Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

租税の世界史
Anceau, Eric / Bordron, Jean-Luc, Histoire mondiale des impots: de l'Antiquite a nos jours. 446 p. 2023:1 (Passes Coomposes, FR) <697-318>
ISBN 978-2-37933-737-6 paper ¥5,280.- (税込) EUR 25.00

Dross-Kruepe, Kerstin / Ruffing, Kai (Hrsg.), Markt, Maerkte und Marktgebaeude in der antiken Welt. (Philippika. Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen / Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures 100) VIII, 650 S. 2022:11 (O. Harrassowitz, GW) <697-319>
ISBN 978-3-447-11907-8 hard ¥31,257.- (税込) EUR 148.00

Obwohl die Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Alten Welt in der gegenwaertigen Forschung grosse Aufmerksamkeit geniesst, wird in den einschlaegigen Analysen mit einem vergleichsweise amorphen Marktbegriff operiert ? ?Markt‘ ist einfach allgegenwaertig und wird nicht weiter kontextualisiert. Dieses Desiderat der Forschung nimmt der vorliegende Band zum Ausgangspunkt. Als Resultat einer Tagung an der Universitaet Kassel vereinigt er 26 Beitraege in deutscher und englischer Sprache, die unterschiedliche Aspekte von Markt, Marktgeschehen und Marktorten vom antiken Vorderen Orient bis ins Rom der Spaetantike behandeln. Er bietet so einen ersten Baustein fuer eine komparative Geschichte des antiken Marktes in all seinen Erscheinungsformen.

1949年以前の現代中国の経済発展
Quan, Guan, Economic Development in Modern China Before 1949. (China Perspectives) 360 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-322>
ISBN 978-1-03-253117-5 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese economic history, this book investigates Chinese economic development between 1912 and 1949 and unravels the overall level during that time.From the perspective of development economics, the two-volume set studies the economic history and development of China since 1912, with a focus on the quantitative analysis of economic activities. Comprised of two core parts, this first volume centering on the period of the Republic of China first describes the historical process and characteristics of the economy at different stages and then look into the momentum and inner logic that underpin the economic development. The former part covers issues of agriculture, industry, population and labour force, urbanization, price changes, people's consumption and living standard, regional difference, etc. The latter part includes discussions on natural and human resources, capital formation and technological progress, the role of government and finance, international trade, and foreign capital. This title will be an interesting read for scholars and students working on Chinese economic history, the Chinese economy, and modern Chinese society.

1949以降の現代中国の経済発展
Quan, Guan, Economic Development in Modern China Since 1949. (China Perspectives) 352 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-323>
ISBN 978-1-03-253118-2 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

As the second volume of a two-volume set on the Chinese economic history, this book investigates the economic development of China since 1949, uncovering the momentum, unique models, and general laws of economy in China.From the perspective of development economics, the two-volume set studies the economic history and development of China since 1912, with a focus on the quantitative analysis of economic activities. Comprised of two core parts, this second volume first describes the historical process and characteristics of economy since 1949 and then looks into the momentum and inner logic that underpin the economic development. The former part covers issues of agriculture, industry, population and labor force, urbanization and labor mobility, income distribution and poverty, and price changes. The latter part includes analyses on the capital formation, human resources, technological progress, institutions, macro policies, international trade, and direct investment.This title will be of great interest to scholars and students working on Chinese economic history, Chinese economy, and Chinese modern society.

Ressel, Magnus, Protestantische Haendlernetze im langen 18. Jahrhundert: Die deutschen Kaufmannsgruppierungen und ihre Korporationen in Venedig und Livorno von 1648 bis 1806. 2., durchges. u. korr. Aufl. (Schriftenreihe der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 107) 698 S. 2022:12 (Vandenhoeck, GW) <697-324>
ISBN 978-3-525-36330-0 hard ¥16,896.- (税込) EUR 80.00

Die Korporation der deutschen Haendler in Venedig, die ?Nazione Alemana", die seit dem Mittelalter im Fondaco dei Tedeschi residierte, galt traditionell als Symbol des geteilten Niedergangs Venedigs und der oberdeutschen Reichsstaedte im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. Im Zeitalter des Merkantilismus schien deren wirtschaftliche Rolle ausgespielt. Demgegenueber wird hier gezeigt, dass die deutschen und fast nur aus Reichsstaedten stammenden Haendler in Norditalien im 18. Jahrhundert eine gaenzlich neue Aktivitaet im globalen Handel entwickelten - nicht nur in Venedig, sondern auch in Livorno. Eine bedeutende Ursache hierfuer war die Herausbildung eines ?pietistischen Haendlernetzes" in Venedig als einer Figuration deutscher Haendler, die sich auch fuer norddeutsche Kaufleute oeffnete und die Entwicklung von belastbaren Vertrauensbeziehungen im Fernhandel erleichterte. Das resultierende Zusammenspiel von reichsstaedtischen Haendlern in Livorno und Venedig ermoeglichte deren Ausgreifen ins Globale. Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Max-Weber-Preis des Max-Weber-Kollegs fuer kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien an der Universitaet Erfurt sowie dem Premio Palazzo Barbarigo des Vereins der Freunde und Foerderer des Deutschen Studienzentrums Venedig e.V.? ausgezeichnet.

Sachs, Markus, Betriebswirtschaftliches Denken und Handeln im antiken Rom. (Philippika. Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen / Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures 161) 344 S. 2022:8 (O. Harrassowitz, GW) <697-325>
ISBN 978-3-447-11870-5 hard ¥18,796.- (税込) EUR 89.00

C.A.ティスデル他著　古代経済の持続可能性と発展－分析と事例
Tisdell, Clement A. / Svizzero, Serge, The Sustainability and Development of Ancient Economies: Analysis and Examples. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 272 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-326>
ISBN 978-1-03-227799-8 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Drawing on modern economic theory, this book provides new insights into the economic development of ancient economies and the sustainability of their development. The book pays particular attention to the economics of hunting and gathering societies and their diversity. New ideas are presented about theories of the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, including Childe's theory of this development. The Agricultural Revolution was a major contributor to economic development because in most cases, it generated an economic surplus. However, as shown, income inequality was a necessary condition for the use of this surplus to promote economic development and to avoid the Malthusian population trap. This inequality was evident in the successful operation of the palatial economies of the Minoan and Mycenaean states. Nevertheless, some post-agricultural economies proved to be unsustainable, and they 'mysteriously' disappeared. This happened in the case of the Silesian Unetice culture and population. Economic and ecological reasons for this are suggested. The nature of economic development altered with increased trade, the use of barter, and subsequently the supply of money to facilitate this trade. These developments are examined in the context of the palatial economies of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Elsewhere, multinational business made a substantial contribution to the economic growth of Phoenicia, where international trade was not determined by its natural resource endowments. Thus, Phoenician economic exchange and development provides a different set of insights. The book makes an important contribution to the understanding of the evolution of human societies and will therefore be of interdisciplinary interest including economists (especially economic historians), anthropologists and sociologists, some archaeologists, and historians.

Unali, Anna, Le fil rouge entre l'Europe et l'Afrique: accords commerciaux et politiques de conquetes (XIe-XVe siecle). 265 p. 2023:1 (L'Harmattan, FR) <697-327>
ISBN 978-2-14-031286-1 paper ¥7,075.- (税込) EUR 33.50

現代中国の経済発展　全2巻
Quan, Guan, Economic Development in Modern China. 2 vols. (China Perspectives Series) 696 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <100-6244>
ISBN 978-1-03-253119-9 hard ¥63,206.- (税込) GB￡ 260.00

From the perspective of development economics, the two-volume set studies the economic history and development of China since 1912, with a focus on the quantitative analysis of economic activities.Centering on two important historical periods, the first volume examines the economy of the Republic of China between 1912 and 1949, while the second studies the further economic development since 1949. Both titles describe the historical process and characteristics of the economy during the time and then look into the momentum and inner logic that underpin the economic development. Key sectors and economic issues discussed in the book include agriculture, industry, population and labour force, urbanization and mobility, income distribution, and price changes. It also analyses various related elements that occasion and influence the key economic development and trends, including capital formation, human resources, technological progress, the role of government and finance, institutions, macro policies, international trade, and direct investment.This set will interest scholars and students working on Chinese economic history, the Chinese economy, and modern Chinese society.

パチンコ産業の歴史
Han, Jaehyang, A History of the Pachinko Industry: From Peripheral Economy to a Huge Market. 452 pp. 2022:8 (Trans Pacific Pr., AT) <100-6247>
ISBN 978-1-925608-46-5 hard ¥9,725.- (税込) US$ 49.95

Pachinko parlors offer a form of gambling unique to Japan located near train stations, in the suburbs and in other everyday living spaces. Before World War II, pachinko was born as a game for both children and adults to enjoy at outdoor festivals. From its humble origins, it has grown dramatically to become a huge industry with a market size of 30 trillion yen per year.However, the trajectory of this growth has been marked by a series of difficulties: the short-lived popularity of pachinko machines superseded by new, more exciting models; the intense competition between parlors for customers; the regulations imposed by authorities trying to curb machines' speculative element; issues related to patent infringements; and organized crime that at times loomed over the money exchange system.How did the stakeholders in the pachinko business adapt to the regulations and face challenges as they sought the stability and sustainability of their industry? How did pachinko develop from a peripheral economy to become a major industry? Ethnic minority Koreans in Japan, who arrived during the Korean colonial era, are deeply involved in the economic activities of the pachinko industry - how should we understand their involvement in the growth of this huge market?Drawing on a vast amount of primary and secondary resources from the 1950s to the 1990s, this book sheds new light on the circumstances behind the emergence of the pachinko industry as a huge market force in Japan.

J.M.ピルチャー著　いかに旅行、貿易、味覚がビールをグローバルな日用品にしたか
Pilcher, Jeffrey M., Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity. 352 pp. 2023:10 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <696-260>
ISBN 978-0-19-767604-2 hard ¥6,804.- (税込) US$ 34.95

H.キーゼヴェッター著　近代資本主義とその生存の可能性
Kiesewetter, Hubert, Der moderne Kapitalismus und seine Ueberlebenschance. (Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen und Reden zur Philosophie, Politik und Geistesgeschichte 108) 238 S. 2023:1 (Duncker, GW) <696-259>
ISBN 978-3-428-18794-2 paper ¥12,650.- (税込) EUR 59.90

In diesem Buch werden unterschiedliche Wirtschaftsformen der griechischen und roemischen Antike, des Mittelalters, des Feudalismus, des Merkantilismus sowie des Industriekapitalismus dahingehend miteinander verglichen und ueberprueft, welche kapitalistischen Auspraegungen in ihnen aufgetreten sind und ob sie mit einem modernen Kapitalismus ueberhaupt verglichen werden koennen. Aus Sicht des Autors beginnt der moderne Kapitalismus mit der englischen Industrialisierung seit der zweiten Haelfte des 18. Jahrhunderts. Wenn es zutrifft, dass der europaeische Kapitalismus des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts vollstaendig neue Wirtschaftsformen entwickelt hat, dann muessen die vielfaeltigen Interpretationsversuche von bekannten Kapitalismusforschern wie Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Rudolf Hilferding, Werner Sombart, Max Weber u. a. auf ihre empirische Korrektheit hinterfragt werden. Darueber hinaus geht der Autor der Frage nach, welche Vor- und Nachteile mit einem modernen Kapitalismus fuer die arbeitende Bevoelkerung verbunden waren und sind, und ob es gerechtfertigt ist, den heutigen Kapitalismus gruendlich zu veraendern, abzuschaffen oder durch ein alternatives System zu ersetzen, trotz der grossen Gefahren fuer Freiheit und Wohlstand, wie wir sie in kommunistischen Staaten kennengelernt und miterlebt haben.

歴史政治経済学ハンドブック
Jenkins, Jeffrey A. / Rubin, Jared (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy. (Oxford Handbooks) 968 pp. 2023:10 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <696-181>
ISBN 978-0-19-761860-8 hard ¥36,993.- (税込) US$ 190.00

R.ボワイエ著　マクロ経済学と歴史
Boyer, Robert, Macroeconomie et histoire: du grand ecart a une nouvelle alliance. (Bibliotheque de l'economiste) 2022:12 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <696-179>
ISBN 978-2-406-13779-5 hard ¥16,684.- (税込) EUR 79.00
ISBN 978-2-406-13778-8 paper ¥8,025.- (税込) EUR 38.00

E.E.コーエン著　ローマの不平等
Cohen, Edward E., Roman Inequality: Affluent Slaves, Businesswomen, and Legal Fictions. 208 pp. 2023:6 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <696-257>
ISBN 978-0-19-768734-5 hard ¥16,160.- (税込) US$ 83.00

1918～20年のインフルエンザのパンデミック－COVID-19の時代の回顧
Athukorala, Prema-Chandra / Athukorala, Chaturica, The 1918-20 Influenza Pandemic: A Retrospective in the Time of COVID-19. (Elements in Development Economics) 75 pp. 2022:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <696-237>
ISBN 978-1-00-933608-6 paper ¥4,132.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

The pandemic of 1918-20-commonly known as the Spanish flu-infected over a quarter of the world's population and killed over fifty million people. It is by far the greatest humanitarian disaster caused by an infectious disease in modern history. Epidemiologists and health scientists often draw on this experience to set the plausible upper bound (the 'worst case scenario') on future pandemic mortality. The purpose of this study is to piece together and analyse the scattered multi-disciplinary literature on the pandemic in order to place debates on the evolving course of the current COVID-19 crisis in historical perspective. The analysis focuses on the changing characteristics of pathogens and disease over time, the institutional factors that shaped the global spread, the demographic and socio-economic consequences, and pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical responses to the pandemic. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Barry, Frank, Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland, 1922-1972. 224 pp. 2023:7 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <696-255>
ISBN 978-0-19-887823-0 hard ¥17,017.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00

This book revisits the history of industry and industrial and economic policy in independent Ireland from the birth of the state to the eve of EEC accession. Though there were several manufacturing employers of significance, and smaller firms in operation in almost every major branch of industry, the Irish Free State was predominantly agricultural at its establishment in 1922. Industrial development was high on the nationalist agenda, as would be the case across the entire developing world in the later post-colonial era. Despite decades of protection, and a substantial increase in the size of the manufacturing sector, Ireland remained under-industrialised when it joined the European Economic Community in 1973. Over the previous decade and a half however the foundations of later convergence had been laid. Ireland was an early adopter of what would come to be known as dual-track reform. The policy of attracting outward-oriented foreign direct investment was initiated before substantial trade liberalisation began. By 1972 there had been a significant diversification in export categories and export destinations, and in the nationality of ownership of the leading manufacturing firms. Some of the most successful indigenous companies of the future were also beginning to emerge. In these and other respects the foundations of the economic progress that would be made over the course of EEC membership were already discernible, notwithstanding the post-accession collapse of most protectionist-era businesses. The analysis is supplemented by a unique firm-level database that allows for the identification of the leading manufacturing firms in operation at any stage from the early 1900s through to 1972. The database extends by more than 50 years the period for which estimates of the significance of foreign-owned industry can be provided.

世界史を通じた大豆－持続可能な農業食品制度のための教訓
Baraibar, Matilda / Deutsch, Lisa, The Soybean Through World History: Lessons for Sustainable Agrofood Systems. (Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment) 280 pp. 2023:8 (Routledge, UK) <695-519>
ISBN 978-0-367-40631-8 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization.The book uses a historical lens to analyse the processes and features that brought us to the current global configuration of soy. From its origins as a peasant food in ancient China, today the protein-rich soybean is by far the most cultivated biotech crop on Earth, used to make a huge variety of food and industrial products, including animal feed, tofu, cooking oil, soy sauce, biodiesel and soap. While there is a burgeoning amount of literature on how the contemporary global soy web affects large tracts of our planet's social and ecological systems, little attention has been given to the questions of how we got here and what alternative roles the soybean has played in the past. This book fills this gap and demonstrates that it is impossible to properly comprehend the contemporary global soybean chain, or the wider agrofood system of which it is a part, without looking at both their long and short historical development. However, a history of the soybean and its changing roles within equally changing agrofood systems is inexorably a history about globalization. Not only does this book map out where soybeans are produced, but also who governs, wields power and accumulates capital in the entire commodity chain from production to consumption, as well as identifying the institutional context the global commodity chain operates within. The book concludes by considering the soybean's future role in a desirable agrofood system which improves human health, culture and livelihoods, and the provision of ecosystem services. This book is essential reading for students and scholars interested in agriculture and food systems, global commodity chains, globalization, environmental history, economic history and social-ecological systems.

20世紀東欧・ロシアにおける消費と広告
Eriksroed-Burger, Magdalena / Hein-Kircher, H. et al. (eds.), Consumption and Advertising in Eastern Europe and Russia in the Twentieth Century. 259 pp. 2023:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <695-623>
ISBN 978-3-031-20203-2 hard ¥27,453.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book explores Eastern European consumer cultures in the twentieth century, taking a comparative perspective and conceptualizing the peculiarities of consumption in the region. Contributions cover lifestyles and marketing strategies in imperial contexts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; urban consumer cultures in the Interwar Period; and consumer and advertising cultures in the Soviet Union and its satellite republics. It traces the development of marketing throughout the century, and the changes in society brought about by democratization and the 'Americanization' of consumption. Taken together, the essays gathered here make a valuable contribution to our understanding of consumption and advertising in the region.

グローバルな経済危機の時代　1929～2022年
Mates-Barco, Juan Manuel / Vazquez-Farinas, Maria (eds.), The Age of Global Economic Crises: (1929-2022). (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 248 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-625>
ISBN 978-1-03-248251-4 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

The frequency and repetition of economic crises over the last hundred years demands an analysis that allows us to discover the root causes of these situations and the problems they have generated in the world economy. This book investigates these cycles throughout the 20th and the early 21st century. Economic crises can be the result of political or military conflict, but they have also been the consequence of bad practices, unbridled speculation, excessive greed or poor management by the rulers and leaders of nations. The contributors to this volume analyse the causes and consequences of economic crises from the Great Depression to the present day, incorporating post-World War II reconstruction, the oil crisis of the 1970s and the "lost" Latin American decade of the 1980s, among others. This longer-term view allows the book to provide insights into understanding economic cycles in the long run, not just at a specific moment in time, and the ways in which they have spread internationally. This historical analysis also helps to shed new light on the current covid-impacted situation, as it provides another reading of the main crises of recent centuries and their causes and consequences, as well as the measures and policies adopted to overcome the difficulties. This book will be of significant interest to readers in economic history, business history, politics, and economics and history more broadly.

Rico, Christian, Hispania negotia: essai sur le commerce au long cours de l'Hispanie romaine (IIe s. av. J.-C.-IIe s. apr. J.-C.). (Archeologies mediterraneennes) 2022:11 (Pr. U. de Provence, FR) <695-626>
ISBN 979-10-320-0418-0 paper ¥5,491.- (税込) EUR 26.00

島田竜登他編　インド洋世界における商人と港湾
Seshan, Radhika / Shimada, Ryuto (eds.), Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land. 144 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-627>
ISBN 978-1-03-224827-1 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-250045-4 paper ¥8,991.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. This book and its companion, Connecting the Indian Ocean World explore these connections around the wider Indian Ocean world.The book looks at the extensive range of maritime networks that crisscrossed pre-modern Asia and the Indian ocean region connecting ports, peoples and cultures. It explores the connected histories of these regions and the movement of merchants, commodities and money which created the multi-cultural and cosmopolitan port cities like Surat and Nagasaki. With contributions from Indian and Japanese scholars, the volume analyses travelers' accounts and trade routes between Japan and India offering insights into how maritime movement shaped culture, politics, and the social life of people in the most populated and production regions of the world in the early modern period.Rich in archival material, this book will be of interest for scholars and researchers of Indian ocean history, maritime history, economic and commercial history, Asian and South Asian history, and social anthropology.

イベリア帝国における持続可能性の起源－造船と林業　14～19世紀
Trapaga Monchet, Koldo / Aragon-Ruano, Alvaro et al. (eds.), Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Empires: Shipbuilding and Forestry, 14th - 19th Centuries. (Routledge Research in Early Modern History) 312 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-629>
ISBN 978-1-03-231337-5 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book aims to shed light on the roots of sustainability in the Iberian Peninsula that lie in the interrelations between shipbuilding and forestry from the 14th to the 19th centuries, combining various geographical scales (local, regional and national) and different timespans (short-term and long-term studies).Three main themes are discussed in depth here: firstly, the roots of current conservationism in the Iberian Peninsula; the evolution of the forest policies set in motion at the local, regional and national levels to meet the demand for wood and timber; and the long-standing impact of naval empirical forestry on the conservation and transformation of the forest landscape. Therefore, the book attempts, on the one hand, to unravel the forest policies and empirical forestry implemented in the Iberian Peninsula as the roots or origins of what we refer to nowadays as "sustainability", to assess the contribution of imperial forestry to landscape planning and the conservation of forest resources, on the other, and, finally, to break away from the prevailing theological narrative that shipbuilding was the main agent of forest destruction in the Early Modern Iberian Peninsula, for which both quantitative and qualitative analyses will be conducted.This book could be of maximum interest to environmental and social historians and researchers, and anyone devoted to conducting research on the emergence and evolution of the concept of "sustainability" with respect to the governance and the historical transformation of woodlands around the world.

Vassiliou, Marius S. / Mir-Babayev, Mir-Yusif, US and Azerbaijani Oil in the Nineteenth Century: The Two Titans. 182 pp. 2022:11 (Lexington Books, US) <695-630>
ISBN 978-1-79362-952-4 hard ¥18,496.- (税込) US$ 95.00

The nineteenth century was an exciting and dynamic era of rapid progress in industry and technology. One of the most vigorous of the new industries was petroleum. It first transformed the way people lit their houses, displacing whale oil and other substitutes, and then revolutionized the entire field of energy and helped create the modern world. During the nineteenth century, oil was overwhelmingly dominated by the United States and the Russian Empire, together responsible for 97% of the world's production; and over the course of the century, nearly all the Russian Empire's oil came from the territory that is now the independent state of Azerbaijan. Many people don't know that the world's first industrial oil well was drilled in Azerbaijan in 1846, thirteen years before Drake's celebrated well in Pennsylvania. This book covers oil in the United States and Azerbaijan, in all its dynamism, from its earliest beginnings to the turn of the twentieth century. It treats both business and technology, from the early wildcatters to Standard Oil and the Nobel Brothers (yes, that remarkable family created more than a famous prize!). The book echoes into the present day; for good or ill, oil still moves the world.

共産主義計画対合理性－数理経済学と東欧及び中国における中央計画
Kovacs, Janos Matyas (ed.), Communist Planning versus Rationality: Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China. (Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective) 424 pp. 2022:5 (Lexington Books, US) <695-273>
ISBN 978-1-79363-177-0 hard ¥24,337.- (税込) US$ 125.00

This volume examines concepts of central planning, a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies. It revolves around the theory of "optimal planning" which promised a profound modernization of Stalinist-style verbal planning. Encouraged by cybernetic dreams in the 1950s and supporting the strategic goals of communist leaders in the Cold War, optimal planners offered the ruling elites a panacea for the recurrent crises of the planned economy. Simultaneously, their planning projects conveyed the pride of rational management and scientific superiority over the West. The authors trace the rise and fall of the research program in the communist era in eight countries of Eastern Europe, including the Soviet Union, and China, describing why the mission of optimization was doomed to fail and why the failure was nevertheless very slow. The theorists of optimal planning contributed to the rehabilitation of mathematical culture in economic research in the communist countries, and thus, to a neoclassical turn in economics all over the ex-communist world). However, because they have not rejected optimal planning as "computopia," there is a large space left behind for future generations to experiment with Big Optimal Plans anew-based, at this time, on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Tazzara, Corey, Filippo Sassetti on Trade, Institutions and Empire. (Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850) 240 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-277>
ISBN 978-1-03-231674-1 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Sassetti's Indian Letters are among the most interesting penned during these years, offering a trove of cultural speculation and economic analysis. Sassetti was neither a principled critic of imperialism nor a principled advocate of liberalism, but a pragmatic theorist of free trade Sassetti was very much the archetypal Renaissance man

Cross, Elizabeth, Company Politics: Commerce, Scandal, and French Visions of Indian Empire in the Revolutionary Era. 312 pp. 2023:6 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <694-341>
ISBN 978-0-19-765375-3 hard ¥10,708.- (税込) US$ 55.00

In the wake of the Seven Years' War and the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent, the French monarchy chartered a new East India Company. The Nouvelle Compagnie des Indes was an attempt to maintain French diplomatic and financial credit among European rivals and trading partners within a region integral to the broader imperial economy. Reimagining French power as subsisting through an informal empire of trade, instead of a territorial empire of conquest, officials and intellectuals sought to remake the trading company as a private, "purely commercial" actor, rather than a sovereign company-state. Company Politics offers a new interpretation of political economy, imperialism, and the history of the corporation during the late Old Regime and the French Revolution. Despite its reputation for speculation, corruption, and scandal, Elizabeth Cross argues that the "New Company" emerged from the unique circumstances France faced in India as a weakened imperial power vis a vis the expanding British East India Company. Seeking to control the Company for their own purposes, French government officials, theorists, and private financial actors clashed over differing notions of political economy, debt, and imperial power for Europe and the Indian Ocean world. In doing so, they envisioned new alignments between state and market, challenged the legitimacy of the Old Regime's economic and imperial policies, and sought to revolutionize the underlying corporation itself through progressive demands of corporate self-governance. Thus, the New Company should be seen as an innovative capitalist actor in its own right, not a mere derivative of its Anglo-Dutch competitors. A valuable contribution to scholarship on capitalism, empire, and globalization, Company Politics uses the Company's history to present the Revolutionary Era as one of dynamic economic ideologies, practices, and experimentation, rather than only one of crisis and decline.

ハンザの起源　12世紀～14世紀中葉
Boestad, Tobias, Pour le profit du commun marchand: la genese de la Hanse (XIIe siecle-milieu du XIVe siecle). (Hautes etudes medievales et modernes 116) 2022 (Droz, SZ) <694-339>
ISBN 978-2-600-05753-0 paper ¥20,498.- (税込) EUR 97.06 *

M.カッソン他著　企業と都市開発　1100～1500年
Casson, Catherine / Casson, Mark, Property, Power and the Growth of Towns: Enterprise and Urban Development, 1100-1500. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 336 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <694-340>
ISBN 978-1-03-200092-3 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

Local enterprise, institutional quality and strategic location were of central importance in the growth of medieval towns. This book, comprising a study of 112 English towns, supported by studies of selected Welsh and Irish towns, emphasises these key factors. Downstream locations on major rivers attracted international trade, and thereby stimulated the local processing of imports and exports, while the early establishment of richly-endowed religious institutions funnelled agricultural rental income into a town, where it was spent on luxury goods produced by local craftsmen and artisans, and on expensive long-running building schemes. Local entrepreneurs who recognised the economic potential of a town developed residential suburbs which attracted wealthy residents. Meanwhile town authorities invested in the building and maintenance of bridges, gates, walls and ditches, often with financial support from wealthy residents. Royal lordship was also an advantage to a town, as it gave the town authorities direct access to the king, and by-passed local power-brokers such as bishops and earls. The legacy of medieval investment remains visible today in the streets of important towns. Drawing on rentals, deeds and surveys, this book also examines in detail the topography of seven key medieval towns: Bristol, Gloucester, Coventry, Cambridge, Birmingham, Shrewsbury and Hull. In each case, surviving records identify the location and value of urban properties, and their owners and tenants. Using statistical techniques, previously applied only to the early modern and modern periods, the book analyses the impact of location and type of property on property values. It shows that features of the modern property market, including spatial autocorrelation, were present in the middle ages. Property hot-spots of high rents are also identified; the most valuable properties were those situated between the market and other focal points such transport hubs and religious centres, convenient for both, but remote from noise and pollution.This book takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on expertise from the disciplines of economics and history. It will be of interest to historians and to social scientists looking for a long-run perspective on urban development.

Pasquini, Beline, Mesurer le developpement economique en Gaule du Ier siecle av. J.-C. au VIIe siecle apr. J.-C. (Archeologie et histoire romaine 48) 2022 (Editions Mergoil, FR) <694-343>
ISBN 978-2-35518-127-6 paper ¥10,348.- (税込) EUR 49.00 *

Lionnet, Philippe, Finding a Path for China's Rise: The Socialist State and the World Economy, 1970-1978. (Global and Colonial History 12) 440 S. 2023:1 (Transcript, GW) <694-342>
ISBN 978-3-8376-6422-5 paper ¥11,616.- (税込) EUR 55.00

The ≫rise of China≪ is ever-present in scholarly and public debate on the global economy and ongoing power shifts. Often, emphasis is given to the Chinese economic reforms under Deng Xiaoping from the end of 1978 onwards, which are considered to be of historical significance in their contribution to dramatic changes in the world economy and the emergence of a new world power. In contrast, little attention has been given to the prehistory of these ≫reforms≪. Philippe Lionnet elaborates on important steps in China's agricultural, industrial and foreign trade policies of the decade and thus contributes to the understanding of interdependencies between China's course and the emerging World Economy.

Prodoehl, Ines, Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900-1950. (Routledge Studies in Modern History) 240 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <694-263>
ISBN 978-1-03-218576-7 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

Globalizing the Soybean asks how the soybean conquered the West and analyzes why and how the crop gained entry into agriculture and industry in regions beyond Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. Historian Ines Prodoehl describes the soybean's journey centered around three hubs: Northeast China, as the crop's main growing area up to the Second World War; Germany, to where most of the beans in the interwar period were shipped; and the United States, which became the leading cultivator of soy worldwide during the 1940s. This book explores the German and U.S. adoption of the soybean being closely tied to global economic and political changes, such as the two world wars and the Great Depression. The attraction of the soybean to stakeholders on both sides of the Atlantic was linked to a need for cheap alternatives to butter and lard and a desire for greater quantities of meat, which led to the soybean becoming a cheap resource for fat and fodder. Only occasionally was it also used as food.This volume is useful for anyone who is studying or interested in economic history and commodity trading in the twentieth century. It is also connected to the histories of capitalism, globalization, imperialism, and materiality.

Beaucher, Steven, Boston in Transit: Mapping the History of Public Transportation in The Hub. 592 pp. 2023:3 (MIT Pr., US) <693-451>
ISBN 978-0-262-04807-1 hard ¥13,629.- (税込) US$ 70.00 *

Blaszczyk, Regina Lee / Suisman, David (eds.), Capitalism and the Senses. (Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture) 304 pp. 2023:6 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <693-452>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2420-9 hard ¥12,655.- (税込) US$ 65.00

Capitalism and the Senses is the first edited volume to explore how the forces of capitalism are entangled with everyday sensory experience. If the senses have a history, as Karl Marx wrote, then that history is inseparable from the development of capitalism, which has both taken advantage of the senses and influenced how sensory experience has changed over time. This pioneering collection shows how seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching have both shaped and been shaped by commercial interests from the turn of the twentieth century to our own time. From the manipulation of taste and texture in the food industry to the careful engineering of the feel of artificial fabrics, capitalist enterprises have worked to commodify the senses in a wide variety of ways. Drawing on history, anthropology, geography, and other fields, the volume's essays analyze not only where this effort has succeeded but also where the senses have resisted control and the logic of markets. The result is an innovative ensemble that demonstrates how the drive to exploit sensorial experience for profit became a defining feature of capitalist modernity and establishes the senses as an important dimension of the history of capitalism. Contributors: Nicholas Anderman, Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Jessica P. Clark, Ai Hisano, Lisa Jacobson, Sven Kube, Grace Lees-Maffei, Ingemar Pettersson, David Suisman, Ana Maria Ulloa, Nicole Welk-Joerger.

Cubeiro Rodriguez, Didac, The Pearl of the East: The Economic Impact of the Colonial Railways in the Age of High Imperialism in Southeast Asia. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 231 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-453>
ISBN 978-3-031-21673-2 hard ¥27,453.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book analyzes the economic impact of the early development of railways in different Asian countries, linking the inlands with port cities and with a global network of connections. This is looked at in the context of the rise of imperialism in the last decades of the 19th century and the redistribution of spheres of influence in Asia. The book considers the increase of exports of plantation economies in the context of the global market and the importance of China, and the struggle between the great powers for the economic penetration in the Chinese empire. Its comparative approach provides an original contribution to global economic history and will be valuable reading for students and researchers of economic history, transport economics, and Asian history more broadly.

He, Yaomin, The Agricultural Civilization of Ancient China. 156 pp. 2023:2 (Springer, GW) <693-454>
ISBN 978-981-19-8468-6 hard ¥23,229.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book provides a systematic account of the development of agriculture and agricultural civilization in ancient China. It mainly discusses the birth of traditional agriculture, the characteristics and advantages of traditional agricultural economy, traditional agricultural knowledge and technology system, flexible land relations and ownership structure, extensive irrigation system and water conservancy projects, complete policies and measures to emphasize agriculture, the three agricultural expansion processes, the value pursuit of revering agriculture, and the plight and decline of traditional agriculture.

近世大西洋他における形成的モダニティ－アイデンティティ、政体、グローカルな経済
Hyden-Hanscho, Veronika / Stangl, Werner (eds.), Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond: Identities, Polities and Glocal Economies. (Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History) 291 pp. 2023:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-456>
ISBN 978-981-19-8416-7 hard ¥27,453.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book offers a new perspective on the concept of modernity. Since its invention as a contrast to Antiquity or the Middle Ages, modernity has been tied to ideas of superiority, progress, and efficiency. As a counterpart to the Marxist "history of class struggle", "modernization theories" have transformed modernity into an almost teleological concept of historical development. These strong connotations obstruct a clear look at other forms of modernity. The contributions of the volume will show in a comparative perspective how modernity can also be understood and analyzed as multiple responses of societies and polities to organize themselves in facing ever more complex and integrated interactions at ever larger scales.

Pertz, Klaus Josef, Ist das viel?: Ueber historische Wertvergleiche. 160 S. 2022:9 (Metropolis, GW) <693-458>
ISBN 978-3-7316-1523-1 paper ¥5,237.- (税込) EUR 24.80

Wer etwas ueber Geld und die Fallstricke auf dem Weg zum Reichtum erfahren will, kann sich an eine Finanzberatung wenden. Besser noch ist es, Romane der Weltliteratur zu lesen wie die von Jane Austen und Honore Balzac. In den im 19. Jahrhundert verfassten Werken der beiden spielt Geld eine zentrale Rolle, die allerdings nur versteht, wer die damaligen sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Verhaeltnisse in England und in Frankreich sowie deren weitere Entwicklung kennt und darueber hinaus eine Vorstellung davon hat, wie historische Geldbetraege aus heutiger Sicht einzuordnen sind. In ?Ist das viel?“ wird das Thema historischer Wertvergleiche aus der Perspektive des Oekonomen betrachtet, indem eroertert wird, welche Moeglichkeiten des Vergleichs von Preisen, Einkommen und Vermoegen ueberhaupt bestehen, wie sich diese unterscheiden und was das Mittel der Wahl ist, um abzuschaetzen, ob ein bestimmter historischer Geldbetrag ?viel“ ist. Dies wird an einpraegsamen, teils spektakulaeren Beispielen verdeutlicht, die sich im Falle von England mit Hilfe eines online zugaenglichen Programms zur Umrechnung historischer Geldbetraege ueberpruefen lassen. So ist es mit relativ wenig Aufwand moeglich, z.B. das Vermoegen des einst ?Bonaparte der Finanzwelt“ genannten Bankiers Nathan Mayer Rothschild mit dem heutiger Superreiche zu vergleichen. Das Ergebnis mag manche Leser erstaunen.

Peters, Florian, Von Solidarnosc zur Schocktherapie: Wie der Kapitalismus nach Polen kam. (Studien zur Geschichte der Treuhandanstalt) 576 S. 2023:4 (Ch. Links, GW) <693-459>
ISBN 978-3-96289-190-9 hard ¥7,392.- (税込) EUR 35.00

Rodriguez, Nestor P., Capitalism and Migration: The Rise of Hegemony in the World-System. (World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures) 208 pp. 2023:1 (Springer, GW) <693-460>
ISBN 978-3-031-22066-1 hard ¥21,117.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system. It presents comprehensive case studies on various historical periods of hegemony recognized by world-system theory: the Dutch hegemony (1625-1675), British hegemony (1815-1873), and US hegemony (1945-1970). Moreover, the book identifies an earlier period of economic dominance in Western Europe when merchant-bankers from Florence dominated the regional wool trade in the early thirteenth century. In these four intervals of dominance, i.e., from the medieval period to the late twentieth century, capital and labor migration formed the basis of capitalist development in the hegemonic core states as well as in peripheral regions under their economic and political influence. In turn, the book analyzes the migration patterns associated with the rise of hegemony from the perspectives of class relations between employers and workers, technological advances at the workplace, economic cycles, and state policies on labor migration. It concludes with a projection that heightened migration will continue to characterize the capitalist world system, especially as many poor and displaced populations in peripheral regions resort to migration for survival. Accordingly, it appeals to scholars in the fields of politics, sociology, history, anthropology, and economics who are interested in globalization and world-system analysis.

Schaeffler, Eva, Der Weg in die Marktwirtschaft: Tschechien und die Privatisierung in den 1990er Jahren. (Studien zur Geschichte der Treuhandanstalt) 320 S. 2023:4 (Ch. Links, GW) <693-461>
ISBN 978-3-96289-191-6 hard ¥6,336.- (税込) EUR 30.00

V.シュミル著　発明とイノベーション－誇大広告と失敗小史
Smil, Vaclav, Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure. 232 pp. 2023:2 (MIT Pr., US) <693-462>
ISBN 978-0-262-04805-7 hard ¥4,857.- (税込) US$ 24.95

経済的ナショナリズムのグローバルヒストリー－1776年から現在まで
Suesse, Marvin, The Nationalist Dilemma: A Global History of Economic Nationalism, 1776-Present. 2023:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <693-464>
ISBN 978-1-108-83138-3 hard ¥7,293.- (税込) GB￡ 30.00

Strauss, Philipp, Die Soziooekonomisierung der Antike: Aufstieg und Fall eines Forschungsansatzes zwischen Nationaloekonomie und Altertumswissenschaft. (Beitraege zur Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Oekonomie 50) 250 S. 2022:10 (Metropolis, GW) <693-207>
ISBN 978-3-7316-1518-7 paper ¥10,137.- (税込) EUR 48.00

In der zweiten Haelfte des 19. Jahrhunderts, lange nach der Renaissance und waehrend die Industrialisierung ganze Gesellschaften umkrempelte, wurde ausgerechnet die Antike fuer einige Wissenschaftler noch einmal zum Schluessel fuer das Verstaendnis der Gegenwart. Denn auf der Ebene der Gesellschaftsentwicklung liessen sich ? so die Vorstellung der Historischen Schule der Nationaloekonomie ? kulturuebergreifende Regelmaessigkeiten entdecken, die auf die Existenz von im Hintergrund wirkenden Gesetzen hindeuteten. Mit der Erkenntnis einer solchen allgemeinen Gesellschaftsentwicklung, hoffte man, der gegenwaertigen Sozialpolitik die Richtung weisen und die Geschichtsschreibung revolutionieren zu koennen. Die vorliegende Studie unternimmt einen Streifzug durch die Fruehgeschichte der deutschen Gesellschaftsgeschichtsschreibung des Altertums und beginnt in einer Zeit, in der die Idee, das Verstaendnis der Vergangenheit auf die Erforschung der damals herrschenden Gesellschaftsverhaeltnisse zu stuetzen, selbst noch neu war und entsprechend faszinierende Erkenntnisse versprach. Sie untersucht den Ursprung soziooekonomischer Antikebetrachtungen im Umfeld der Historischen Schule der Nationaloekonomie und verfolgt das Herueberwachsen ihrer theoretisch-methodischen Vorstellungen in die Geschichts- und Altertumswissenschaften. Schliesslich zeichnet sie den Niedergang dieses von der Historischen Schule inspirierten Forschungsprogramms nach, der sich infolge der verschiedenen Methodenstreitigkeiten der Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Geschichtswissenschaften unweigerlich ergab. Von der Scharnierstelle einer Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Oekonomie, der Geschichts- sowie der Altertumswissenschaft aus werden in uebergreifender Perspektive insbesondere auch die Beitraege von Robert von Poehlmann, dem eine eigene Fallstudie gewidmet ist, sowie des jungen Max Weber in eine gemeinsame Tradition mit Roscher, Hildebrand, Knies Rodbertus und Lorenz von Stein eingeordnet.

Abegaz, Berhanu, Understanding Economic Transitions: Plan and Market Under the New Globalization. 310 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-244>
ISBN 978-3-031-21583-4 paper ¥14,781.- (税込) EUR 69.99

Understanding Economic Transitions explains the genesis, operation, and transformation of the centrally-planned socialist economy, which figured prominently in the lives of billions of people in twentieth-century Europe and Asia. Just as importantly, the centrally-planned socialist economy's demise coincided with the shift from nonindustrial to industrial economy (and de-industrialization in some cases) and the onset of ICT-driven globalization. Using theory, empirics, and selected country case studies, this book teases out the enduring lessons from the myriad and fraught pathways of transition from socialism to capitalism. Understanding Economic Transitions provides a self-contained, comprehensive, and authoritative treatment of modern economic systems. This textbook has four features of particular use to students: (i) Using the prism of comparative institutionalism, it melds theory and evidence to revisit the varieties of planned and market-driven systems today; (ii) It takes economic planning seriously in theory and practice (central, cooperative, or indicative) as the most prominent marker of the ever-changing boundaries between state and market; (iii) It focuses on the dynamics of systemic transition in formerly socialist countries by contextualizing them in terms of the whence (central planning), the how (modalities of transition), and the whither (illiberal or liberal capitalism) of politico-economic transformation; and (iv) It examines the profound impact on these structural processes of the post-1990 phase of economic globalization. With its clear, comprehensive content and useful pedagogical features, this textbook will prepare students to understand how economies transition and why.

Huang, Shan Shanne, The Political Economy of Reforms and the Remaking of the Proletarian Class in China, 1980s-2010s: Demystifying China's Society and Social Classes in the Post-Mao Era. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 274 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-273>
ISBN 978-3-031-20454-8 hard ¥27,453.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book comprehensively investigates the position of China's working class between the 1980s and 2010s and considers the consequences of economic reforms in historical perspective. It argues the case that, far from the illusion during the Maoist period that a new society had been established where the working classes held greater political and economic autonomy, economic reforms in the post-Mao era have led to the return of traditional Marxist proletariats in China. The book demonstrates how the reforms of Deng Xiaoping have led to increased economic efficiency at the expense of economic equality through an extensive case study of an SOE (state-owned enterprise) in Sichuan Province as well as wider discussions of the emergence of state capitalism on both a micro and macroeconomic level. The book also discusses workers' protests during these periods of economic reform to reflect the reformation of class consciousness in post-Mao China, drawing on Marx's concept of a transition from a 'class-in-itself' to a 'class-for-itself'. It will be valuable reading for students and scholars of Chinese economic and social history, as well as political economy, sociology, and politics.

Jiang, Yu, A New World is Possible: The Modernization of China. (Understanding China) 434 pp. 2023:3 (Springer, GW) <693-274>
ISBN 978-981-19-8917-9 hard ¥25,341.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book gives a panoramic review of China's 70 years of modernization, reveals the historical process and logic of the formation of the modernization path with Chinese characteristics, especially focuses on the key decision-making process in the history of China's modernization, theoretically compares the Chinese model and the western mainstream model and summarizes the characteristics and experience of China's development model. At the same time, it reveals the causes of the global crisis from a historical perspective and puts forward the future of China based on historical experience. The book tries to answer the following hot-debating questions: What is the core of Chinese experience? Is China model a new model of modernization? Is China's model sustainable? Is this model compatible with the mainstream model? What is the relationship between China's revolution and modernization? How will China's development affect the world? This book will be found helpful by all scholars, students and the public who are interested in China's development path.

King, Stephen D., We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years. 224 pp. 2023:4 (Yale U. Pr., US) <692-137>
ISBN 978-0-300-27047-1 hard ¥5,451.- (税込) US$ 28.00

A myth-busting explanation of inflation, the desperate gullibility of central bankers and finance ministers-and our abject failure to learn from history From investors and monetary authorities to governments and policy makers, almost everyone had assumed inflation was dead and buried. But now people the world over are confronting a poisonous new economic reality and, with it, the prospect of vast and increasing wealth inequality. How have we arrived in this situation? And what, if anything, can we do about it? Celebrated economist Stephen D. King-one of the few to warn ahead of time about the latest inflationary upheaval-identifies key lessons from the history of inflation that policy makers chose not to heed. From ancient Rome through the American Civil War and up to the asset bubbles of today, inflation stems from policy error, sovereign greed, and a collective loss of faith in currencies. We Need to Talk About Inflation cuts through centuries of bad judgment and misunderstanding, offering a means to intervene now-so we can begin to tackle the political and social upheaval unleashed by inflation.

ベーシック・インカムのグローバル・ヒストリー
Jaeger, Anton / Zamora Vargas, Daniel, Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income. (The Life of Ideas) 264 pp. 2023:4 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <692-167>
ISBN 978-0-226-82368-3 hard ¥6,327.- (税込) US$ 32.50

A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government paying its citizens to keep them out of poverty-now known as basic income-is hardly new. Often dated as far back as ancient Rome, basic income's modern conception truly emerged in the late nineteenth century. Yet as one of today's most controversial proposals, it draws supporters from across the political spectrum. In this eye-opening work, Anton Jaeger and Daniel Zamora Vargas trace basic income from its rise in American and British policy debates following periods of economic tumult to its modern relationship with technopopulist figures in Silicon Valley. They chronicle how the idea first arose in the United States and Europe as a market-friendly alternative to the postwar welfare state and how interest in the policy has grown in the wake of the 2008 credit crisis and COVID-19 crash. An incisive, comprehensive history, Welfare for Markets tells the story of how a fringe idea conceived in economics seminars went global, revealing the most significant shift in political culture since the end of the Cold War.

Balasubramanian, Aditya, Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India. (Histories of Economic Life) 304 pp. 2023:7 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <692-203>
ISBN 978-0-691-20524-3 hard ¥8,761.- (税込) US$ 45.00

The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independenceNeoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the North Atlantic and projected on the rest of the world. Revising this understanding, Toward a Free Economy shows how economic conservatism emerged and was disseminated in a postcolonial society consistent with the logic of democracy.Twelve years after the British left India, a Swatantra ("Freedom") Party came to life. It encouraged Indians to break with the Indian National Congress Party, which spearheaded the anticolonial nationalist movement and now dominated Indian democracy. Rejecting Congress's heavy-industrial developmental state and the accompanying rhetoric of socialism, Swatantra promised "free economy" through its project of opposition politics.As it circulated across various genres, "free economy" took on meanings that varied by region and language, caste and class, and won diverse advocates. These articulations, informed by but distinct from neoliberalism, came chiefly from communities in southern and western India as they embraced new forms of entrepreneurial activity. At their core, they connoted anticommunism, unfettered private economic activity, decentralized development, and the defense of private property.Opposition politics encompassed ideas and practice. Swatantra's leaders imagined a conservative alternative to a progressive dominant party in a two-party system. They communicated ideas and mobilized people around such issues as inflation, taxation, and property. And they made creative use of India's institutions to bring checks and balances to the political system.Democracy's persistence in India is uncommon among postcolonial societies. By excavating a perspective of how Indians made and understood their own democracy and economy, Aditya Balasubramanian broadens our picture of neoliberalism, democracy, and the postcolonial world.