Economic History

This is the first study to analyze a wide spread of price data to determine whether market development led to economic growth in the early modern period...

This study examines the struggle between Smithfield market's supporters and detractors and argues that this demonstrates a major shift in the way the urban landscape came to be used...

This superb collection of essays on trade in the Middle Ages is a major contribution to modern medieval studies. Each paper is firmly rooted in original research and contemporary sources such as customs returns and company minutes...

Merchant colonies were a significant factor for economic growth in Europe during the early modern period. The essays in this collection look at merchant colonies across Europe, assessing their function, legal status, interaction with local traders and assimilation into their host countries...

This book is the first to use local primary sources to explore the interaction between foreign and native merchants in Asian countries. Contributors discuss the different economic, political and cultural conditions that gave rise to a variety of merchant communities in Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, t..

Merchant activity across Europe, America and China during the long eighteenth century is explored in this collection of essays. Using a unique data set from accounts and correspondence, contributors are able to show the fragmented nature of merchant activity and the importance of trust-based social ..

Taking the Belgian city of Antwerp as a case-study, this book argues that the direction of nineteenth century societal change was such as to make some groups of people better suited to reap the benefits of new opportunities...

'Mining and the State' examines the fundamental economic institutional structure of Brazil through the prism of its mineral endowment...

The studies assembled in this volume are dedicated to the memory of Albert Baldein. The contributions are drawn from a wide variety of fields, cover a diversity of subjects, and incorporate new, exciting and well-illustrated material...

The contributions to this prestigious volume describe important developments in monetary economics and  monetary policy during the past half century and to draw lessons from this for the future with chapters from Charles Goodhart and Olivier Blanchard...

The papers in this edited volume discuss key elements of monetarism, including coin denominations, the role of bullion and case studies of substitute moneys...

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. _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ This volume explores the role of money in economic p..