Télécharger le livre :  Freedom and Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
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This book hinges upon ideas and discourses variously known under labels such as “Mercantilism” and “Cameralism”. Often viewed as antithesis of capitalism, inclusive institutions and good economy in the “West”, this book re-assembles them and builds them into a coherent...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-10-12
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Colombia's Slow Economic Growth
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Looking at the years 1870-2016, this book analyses the reasons behind Colombia’s chronically slow economic growth. As a comparative economic history, it examines why Colombia has seen lower growth rates than countries with similar institutions, culture and colonial...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2019-11-07
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Changes in Population, Inequality and Human Capital Formation in the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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The evolution of inequality and its causes are of crucial importance to all scholars working in the social sciences. By focusing on the divergent development of North America and Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Camps-Cura offers a comparative...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2019-06-26
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  How British Rule Changed India's Economy
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This Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of legacy it left behind. Did British rule lead to India’s impoverishment, economic disruption and famine? Under British rule, evidence suggests there...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2019-05-18
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Swedish Economists in the 1930s Debate on Economic Planning
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The 1930s, characterised by repercussions from World War I and the Great Depression, was an era of populism, nationalism, protectionism, government intervention and attempts to create planned economies.The perceived need for economic planning emerged in Sweden in part...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-12-06
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Regulation of the London Clearing Banks, 1946–1971
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This book explores the way in which banks were regulated in the UK in the period from 1946 until 1971. It focuses upon a group of 11 banks known as the London clearing banks. These banks included the ‘Big Five’ – Barclays, Lloyds, Midland, National Provincial and...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-11-02
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Institutionalising Patents in Nineteenth-Century Spain
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This book examines the development of the Spanish patent system in the years 1826 to 1902, providing a fundamental reassessment of its evolution in an international context. The Spanish case is particularly interesting because of this country’s location on the so-called...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-09-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  State Failure and Distorted Urbanisation in Post-Mao's China, 1993–2012
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This book examines failure in the urbanisation of Northwest China as a result of government industrial policies that have impacted on the economic development of the region. By looking at the under-researched provinces of Gansu, Qinghai and Inner Mongolia, which...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-07-20
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Landed Estates and Rural Inequality in English History
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Based on a detailed investigation of local sources, this book examines the history of the landed estate system in England since the mid-seventeenth century. Over recent centuries England was increasingly occupied by landed estates run by locally dominant and...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-03-22
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  From Partisan Banking to Open Access
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How did banking in early nineteenth-century Massachusetts evolve? Lu provides a compelling narrative about the connection between inclusive political systems and open access economies, hypothesizing that entry into banking was firstly made upon partisan grounds before...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2017-10-09
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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