Book Reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 695-696
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

Robert F. Bruner of University of Virginia reviews “Coping with Financial Crises: Some Lessons from Economic History,” by Hugh Rockoff and Isao Suto. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Seven papers, emerging from a session at the World Economic History Congress in Kyoto in August, 2015, consider how governments and private individuals cope with the problems created by financial crises.”

Foreign Private Investment in India 1920–1950

1978 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 655-677 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. R. Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
International Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
Foreign Private Investment ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Overseas Investment ◽  
Developed Nations

Overseas investment by developed nations in the less industrialized economies of Asia, Africa and Latin America is an important part of modern international economic history. Such investment has long been recognized as a potent force in integrating the international economy. It has also been placed at the heart of most theories of the expansion of European empires in the nineteenth century and it is seen as a major part of the ‘neo-colonialism’ that is widely thought to have characterized the world economic and political structure since 1945. This article will examine private foreign investment in India in the first half of the twentieth century, spanning the gap between the ‘imperial’ and the ‘neo-colonial’ epochs.

World-System Analysis as a Basis of a Textbookon Economic history (On the book by G. D. Gloveli “Economic History: Textbook for B.A. Students. Advanced Course”)

2013 ◽  
pp. 147-153
Author(s):  
K. Fursov
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
World System ◽  
First Century ◽  
History Textbook ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The World ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Ancient Times

The article deals with the problem of the world-system analysis as a methodological basis for writing a textbook on world economic history for universities. An attempt is made to formulate what a textbook on such a basis should be. Strong and weak points of this scientific approach are distinguished. A conclusion is made that the author of the textbook under study has successfully achieved the goal — to present a panorama of economic history from the ancient times to the early twenty-first century consistently using the world-system paradigm.

scholarly journals Adam Tooze: Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World; Adam Tooze: Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
Jóhann Páll Árnason
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crises ◽  
The World

Book reviews: Adam Tooze: Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World. London: Allen Lane, 2018, 218 pp. Adam Tooze: Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy. London: Allen Lane, 2021, 368 pp.

Book Reviews

1999 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-201
Author(s):  
Robert M Stern
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
International Economics ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Trading Blocs

Regional Trading Blocs in the World Economic System. By Jeffrey A. Frankel, with Ernesto Stein and Shang-Ji Wei. Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1997. Pp. xv, 364. ISBN 0–88132–202–4. JEL 98–0525

Sohail J. Malik, Safiya Alta., and Nargis Sultana. Pakistan's Economic Performance 1947 to 1993: A Descriptive Analysis. Lahore: Sure Publishers. 1994. 444 pages. Hardbound. Rs 325.00/US$ 35.00.

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-83
Author(s):  
Hina Nazli
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
The World ◽  
Background Data ◽  
Key Variables

Pakistan's economic history has seen many turnarounds since independence. The country emerged on the world-map with few manufacturing industries, very little educated and skilled labour, a limited endowment of financial resources, and the enormous problem of resettlement of refugees. In addition to this, political conflicts with India caused two wars and resulted in the separation of East Pakistan. However, the country's economic performance has been remarkable. This book reviews Pakistan's economic performance over a period of 47 years, from 1947 to 1993, and traces the history and development of various sectors of Pakistan's economy with the help of time-series data on key variables. Trends in these variables are depicted in graphs. The background data are provided in the 58 appendix tables at the end of the book. In each chapter, Pakistan's position in the world economy is judged by a comparative analysis in relation to other countries.

IMPACT OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY ON THE REFORM PROCESS OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 131-134
Author(s):  
I. A. STRELETS ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
International Financial Institutions ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

The article is devoted to the analysis of the influence of the digital economy on the modification of the behavior of economic entities both at the level of individual actors and at the level of international organizations. Financial crises at the beginning of the XXI century. found the need to reform the financial system and carry out large-scale reforms in international financial institutions. These reforms apply to such a large and authoritative organization as the IMF. The future of the organizations being reformed and the prospects of the world economic system as a whole depend on how successful and effective the reforms will be.

Contra pan-institutionalism. Part I

2019 ◽  
pp. 119-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rostislav I. Kapeliushnikov
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Modern Economic

The paper provides a critical assessment of Pan-i nstitutionalism — an approach which tries to explain the course of the world economic history by changes in formal economic and formal political institutions. This approach is mono-causal since for it formal institutions do not simply matter: in fact they are all that matter. The most complete and elaborated versions of Pan-institutionalism were presented i n two famous books — “Violence and social order” by North, Wallis and Wei ngast and “Why nations fail” by Acemoglu and Robinson. Their ideas were taken by the Russian academic community as the last word in the modern economic and political sciences. The paper demonstrates methodological narrowness, conceptual inconsistency and historical inadequacy of Pan-institutionalism. In particular, it fails to provide a coherent explanation of the turning point of the world economic history — the Industrial revolution in England in the mid of XVIII century, i.e. a transition from Malthusian to Schumpeterian economic growth.

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