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This book offers a comprehensive study of regional
industrialization in Europe and Asia from the early nineteenth
century to the present. Using case studies on regional
industrialization, the book provides insights into similarities and
differences in industrialization processes between European,
Eurasian and Asian countries. Important factors include the
transition from traditional to modern industrial production,
industrial policy, agglomeration forces, market integration, and
the determinants of industrial location over time. The book is an
invaluable reference that attempts to bridge the fields of economic
history, political history, economic geography, and economics while
contributing to the debates on economic divergence between Europe
and Asia as well as on the role of economic integration and
globalization.
Food crises have always tested societies. This volume discusses
societal resilience to food crises, examining the responses and
strategies at the societal level that effectively helped
individuals and groups to cope with drops in food supply, in
various parts of the world over the past two millennia. Societal
responses can be coordinated by the state, the market, or civil
society. Here it is shown that it was often a combined effort, but
that there were significant variations between regions and periods.
The long-term, comparative perspective of the volume brings out
these variations, explains them, and discusses their effects on
societal resilience. This book will be of interest to advanced
students and researchers across economic history, institutional
economics, social history and development studies.
Food crises have always tested societies. This volume discusses
societal resilience to food crises, examining the responses and
strategies at the societal level that effectively helped
individuals and groups to cope with drops in food supply, in
various parts of the world over the past two millennia. Societal
responses can be coordinated by the state, the market, or civil
society. Here it is shown that it was often a combined effort, but
that there were significant variations between regions and periods.
The long-term, comparative perspective of the volume brings out
these variations, explains them, and discusses their effects on
societal resilience. This book will be of interest to advanced
students and researchers across economic history, institutional
economics, social history and development studies.
This exciting new volume examines the development of market
performance from Antiquity until the dawn of the Industrial
Revolution. Efficient market structures are agreed by most
economists to serve as evidence of economic prosperity, and to be
prerequisites for further economic growth. However, this is the
first study to examine market performance as a whole, over such a
large time period. Presenting a hitherto unknown and inaccessible
corpus of data from ancient Babylonia, this international set of
contributors are for the first time able to offer an in-depth study
of market performance over a period of 2,500 years. The
contributions focus on the market of staple crops, as they were
crucial goods in these societies. Over this entire period, all
papers provide a similar conceptual and methodological framework
resting on a common definition of market performance combined with
qualitative and quantitative analyses resting on new and improved
price data. In this way, the book is able to combine analysis of
the Babylonian period with similar work on the Roman, Early-and
Late Medieval and Early Modern period. Bringing together input from
assyriologists, ancient historians, economic historians and
economists, this volume will be crucial reading for all those with
an interest in ancient history, economic history and economics.
This book offers a comprehensive study of regional
industrialization in Europe and Asia from the early nineteenth
century to the present. Using case studies on regional
industrialization, the book provides insights into similarities and
differences in industrialization processes between European,
Eurasian and Asian countries. Important factors include the
transition from traditional to modern industrial production,
industrial policy, agglomeration forces, market integration, and
the determinants of industrial location over time. The book is an
invaluable reference that attempts to bridge the fields of economic
history, political history, economic geography, and economics while
contributing to the debates on economic divergence between Europe
and Asia as well as on the role of economic integration and
globalization.
Money is a core feature in all discussions of economic crisis, as
is clear from the debates about the responses of the European
Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States to
the 2008 economic crisis. This volume explores the role of money in
economic performance, and focuses on how monetary systems have
affected economic crises for the last 4,000 years. Recent events
have confirmed that money is only a useful tool in economic
exchange if it is trusted, and this is a concept that this text
explores in depth. The international panel of experts assembled
here offers a long-range perspective, from ancient Assyria to
modern societies in Europe, China and the US. This book will be of
interest to students and researchers of economic history, and to
anyone who seeks to understand the economic crises of recent
decades, and place them in a wider historical context.
This exciting new volume examines the development of market
performance from Antiquity until the dawn of the Industrial
Revolution. Efficient market structures are agreed by most
economists to serve as evidence of economic prosperity, and to be
prerequisites for further economic growth. However, this is the
first study to examine market performance as a whole, over such a
large time period. Presenting a hitherto unknown and inaccessible
corpus of data from ancient Babylonia, this international set of
contributors are for the first time able to offer an in-depth study
of market performance over a period of 2,500 years. The
contributions focus on the market of staple crops, as they were
crucial goods in these societies. Over this entire period, all
papers provide a similar conceptual and methodological framework
resting on a common definition of market performance combined with
qualitative and quantitative analyses resting on new and improved
price data. In this way, the book is able to combine analysis of
the Babylonian period with similar work on the Roman, Early-and
Late Medieval and Early Modern period. Bringing together input from
assyriologists, ancient historians, economic historians and
economists, this volume will be crucial reading for all those with
an interest in ancient history, economic history and economics.
Money is a core feature in all discussions of economic crisis, as
is clear from the debates about the responses of the European
Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States to
the 2008 economic crisis. This volume explores the role of money in
economic performance, and focuses on how monetary systems have
affected economic crises for the last 4,000 years. Recent events
have confirmed that money is only a useful tool in economic
exchange if it is trusted, and this is a concept that this text
explores in depth. The international panel of experts assembled
here offers a long-range perspective, from ancient Assyria to
modern societies in Europe, China and the US. This book will be of
interest to students and researchers of economic history, and to
anyone who seeks to understand the economic crises of recent
decades, and place them in a wider historical context.
This is a definitive new account of Britain's economic evolution
from a backwater of Europe in 1270 to the hub of the global economy
in 1870. A team of leading economic historians reconstruct
Britain's national accounts for the first time right back into the
thirteenth century to show what really happened quantitatively
during the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution.
Contrary to traditional views of the earlier period as one of
Malthusian stagnation, they reveal how the transition to modern
economic growth built on the earlier foundations of a persistent
upward trend in GDP per capita which doubled between 1270 and 1700.
Featuring comprehensive estimates of population, land use,
agricultural production, industrial and service sector production
and GDP per capita, as well as analysis of their implications, this
will be an essential reference for anyone interested in British
economic history and the origins of modern economic growth more
generally.
This is a definitive new account of Britain's economic evolution
from a backwater of Europe in 1270 to the hub of the global economy
in 1870. A team of leading economic historians reconstruct
Britain's national accounts for the first time right back into the
thirteenth century to show what really happened quantitatively
during the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution.
Contrary to traditional views of the earlier period as one of
Malthusian stagnation, they reveal how the transition to modern
economic growth built on the earlier foundations of a persistent
upward trend in GDP per capita which doubled between 1270 and 1700.
Featuring comprehensive estimates of population, land use,
agricultural production, industrial and service sector production
and GDP per capita, as well as analysis of their implications, this
will be an essential reference for anyone interested in British
economic history and the origins of modern economic growth more
generally.
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