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![Unemployment and the Economists]()
Unemployment and the Economists
Edited by Bernard Corry, Alan Budd, Walter Eltis, Jose Harris, Terry Peach, George Peden
Unemployment and the Economists addresses economic ideas, beliefs and arguments regarding the causes and possible cures of unemployment – a matter of recurring interest and concern for economists throughout history. -
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![American Economists of the Late Twentieth Century]()
American Economists of the Late Twentieth Century
Edited by Warren J. Samuels
Warren J. Samuels has brought together a series of original essays written by economists who are distinguished in their own right. Historians of economic thought, methodologists, general economists and specialists in the fields represen... -
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![Management, Labour and Industrial Politics in Modern Europe]()
Management, Labour and Industrial Politics in Modern Europe
Edited by Joseph Melling, Alan McKinlay
This major new books offers a comparative survey of management, labour and productivity politics in Twentieth century Europe. The authors offer detailed assessments of industrial and political campaigns to raise productivity growth in Br... -
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![The Life of Knut Wicksell]()
The Life of Knut Wicksell
Torsten Gårdlund
This edition of The Life of Knut Wicksell will be welcomed as an excellent introduction to the life of a major economist whose theories and ideas have shown themselves to be of lasting value. -
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![Economic Change in Eastern Europe since 1918]()
Economic Change in Eastern Europe since 1918
Derek H. Aldcroft, Steven Morewood
Economic Change in Eastern Europe since 1918 presents a concise, authoritative account of the economic history of Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century. Drawing upon a deep knowledge o... -
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![A HISTORY OF BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, 1939–1979]()
A HISTORY OF BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, 1939–1979
Edited by Chris Wrigley
This authoritative history offers a major assessment of British industrial relations between the outbreak of the Second World War and the advent of Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1979. Written by a group of leading specialists, this ... -
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Rich Nations – Poor Nations
Edited by Derek H. Aldcroft, Ross E. Catterall
Rich Nations – Poor Nations offers a broad perspective on the development process in which authors relate historical work to the current problems of the Third World. While these papers are not anchored solely in the European past, they ... -
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F.Y. Edgeworth
Edited by Charles R. McCann Jr
This important three volume set is a collection of Edgeworth’s published writings in the areas of statistics and probability. There is a newly-emerging interest in probability theory as a basis for economic thought and this collection ma... -
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![THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE NETHERLANDS SINCE 1870]()
THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE NETHERLANDS SINCE 1870
Edited by Jan L. van Zanden
The articles in this volume give a balanced picture of the main debates of Dutch economic history after 1870: the slow industrialization in the nineteenth century, the protracted character of the depression of the 1930s; the ‘Dutch mirac... -
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![Adam Smith into the Twenty First Century]()
Adam Smith into the Twenty First Century
Edwin G. West
Adam Smith into the Twenty-First Century examines how Smith’s deliberations on constitutional economics can now be tested by current empirical work in the social sciences. Edwin West shows how Smith’s scepticism about the proposition th... -
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![Trade and the Industrial Revolution, 1700–1850]()
Trade and the Industrial Revolution, 1700–1850
Edited by Stanley L. Engerman
This two volume set reprints 37 important contributions dealing with international trade throughout the world during the rise of Great Britain to world dominance, the industrialization of Western Europe, and the political and economic ex... -
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![The Integration of the World Economy, 1850–1914]()
The Integration of the World Economy, 1850–1914
Edited by C. K. Harley
During the latter part of the nineteenth century and the beginning of this century both international trade and national economies grew exponentially, with international trade growing considerably faster than national income. Contributo...
