Author : Paul Crosthwaite
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1316515753
This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interdisciplinary field of literature and economics.
Author : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521898226
Thanks to its exceptional size and duration, the Roman Empire offers one of the best opportunities to study economic development in the context of an agrarian world empire. This volume, which is organised thematically, provides a sophisticated introduction to and assessment of all aspects of its economic life.
Author : Sitta von Reden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1108278507
This is the most comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy available in English. A team of specialists provides in non-technical language cutting edge accounts of a wide range of key themes in economic history, explaining how ancient Greek economies functioned and changed, and why they were stable and successful over long periods of time. Through its wide geographical perspective, reaching from the Aegean and the Black Sea to the Near East and Egypt under Greek rule, it reflects on how economic behaviour and institutions were formed and transformed under different political, ecological and social circumstances, and how they interacted and communicated over large distances. With chapters on climate and the environment, market development, inequality and growth, it encourages comparison with other periods of time and cultures, thus being of interest not just to ancient historians but also to readers concerned with economic cultures and global economic issues.
Author : Ira B. Nadel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 1999-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521649209
An international team of scholars provides an invaluable introduction to Pound's work and life.
Author : Christopher Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139826557
The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift is a specially commissioned collection of essays. Arranged thematically across a range of topics, this 2003 volume will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Jonathan Swift for students and scholars. The thirteen essays explore crucial dimensions of Swift's life and works. As well as ensuring a broad coverage of Swift's writing - including early and later works as well as the better known and the lesser known - the Companion also offers a way into current critical and theoretical issues surrounding the author. Special emphasis is placed on Swift's vexed relationship with the land of his birth, Ireland; and on his place as a political writer in a highly politicised age. The Companion offers a lucid introduction to these and other issues, and raises questions about Swift and his world. The volume features a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading.
Author : Roger E. Backhouse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 28,23 MB
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139827367
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was the most important economist of the twentieth century. He was also a philosopher who wrote on ethics and the theory of probability and was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists. In this volume contributors from a wide range of disciplines offer new interpretations of Keynes's thought, explain the links between Keynes's philosophy and his economics, and place his work and Keynesianism - the economic theory, the principles of economic policy, and the political philosophy - in their historical context. Chapter topics include Keynes's philosophical engagement with G. E. Moore and Franz Brentano, his correspondence, the role of his General Theory in the creation of modern macroeconomics, and the many meanings of Keynesianism. New readers will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Keynes currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Keynes.
Author : Frans De Bruyn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 110708248X
A survey of influential thinkers and their ideas in eighteenth-century British philosophy, science, religion, history, law, and economics.
Author : Edward Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 1997-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521498678
A comprehensive guide to Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.
Author : David Dwan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 14,92 MB
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107495652
Edmund Burke prided himself on being a practical statesman, not an armchair philosopher. Yet his responses to specific problems - rebellion in America, the abuse of power in India and Ireland, or revolution in France - incorporated theoretical debates within jurisprudence, economics, religion, moral philosophy and political science. Moreover, the extraordinary rhetorical force of Burke's speeches and writings quickly secured his reputation as a gifted orator and literary stylist. This Companion provides a comprehensive assessment of Burke's thought, exploring all his major writings from his early treatise on aesthetics to his famous polemic, Reflections on the Revolution in France. It also examines the vexed question of Burke's Irishness and seeks to determine how his cultural origins may have influenced his political views. Finally, it aims both to explain and to challenge interpretations of Burke as a romantic, a utilitarian, a natural law thinker and founding father of modern conservatism.
Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107054893
Draws together leading experts from a wide range of disciplines to analyse the life and work of John Ruskin (1819-1900).
