Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840
Title | Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840 PDF eBook |
Author | Deirdre McCloskey |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1136586784 |
These unique papers were originally read at a conference on the new economic history of Britain at Harvard in 1970, and each is accompanied by a summary of the discussion that followed it. The participants of the conference represented a broad range of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. The first eleven papers deal with a variety of topics covering a period from 1840 to the 1920s. They focus on the performance of the British economy, and especially its businessmen, during the time of Britain's industrial maturity and relative decline. The papers and discussions reached a novel conclusion tha, contrary to commonly held opinion, the British economy performed well and that British businessmen were not lacking in entrepreneurial vigour compared with their German or American counterparts. But even more important for British historiography than this finding was the demonstration that economic and statistical methods can be applied successfully to the study of economic history. The papers in the concluding section discuss the origins and development of the new economic history and show that, as a substantial supplement to work along more traditional lines, its methods and application are both desirable and possible. This collection serves as an interesting report of research into a key period in British history, and also as a useful introductory account of the new economic history in the United Kingdom. This book was first published in 1971.
Essays on a Mature Economy
Title | Essays on a Mature Economy PDF eBook |
Author | Donald N. McCloskey |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 2015-03-08 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 140087016X |
Debating the promises and limits of the "new economic history," seventeen economists and economic historians look at Great Britain, from the peak of her industrial dominance in 1840 to her eclipse by the surging economies of Germany and the United States. Their discussion brings a new methodological challenge to the field of economic history and a new interpretation of the British economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Essays on Political Economy
Title | Essays on Political Economy PDF eBook |
Author | Frédéric Bastiat |
Publisher | |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 1853 |
Genre | Economics |
ISBN |
Comparative Political Economy
Title | Comparative Political Economy PDF eBook |
Author | Charles P. Kindleberger |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780262263306 |
The essays collected here reflect the author's shift in interests from foreign exchange to international trade, economic growth, and economic history, especially financial history. Charles P. Kindleberger's rich and distinguised career has spanned nearly six decades. The essays collected here reflect the author's shift in interests from foreign exchange to international trade, economic growth, and economic history, especially financial history. They also contain dollops of sociology and political science. Kindleberger views himself as a historical economist who tests economic propositions against the historical record in more than one setting. The collection contains many of the jewels of Kindleberger's work. Most of the papers are strong on comparison (within Western Europe and between Europe and the United States), on economic or financial history, and on social science beyond the confines of economics.
Economic Freedom and Interventionism
Title | Economic Freedom and Interventionism PDF eBook |
Author | Ludwig Von Mises |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Austrian economics |
ISBN | 9780865976733 |
Economic Freedom and Interventionism is both a primer of the fundamental thought of Ludwig von Mises and an anthology of the writings of perhaps the best-known exponent of what is now known as the Austrian School of economics. This volume contains forty-seven articles edited by Mises scholar Bettina Bien Greaves. Among them are Mises's expositions of the role of government, his discussion of inequality of wealth, inflation, socialism, welfare, and economic education, as well as his exploration of the "deeper" significance of economics as it affects seemingly noneconomic relations between human beings. These papers are valuable reading for students of economic freedom and the science of human action. Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) was the leading spokesman of the Austrian School of economics throughout most of the twentieth century. Bettina Bien Greaves is a former resident scholar and trustee of the Foundation for Economic Education and was a senior staff member at FEE from 1951 to 1999.
Techno-economic Paradigms
Title | Techno-economic Paradigms PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfgang J. M. Drechsler |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Pages | 443 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1843317850 |
'Techno-Economic Paradigms' presents a series of essays discussing one of the most interesting and talked-about socio-economic theories of our times: techno-economic paradigm shifts.
Selected Essays on Economic Policy
Title | Selected Essays on Economic Policy PDF eBook |
Author | G. Harcourt |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2001-01-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0230510566 |
This volume contains classic essays on economic policy written by one of its great exponents. The opening essay traces the author's evolving structures of thought about economics and the policy proposals that came from them over this period. Section 2 contains essays which set the background to the policy recommendations. In section 3 the role of investment incentives is analysed. Section 4 is concerned with the influence of accounting conventions on private decision-making and government policy in both capitalist and planned economies. Section 5 contains a number of package deals, all designed to fit within the constraint of the philosophy of governments in power. The last section, general essays, ranges from a scheme for the payment of prisoners to the celebration of the views on policy of great economists, from Colin Clark, through Nicky Kaldor to John Cornwall.