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By: Astrid Kander
ISBN: 9780691168227
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolutio
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By: Agustina Paglayan
ISBN: 9780691261263
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: David Stasavage
ISBN: 9780691166735
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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States of Credit provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras. In this pioneering book, David Stasavage argues that unique advances in political representation allowed certain European states to gain early and advantageous access
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By: Thomas J. Sargent
ISBN: 9780691116358
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Examines the evolution of Western European economies through the lens the recurring scarcity and depreciation of small change. This book tells the story of how monetary technologies, doctrines, and practices evolved from 1300 to 1850; of how the 'standard formula' was devised to address the dilemma without causing inflation.
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By: Sheilagh Ogilvie
ISBN: 9780691137544
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Ran Abramitzky
ISBN: 9780691202242
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Jan Luiten van Zanden
ISBN: 9780691114385
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Presents the history of the Dutch economy in the nineteenth century. This book shows how institutional factors combined to make the Dutch economy a victim of its own success and traces its subsequent emergence as a modern industrial economy. It argues that the economic and political development of the Netherlands can be understood only in tandem.
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By: Richard S. Grossman
ISBN: 9780691202785
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Richard S. Grossman
ISBN: 9780691139050
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. This book takes a comparative look at the development of commercial banking systems over the years in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia.
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By: John V.C. Nye
ISBN: 9780691129174
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Aims to debunk the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France. This book shows that Britain did not transform smoothly from a mercantilist state in the 18th century to a bastion of free trade in the late 19th.
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By: John V.C. Nye
ISBN: 9780691242217
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Philip T. Hoffman
ISBN: 9780691175843
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Richard N. Langlois
ISBN: 9780691247533
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Patrick Wallis
ISBN: 9780691265315
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Sheilagh Ogilvie
ISBN: 9780691255569
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Gregory Clark
ISBN: 9780691141282
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor Why did the Industrial Revolution occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place This title tackles these profound questions and suggests a fresh way in which culture explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations.
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By: Claire Priest
ISBN: 9780691241722
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Walter Scheidel
ISBN: 9780691216737
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Walter Scheidel
ISBN: 9780691172187
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Robert C. Allen
ISBN: 9780691144313
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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To say that history's greatest economic experiment - Soviet communism - was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious. This book argues that the USSR was one of the most successful developing economies of the twentieth century.
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By: Maarten Prak
ISBN: 9780691229874
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Richard Saller
ISBN: 9780691229560
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Ronald Findlay
ISBN: 9780691143279
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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International trade has shaped the modern world. This book examines the successive waves of globalization and 'deglobalization' that have occurred during the past thousand years, looking at the technological and political causes behind these long-term trends.
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By: F. M. Scherer
ISBN: 9780691155463
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Analyzes the changing trends in how composers acquired their skills and earned their living, examining such impacts as demographic developments and modes of transportation. This book offers insight into the diversity of composers' economic aspirations, the strategies through which they pursued success, and the emergence of copyright protection.
