Originally published in 1988, this book compiles a collection of works investigating the impact of recession on women's employment. The authors argue that th......
This book provides a comprehensive survey of the major developments in monetary theory and policy from David Hume and Adam Smith to Walter Bagehot and Knut W......
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they promised to build a vibrant consumer society. But they faced a dilemma. They recognized that consolidating support......
There is arguably no award more recognized in the academic and professional worlds than the Nobel Prize. The public pays attention to the prizes in the field......
What was the role of merchant guilds in the medieval and early modern economy? Does their wide prevalence and long survival mean they were efficient institut......
In 1980 the US government began to systematically collect data on Hispanics. By 2005 the Latino population of the United States had become the nation's large......
Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a new perspective on the relationship between empire and globa......
This bold re-examination of the history of U.S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that productive capacity grew dramatically across the Depressi......
Housing bubbles burst, creating economic misery for millions. Over the past thrity years, the culture of property ownership has become so ingrained that poli......
An internationally renowned palliative care physician offers sensitive guidance, solace, and helpful strategies for people living with a terminal illness and......
From the point of view of economic history, the ideal way to study any institution of commercial law would be to compare the information contained in legal c......
Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur......
Axios Press's Essence of . . . series takes the greatest works ever written in the field of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. We sel......
Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financi......
Studies of wage and income inequality among U.S. citizens over the past thirty years have engendered the common wisdom that the rich are getting richer and t......
Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decli......
Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the "middling sort," the economic group falling between yeoman farmers an......
As the 20th century dawned there was a silent but fateful transformation in the purpose of the American economy. Finance stopped serving industry and twiste......
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems&mda......
Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that his......