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

Krall, Lisi, Bitter Harvest: An Inquiry into the War between Economy and Earth. 176 pp. 2022:8 (State U. New York Pr., US) <680-349>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8991-9 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Liebrenz, Boris, Arab Traders in Their Own Words: Merchant Letters from the Eastern Mediterranean Around 1800. (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 1: The Near and Middle East 165) 630 pp. 2022:8 (Brill, NE) <680-350>
ISBN 978-90-04-50523-0 hard ¥42,136.- (税込) EUR 179.00 *

Arab Traders in their Own Words explores for the first time the largest unified corpus of merchant correspondence to have survived from the Ottoman period. The writers chosen for this first volume were mostly Christian merchants who traded within a network that connected the Syrian and Egyptian provinces and extended from Damascus in the North to Alexandria in the South with particular centers in Jerusalem and Damietta. They lived through one of the most turbulent intersections of Ottoman and European imperial history, the 1790s and early 1800s, and had to navigate their fortunes through diplomacy, culture, and commerce. Besides an edition of more than 190 letters in colloquial Arabic this volume also offers a profound introductory study.

資本主義のパイオニア－オランダ　1000年～1800年
Prak, Maarten / Zanden, Jan Luiten van, Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000-1800. (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) 256 pp. 2023:1 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <680-352>
ISBN 978-0-691-22987-4 hard ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

How medieval Dutch society laid the foundations for modern capitalismThe Netherlands was one of the pioneers of capitalism in the Middle Ages, giving rise to the spectacular Dutch Golden Age while ushering in an era of unprecedented, long-term economic growth. Pioneers of Capitalism examines the formal and informal institutions in the Netherlands that made this economic miracle possible, providing a groundbreaking new history of the emergence and early development of capitalism.Drawing on the latest quantitative theories in economic research, Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden show how Dutch cities, corporations, guilds, commons, and other private and semipublic organizations provided safeguards for market transactions in the state's absence. Informal institutions developed in the Netherlands long before the state created public safeguards for economic activity. Prak and van Zanden argue that, in the Netherlands itself, capitalism emerged within a robust civil society that constrained and counterbalanced its centrifugal forces, but that an unrestrained capitalism ruled in the overseas territories. Rather than collapsing under unrestricted greed, the Dutch economy flourished, but prosperity at home came at the price of slavery and other dire consequences for people outside Europe.Pioneers of Capitalism offers a panoramic account of the early history of capitalism, revealing how a small region of medieval Europe transformed itself into a powerhouse of sustained economic growth, and changed the world in the process.

Queralt, Didac, Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance. (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) 368 pp. 2022:9 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <680-353>
ISBN 978-0-691-23142-6 hard ¥25,872.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-0-691-23152-5 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

How foreign lending weakens emerging nationsIn the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereign loans to balance their books and weather major fiscal shocks such as war. This reliance on external public finance offered emerging nations endless opportunities to overcome barriers to growth, but it also enabled rulers to bypass critical stages in institution building and political development. Pawned States reveals how easy access to foreign lending at early stages of state building has led to chronic fiscal instability and weakened state capacity in the developing world.Drawing on a wealth of original data to document the rise of cheap overseas credit between 1816 and 1913, Didac Queralt shows how countries in the global periphery obtained these loans by agreeing to "extreme conditionality," which empowered international investors to take control of local revenue sources in cases of default, and how foreclosure eroded a country's tax base and caused lasting fiscal disequilibrium. Queralt goes on to combine quantitative analysis of tax performance between 1816 and 2005 with qualitative historical analysis in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, illustrating how overreliance on external capital by local leaders distorts their incentives to expand tax capacity, articulate power-sharing institutions, and strengthen bureaucratic apparatus.Panoramic in scope, Pawned States sheds needed light on how early and easy access to external finance pushes developing nations into trajectories characterized by fragile fiscal institutions and autocratic politics.

Tambs, Lena, Socio-economic Relations in Ptolemaic Pathyris.: A Network Analytical Approach to a Bilingual Community. Volume 2. (Probleme der Aegyptologie 40.2) 2022:6 (Brill, NE) <680-354>
ISBN 978-90-04-51251-1 hard ¥28,012.- (税込) EUR 119.00

Tambs, Lena, Socio-economic Relations in Ptolemaic Pathyris.: A Network Analytical Approach to a Bilingual Community. Volume 1. (Probleme der Aegyptologie 40.1) 498 pp. 2022:6 (Brill, NE) <680-355>
ISBN 978-90-04-50027-3 hard ¥33,426.- (税込) EUR 142.00

This study tackles pertinent questions about daily life and socio-economic interactions in the late Ptolemaic town of Pathyris (186-88 BCE) through an empirically grounded network analysis of 428 Greek and Demotic documents associated with 21 archives from the site. The author moves beyond traditional boundaries of Egyptological and Papyrological research by means of an innovative and interdisciplinary methodology - zigzagging back and forth between archaeological field survey, close reading of ancient texts, formal methods of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and explanatory theories and concepts borrowed from economics and other social sciences. This is volume 1 of a two-volume set.

P.Vries著　東アジアの工業化のルート？－日本の事例　1868～1937年
Vries, Peer, An East Asian Route of Industrialization? The Case of Japan, 1868-1937. (Library of Economic History 17) 491 pp. 2022:9 (Brill, NE) <680-357>
ISBN 978-90-04-51873-5 hard ¥35,074.- (税込) EUR 149.00 *

In this book Peer Vries is the first scholar to provide an extensive test of the claim that industrialization in East Asia, in particular in Japan between the Meiji Restoration and World War Two, would have been much more labour intensive than industrialization in the West. He does this by systematically comparing the role and importance of labour and capital in Japan and in a number of Western countries at a similar stage of their industrial development. He uses macro-economic data as well as specific observations by people at the time. It turns out that there is no reason to distinguish a specific labour-intensive Japanese route of industrialization. His comparative analysis provides us with a better understanding of the logic of industrialization in both West and East.

中央銀行の行動の比較史－英米の金融政策における一貫性
Wood, John H., A Comparative History of Central Bank Behavior: Consistency in Monetary Policy in the US and UK. 256 pp. 2022:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <680-264>
ISBN 978-1-80392-659-9 hard ¥31,054.- (税込) GB￡ 109.00 *

It is widely believed that central banks have grown (the Bank of England) or were established (the Federal Reserve) to pursue the twin objectives of monetary and price stability. But why should they? Central bankers are people, too, whose behavior is presumably determined, like the rest of us, by their incentives and the information available to them. The author explores this question.Two sets of data confirm the reservations. Central banks have often worsened, even initiated, monetary instabilities by bailing out the risk-takers and their effects on prices, which depending on the quantities of money created by central banks, have often been catastrophic. The evidence suggests that central bankers have really been in business to support the politically powerful upon whose favors they depend, particularly high-spending governments and needy financial institutions. The book consists of several examples of this behavior and its consistency during wars and financial crises in the UK and US over the course of the last two centuries.Professors and students of finance will find A Comparative History of Central Bank Behavior to be a compelling and thoughtful exploration of how central banks have historically responded to and influenced financial markets.

援助、貿易、開発－グローバル化の将来　第2版
Michalopoulos, Constantine, Aid, Trade and Development: The Future of Globalization. 2nd ed. 431 pp. 2022:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <680-232>
ISBN 978-3-030-96035-3 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99 *

This volume presents a broad sweep of modern economic history underpinning aid, trade, development and globalization in the last half century and the salient challenges facing the global community today. The author draws on his long years as an academic and development practitioner to recommend what needs to be done to cope with the backsliding of the fight against global poverty, fractured geopolitics and the threats to the multilateral economic order. The new, revised edition analyses how unilateralism, rising protectionism and the Covid-19 pandemic seriously threaten global sustainable development. It concludes with recommendations on the policy changes needed to make globalization more equitable and development more sustainable. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of economic development and economic history, as well as all those concerned about global inequality and sustainability.

Das, Satya P., Economics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Measures: History, Theory, and Evidence. XX, 530 pp. 2022:6q (Springer, GW) <680-181>
ISBN 978-3-030-96576-1 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This textbook presents a systematic study of terrorism from the standpoint of economic analysis. Choosing the kind and level of measures to counter terror is, to a large extent, an economic decision, as counterterrorism (CT) measures and their side effects are costly. This text, contains theoretical models that illustrate the economic mechanisms of different types of CT measures. A vast array of empirical studies and regularities are also presented. Some chapters discuss in depth the empirical results in the literature as well as the underlying statistical/econometric methodologies that go beyond ordinary regression. General Appendix A provides an exposition of the concept of compensating surplus and elements of the basic game theory, to help the reader with an economics background recapitulate micro theory concepts used in the book. General Appendix B lays out the notions of hypothesis testing, regression and more advanced statistical/econometric methods, so that the reader understands or at least can have an intuitive idea of how the results are derived and what they mean with some degree of inner comfort. Aimed at students at the intermediate undergraduate and graduate levels, the text requires knowledge of basic micro, first-order conditions of profit or utility maximization and cost minimization, and statistical concepts of hypothesis testing and regression. This textbook is intended for use in courses in economics, political science, criminal justice, and emergency management. Additionally, professionals working with national security in government and non-governmental organizations may find it useful.

Tambs, Lena, Socio-economic Relations in Ptolemaic Pathyris: A Network Analytical Approach to a Bilingual Community. 2 vols. (Probleme der Aegyptologie 40) 2022:6 (Brill, NE) <100-5853>
ISBN 978-90-04-50025-9 hard ¥55,319.- (税込) EUR 235.00

This study tackles pertinent questions about daily life and socio-economic interactions in the late Ptolemaic town of Pathyris (186-88 BCE) through an empirically grounded network analysis of 428 Greek and Demotic documents associated with 21 archives from the site. The author moves beyond traditional boundaries of Egyptological and Papyrological research by means of an innovative and interdisciplinary methodology - zigzagging back and forth between archaeological field survey, close reading of ancient texts, formal methods of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and explanatory theories and concepts borrowed from economics and other social sciences. This is a two-volume set.