented by globalization events prior to 1950, and identify how countries around the Mediterranean responded to them. In addition to comparative assessments of regional performance, the volume offers case studies of Spain, Italy, the Balkans, Turkey, Israel and Egypt.
The studies in this volume explore the challenges and opportunities presented by globalization events prior to 1950, and identify how countries around...
In 1800 London was already the largest city in the world, and over the course of the next century its population grew rapidly, reaching over seven million by 1914. Historians have often depicted London after the Industrial Revolution as an industrial backwater that declined into the mass exploitation of labour through 'sweating', dominated by City and merchant interests. This book instead argues that London was a centre of nineteenth-century British economic growth. Modern economic theories of cities are used to explain the causes of metropolitan economic development, and emphasis is...
In 1800 London was already the largest city in the world, and over the course of the next century its population grew rapidly, reaching over seven ...
Since the nineteenth century, there has been an accepted distinction between financial systems that separate commercial and investment banking and those that do not. This comprehensive collection aims to establish how and why financial systems develop, and how knowledge of financial differentiation in the nineteenth century may afford insight into the development of contemporary banking structure.
This book poses a systematic challenge to Alexander Gerschenkron's 1950s thesis on universal banks. With contributions from leading scholars such as Ranald Michie and Jaime Reis, this well...
Since the nineteenth century, there has been an accepted distinction between financial systems that separate commercial and investment banking and ...
The economics of the movie industry has been curiously neglected by scholars, especially given the material circumstances in which film has been produced, distributed and exhibited in capitalist economies and its central importance in the lives of the huge numbers attracted to it as a commodity.
This book provides an economic framework for understanding developments in film history. Film is a peculiar commodity with a unique set of characteristics. The topic hence is interesting and covered with aplomb by the contributors to the volume. The book includes sections on:
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The economics of the movie industry has been curiously neglected by scholars, especially given the material circumstances in which film has been pr...
