Introduction -- The stock market in early modern England -- Politics, warfare and finance -- Financial innovation and trade -- The bubble and the crash -- Reasons to invest in the South Sea Company -- Criticism and financial complexity -- The social history of the crash -- The real effects of...

1. Continuity and change in British economic policymaking -- 2. Crisis, ideas, and path dependence : theoretical framework and postwar Britain's changing political economy -- 3. Clement Attlee's postwar "settlement" (1945-1970) : depression, war, Keynes, Beveridge, and a new consensus -- 4....

1. Introduction -- 2. Bullion movement to and from Bengal, 1660-1860 -- 3. Woes of the cotton textile industry : competitive failure or policy discrimination? -- 4. Prosperous silk textile industry : traditional edge of comparative advantage -- 5. Decline of the salt manufacturing industry : an...

1. International competition in cotton goods in the late nineteenth century : Britain versus India and East Asia / Heita Kawakatsu -- 2. The international trade in rice and wheat since 1868 : a study in market integration / A.J.H. Latham -- 3. China : a microcosm of the world market for cotton...

This book makes an important contribution to the history and theory of British post-war economics in its presentation of an innovative, historically informed, yet contemporary theory of the British state

Covering the time span from the Shang to the Qing Periods (1520BC - 1911AD), Gang Deng examines important factors in the decline of the Chinese economy from medieval sophistication to modern underdevelopment. These factors include: * resource endowments * socio-economic structure * property...