Text in Persian. Hassanali Mehran, who headed the Central Bank of Iran for more than two years, describes the goals and the policies of the bank fr...

This is a book about power and about an extraordinarily wealthy elite that has wielded unprecedented power, not for the good, but rather for the en...

Heke Tangata can broadly be translated as 'migration of the people', and in this book economist Brian Easton tracks the major relocations Maori hav...

This book tells the tale of Richard Whitney and describes in detail the banking and investment structure that precipitated the stock market collaps...

The commercial intercourse between India and West Asia can be traced out from antiquity. If one leaves out the commercial relations between West As...

At the turn of the second millennium, Koreans face multiple challenges at home and abroad. South Korea is still in the throes of democratisation an...

Benjamin A Rogge's ability to speak and write about serious economic topics with humour, humility, and wit, but without difficult jargon, math, or ...

Benjamin A Rogge's ability to speak and write about serious economic topics with humour, humility, and wit, but without difficult jargon, math, or ...

Money was a mind thing long before certain goods were used as money and coins started circulating. As it happens money isn’t a thing, but an idea, ...

"Ester Boserup's writings have had major impact over the last quarter century on the evolution of thought in anthropology, demography, economics, a...

This collection of essays derives from the 1989 Princeton Conference on 'The Social and Economic History of the Greeks in the Ottoman Empire: The G...

Bandar Abbas, once a small fishing village, became the gateway port for Iran after Shah Abbas defeated the Portuguese in 1622. However, with the fa...

Muscat, the capital city of present day Oman, has had a long, and colorful history as a typical Indian Ocean port at the mouth of the Persian Gulf....

By taking this heart-rending journey into his own luminous past and the more remote and sombre past of the lumber-town where he grew up, Al Sandine...

When he fled Austria in 1934, Ludwig von Mises left behind a wealth of writings that, he supposed, were lost forever. Seized by the Nazi Gestapo, t...

When he fled Austria in 1934, Ludwig von Mises left behind a wealth of writings that, he supposed, were lost forever. Seized by the Nazi Gestapo, t...

The book develops a stage theory to identify the crucial factors driving economic development from period to period.

Ludwig von Mises, the author of such classics as 'Socialism and Human Action' is universally acknowledged as one of the most important classical li...

Ludwig von Mises, the author of such classics as 'Socialism and Human Action' is universally acknowledged as one of the most important classical li...

In early modern times, Seville was the most important hub for the transatlantic economy. It attracted a large number of foreign merchants who conne...

Presently, India's exports cover a wide range of traditional and non-traditional items. Although non-traditional items (gems and jewellery, readyma...

Why was it that a small mining community in Victoria on the margin of Australian coal mining, with a strong union organisation, was able to exert a...

During the Second World War, the collaboration dilemma regarding Europe's business life came to the forefront as business leaders were faced with t...

After Independence in 1947, India followed, for about 30 years (1950-80), a development pattern which laid strong emphasis on centralised planning,...