chapter 1 Introduction -- part Part I Fiscal policy -- chapter 2 Interests: A history of tax conflicts -- chapter 3 Ideas: The theory of stabilization policy -- chapter 4 Practice: The stability of Federal government deficits -- part Part II Monetary policy -- chapter 5 The interests and...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The early history: 1830 to 1860 -- chapter 3 The great take-off: 1860 to 1900 -- chapter 4 Growth and consolidation: 1900 to 1920 -- chapter 5 The 1920s -- chapter 6 The Depression -- chapter 7 Steel and World War II -- chapter 8 The post-war period: 1946 to...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The political economy of the early modern state -- chapter 3 The industrial revolution: a threat or a promise? -- chapter 4 Industrialization in Europe, part 1 -- chapter 5 Industrialization in Europe, part 2 -- chapter 6 Industrialization in the first...

An international board of contributors underline the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans, and suggest how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change