Author: Bruce Louis AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics
Author: Simon R. FrostPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438483538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Combining historical study, theorization, and experimental fiction, this book takes commodity culture and book retail around 1900 as the prime example of a market of symbolic goods. With the port of Southampton, England, as his case study, Simon R. Frost reveals how the city's bookshops, with their combinations of libraries, haberdashery, stationery, and books, sustained and were sustained by the dreams of ordinary readers, and how together they created the values powering this market. The goods in this market were symbolic and were not "consumed" but read. Their readings were created between other readers and texts, in happy disobedience to the neoliberal laws of the free market. Today such reader-created social markets comprise much of the world's branded economies, which is why Frost calls for a new understanding of both literary and market values.
Enterprise and Secular Change
Author: Gustav von SchmollerCapital Accumulation in the Industrial Revolution
Author: Bruce Louis AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Land of Promise
Author: Michael LindPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062097725
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
"[An] ambitious economic history of the united States...rich with details." ?—David Leonhardt, New York Times Book Review How did a weak collection of former British colonies become an industrial, financial, and military colossus? From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the American economy has been transformed by wave after wave of emerging technology: the steam engine, electricity, the internal combustion engine, computer technology. Yet technology-driven change leads to growing misalignment between an innovative economy and anachronistic legal and political structures until the gap is closed by the modernization of America's institutions—often amid upheavals such as the Civil War and Reconstruction and the Great Depression and World War II. When the U.S. economy has flourished, government and business, labor and universities, have worked together in a never-ending project of economic nation building. As the United States struggles to emerge from the Great Recession, Michael Lind clearly demonstrates that Americans, since the earliest days of the republic, have reinvented the American economy - and have the power to do so again.
Readings in American History
Author: David Saville MuzzeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Author: Robert C. AllenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521868270
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Ancient Economy
Author: Moses I. FinleyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520024366
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"The Ancient Economy holds pride of place among the handful of genuinely influential works of ancient history. This is Finley at the height of his remarkable powers and in his finest role as historical iconoclast and intellectual provocateur. It should be required reading for every student of pre-modern modes of production, exchange, and consumption."--Josiah Ober, author of Political Dissent in Democratic Athens
Historical Perspectives on the American Economy
Author: Robert WhaplesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466486
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
This book is a student reader of the key topics in American economic history.
Catalogue
Author: Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Catalogue of the Publications of the University of California Press
Author: University of California PressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description