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The Postdevelopmental State

Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea

By Jamie Doucette
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, History, Labor History, Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Examining the struggle to align high-growth economic models with the egalitarian promises of democracy

Bankruptcy and Debt Collection in Liberal Capitalism

Switzerland, 1800–1900

By Mischa Suter
Subjects: German Studies, History, Economics
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Debt as a social relation at the intersection of history and anthropology in the precarious economies of nineteenth-century liberalism

Nourish the People

The State Civilian Granary System in China, 1650–1850

By Pierre-Etienne Will, R. Bin Wong, and R. Bin Wong
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Economics, International Economics, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

An exhaustive analysis of the Chinese state civilian granary system by a team of scholars

The American and Japanese Auto Industries in Transition

Report of the Joint U.S.–Japan Automotive Study

Edited by Robert Cole & Taizo Yakushiji
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Economics, History of Economic Thought, Mathematics and Engineering

A History of Japan’s Government-Business Relationship

The Passenger Car Industry

By Phyllis Genther
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Business, Economics, History of Economic Thought, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

Examines the interactions between Japan's government and passenger car industry as it traces the development of the industry from its origins in the early 1900s.

A Tale of Two Capitalisms

Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Supritha Rajan
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, Economics, History of Economic Thought, History, European History

An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century British capitalism, its architects, and its critics

Taking Trade to the Streets

The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization

By Susan Ariel Aaronson
Subjects: Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, History, American History, Political Science, Political Economy

Traces the history of civil society involvement in the international trade debate

Market Dreams

Gender, Class, and Capitalism in the Czech Republic

By Elaine Susan Weiner
Subjects: Sociology, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, History, Russian History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Public Policy, Class Studies

How have women experienced the transition from socialism to market economy in Eastern Europe?

The Street Porter and the Philosopher

Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism

By Sandra Peart & David M. Levy
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, System -- Development, Philosophy, History, Intellectual History

Leading economists explore the premise that all social interactions are exchanges among inherently equal human beings

The Cult of Statistical Significance

How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey & Steve Ziliak
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, Political Science, Political Methodology, Sociology, History, Intellectual History, Health & Medicine, European History, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

How the most important statistical method used in many of the sciences doesn't pass the test for basic common sense

Work and Play

The Production and Consumption of Toys in Germany, 1870-1914

By David Hamlin
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Economics, History of Economic Thought
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Explores the history of the German toy industry and the role of toys and play in the evolution of a bourgeois German lifestyle

The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece

By David Schaps
Subjects: Archaeology, Greek, Classical Studies, Greek, Economics, History

Reveals how the concept of money did not materialize until the invention of Greek coinage

Understanding Economic Recovery in the 1930s

Endogenous Propagation in the Great Depression

By Frank G. Steindl
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Macro Economics, History, American History

A must read for specialists interested in Depression-era economics

Reluctant Partners

A History of Multilateral Trade Cooperation, 1850-2000

By Andrew Gardner Brown
Subjects: Economics, International Economics, Political Science, Political Economy, History
Series: Studies in International Economics

Examines how and why nations have succeeded in forming cooperative trade arrangements

How the Dismal Science Got Its Name

Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics

By David M. Levy
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, History, Political Science, Political Economy

A shocking account of how economics became known as the dismal science

From Liberty to Democracy

The Transformation of American Government

By Randall G. Holcombe
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, History of Economic Thought, History, American History, Political Science, Political Economy
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An analysis of American political history using the economic framework of public choice theory

Speculum Iuris

Roman Law as a Reflection of Social and Economic Life in Antiquity

Edited by Jean-Jacques Aubert & Boudewijn Sirks
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, Economics, Law

A multidisciplinary examination of various social, economic, and legal issues in ancient Rome

The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause

By Julian Lincoln Simon
Edited by Timur Kuran
Foreword by Richard A. Easterlin
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, History, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Illuminates and explains the emergence of modern economic development in Western Europe after the seventeenth century

How to be Human*

*Though an Economist

By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, Gender Studies, History

A witty and thoughtful romp through the profession and practice of economics

Growth Recurring

Economic Change in World History

By Eric Lionel Jones
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, International Economics, History, Asian Studies
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An affordable new edition intended for course use

Harmony and the Balance

An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Economic Thought

By Andrea Lynne Finkelstein
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, History

Places the work of major economic writers of seventeenth-century England within the broader context of the intellectual revolutions of the period

Swallows and Settlers

The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria

By Thomas Gottschang & Diana Lary
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Sociology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Presents both statistical analysis and the perspectives of individual migrants and their families on one of the largest migrations in the world

Regions, Institutions, and Agrarian Change in European History

By Rosemary Lynn Hopcroft
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, Political Economy, History, Sociology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An institutional approach to agricultural development in Europe leading to the "Rise of the West"

The Politics of Purity

Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy

By Clayton Anderson Coppin & Jack C. High
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, History, American History, Economics, Business

Reveals how the Pure Food and Drugs Act was influenced by competition among government bureaus and commercial interests

Culture and Economy

The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia

Edited by Timothy Brook & Hy V. Luong
Subjects: Anthropology, History, Asian Studies, Economics

Shows how rapid expansion of capitalism in Eastern Asia constitutes a challenge to Western social theory

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