Quantitative Economic History

The good of counting

Edited by Joshua L. Rosenbloom

The essays in this book use the analytical tools and theoretical framework of economics to interpret quantitative historical evidence, offering new ways to approach historical...

Published March 18th 2008 by Routledge.

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Economic Policy and Performance in Industrial Democracies

Party Governments, Central Banks and the Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix

By Takayuki Sakamoto

This book is the first systematic study of how the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policies and the interaction of party governments and central banks...

Published January 31st 2008 by Routledge.

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Globalization as Evolutionary Process

Modeling Global Change

Edited by George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, William R. Thompson

The term globalization has gained widespread popularity; yet most treatments are either descriptive and/or focused on changes in economic interconnectivity. In this volume the concept...

Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge.

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Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution

Conversations with Economic Historians

Edited by John S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

This volume marks fifty years of an innovative approach to writing economic history often called "The Cliometrics Revolution." The book presents memoirs of personal development,...

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.

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Japanese Economic Development

Markets, Norms, Structures

By Carl Mosk

Japanese Economic Development presents three distinct approaches to understanding how and why Japan made the transition from a relatively low-income country mainly focused on agriculture...

Published November 22nd 2007 by Routledge.

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Rethinking Economic Change in India

Labour and Livelihood

By Tirthankar Roy

As author of the hugely influential The Economic History of India 1857-1947, Tirthankar Roy has established himself as the leading contemporary economic historian of India....

Published September 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Premodern Chinese Economy

Structural Equilibrium and Capitalist Sterility

By Gang Deng

Covering the time span from the Shang to the Qing Periods (1520BC - 1911AD), Gang Deng examines important factors in the decline of the Chinese...

Published September 1st 2007 by Routledge.

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An Economic History of Film

Edited by John Sedgwick, Michael Pokorny

The movie industry boomed in the twentieth century, and is still going strong today. However, the economics of movies has been curiously under explored until...

Published September 1st 2007 by Routledge.

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Political Competition and Economic Regulation

Edited by Peter Bernholz, Roland Vaubel

Organized, readable, technically sound and comprehensive from both theoretical and empirical standpoints, this book summarizes a vast amount of institutional, historical and descriptive detail.

Using case...

Published June 7th 2007 by Routledge.

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Rural Economic Development in Japan

From the Nineteenth Century to the Pacific War

By Penelope Francks

In the historical literature on Japan, rural people have tended to be regarded as the exploited victims of the industrialisation process. This book provides an...

Published May 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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