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Demonstrates that international economic integration is an economic and political process that also involves political economy. This book also examines the types of organizations that exemplify international economic integration, such as colonial empires, merchant associations, religious empires, criminal empires, free trade areas, and more.

This interdisciplinary book brings together eleven original contributions by scholars in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, America and Japan which represent innovative and important research on the relationship between port-cities and their hinterlands.

The Political Economy of International Commodity Cartels examines how international commodity cartels in the 1930s were impacted not only by commercial rivalry, but also by international trade political and diplomatic concerns.

Paper and the British Empire examines the evolution of the paper industry within British organisational frameworks, and highlights the role of the Empire as a market and business-making area in a world of shrinking commerce and rising trade barriers.

Drawing on modern economic theory, this book provides new insights into the economic development of ancient economies and the sustainability of their development. The book pays particular attention to the economics of hunting and gathering societies and their diversity.

The property market was a key and dynamic economic sector in Ancient Rome. This book takes a multisided insight into real estate as the subject of short- and long-term economic investments, of speculative and businesses ventures, of power abuses and inequalities, of social aspirations, but also of essential housing needs.

The central question of this book is whether and how such state formation did in fact contribute to economic development.

This book explores the twists and turns in Argentina's modern economic history and the debates around how to achieve a level of economic growth for its population in a world characterized by unequal economic relations between the industrialized nations of the north and the commodity producers of the south.

This book is an invaluable reference that attempts to bridge the fields of economic history, political history, economic geography, and economics whilst contributing to the debates on economic divergence between Europe and Asia as well as on the role of economic integration and globalization.

This interdisciplinary book brings together eleven original contributions by scholars in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, America and Japan which represent innovative and important research on the relationship between port-cities and their hinterlands.

This fascinating study uses Domesday book data and Management Science methods to examine manorial production efficiency in Medieval Essex in 1086. This book reveals unexpected facts about economic history.

A collection of Sir Alec Cairncross' most important contributions to the economic history of the post-1939 period. They demonstrate a keen insight into the changing role of the economist and the transformation of the economic landscape.

Provides a look at historical experiences of monetary-standard upheavals. This book presents the research of Lawrence H Officer and explores issues such as market structure and economic efficiency and others. It covers multidimensional pricing, application to oceanic shipping of commodities, and the financing of international organizations.

Provides an examination of industrial development. This book addresses how Japan's post-war industrial development happened; the primary driver of such development; and, other factors important. It reviews the macroeconomic development of the economy and focuses on the development of the industrial sub-sectors that dominated the industrial scene.

This book charts the inexorable rise of foreign exchange in London over the past century and is the first full-length study of an amazing transformation.

This impressive and pioneering work describes and analyses the managemet of the national debt of the United Kingdom from the Boer War (1899-1902) to the period of the great depression in the early 1930s.