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Vermeij, Geerat J., 1946-
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576.8 22
Publication Date
2004
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From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought--economics, evolution, and history--that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and provocative exploration of the facts and theories of biology, economics, and geology to show how processes common to all economic systems--competition, cooperation, adaptation, and feedback--govern evolution as surely as they do the human economy, and how historical patterns in both human and nonhum.
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Morrissey, Sylvia.
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994.02 MOR
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1983
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Toch, Michael.
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330.9401089924 23
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2012
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Hanes, Christopher, editor.
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330.9 23
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2014
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Volume 30 contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.S. including "Democratization and central government spending, 1870-1938 : emergence of the leviathan?" by Jari Eloranta, Svetlozar Andreev and Pavel Osinsky; "Swedish regional GDP 1855-2000," by Kerstin Enflo, Martin Henning and Lennart Schon; "Did the Fed help to form a more perfect monetary union?" by John A. James and David F. Weiman; "The anthropometric history of Native Americans, 1820-1890" by John Komlos and Leonard Carlson; and "The dispersion of customs tariffs in France between 1850 and 1913: discrimination in trade policy," by Becuwe Stéphane and Blancheton Bertrand.
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Bulmer-Thomas, V.
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330.98003 22
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2003
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Beginning with the integration of Latin America into the world trading system centered on Europe and North America before 1930, this book takes its narrative from the end of the colonial epoch to the present, and provides a comprehensive balanced portrait of the factors affecting economic development in Latin America.
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Sabillon, Carlos, 1967-
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338.9 22
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2008
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Jones, E. L. (Eric Lionel)
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333.95 23
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2014
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Revealed Biodiversity: An Economic History of the Human Impact aims to show that for several centuries environmental conditions have been substantially the product of economic fluctuations. It contests the notion of perpetual decline in species composition. The arguments are supported by far more precise historical detail than is usual in books about ecology. The need to take the gains to human society into account when assessing environmental change is strongly emphasized. The book features case studies including England, the Netherlands, USA, East Asia, Brazil, and the areas of modern agricultural 'land grab'. This book is important for its close attention to the documented historical record of environmental change in several countries over several centuries; for its demonstration of how much wildlife populations have been influenced by fluctuations in market activity; for revealing the need to be sensitive to historical baselines; and for emphasizing the imperative of taking the gains to human society into account when assessing environmental change. It, therefore, has considerable significance for environmental and conservation policies as well as for future studies in ecological history.
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105483.9219
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Hanes, Christopher.
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330.9 23
Publication Date
2013
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Research in Economic History is a well-established and well-cited journal which has presented work by leading researchers in the field of economic history, including economists, historians and demographers.
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Federico, Giovanni, 1954-
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338.109034 23
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2009 2005
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In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a comprehensive history of world agriculture during this period, explains how these feats were accomplished. Feeding the World synthesizes two hundred years of agricultural development throughout the world, providing all essential data and extensive references to the literature. It covers, systematica.
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Wrigley, Chris.
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331.880941 22
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2002
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This textbook summarises the history of British trade unions between 1933 and 2000. The book discusses the key themes and controversies surrounding trade unions, including their economic impact and their influence on government. It gives students a lucid and up-to-date introduction to the recent history of British trade unionism.
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101654.5703
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Findlay, Ronald.
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382.01 22
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2006
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Salstrom, Paul, 1940-
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330.974 20
Publication Date
1994
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The debate over the source of Appalachia's economic problems has been going strong since Harry Caudill's Night Comes to the Cumberlands appeared in 1963. Now a new study illuminates the region's plight, making a vital contribution to the understanding of this area's critical economic dilemma. In Appalachia's Path to Dependency, Paul Salstrom examines the evolution of economic life over time in southern Appalachia. Moving away from the colonial model to an analysis based on dependency, he exposes the complex web of factors - regulation of credit, industrialization, population growth, cultural values, federal intervention - that has worked against the region. Salstrom argues that economic adversity has resulted from three types of disadvantages: natural, market, and political. The overall context in which Appalachia's economic life unfolded was one of expanding United States markets and, after the Civil War, of expanding capitalist relations. Covering the entire span of Appalachia's economic history, from the early white settlement to the end of the New Deal, this work is not simply an economic interpretation but draws as well on other areas of history. Salstrom compares Appalachia with the Midwest at mid-nineteenth century, today's Appalachia with Third World countries, and the region with Japan. Whereas other interpretations of Appalachia's economy have tended to seek social or psychological explanations for its dependency, this important work compels us to look directly at the region's economic history. This regional perspective offers a clear-eyed view of Appalachia's path in the future.
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