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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bas van leeuwen”
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  • Innovation and Economic Development in Eurasia, 500 BCE-Present

    The Roots of Divergence

    by Bas Van Leeuwen, Dmitry Didenko, Matteo Calabrese, Meimei Wang ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores the long-term economic growth of three key regions: China, Central Eurasia, and Western Europe. It discusses why some areas experienced faster, and more sustained growth than others by focusing on how new ideas are created (innovation), how different countries use these ideas (adoption), and how these factors influence long-term economic differences and similarities (divergence ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • British Economic Growth, 1270–1870

    by Stephen Broadberry, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton, Bas van Leeuwen, Bruce M. S. Campbell ...
    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 ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Money, Currency and Crisis

    In Search of Trust, 2000 BC to AD 2000

    Edited by R.J. van der Spek, Bas van Leeuwen ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    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 ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

  • An Economic History of Regional Industrialization

    Edited by Bas van Leeuwen, Robin C.M. Philips, Erik Buyst ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    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 ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • An Economic History of Famine Resilience

    Edited by Jessica Dijkman, Bas van Leeuwen ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    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 ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • A History of Market Performance

    From Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World

    Edited by R.J. Van der Spek, Jan Luiten van Zanden, Bas van Leeuwen ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    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. ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

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  • The Great Leveler

    Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

    by Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Debt

    The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded

    by David Graeber ...
    Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debtHere anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Money Changes Everything

    How Finance Made Civilization Possible

    by William N. Goetzmann, William N. Goetzmann ...
    "[A] magnificent history of money and finance."—New York Times Book Review"Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."—Financial TimesIn the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something that destroys fortunes and jobs, and undermines governments and banks. In Money Changes Everything, leading financial historian ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Secular Cycles

    by Peter Turchin, Sergey A. Nefedov ...
    Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and states go through strong expansionist phases followed by periods of state failure, endemic sociopolitical instability, and territorial loss. Peter Turchin and Sergey Nefedov ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD

  • Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD

    Essays in Macro-Economic History

    by Angus Maddison ...
    This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind. Encompassing 2000 years of history, part 1 begins with the Roman Empire and explores the key factors that have influenced economic development in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Part 2 covers the development of macroeconomic tools of analysis from the 17th ... Read more

    $92.79 CAD

  • Rome and China

    Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires

    by Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Early Empires
    Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives on imperial state formation prior to the European colonial ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD