The Cambridge History of Capitalism: The Rise of Capitalism: From Ancient Origins to 1848: Volume 1 (The Cambridge History of Capitalism 2 Volume Hardback Set)

Edited by Larry Neal , Jeffrey G. Williamson

ISBN 10: 110701963X / ISBN 13: 9781107019638

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Volume 1 of a definitive two-volume reference tracing the rise and development of capitalism from ancient to modern times. Editor(s): Neal, Larry; Williamson, Jeffrey G. Num Pages: 628 pages, 28 b/w illus. 5 maps 13 tables. BIC Classification: KCS; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1130. . 2014. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers V9781107019638

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Volume 1 of a definitive two-volume reference tracing the rise and development of capitalism from ancient to modern times.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Larry Neal is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Specializing in financial history and European economies, he is author of The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason (Cambridge, 1990) and The Economics of Europe and the European Union (Cambridge, 2007), and is co-editor of The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Cambridge, 2009) and 'I am Not Master of Events': The Speculations of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles (2012).

Jeffrey G. Williamson is Emeritus Laird Bell Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Massachusetts and Honorary Fellow in the Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is also Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and has been a visiting professor at seventeen universities around the world. Professor Williamson specializes in development, inequality, globalization and history, and he is the author of around 230 scholarly articles and 30 books, his most recent being Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind (2011), Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950 (2006), Global Migration and the World Economy (2005, with T. Hatton) and Globalization in Historical Perspective (2003, edited with M. Bordo and A. M. Taylor).

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Titel: The Cambridge History of Capitalism: The ...
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Hardcover
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