The great wave : price revolutions and the rhythm of history /
David Hackett Fischer.
Bok Engelsk 1999 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (997 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - ""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE FIRST WAVE""; ""The Medieval Price Revolution""; ""The Crisis of the Fourteenth Century""; ""The Equilibrium of the Renaissance""; ""THE SECOND WAVE""; ""The Price Revolution of the Sixteenth Century""; ""The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century""; ""The Equilibrium of the Enlightenment""; ""THE THIRD WAVE""; ""The Price Revolution of the Eighteenth Century""; ""The Revolutionary Crisis""; ""The Equilibrium of the Victorian Era""; ""THE FOURTH WAVE"". - ""J. Returns to Labor: Real Wages and Standards of Living""""K. Measures of Wealth and Income Distribution""; ""L. Price Revolutions and Inequality""; ""M. Price Revolutions and Family Disintegration""; ""N. Price Revolutions and Personal Violence""; ""O. Economics and History""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""CREDITS""; ""INDEX"". - ""The Price Revolution of the Twentieth Century""""The Troubles of Our Time""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDICES""; ""A. Price Revolutions in the Ancient World""; ""B. The Crisis of the Fourteenth Century: A World Movement?""; ""C. The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: A Global Event?""; ""D. America and Europe: One Conjuncture or Two?""; ""E. Cycles and Waves""; ""F. Toward a Discrimination of Inflations""; ""G. Money of Exchange and Money of Account""; ""H. Nominal Prices and Silver Equivalents""; ""I. Returns to Capital: Interest Rates as Historical Indicators"". - David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling an astonishing array of historical facts in lucid and compelling prose to outline a history of prices--""the history of change,"" as Fischer puts it--covering the dazzling sweep of Western history from the medieval glory of Chartres to the modern day. Going far beyond the economic data, Fischer w
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| ISBN | 0-19-974521-8. - 1-280-60530-8
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