In his On the Glory of Athens, Plutarch complained that the Athenian people spent more on the production of dramatic festivals and "the misfortunes of Medeas and Electras than they did on maintaining their empire and fighting for their liberty against the Persians." This view of the Athenians' misplaced priorities became orthodoxy with the publication of August Boeckh's 1817 book Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener [The Public Economy of Athens], which criticized the classical Athenian demos for s...
Japan's Industrialization in the World Economy:1859-1899
by Shinya Sugiyama
This volume reviews the goals, operation, and history of American antidumping laws coupled with a strategy for using those laws to promote U.S. trade policy and economic objectives in the post-Uruguay Round GATT talks.
Theory of the Leisure Class (Modern Library) (Cosimo Classics Economics)
by Thorstein Veblen
In The Theory of the Leisure Class, his first and best-known work, Thorstein Veblen challenges some of society's most cherished standards of behavior and, with devastating wit and satire, exposes the hollowness of many of our canons of taste, education, dress, and culture.Veblen uses the leisure class as his example because it is this class that sets the standards followed by every level of society. The sign of membership in the leisure class is exemption from industrial toil and the mark of suc...
Documents Diplomatiques Francais (Documents Diplomatiques Francais - 1920-1932, Sous La Direct, #6)
The Development of Economic Analysis traces the development of economic theory from Plato through to contemporary thought. All the major movements are covered and presented here in six chronological parts. The text includes a number of practical features: * a 'family tree' at the beginning of each section, illustrating how the key streams and people connect and develop, accompanied by a list of key publications for that period * integrated selections of readings from the major works enable re...
Learning on the Shop Floor (International Studies in Social History, #12)
Apprenticeship or vocational training is a subject of lively debate. Economic historians tend to see apprenticeship as a purely economic phenomenon, as an 'incomplete contract' in need of legal and institutional enforcement mechanisms. The contributors to this volume have adopted a broader perspective. They regard learning on the shop floor as a complex social and cultural process, to be situated in an ever-changing historical context. The results are surprising. The authors convincingly show...
Et Jean-Baptiste Say... Crea l'Entrepreneur (Business and Innovation, #12)
A la fin du 18e siecle, l'initiative individuelle a ete magnifiee pour permettre a l'economie de sortir de son etat de passivite et de sclerose. Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832), economiste francais et partisan de la revolution francaise, a produit une theorie generale de l'entrepreneur ou l'innovation tient une place essentielle. L'entrepreneur peut etre a la fois gestionnaire, capitaliste, innovateur. Say crea l'entrepreneur et le dota de moult charismes: esprit de conduite, genie des affaires, c...
Pensions in Britain, 1955-75
The worldwide Great Depression of the 1930s was the most traumatic event of the twentieth century. It ushered in substantial expansions in the role of governments around the world, focused attention on social insurance, and for a time bolstered socialist economic ideas as a form of cure. Skepticism about the effectiveness of government withered as the free market failed, and it seems safe to say that Keynesian economics would not have flourished if the depression had not occurred. While this sev...
Comptabilité Commerciale, Petit Modèle Expliqué de Tenue Des Livres En Partie Double
by Lauret-A
'eigennutz' Und 'gute Ordnung' (Wolfenbutteler Arbeiten Zur Barockforschung, #54)
Based on manuscripts housed in the Dept. of Archives, Maharashtra State.
A Sarong for Clio
A Sarong for Clio testifies to an ongoing intellectual dialogue between its ten contributors and Craig J. Reynolds, who inspired these essays. Conceived as a tribute to an innovative scholar, dedicated teacher, and generous colleague, it is this volume's ambition to make a concerted intervention on Thai historiography—and Thai studies more generally—by pursuing in new directions ideas that figure prominently in Reynolds's scholarship. The writings gathered here revolve around two prominent theme...
Money and the End of Empire (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)
by Gerold Krozewski
This book presents a penetrating new analysis of the end of the empire, located at the intersection of politics, economy and society in Britain and the colonies. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, when political control was feasible, discriminatory management of the colonies sustained Britain's postwar recovery. But synergy turned into conflict as Britain moved towards economic liberalization and financial cosmopolitanism, and found it increasingly difficult to reconcile established relations wi...
Etude Sur Les Pensions de Retraite Et Les Soldes Des Militaires Non Officiers de la Gendarmerie
by Impr Th Martin