The life assurer's handbook, and key to life assurance, ed. by G. Clifford. 4th ser., revised, by the ed. of 'The Bullionist'.
Author: Life assurer
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 460
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Idols of the Marketplace
Author: D. Hawkes
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001-10-11
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0312292694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPostmodern society seems incapable of elaborating an ethical critique of the market economy. Early modern society showed no such reticence. Between 1580 and 1680, Aristotelian teleology was replaced as the dominant mode of philosophy in England by Baconian empiricism. This was a process with implications for every sphere of life: for politics and theology, economics and ethics, aesthetics and sexuality. Through nuanced and original readings of Shakespeare, Herbert, Donne, Milton, Traherne, and Bunyan, David Hawkes sheds light on the antitheatrical controversy, and early modern debates over idolatry and value and trade. Hawkes argues that the people of Renaissance England believed that the decline of telos resulted in a reified, fetishistic mode of consciousness which manifests itself in such phenomena as religious idolatry, commodity fetish, and carnal sensuality. He suggests that the resulting early modern critique of the market economy has much to offer postmodern society.
The Open Economy Macromodel: Past, Present and Future
Author: Arie Arnon
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2002-09-30
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781402071621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Open Economy Macromodel: Past, Present And Future has two main objectives. The first is to assess the state of play of the Open Economy Macromodel by bringing together those who developed it with those who apply it today. The second is to assess possible directions for its future development. The volume is divided into three parts. Part one focuses on the models, men, and institutions involved in the development of the international macroeconomic model. In this section, the contributors examine the two monetary approaches to the balance of payments, as well as the relationship between long-term fluctuations in real exchange rates and inflation. Part two deals with the present state of the models by looking at Robert Mundell's theory of optimum currency areas (OCAs) and its relationship with key currencies. The chapters in this section also consider the impact of exchange rate variability on labor markets, as well as the interactions between theoretical developments and real-world behavior in the open economy macromodel. The third and last part of this volume provides a perspective on the future by looking at alternate models and institutional perspectives. Several contributors examine the relationship between asset prices, the real exchange rate, and unemployment in a small economy via what they call "a medium-run structuralist perspective". The future of institutional structures necessary to conduct international economic policy is the subject of the last chapters in part three of the volume.
The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists
Author: M. Jacob
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0230613802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays by leading historians of early modern Europe and the U.S., this books explores how merchants, entrepreneurs, and other early modern capitalists viewed themselves.
T'ang China
Author: S. Adshead
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004-07-29
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0230005519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a picture focused on the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages. Within a looser web of globalization, the T'ang period and its dynamics offers a distant mirror of our own time. An argument in world history may thus cast light on issues in contemporary politics.
A Financial History of Western Europe
Author: Charles P. Kindleberger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-06-03
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 1136805788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first history of finance - broadly defined to include money, banking, capital markets, public and private finance, international transfers etc. - that covers Western Europe (with an occasional glance at the western hemisphere) and half a millennium. Charles Kindleberger highlights the development of financial institutions to meet emerging needs, and the similarities and contrasts in the handling of financial problems such as transferring resources from one country to another, stimulating investment, or financing war and cleaning up the resulting monetary mess. The first half of the book covers money, banking and finance from 1450 to 1913; the second deals in considerably finer detail with the twentieth century. This major work casts current issues in historical perspective and throws light on the fascinating, and far from orderly, evolution of financial institutions and the management of financial problems. Comprehensive, critical and cosmopolitan, this book is both an outstanding work of reference and essential reading for all those involved in the study and practice of finance, be they economic historians, financial experts, scholarly bankers or students of money and banking. This groundbreaking work was first published in 1984.
China In World History
Author: S. A. M. Adshead
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-13
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 134923785X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA novel approach to Chinese history is adopted here, in that the theme of the book is China's relations with the non-Chinese world, not only political and economic, but cultural, social and technological as well. It seeks to show that China's history is part of everyone's history. In particular it traces China's relationship since the thirteenth century to the emergent world order and the various world institutions of which that order is composed. Each chapter discusses China's comparative place in the world, the avenues of contact between China and other civilizations, and who and what passed along these channels.
Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire
Author: Ariel Salzmann
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9789004108875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on archival research, this work examines the Ottoman ancien regime. The author argues that the success of the regime was due to the articulation of a complex financial network revolving around central state elite investments and an Istanbul-based and supervised banking system.
England's Internal Colonies
Author: M. Netzloff
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004-01-29
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781403961839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn England's Internal Colonies , Netzloff examines how the literature and discursive practices of English colonialism emerged as an extension of internal colonialist ventures in regions of England, Scotland and Ireland. Netzloff argues that England's internal and overseas colonies were linked together as a result of a perceived crisis concerning the social position of England's labouring poor, an expanding underclass which found itself at the centre of both the anxieties and aspirations of colonial projects. Through an analysis of texts by Shakespeare, Jonson, Heywood, Speed and others, Netzloff discusses the interconnections between class and colonialism in relation to such topics as piracy, vagrancy, colonial labour practices, mercantilism and early modern capitalism, the status of gypsies, and the colonization of the Anglo-Scottish Borders and Ulster.
World Accumulation
Author: Andre Gunder Frank
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2011-01-10
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1583671935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost of Andre Gunder Frank's early work on the nature of underdevelopment focused on one continent: Latin America. Here he broadened his canvas and traced the world-wide effects of the process of capital accumulation from the period just prior to the discovery of America to the industrial and French revolutions. It is Frank's thesis that the world has experienced a single all-embracing, albeit unequal and uneven, process of capital accumulation centered in Western Europe, which has been capitalist for at least two centuries.
