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

中東経済史における再建－R.オーウェン記念論集
Babai, Don (ed.), Reconstructions in Middle East Economic History: Essays in Honor of Roger Owen. (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History 27) 272 pp. 2025 (Routledge, UK) <719-310>
ISBN 978-1-03-254389-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This volume explores major theoretical and empirical themes in the study of the economic history of the Middle East.Despite the relative neglect of economic history in Middle Eastern studies, this book makes a case for its importance as a discipline of study. On the one hand, it shows promise in illuminating the economic base of historical trends and events; on the other, it can elucidate the historical foundations of economic continuity and change. The chapters employ an array of theoretical and methodological approaches and ultimately demonstrate how economics and history, along with political economy, complement each other in studying the Middle East. Among the substantive topics explored are the trajectories of the Arab Spring, institutional change and economic development in the early Ottoman Empire, the destructive effects of the reordering property rights in Iraq by the American-led occupation authority, the evolution of the political economy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the determinants of movements in the yields of Egyptian and Ottoman sovereign debt following political and economic crises in the 19th and early 20th centuries.The book will be of interest to scholars and students of economic history, political economy, and the Middle East.

欧州競争政策の展開
Shaev, Brian / Ramirez Perez, Sigfrido (eds.), The Development of European Competition Policy: Social Democracy and Regulation. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 368 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-220>
ISBN 978-1-138-54159-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book considers a central issue of our time: the relationship between the macroeconomic objectives of political parties in democratic countries and the legal framework of market economies. The impressive panel of contributors examines social-democratic policies on cartels, market concentration and competition in different European countries, spanning a hundred-year period (specifically the interwar period, the initial postwar period, the 1960s and 1970s, the 1980s and 1990s, and the 2000s).This thought-provoking volume challenges the dominant belief that the EU's economic system and competition policy were mainly influenced by neoliberal economic thinking, instead showing that Keynesian and social-democratic positions played a major role in the emergence of this system.It will be valuable reading for advanced students, researchers and policymakers interested in modern economic history, industrial organization, political economy, European legal history and political science.

Buzassyova, Barbora, The Eastern Bloc and Sub-Saharan Africa: Czechoslovakia, UNESCO and Development Aid from the 1960s and Beyond. (Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe) 264 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-221>
ISBN 978-1-03-257546-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book analyses the shifting patterns of Czechoslovak educational aid programmes for sub-Saharan African countries within the broader framework of the global debates on the nature of development aid in education discussed on the UNESCO grounds during the three "development decades."Starting in the early 1960s, Czechoslovakia sent abroad hundreds of experts hoping to stimulate the development of local educational and scientific institutions. However, over the years, the development aid to African countries transformed into a special form of foreign trade, and distribution of experts turned into a profitable business. Yet, the tendencies towards "sustainability" and "higher return on investment" in the field of development aid were not limited just to the socialist bloc but emerged globally. This book, therefore, not only revisits the roles of Czechoslovakia and Africa in the Cold War history but also reflects on the function of aid in international politics.The Eastern Bloc and Sub-Saharan Africa will appeal to students and historians specializing in the global Cold War, and particularly those curious about development, international organizations, economic history and transfers of knowledge in transnational networks.