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  • Calculated Values

    Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age

    by William Deringer ...
    Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers to find answers, settle disputes, and explain how the world works. Whether evaluating economic trends, measuring the success of institutions, or divining public opinion, we are told that numbers don’t lie. But numbers have not always been so revered. Calculated Values traces how numbers first gained widespread public ... Read more

    $42.69 USD

  • Osiris, Volume 33: Science and Capitalism

    Entangled Histories

    Edited by Lukas Rieppel, William Deringer, Eugenia Lean ...
    Series Book 33 - Osiris
    The historical relationship between science and capitalism has long stood as a central question in science studies, at least since its foundations in the 1930s. Taking inspiration from the recent surge of scholarly interest in the “history of capitalism,” as well as from renewed attention to political economy by historians of science and technology, this Osiris volume revisits this classic ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The Long Revolution

    by Raymond Williams ...
    Examining the gradual change that has shaped the political, economic, and cultural life of the 20th century, socialist thinker Raymond Williams offers interesting arguments that remain timely for contemporary readers. In this new edition of the classic text, Williams' study of education and the press traces the development of a common language, revealing links between ideas, literary forms, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adam Smith

    An Enlightened Life

    by Nicholas Phillipson ...
    Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - that of the 'Invisible Hand' of the market and that 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest' - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Making Money

    Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism

    by Christine Desan ...
    Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like gold or a medium like language. But its history reveals that money is a very different matter. It is an institution engineered by political communities to mark and mobilize resources. As societies change the way they create money, they change the market itself - along with the rules that ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • After Adam Smith

    A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy

    by Murray Milgate, Shannon C. Stimson ...
    How writers after Adam Smith helped shape our thinking about economics and politicsFew issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics. In the century after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations the British economy was transformed. After Adam Smith looks at how politics and political economy were articulated and altered. It considers how grand ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Customs in Common

    Studies in Traditional Popular Culture

    by E. P. Thompson ...
    The "meticulously researched, elegantly argued and deeply humane" sequel to the landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class ( The New York Times Book Review).This remarkable study investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century. As villagers were subjected to a legal system ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Scottish Economic Thought

    Edited by Alexander Dow, Sheila Dow ...
    Series series The Routledge History of Economic Thought
    Modern economics has, at its foundation, scholarly contributions from many prominent Scottish thinkers. This revealing work examines the roots of this great tradition, places in perspective a selection of authors, and assesses their contribution over three centuries in the light of a distinctive Scottish approach to economics.Scottish Enlightenment is an established area of research interest, and ... Read more

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  • Making the Market

    Victorian Origins of Corporate Capitalism

    by Paul Johnson ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    Corporate capitalism was invented in nineteenth-century Britain; most of the market institutions that we take for granted today - limited companies, shares, stock markets, accountants, financial newspapers - were Victorian creations. So were the moral codes, the behavioural assumptions, the rules of thumb and the unspoken agreements that made this market structure work. This innovative study ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The History of Education in Ghana

    From the Earliest Times to the Declaration of Independance

    by C.K. Graham ...
    Published in the year 1971, The History of Education in Ghana is a valuable contribution to the field of History. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?

    England 1783-1846

    by Boyd Hilton ...
    Series series New Oxford History of England
    This was a transformative period in English history. In 1783 the country was at one of the lowest points in its fortunes, having just lost its American colonies in warfare. By 1846 it was once more a great imperial nation, as well as the world's strongest power and dominant economy, having benefited from what has sometimes (if misleadingly) been called the 'first industrial revolution'. In the ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • A Social History of England, 1500–1750

    Edited by Keith Wrightson ...
    Series series A Social History of England
    The rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has broadened the historical agenda to include many previously little-studied, or wholly neglected, dimensions of the English past. It has also provided a fuller context for understanding more established themes in the political, religious, economic and intellectual histories of the period. This ... Read more

    $32.79 USD