This book analyzes the dynamic growth of the U.S. scholarly publishing industry in the United States during 1939-1946, a critical period in the business history of scholarly publications in STM and the humanities and the social sciences. It explains how the key publishing players positioned...

This book - the second of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective. Each chapter discusses citizens, special interests, and government officials responding to economic incentives in both markets and politics. In doing so, the book provides...

This book is the third installment in a series of volumes looking at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective. Each chapter discusses citizens, special interests, and government officials responding to economic incentives in both markets and politics. In doing so,...

This book analyzes the origins of marketing and branding strategies and the unique situations involving differentiation. Photographs of actual materials that were created and used in marketing campaigns between 1846-1946 are featured to bring to life these vintage innovations. Examining how and...

This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose of the series is to make works by Japanese scholars accessible to a wider readership and to increase the knowledge of scholars in this field, particularly in relation to Asia....

This seventh edition of an investment classic has been thoroughly revised and expanded following the latest crises to hit international markets. Renowned economist Robert Z. Aliber introduces the concept that global financial crises in recent years are not independent events, but symptomatic of...

Preface -- Chapter 1 Reality and Theory -- Chapter 2 Empirically-Grounded Theory -- Chapter 3 Bankground: Banking and Causality -- Chapter 4 Dynamics of Bank Panics -- Chapter 5 Control in an Economic System -- Chapter 6 Great Depression -- Chapter 7 Topological Economic Theory -- Chapter 8...

Introduction -- A Pre-history of the Federal Reserve -- Does U.S. History Vindicate Central Banking? - Ben Bernanke, the FDR of Central Bankers -- Fed Policy Errors of the Great Depression -- The Federal Reserve: Reality Trumps Rhetoric -- A Fraudulent Legend: The Myth of the Independent Fed --...