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Covering figures, events, policies, and organizations, this comprehensive reference tool enhances readers' appreciation of the role economics has played in U.S. history since 1776.

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This work covers trade policy from 1923 to 1995 taking the history of American tariffs from the Prelude to Trade Wars to the present. Cordell Hull and the Reciprocal Trade Agreements of the 1930s are discussed along with the increase in trade revenue from these agreements.

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This volume, from the 1956 Conference, deals with the nature, reliability, and the uses of the income data included in the 1950 census. It contrasts this data with income information from other sources--field surveys, and administrative records of government regulatory, fiscal, and social security agencies. Another group of papers deals with substa

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Examines the changing of the ANZUS Alliance, linking the US, Australia and New Zealand. The volume describes the evolution of the three countries' respective domestic economic structures, international economic orientations and relationships with each other since World War II.

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Focusing on the period since Irish independence, this documentary history provides a record of the policies the Irish government has followed to encourage economic growth, thereby providing access to the official record for readers in this country.

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Presenting an analysis of the world's first private banks, this work demonstrates the existence and functioning of a market economy in ancient Athens while revising our understanding of the society itself. It reveals that fourth-century Athenian bankers pursued sophisticated transactions.

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Austria Supreme, if It So Wishes (1684) provides a scholarly introduction to the Austrian-German mercantilist classic Oesterreich ber Alles Wann es Nur Will (1684) by Philipp Wilhelm von Hrnigk.

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Offers an account of how banking evolved in the United States in the context of the nation's political and social development. This book highlights not only the influence politicians exercised over banking but also how banking drove political interests and created political coalitions.

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Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool. As James Cortada describes what was once called the "office appliance industry," he challenges our view of the digital computer as a revolutionary technology. Cortad

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A new edition of Kaplans landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on comprehensive archival, Kaplans classic work constitutes a major contribution to the study of the subsistence problem before the French Revolution and the political economy of deregulatory reform.

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This textbook covers the three centuries of British business history from 1720 to the present day. Wilson argues that company culture has been a component in the evolution of business organisations and management practices.

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The two decades that followed World War II witnessed the end of the great European empires in Asia and Africa. Robert Tignor's new study of the decolonization experiences of Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya elucidates the major factors that led to the transfer of power from British to African hands in these three territories. Employing a comparative metho

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This book sheds light on their roles in policy making and relates those roles to larger conflicts over where policy should be made, how the Federal Reserve System should be structured, and the balance that should be struck between international, national, and regional considerations.

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This book provides the first comprehensive evaluation of Britain's food laws from the 1860s to 1930s and the first analysis of the Victorian anti-adulteration legislation for 25 years. -- .