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

P.-Y.ドンゼ著　腕時計産業のグローバルヒストリー
Donze, Pierre-Yves, The Business of Time: A Global History of the Watch Industry. (Studies in Design and Material Culture) 224 pp. 2022:6 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <673-393>
ISBN 978-1-5261-6257-1 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

World watch production today is concentrated in three countries: Switzerland, Japan and China. Former centres such as Great Britain, France, the United States and Russia saw the industrial manufacture of watches disappear from their territory during the twentieth century. How did this situation come about? The business of time aims to answer this question by presenting the first comprehensive history of the sector. It traces the evolution and transformation of the global watch industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, highlighting the conditions that enabled watch production to expand across the globe and revealing how multinational companies gradually emerged to dominate the industry.

Dow, Gregory K. / Reed, Clyde G., Economic Prehistory: Six Transitions That Shaped The World. 425 pp. 2022:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <673-394>
ISBN 978-1-108-83990-7 hard ¥9,971.- (税込) GB￡ 35.00 *

Around 15,000 years ago, almost all humans lived in small mobile foraging bands. By about 5,000 years ago, the first city-states had appeared. This radical transformation in human society laid the foundations for the modern world. We use economic logic and archaeological evidence to explain six key elements in this revolution: sedentism, agriculture, inequality, warfare, cities, and states. In our approach the ultimate cause of these events was climate change. We show how shifts in climate interacted with geography to drive technological innovation and population growth. The accumulation of population at especially rich locations led to creation of group property rights over land, stratification into elite and commoner classes, and warfare over land among rival elites. This set the stage for urbanization based on manufacturing or military defense and for elite-controlled states based on taxation. Our closing chapter shows how these developments eventually resulted in contemporary global civilization.

Drach, Alexis, Liberte surveillee: supervision bancaire et globalisation financiere au Comite de Bale: 1974-1988. (Histoire) 2022:2 (Pr. U. de Rennes, FR) <673-395>
ISBN 978-2-7535-8235-4 paper ¥5,885.- (税込) EUR 25.00 *

Sul, Heasim, A Global History of Ginseng: Imperialism, Modernity and Orientalism. 320 pp. 2022:7 (Routledge, UK) <673-400>
ISBN 978-1-03-226142-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-226141-6 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Sul's history of the international ginseng trade reveals the cultural aspects of international capitalism and the impact of this single commodity on relations between the East and the West.Ginseng emerged as a major international commodity in the seventeenth century, when the East India Company began trading it westward. Europeans were drawn to the plant's efficacy as a medicine, but their attempts to transplant it for mass production were unsuccessful. Also, due to a failure of extracting its active ingredients, Western pharmacology disparaged ginseng in the process of modernization. In the meantime, ginseng was discovered on the American continent and became one of the United States' key exports to Asia and particularly China, but never cultivated a significant domestic market. As such, historicizing the ginseng trade provides a unique perspective on the impact of both culture and economics on international trade.A compelling interdisciplinary history of over five centuries of East-West trade and cultural exchange, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of transnational history and a fascinating read for anyone interested in the history of international trade.

Moupebele Makadjoka, Chislain, Le Gabon, la France et la Banque des Etats de l'Afrique centrale (1959-1992): de la decolonisation a l'internationalisation des relations monetaires et financieres. (Etudes eurafricaines) 508 p. 2022:1 (L'Harmattan, FR) <673-271>
ISBN 978-2-343-23687-2 paper ¥9,886.- (税込) EUR 42.00

Fan, C. Simon, The Socioeconomics of Nationalism in China: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy) 240 pp. 2022:7 (Routledge, UK) <673-249>
ISBN 978-1-03-203017-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book analyzes Chinese nationalism from the perspective of social economics. It posits a conceptual framework in which national status is treated as a "luxury" while material consumption is considered as a "necessity" in people's preferences, which implies that popular nationalism tends to increase with economic development. The book extensively uses the tools of game theory and behavioral economics to analyze inter-ethnical and international conflicts in historical and contemporary China.The author's economic approach to the subject of nationalism brings fresh and critical insights into the Chinese historical events and relations with foreign countries. For example, it helps resolve the following puzzles: Why did most Chinese support an ethnic minority, the Manchus, to be their ruler after the collapse of the Ming dynasty? In the Boxer Rebellion, why did the Qing dynasty declare war against more than eight foreign powers when it knew well that any of the countries could defeat China easily? What are the fundamental causes of the 1962 Sino-Indian War and the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War? Who is responsible for the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade?This book attempts to answer the questions based on the theories of social economics and rational choice, which will interest those researching on nationalism, China studies, international relations, history and political economy.

Bohorquez, Jesus, Global Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment: Theories, Practices, and Institutions in the Eighteenth Century. (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) 264 pp. 2022:12 (Routledge, UK) <673-206>
ISBN 978-0-367-13706-9 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

Combining contextual, institutional, and global perspectives, this book evaluates the impact of international trade on eighteenth-century economic thought. It meticulously delineates how economic ideas and institutions flowed between North and South Europe and across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans during the Age of Enlightenment.Global Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment carefully explores contemporary debates about economic institutions, which were a crucial element in the race for controlling international trade. Eighteenth-century thinkers devoted much attention to the relative merits of existing institutions, such as free ports, grasped the dangers of economic dependence, and appraised emerging conceptions of property rights. The author draws on an impressive range of sources, including pamphlets and travel accounts, and work from lesser-known figures such as Pierre Poivre and Ange Goudar.This volume will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers of the history of economic thought, economic history, political economy, the history of ideas, and global history.

J.トポロウスキ他編　国際均衡とブレトン・ウッズ－ケインズとホワイトの案へのカレツキの代替案とその帰結－
Osiatynski, Jerzy / Toporowski, Jan (eds.), International Equilibrium and Bretton Woods: Kalecki's Alternative to Keynes and White and its Consequences. 240 pp. 2022:4 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <673-209>
ISBN 978-0-19-285640-1 hard ¥23,646.- (税込) GB￡ 83.00 *

International Equilibrium and Bretton Woods brings together the papers presented at a special conference of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference. The papers, from a number of distinguished speakers, assess the background and the results of the Bretton Woods agreements. The discussion is focused around the critical assessment of the Keynes and White Plans by Michal Kalecki, and the consequences of this for present-day international economics and international monetary and financial policy. But this volume is unique in bringing together the critical assessments that were made at the time, by Kalecki, Fritz Schumacher, Thomas Balogh, and Raul Prebisch, that are virtually unknown today, together with critical assessments of the work of the Bretton Woods Institutions since that time.

Krueger, Stephan, Epochen oekonomischer Gesellschaftsformationen: Eckpunkte und Entwicklungslinien der Weltgeschichte. (Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie und Kapitalismusanalyse 7) 448 S. 2022:5 (VSA, GW) <673-215>
ISBN 978-3-96488-143-4 paper ¥11,722.- (税込) EUR 49.80 *

Der historische Materialismus eroeffnet den Blick auf die Geschichte unter zwei wesentlichen Gesichtspunkten. Zum einen geht es um die Ordnung, Strukturierung und Bedeutung verschiedener Gesellschaftssphaeren. Zum zweiten geht es um die Frage, welche Uebergaenge einer Gesellschaftsformation und Produktionsweise in eine jeweils andere festzustellen sind. Damit kann zugleich beantwortet werden, warum Gesellschaften ueberleben, sich fortentwickeln oder untergehen. Karl Marx beschrieb dies als einen ≫naturgeschichtlichen≪ Prozess, den die Menschen in ihrer sogenannten Vorgeschichte, d.h. bis in die buergerlich-kapitalistische Gesellschaft hinein, mit einem kleineren oder groesseren Grad an Bewusstheit durchlaufen haben. Die Analyse der Logik des geschichtlichen Prozesses ? im Grossen und Ganzen eine aufsteigende Entwicklung nicht nur in der Oekonomie und dem Grad der Naturbeherrschung ? gibt zudem Auskunft ueber Herrschaftsverhaeltnisse, aber auch ueber die Herausbildung der Individualitaet nicht nur von einzelnen Subjekten, sondern der Gesellschaftsmitglieder insgesamt. Damit kann zugleich vermieden werden, die kapitalistische Produktionsweise als Ende der Geschichte darzustellen. Die buergerliche Gesellschaft ist nicht deren letztes Wort, sondern verweist durch ihre immanenten Widersprueche auf eine nachfolgende qualitativ andere, kommunistische Gesellschaftsformation. Die Debatte ueber deren Auspraegung ist angesichts der tiefen sozialen Gegensaetze und oekologischen Gefaehrdungen, in die die Entwicklung des Kapitalismus die Menschheit vor allem in den letzten Jahrzehnten gefuehrt hat, dringend geboten. Aus dem Inhalt: Arbeit, soziale Beziehungen und Eigentum in der vorbuergerlichen und der buergerlichen Gesellschaft Geschichtliche Entwicklung in den verschiedenen Weltregionen die kapitalistische Produktionsweise (von der ≫urspruengliche Akkumulation≪ ueber die Grosse Industrie, Fordismus, bis hin zu einem ≫digitalen Kapitalismus≪) als erste weltumspannende Gesellschaftsformation ≫Realsozialismus≪, Jugoslawien, sozialistische Marktwirtschaften in China, Vietnam und Kuba der Uebergang von der Vorgeschichte zur wirklichen Geschichte: Szenarien zur Steuerung des Weltmarkts und der Weltpolitik Umrisse der zukuenftigen kommunistischen Gesellschaft