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

C.R.ガイスト著　市場における公正価格－歴史
Geisst, Charles R., Just Price in the Markets: A History. 280 pp. 2023:10 (Yale U. Pr., US) <701-271>
ISBN 978-0-300-26833-1 hard ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A concise history of "just price," from Aristotle to the present day The question of what constitutes a fair price has been at the center of market interactions since the time of Aristotle. Should a seller sell to the highest bidder, or is there some other standard, such as a morally defined price, to be applied? Charles R. Geisst traces the ways that philosophers, religious leaders, and economists have sought to answer that question, from antiquity through the modern era. Aristotle's thinking on usury influenced the idea of pricing well into the Renaissance. In his view, money was barren and should not be used to beget more money. As trade became more extensive, the strictures placed on pricing by Aristotelian thinking began to fall away, replaced by Roman and common-law conceptions of value and interest. Geisst's book follows the evolution of that thought-influenced along the way by figures such as Copernicus, Fibonacci, Adam Smith, Marx, Cassel, and Keynes-and charts parallel developments in European and Islamic notions of fair pricing. Today, pricing is seen as an economic inevitability, dictated by the laws of supply and demand. But this has not always been the case. As Geisst argues, the idea of a just price was once a moral concept, long before it was an economic one.

Linneweh-Kacmaz, Bastian, Formbarkeit von Globalisierung: Kautschuk, Warenketten und Marktinterventionen (1900-1965). 540 S. 2023:9 (Campus, GW) <701-272>
ISBN 978-3-593-51723-0 paper ¥13,127.- (税込) EUR 54.00 *

インド経済史－R.Chakravarti記念論集
Mahalakshmi, R. / Ghosh, S. (eds.), The Economic History of India: Historiographical Issues and Perspectives - Essays in Honour of Professor Ranabir Chakravarti. 360 pp. 2023 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <701-273>
ISBN 978-93-5435-148-8 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Perez-Garcia, Manuel (ed.), Great Trade Walls in Imperial China and Spain: Global goods, power struggles and bankruptcy, 1644-1840. 108 pp. 2023:9 (Routledge, UK) <701-274>
ISBN 978-1-03-245993-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book offers a comparative and polycentric approach to the formation of global trade networks and goods that circumnavigated China, America, and Europe in the so-called process of "early globalization" during the early modern period.Based on a pioneering archival strategy developed by GECEM Project (Global Encounters between China and Europe www.gecem.eu) and funded by the European Research Council (ERC), the chapters in this volume deploy innovative methodology built on the process of clustering new empirical evidence on geostrategic locations to analyse complex socioeconomic systems. Each chapter in this volume focuses on a specific case study that validate the usefulness of this methodology for a more accurate analysis of the self-regulating institutions, social networks, circulation of global goods and information, and smuggling activities that characterised the nonlinear markets of early modern China, Europe, and the Americas. These studies constitute a clear example of the new directions of global (economic) history and how a bottom-up approach through new data mining and comparative method helps to unveil big research questions. The designing of GECEM Project Database (www.gecemdatabase.eu) stands out as cutting-edge Digital Humanities tool used in this book.This book is an insightful resource for scholars of Global History and Atlantic studies, including those interested in China's trade and history, and its global encounters with the West. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Atlantic Studies: Global Currents.

南インドにおける東インド会社と貿易－マドラス　1746～1803年
Reddy, Moola Atchi, East India Company and Trade in South India: Madras, 1746-1803. 260 pp. 2023:9 (Routledge, UK) <701-275>
ISBN 978-1-03-247902-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book presents the economic history of the English East India Company's trade as it functioned from Madras (Chennai) during the second half of the 18th century. It traces the role of trade and commerce as followed by the European EICs to achieve their economic ends, territorial expansion and control of productive resources. The author portrays the nature, contents, volume and changing trends of trade and commerce over a decisive period of Indian economic history. The volume discusses the chief constituents of trade in general, exports, investments, imports and private trade and traders of Madras from 1746 to 1803.Rich in archival resources, this is an essential resource for administrators, students, scholars and researchers of colonial history and modern Indian economic history, besides British trade history.

Zweynert, Charlotte, Das Haus der Schreiberin: Geschlechteroekonomien und Vermoegen um 1800. (Geschichte und Geschlechter) 260 S. 2023:10 (Campus, GW) <701-277>
ISBN 978-3-593-51740-7 hard ¥10,210.- (税込) EUR 42.00

Xiaotong, Zhang, New Economic Statecraft: China, the United States and the European Union. (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy) 160 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <701-184>
ISBN 978-1-03-239791-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book provides insights on the art of governing a state and managing its external relations from a wealth-power logic. It looks at "economic statecraft", which consists of wealth production, wealth mobilization, and wealth-power conversion by a state.This book reconceptualizes what economic statecraft is and proposes a new theory focused on wealth-power conversion. With a long historic perspective, this book goes through the modern history of Western powers practicing economic statecraft since 1500, and presents three case studies, the United States, the European Union, and China, the three biggest users of economic statecraft in the contemporary world.The book serves as an ideal reference for policy makers, businesspeople, and researchers whose work touch upon either wealth creation, power projection, or the combination of both.

アフリカにおける国際法と資源採掘の歴史－資本蓄積と低開発　1450～1918年
Amin, George Forji, International Law and the History of Resource Extraction in Africa: Capital Accumulation and Underdevelopment, 1450-1918. (Routledge Studies in African Development) 296 pp. 2023:9 (Routledge, UK) <701-269>
ISBN 978-1-03-220890-9 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries and led to the continent's trajectory of underdevelopment in the world system. The book interrogates the economic and legal structures that supported European intervention in Africa. It explores the trade and private property rights which were to shape the economic future of the continent, most notably the trade in human beings as legitimate private property by European powers. The book then looks at the techniques used to submerge African sovereignty under European sovereignty during the scramble for territorial control in the 19th century, concluding with the validation of occupation in international law following the 1884-85 Berlin Conference. The book argues that the doctrines of trade and property rights sanctioned by international law led to a trend of African dispossession that set the continent on a path to underdevelopment, with long-reaching consequences. This book will be of interest to researchers and students across law, history, economics, international relations, and African studies.

Arnold, Gina / Dougan, John et al. (eds.), The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store: A Global History. 296 pp. 2023:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <701-270>
ISBN 978-1-5013-8450-9 hard ¥21,615.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5013-8451-6 paper ¥6,337.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99 *

Once conduits to new music, frequently bypassing the corporate music industry in ways now done more easily via the Internet, record stores championed the most local of economic enterprises, allowing social mobility to well up from them in unexpected ways. Record stores speak volumes about our relationship to shopping, capitalism, and art. This book takes a comprehensive look at what individual record stores meant to individual people, but also what they meant to communities, to musical genres, and to society in general. What was their role in shaping social practices, aesthetic tastes, and even, loosely put, ideologies? From women-owned and independent record stores, to Reggae record shops in London, to Rough Trade in Paris, this book takes on a global and interdisciplinary approach to evaluating record stores. It collects stories and memories, and facts about a variety of local stores that not only re-centers the record store as a marketplace of ideas, but also explore and celebrate a neglected personal history of many lives.