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He has been the editor-in-chief of the Princeton Economic History of the Western World (a book series published by Princeton University Press) since 1993, and was a co-editor of the Journal of Economic History from 1994 to 1998. [4] He was President of the Economic History Association from 2002 to 2003. [4]
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World is a 2007 book about economic history by Gregory Clark. It is published by Princeton University Press . The book's title, like Clark's other book The Son Also Rises , is a pun on Ernest Hemingway 's novel, A Farewell to Arms .
The economic history of the world encompasses the development of human economic activity throughout time. It has been estimated that throughout prehistory, the world average GDP per capita was about $158 per annum (inflation adjusted for 2013), and did not rise much until the Industrial Revolution .
Economic history is the study of history using methodological tools from economics or with a special attention to economic phenomena. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and institutions.
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy is a 2000 nonfiction book by Kenneth Pomeranz, published by Princeton University Press, [1] on the subject of Great Divergence in the world history. [2] The book won the John K. Fairbank Prize for 2000. [3] It was a joint winner for World History Association Book ...
Karl Marx; Das Kapital, 1867; Das Kapital on Wikisource; Annotations, Explanations and Clarifications to Capital.; Description: A political-economic treatise by Karl Marx.Marx wrote this critical analysis of capitalism and of the political economy from the perspective of historical materialism, the view that history can be understood as a sequence of modes of production in which exploiting ...
This is a timeline of the history of international trade which chronicles notable events that have affected the trade between various countries.. In the era before the rise of the nation state, the term 'international' trade cannot be literally applied, but simply means trade over long distances; the sort of movement in goods which would represent international trade in the modern world.
In the 2018 Q.S. World University Rankings, the department places as No. 3 in the world in the fields of Economics and Econometrics. [18] The 2018 Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranks the department as No. 7 globally. [19] It has been ranked by RePEc among the top ten economics Departments in the world. [20]