Repraesenter Le Patronat Europaeen
L'emprise des milieux d'affaires sur le cours de la construction europeenne est un fait tellement bien admis qu'il a conduit les observateurs a ne voir dans les organisations patronales que des groupes de pression et a delaisser l'histoire et la sociologie du syndicalisme patronal europeen. Or ce syndicalisme patronal, qui plus est europeen, ne va pas de soi. Comment les interets patronaux peuvent-ils etre representes et defendus comme " europeens " alors qu'ils sont tres heterogenes et qu'ils...
Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of James M. Buchanan (Economy, Polity, and Society)
James M. Buchanan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1986, was a pioneer of public choice and constitutional political economy, as well as contributing to many fields of study, including philosophy, political science, and public finance. Each chapter in this volume seeks to explore, critique, and emphasize the continuing relevance of the vast contributions of Buchanan to our understanding of political economy and social philosophy. The diversity in topics and approaches will make the vo...
The Lost Art of Banking (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)
by Aisling Tuite
This Palgrave Pivot explores the recent financial crisis from a new perspective. Reflecting on 40 years of banking experiences, the book will open new avenues to understanding banking and comment on possible ways to rehabilitate banking organisations. In 1965 the Bank of Ireland received a consultancy report from McKinsey & Company, which heralded a new phase in banking practice and organisation. In the years that followed, the Bank of Ireland opened up its once traditional culture to outside i...
Nationalism and Economic Development in Modern Eurasia (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)
by Carl Mosk
This book advances a new theory of why nationalism emerged in the modern world. In particular it explains why nationalism and economic development are closely linked, and why warfare plays a crucial role in the spread of the nation-state system. It is based on qualitative and quantitative evidence over the period 1600 to 2000 for seven countries - Great Britain, France, Germany, Yugoslavia, the United States, Japan and China
Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom (Economy, Polity, and Society)
The interdisciplinary chapters in this volume explore and engage the work of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, along with the Bloomington School of political economy more generally.The book emphasizes the continuing relevance of the Ostroms' work for our understanding of collective action, self-governance, and institutional diversity for interdisciplinary research in the social sciences and humanities. The wide array of topics and approaches will make the volume of interest to readers in a variety of f...
In "American Taxation, American Slavery", Robin Einhorn shows the deep, broad, and continuous influence of slavery on America's fear and loathing of taxes. From the earliest colonial times right up to the Civil War, slaveholding elites feared strong and democratic government as a threat to the institution of slavery. Einhorn reveals how the heated battles over taxation, the power to tax, and the distribution of tax burdens were rooted not in debates over personal liberty but rather in the rights...
Les Bonnier, Ou Une Famille de Financiers Au Xviiie Siècle
by Louis Grasset-Morel
Britain and European Monetary Cooperation, 1964-1979 (Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance)
by Kiyoshi Hirowatari
The collapse of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s resulted in a transition to fluctuating rather than fixed currency system. This brought sterling into the turmoil of the world currency markets, and by the end of the 1970s, sterling had quietly ended its role as an international currency. Sterling-dollar diplomacy collapsed, bringing to an end what had hitherto been considered Britain's prime relationship. Britain and European Monetary Cooperation, 1964-1979 provides a unique perspect...
Documents Diplomatiques Francais (Documents Diplomatiques Francais - Depuis 1954, Sous La Dire, #31)
Colonial Bureaucrats and the Mexican Economy (American University Studies, Series 9: History, #13)
by John S Leiby
Oxford Economics and Oxford Economists
by Warren Young, Frederic S. Lee, and Warren Dr Young
This book focuses upon the development of economics at Oxford after the establishment of PPE and the contributions of Oxford economists during the 'years of high theory' and afterwards. Students' recollections of tutorials and lectures, and their tutors and lecturers, along with examination questions and results, amongst other aspects of teaching at Oxford, are presented here for he first time. In addition, the many contributions of Oxford economists such as Harrod, Allen, Andrews, Hicks, Meade...
Entrepreneurship, the New Economy and Public Policy
by Uwe Cantner, Elias Dinopoulos, and Robert Franklin Lanzillotti
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. This book informs debates about worker participation in the workplace or worker voice by analysing comparative historical data relating to these ideas during the inter-war period in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US. The issue is topical because of the contemporary shift to a workplace focus in many countries without a corresponding development of infrastructure at the w...
The Economic Development of Belgian Agriculture: a Regional Perspective (1812-1846)
by M. Goossens
Vast, diverse, dynamic, and turbulent, the true nature of Africa is often obscured by its poverty-stricken image. In this controversial and gripping guide, Tom Young cuts through the emotional hype to critically analyse the continent's political history and the factors behind its dismal economic performance. Maintaining that colonial influences are often overplayed, Young argues that much blame must lie with African governments themselves and that Western aid can often cause as much harm as good...
This book assesses major schools of thought in macroeconomic theory between the Great Depression and the Long Recession, focusing on their analysis of cycles, crises and macro-policy. It explores the road from the dominance of Keynesian ideas to those of New Classical Macroeconomics (NCM) toward the end of the millennium. The book covers the early influential work of Knut Wicksell; the economic debates of the 1930s, with core contributions from John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek; the r...
The South Sea Bubble (History/18th/19th Century History)
by John Carswell
The South Sea Bubble of 1720-1 was the first and most celebrated of all the great financial scandals. But the failure of the South Sea Company, which had undertaken to take over the National Debt, was to cause more than a catastrophic financial crisis, shattering a confident government. It invaded every aspect of British life. Its enormous international and psychological ramifications, the frenzy of speculation of the South Sea Bubble and its final crash, allow us to see every segment of society...
Calming the Storms (Palgrave Studies in Economic History)
by Charles Read
This book exposes, for the first time in modern scholarship, the role that the rise of the Carry Trade played in crises between 1825 and 1866, how in reaction the Bank of England improved its management of monetary policy after 1866 and how those lessons have been forgotten since the 1970s. Britain is one of the few major capitalist economies in the world to have avoided severe systemic financial crises for more than 100 years of its history—between 1866 and 1973. Beforehand, it suffered a serie...
MIT and the Transformation of American Economics seeks to remedy the historians’ neglect of the influential and luminary economics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The department, bolstered by an influx of innovative young scholars, was one of the most distinguished research economics departments in North America by the late 1950s. In another decade it would become the most highly regarded economics department in the world. This volume documents the history of this proces...