Drawing on anthropometric data, this book examines the evolution of biological living standards of Latin American populations and evaluates the inequality of nutrition and health in the region in the modern era. Drawing on anthropom...Lasīt vairāk
In this book, Altamura analyses the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979, considering their impact on the world economy and subsequent reactions to the global instability.In terms of actors, the focus is on how international organizations such as th...Lasīt vairāk
Echoing new trends in central banking history, this book traces the story of the Swiss National Bank from the end of the Second World War, going beyond monetary policy and inflation to explore the full scope of the banks activities.Drawing...Lasīt vairāk
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In this impressive book, Tieting Su questions the consensus that globalization is a defining characteristic of the world economic system in general and the world trading system in particular. Most studies have examined globalization as it stands toda...Lasīt vairāk
By the end of the nineteenth century, there were already some countries in southern Europe whose economies benefitted from the arrival of tourists. But it was during the twentieth century, and particularly after the Second World War, that the phen...Lasīt vairāk
In parallel to the development of democracy, the Athenians of the Classical period established a series of sophisticated economic institutions for the time through which they developed a maritime and commercially oriented economy. This book provid...Lasīt vairāk
During the second half of the 19th century, a new global market for wheat came to the fore. Ever since, scarce and perishable food has been transformed into a modern global commodity, millions of tons of which is sold, bought, and transported acro...Lasīt vairāk
This monograph analyses the evolution of the welfare state in Spain from qualitative and quantitative perspectives. It basically relies on estimates of public social spending from 1850 to the present and offers comparisons with the rest of Europe....Lasīt vairāk
Exploring the movement of peoples, perfumes and spices across vast distances in this period of medieval history across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, this book examines the role of Arab merchants in trade between and among the Caliphal and Car...Lasīt vairāk
Mining finance houses were substantial public corporations with access to money markets in the City of London, the worlds leading capital market for mining. These institutions became dominant at the inception of colonial rule and, in varying form...Lasīt vairāk
The property market was a key and dynamic economic sector in Ancient Rome. This book takes a multisided insight into real estate as the subject of short- and long-term economic investments, of speculative and businesses ventures, of power abuses a...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on modern economic theory, this book provides new insights into the economic development of ancient economies and the sustainability of their development. The book pays particular attention to the economics of hunting and gathering societi...Lasīt vairāk
Local enterprise, institutional quality and strategic location were of central importance in the growth of medieval towns. This book, comprising a study of 112 English towns, emphasises these key factors. Downstream locations on major rivers attra...Lasīt vairāk
There is a striking chronological parallel between Germanys transition from a post-Malthusian regime to modern economic growth and the formation of a modern nation-state between the late 1860s and the early 1880s, which culminated in the events o...Lasīt vairāk
The frequency and repetition of economic crises over the last hundred years demands an analysis that allows us to discover the root causes of these situations and the problems they have generated in the world economy. This book investigates these cyc...Lasīt vairāk
Incorporating political, economic, and environmental factors, this book explores the evolution of health and living standards in Brazil in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It draws on anthropometric data and an interdisciplinary approach to...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on a detailed examination of Venetian commerce in the Middle Ages, this book explores the business practices and structures that enabled merchants to compete in a challenging international market.Contributing to the literature on th...Lasīt vairāk
Food consumption and nutrition are historically among the most characteristic features of inequality in living standards driven by socioeconomic, gender, generational and geographical reasons. Nutrition directly impacts mortality, life expectancy,...Lasīt vairāk
Taking ancient records as the starting point for analysis, this book theorises the state, administration and economy of ancient Egypt. The Egyptian state is theorised as an administrative field of material and symbolic powers with emphasis upon th...Lasīt vairāk
Global climate change and the war in Ukraine have put energy back on the agenda for Europe in a way that has not been seen since the oil crisis of the 1970s. But the economics and business of supplying energy to Europe has a long and rich history...Lasīt vairāk
