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Economics

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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

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

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

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

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

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