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Originally published in 1967, this was the first book to discuss why agricultural supply became more ‘responsive’ and to provide broadly based evidence of the ways in which that ‘responsiveness’ may have influenced the growth of the economy. The editor chose 7 essays, reprinted in full, to illustrate altered perspectives of agricultural change. His substantial introduction places the beginnings of a significant rise in farm output as far back as the mid-seventeenth century and concludes that agriculture played a vital but complicated role in the economy of eighteenth-century England.
Populism and Neoliberalism argues that the roots of populism lay in the contradiction between the democratic ideal, which implies that the people should decide, and neoliberal governance, which seeks to make markets and competition the arbiters of major social developments. Neoliberalism is not the product of a clearly conceived ideology but rather a set of doctrines based on a few major principles which have been embraced by decision-makers of all kinds with little reassessment along the way. In practice, a certain art of governing that exploited an economic thinking insensitive to social complexity gradually imposed itself by being wrongly identified as the successor to liberalism. The rise of populist movements poses a significant challenge to liberal democracies, yet the causes of these movements remain beyond the understanding of experts. The explanation of populism is often limited to a mere political analysis. Contrary to that, this book investigates the economic and social dynamics of the free-market system and explains how populism emerges from its imbalances. It also aims to explain the emergence of the neoliberal doctrines during the 1930s and to characterise their common features. In light of this, it explores how the rise of inequality and social discontent create a pressing duty to develop another model, and argues that we must now rethink our policies in depth in order to respond to the challenge of authoritarian populism. This book marks a significant intervention in the debate about the rise and fall of neoliberalism. Its analysis of the links between the failings of neoclassical economics and the failings of neoliberal politics provides essential reading for anyone interested in the damaging impact of neoliberalism, the failings of neoclassical economics, and explanations for the rise of populism.
Presenting a full and precise description of all legal ties between
landlord and tenant in early modern England, "Agrarian Problems in
the Sixteenth Century and After" re-examines one of the key issues
in English agrarian history - the question of the legal security of
the copyholder.
Wilhelm Abel's study of economic fluctuations over a period of
seven hundred years has long been established as a core text in
European agricultural history. Professor Abel was one of the first
economic historians to make extensive use of statistical data, and
his scholarship and approach have had a decisive effect on the
orientation of economic and agricultural history.
The decline of Venice remains one of the classic episodes in the
economic development of modern Europe. Its contrasts are familiar
enough: the wealthiest commercial power in fifteenth-century
Europe, the strongest western colonial power in the eastern
Mediterranean, found its principal fame three centuries later in
carnival and the arts. This metamorphosis from commercial hegemony
to fashionable pleasure and landed wealth was, however, a complex
process. It resulted not so much from the Portuguese voyages of
discovery at the beginning of the sixteenth century as from
increasing Dutch adn English competition at its end, and from
industrial competition chiefly from beyond the Mediterranean.
In 1929 two French historians, Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch,
founded "Annales, "a historical journal which rapidly became one of
the most influential in the world. They believed that economic
history, social history and the history of ideas were as important
as political history, and that historians should not be narrow
specialists but should learn from their colleagues in the social
sciences.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2005. A history of the English Corn Laws 1660-1846 is part of the studies in Economic and Social History series and looks at how the Corn Laws regulated the internal trade, exportation and importation and market development from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries.
First published in 1967, this superb collection of essays on
trade in the Middle Ages has been a major contribution to modern
medieval studies. Professor Carus-Wilson examines:
* fifteenth-century Bristol
Each paper is firmly rooted in original research and contemporary sources such as customs returns and company minutes, and, in addition, her expose of the dubious accuracy of Aulnage accounts is widely recognised as a classic.
First published in 2005. This original study the author writing in 1936 has tried to sketch the character and general movement of the economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the middle of the fifteenth century.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Worshipful Company of Weavers, the oldest of all the London
Livery Companies, can trace its origins to a twelfth-century craft
guild. Largely based upon original records never before studied in
depth, this authorized history of the company covers the period
from the end of the reign of Elizabeth I to modern times.
This independent and critical study in economic and social
history is based on free access to the records of W.D. & H.O.
Wills. Dr Alford traces the history of the firm from its origin to its
transformation into a constituent part of a larger company. Having
played such a leading role in the development of the UK tobacco
industry, Willis' book is more than the history of a single firm,
it also provides an important study of a leading consumer goods
industry. Drawing on aspects of economic theory, the author
examines the firm's development in the light of general aspects of
business history. This major study was first published in 1973.
First published in 1976, this much acclaimed book looks at the
story of how today's large corporations have superseded the small
competing firms of the nineteenth century. The long-run analysis
confirms that the crucial periods in the formulation of the modern
corporate system were the 1920's and 1960's. The merger wave of
these decades was associated with a desire to improve the
efficiency of Britain's industrial organization, and the author
shows that it was in a large measure responsible for the trend
improvement (by historical if not international standards) in
Britain's growth performance. Students of business, economic history and industrial economics will all welcome the return to print of a notable contribution to the continuing debate on the evolution and control of the corporate manufacturing sector.
Although the Anti-Corn Law league played a most important part
in the politics of the 1840's, there is no modern study of its
activities and organization. Based on several years work on the
original sources, as well as papers belonging to George Wilson,
President of the League for most of its life, this book sheds light
on the internal history and organization of the League. Written from a political perspective, Dr McCord describes the
origin, organization and activities of the League, together with
its effect on the contemporary political scene, and as such, fills
an important gap in our knowledge of the political history of early
Victorian England. At the same time, the book provides an analysis
of an unusually well-documented political pressure group, making it
a most welcome addition to literature for historians and economic
historians, as well as students of political science. This book was first published in 1958.
Contents of this book are as follows: Introduction; Chapter 1 - The crisis of 1815; Chapter 2 - The crisis of 1825; Chapter 3 - The crisis of 1836-1839; Chapter 4 - The crisis of 1847; Chapter 5 - The crisis of 1857; Chapter 6 - The crisis of 1866; Chapter 7 - The crisis of 1873; Chapter 8 - The crisis of 1882; Chapter 9 - The crisis of 1890; and Chapter 10 - Remedies.
This fascinating collection presents industrialization as a total historical process involving the destruction of one world simultaneously with the creation of another. Divided into two sections, it deals with elements of life such as the organization of labour, the health of the nation, rural and industrial societies, and poverty. The first section (The Expanding Economy) outlines the process by which economic growth took place and the second (The Social Impact) shows the impact this growth had on the society which both promoted and resisted it.
First published in 1966, this revealing study looks closely into
the lives of the men, women and children working in mines,
workshops, factories and farms during the industrial revolution. It
investigates the inventors whose new machines made the industrial
revolution possible, and reflects on the new type of employer whose
enterprise and energy in linking machine and labour power formed a
new society.
T.S. Ashton has sought less to cover the field of economic
history in detail than to offer a commentary, with a stress on
trends of development rather than on forms of organization or
economic legislation. This book seeks to interpret the growth of population,
agriculture, maufacture, trade and finance in eighteenth-century
England. It throws light on economic fluctuations and on the
changing conditions of the wage-earners. The approach is that of an
economist and use is made of hitherto neglected statistics. But
treatment and language are simple. The book is intended not only
for the specialist but also for others who turn to the past for its
own sake or for understanding the present. This book was first published in 1955.
These six papers were originally delivered to a conference at
Sheffield University in 1969 and represent an overview of a
research project led by Professor Pollard, which aimed to construct
a series of annual figures of capital formation for the Industrial
Revolution in Britain - both in aggregate and broken down into main
sectors. Each paper is accompanied by a summary of the discussion
which followed. The problems encountered in such an undertaking are examined, a
major one being definition: what to include in the term 'capital',
how to measure or isolate expenditure under that heading, and how
to deal with changes which have made the definitions and practices
of present-day national income estimates inapplicable to earlier
centuries. Sources are also examined in depth as statistical
information is not only uncertain and often unreliable, but of
different value and completeness for different sectors of the
economy. This book was first published in 1971.
How has British industry financed itself in the past? With the
current debate on industry's financial strategy, this study of the
past sixty years is a particularly timely contribution to the
discussions on the future financing of industry.
The studies assembled in this volume are dedicated to the memory of
Albert Baldein, a professional numismatist whose chief interest lay
in helping other numismatists, professionals, students and
collectors alike, some of whom record their appreciations here. The
contributions, though they are drawn from a wide variety of fields
- Greek, Roman, Dark Age, Byzantine, English, Scottish, Irish and
European medieval coins, and medals - are all concerned with one or
more facets of the theme set out in the title. Within the general
concept, the essays deal with a diversity of subjects:
The economic and social problems of modern Scotland are at the
centre of current debate about regional economic growth, social
improvement and environmental rehabilitation. In this book, as
relevant today as when it was first published in 1975, Anthony
Slaven argues that the extent and causes of these problems are
frequently underestimated, thus making development policies less
than fully effective.
Professor Youngson's book is an ubiased review of Britain's past
experience and present difficulties. Few sacred cows are spared.
There is no pretence that fundamental problems were resolved at the
time of its first publication in 1967.
This book is a sequal to "Britain's Economic Prospects, "the report
issued in 1968 by the Brookings Institution and universally
accepted as the most thorough and comprehensive study of the
British Economy to have ever appeared. |
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