In den letzten Jahrzehnten ging die Schere zwischen den Reichen und der übrigen Gesellschaft immer weiter auseinander. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurden Ungleichheit und Reichtum nicht nur von den Sozialwissenschaften und anderen Disziplinen als Forschungsthemen wiederentdeckt, sondern zuletzt auch...

A common problem in historical research involves harmonizing geographic units across time or different levels of aggregation. One approach is to use " crosswalks" that associate factors located within one geographic unit to different " reference" units based on relative areas . We develop an...

In applied historical research, geographic units often differ in level of aggregation across datasets. One solution is to use crosswalks that associate factors located within one geographic unit to another, based on their relative areas. We develop an alternative approach based on relative...

This edited collection explores the histories of trade, a peculiar literary genre that emerged in the context of the historiographical and cultural changes promoted by the histoire philosophique movement. It marked a discontinuity with erudition and antiquarianism, and interacted critically with...

In this essay, we propose a recursive model of institutional change building on the Annales School, one of the 20th century's most influential streams of historical research. Our model builds upon three concepts from the Annales — mentalities, levels of time, and critical events — to explore...

This monograph is about an exciting episode in the intellectual history of Europe: the vigorous debate among leading Polish historians on the sources of the economic development and non-development, including the origins of economic divisions within Europe. The work covers nearly fifty years of...

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Introduction: Public relations, society and the generative power of history; Periodisation; Corporate dominance; US- centrism; Sociocultural context; Structure of the book; References; Part I Challenging...

It is often said that history matters, but these words are often little more than a hollow statement. In the aftermath of the Great Recession, the view that the economy is a mechanical toy that can be fixed using a few simple tools has continued to be held by economists and policy makers and...

"Today, as globalization deepens daily and the world becomes increasingly integrated, the time has come to revise the conventional Euro-centric view on world history. The author has been exploring for several years now how best to create a new world history. The world history that we learn and...

Front Cover -- The Power of Resistance: Culture, Ideology and Social Reproduction in Global Contexts -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- References -- Section 1 Institutional and Historical Factors in Inequality -- Conceptions of Equity in an Age of...

"If history matters for understanding key development outcomes then surely historians should be active contributors to the debates informing these understandings. This volume integrates, for the first time, contributions from ten leading historians and seven policy advisors around the central...

"If history matters for understanding key development outcomes then surely historians should be active contributors to the debates informing these understandings. This volume integrates, for the first time, contributions from ten leading historians and seven policy advisors around the central...

Unternehmen sind historisch gewachsene Bausteine der modernen Welt. Ihre Leistungskraft entscheidet über die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Ländern und den Lebensstandard ihrer Bürger. Unternehmen sind zugleich politische Akteure, die auch soziale und kulturelle Zusammenhänge stiften. Diese...

The fault line of axiomatization -- The mathematical turn in economics -- The arrow of time in economics -- Of puzzles and problems -- Economics pursuing the mold of evolutionary biology -- Economics as plausible conjecture -- Max Weber and the lost thread of historical economics -- Historical...