This book examines the considerations that determine a central bank's monetary strategy and explains how these considerations have featured in recent European monetary history.

Synthèses sur des ouvrages clés de la théorie économique, la pensée politique et sociale, l'histoire des sociétés contemporaines, etc.

This book explores the rise of consumerism and the expanding variety of goods available in Japan.

A striking portrait of states in the non-Western world from the dismantling of European empires to their inclusion into a universe of global capitalism.

This book examines the globalization of production and its impact on work and gender relations, the impact of technology on workers around the world, the economic problems associated with debt crisis, the political opportunities associated ...

A subject that is often treated in rather abstract terms is here given reality and concreteness ...' - Sidney Painter, Speculum. A reprint of the 3rd edition published in 1964 by F.L. Ganshof.

Qu'advient-il des oppositions frustrées ? Comment les transformations institutionnelles, même neutralisées, insufflent-elles un dynamisme politique ? Et quel dynamisme ?

But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age.

Major account of the fourteenth-century crisis which saw a series of famines, revolts and epidemics transform the medieval world.

The book concludes with an examination of the forces which have shaped and are now poised to undermine America's world power.