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

アイルランドの長期的好景気－1986～2007年のケルトの虎の経済
O'Malley, Eoin, Ireland's Long Economic Boom: The Celtic Tiger Economy, 1986-2007. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 264 pp. 2024:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <722-192>
ISBN 978-3-031-53069-2 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-53072-2 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This Open Access book examines the long economic boom experienced in Ireland between the late 1980s and 2007, analysing why this boom occurred. The book situates Ireland as a relative latecomer to economic development, with specific challenges and advantages inherent to this position. It discusses the risks involved in remaining reliant on foreign companies, exploring how in Ireland's case the rapidly growing economy required active, interventionist and imaginative policy measures rather than relying primarily on free market forces. The book also offers an estimation of the value of the net foreign earnings associated with different categories of exports after deducting the profit outflows and payments for imported inputs, revealing a number of findings about the importance of Irish indigenous companies and services during this time. It shows that Irish indigenous companies, assisted by industrial policy measures, played a significant part, as did the services sector,alongside the more visible and widely recognised role of foreign multinationals in high-tech manufacturing. Offering fresh insights and analyses more than 15 years after the long boom ended at the precipice of the global financial crisis, this book will be a useful resource for economic historians, scholars of political economy and macroeconomic policy, as well as those interested in modern Irish history more broadly.

中国の労働市場　1950～2050年
Du, Jane, China's Labour Market, 1950-2050: The Role of Family Planning in Demographic and Income Transitions. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 163 pp. 2024:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <722-202>
ISBN 978-3-031-53137-8 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book presents an in-depth examination of China's population control policies from their establishment to the present and explores the developing implications of these policies on the Chinese labour market. The book connects original research on contemporary Chinese demographics with a historical analysis of China's labour market structure. Using data from the most recent population census, chapters explore the economic impact of the demographic transition that has taken place over recent decades, from the strict implementation of family planning policies to the current easing of these policies. The book examines income growth and economic development in China after the Second World War with comparative perspectives from other Asian countries including Japan and South Korea. It also devotes a chapter to regional variations in the effectiveness of population control policies, exploring differences in rural and urban areas, and surveys the future challenges for the Chinese government in addressing population and growth-related concerns. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in economic history, labour economics, and demography, as well as those interested in Chinese economic and societal development.

Dainoff, Charles A. / Farley, Robert M. / Williams, G. F., Waging War With Gold: National Security and the Finance Domain Across the Ages. 249 pp. 2023:8 (Lynne Rienner, US) <722-225>
ISBN 978-1-68585-945-9 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

Cleaver, Laura / Magnusson, D. / Morcos, H. et al. (eds.), The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and its Consequences, ca. 1890-1945. (Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities) 467 pp. 2024:5 (Arc Humanities Pr., UK) <722-287>
ISBN 978-1-80270-137-1 hard ¥41,310.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

1580年から現在までのオランダ製紙産業
Ehrich, Martha Emilie, The Dutch Paper Industry from 1580 to the Present: The Survival of a Long-Established Industry. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 149 pp. 2024:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <722-290>
ISBN 978-3-031-54323-4 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99 *

This open access book is the first to provide an analysis of the Dutch paper industry over a period encompassing six centuries. Responding to a trend of renewed scholarly interest in paper industries and production, the book seeks to illuminate the factors behind this relatively small national industry's centuries-long survival. Previous historical research has shown that sets of colonial, trade, merchant and family networks, tightly interwoven through a dense web of capital, were crucial for paper production and trade in early modern Europe. This book situates the Dutch paper industry within these overlapping contexts and their shifting dynamics over time, and historicizes the challenges and obstacles it had to overcome through four phases of capitalism: the rise of Dutch capitalism (1580-1815), Dutch monarchic liberalism (1815-1914), Fordism (1914-1980), and post-Fordism (1980 until now). Each chapter covers not only technological advancements in the industry, but its development alongside further determining dimensions, such as state-industry relations (industry policies), labour-capital relations (unions) and competition and cooperation, overall painting a picture of how the industry adapted to and endured changes in national and global networks surrounding the industry. This book will be of broad interest to scholars of economic and business history, as well as industrial history, political economy, and management studies. "This publication was supported by funds from the Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany."

南アフリカにおける金、金融、帝国主義　1887～1902年－株式取引からの視点
Lukasiewicz, Mariusz, Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887-1902: A View from the Stock Exchange. (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies) 242 pp. 2024:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <722-292>
ISBN 978-3-031-51946-8 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the organisation and operations of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the oldest existing stock exchange in the African continent. Identifying the JSE as the nexus between international finance, South African gold mining and British imperialism, the book exposes the financial and political connections between Johannesburg, Pretoria, London, and Paris during the final stage of the imperial 'scramble for southern Africa.' Gold mining presented the South African Republic (ZAR) and the whole southern African regional economy with a long-term economic future and new prospects of industrialisation. However, this socio-economic transformation was dependent on extensive capital investments and the institutionalisation of a coercive labour regime based on racial discrimination. This monograph provides the first empirical examination of how international finance, imperial politics, and racialised industrial relations became entrenched in a key financial intermediary in colonial South Africa - first in Kimberley in the Cape Colony, and then in Johannesburg in the ZAR. By studying the Johannesburg capital market's social microstructures, the author demonstrates how colonial and international financial intermediaries underwrote and financed the largest wave of mining investments in Africa prior to the First World War. Filling an important gap in literature on nineteenth-century British imperialism and Anglo-African-Afrikaner relations, this insightful book uses the JSE as a lens to carefully expose the structures and agency of global finance in the outbreak of the South African War, and the making of South Africa as a unified colonial state.

T.ロイ他著　1956年から現在までのケーララ
Roy, Tirthankar / Raman, K. Ravi, Kerala, 1956 to the Present: India's Miracle State. (Economic Histories of Indian States) 180 pp. 2024:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <722-294>
ISBN 978-1-00-952163-5 hard ¥19,943.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00
ISBN 978-1-00-952165-9 paper ¥6,549.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99

Kerala is different, but not in the way we think.' Economic change in this southern state has fascinated economists. Most studies focused on the state's unusual human development, asked how a poor and economically stagnant state could achieve high levels of education and healthcare and pointed to politics and government policy to answer the question. Little of that scholarship took history seriously. History, this book says, shows that the foundations of human development were laid before the formation of the state and were owed to many factors besides politics. The striking thing about the state is its unusual income growth, which has been faster than most states since the 1990s. The question the authors ask is, 'How could an income-poor state break out of stagnation so dramatically?' The answers consider past globalisation, labour mobility, a legacy of welfare spending, and the positive ways these features interacted since India's economic reforms.

東インド会社の富への対立する主張　1600～50年
Schleck, Julia, Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650: Reading Debates over Risk and Reward. (Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World) 236 pp. 2024:2 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <722-295>
ISBN 978-94-6372-719-8 hard ¥32,193.- (税込) GB￡ 113.00 *

Centered on moral critiques of wealth and the unequal distribution of risks and rewards in the lengthy voyages required by the East Indies trade, this book examines the debates surrounding England's earliest global trading ventures. Arguments over the staggering loss of lives and national resources and struggles over control of the new trade in luxuries reveal the forging of rationales justifying the new capitalist inequalities. Yet Company servants traveling abroad to conduct the risky trade resisted this newly coalescing social formation through strategic disobedience to their masters' will, controlling information and promoting ignorance when it served their financial and sexual purposes. Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650 interrogates the forces that shaped England's earliest forays into capitalist imperialism by tracing the battles over corporate control of men's finances, marriages, and bare survival at the dawn of its global trade.

スウェーデンの君主制と銅貿易　1600～40年
Stryker, Lawrence, The Swedish Monarchy and the Copper Trade: The Copper Company, the Deposit System, and the Amsterdam Market, 1600-1640. (Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World) 302 pp. 2024:5 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <722-296>
ISBN 978-90-485-6081-3 hard ¥33,333.- (税込) GB￡ 117.00 *

In 1611, the seventeen-year-old Gustav Adolf ascended the throne of Sweden. Before the new king could sit on his throne, however, he faced a disastrous war against Denmark, another conflict in Russia, and a rebellious nobility at home. Plus, Sweden itself had an arctic climate and a short growing season. Clearly Gustav II Adolf faced great difficulties even to survive. Yet by the end of the next decade, Gustav II Adolf's Sweden was a leading military power in continental Europe. In 1630 the king invaded the Holy Roman Empire and joined the Thirty Years War to defend the Protestant cause. How was this possible? Sweden had one major asset, the Stora Kopparberg, the largest copper mine in Europe. The king exploited the mine and used the revenue to finance his political and military ambitions. This is the story of Gustav II Adolf's efforts to improve efficiencies at the mine and control the marketing of its bounty.

スペイン王国とハンザ都市　1570～1700年
Weller, Thomas, Ungleiche Partner: Die spanische Monarchie und die Hansestaedte, ca. 1570-1700. (Veroeffentlichungen des Instituts fuer Europaeische Geschichte Mainz 270) 670 S. 2023:11 (Vandenhoeck, GW) <722-297>
ISBN 978-3-525-30246-0 hard ¥20,009.- (税込) EUR 85.00 *

Die spanische Monarchie und die Hansestaedte waren gleich in mehrfacher Hinsicht ≫ungleiche Partner≪. Trotz kultureller Unterschiede und Gegensaetze kam es zwischen der katholischen Weltmacht Spanien und den mehrheitlich protestantischen Hansestaedten seit dem letzten Drittel des 16. Jahrhunderts zu einer wirtschaftlichen und politischen Annaeherung, von der beide Seiten profitierten. Diesen von der Forschung lange vernachlaessigten Vorgang zeichnet die Studie erstmals auf breiter Quellengrundlage nach und eroeffnet damit zugleich einen neuen Blick auf die Geschichte fruehneuzeitlicher Aussenbeziehungen. Neben Gesandten und politischen Funktionstraegern treten Akteure in den Vordergrund, die sich unterhalb der Ebene der Hoefe und der ≫offiziellen≪ Diplomatie bewegten und als kulturelle Mittler fungierten. Die Studie zeigt, wie es ihnen gelang, kulturelle Differenzen zu ueberbruecken.

鎮目雅人他編　世界中の貨幣博士－歴史的視点
Alvarez, Andres / Bignon, V. / Oegren, A. / Shizume, Masato (eds.), Money Doctors Around the Globe: A Historical Perspective. (Studies in Economic History) 398 pp. 2024:5 (Springer, GW) <722-298>
ISBN 978-981-9701-33-9 hard ¥42,368.- (税込) EUR 179.99 *

This book focuses on worldwide historical experiences of monetary reforms and the reformist minds behind them: the money doctors. The process of doctoring is the process of listening to many pieces of information and sorting them in order to correctly diagnose the causes of the problem and derive the appropriate cure, if it exists. A money doctor is "a person who, helped by theoretical and practical knowledge, advises and/or proposes to act on how to build a stable monetary and financial system or to repair ongoing monetary turbulences." Economists and policy makers are money doctors when their involvement includes the observation and diagnostic of the monetary and financial troubles and the proposition for a cure. Each contribution highlights the theoretical underpinning of the doctors, and the key factors for the success or failures of the reform they have promoted. We collect cases from Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania from the 16th to the 20th century anddiscuss their aims, strategies, and consequences to draw implications for today.

インフレの復活－歴史と政策提言からの教訓
Heine, Michael / Herr, Hansjoerg, The Resurgence of Inflation: Lessons from History and Policy Recommendations. (Financial and Monetary Policy Studies 57) 188 pp. 2024:2 (Springer, GW) <722-165>
ISBN 978-3-031-52739-5 hard ¥18,828.- (税込) EUR 79.99 *

In light of the resurgence of inflation in developed industrialised countries following a period of inordinately low inflation, this book analyses the causes and devastating effects of inflation by drawing lessons from the past. Focusing on the German hyperinflation of the 1920s and the inflationary waves of the 1970s, it examines the resulting economic crises and their influence on the subsequent periods of social and political turmoil, namely the fascism of the 1930s and the neoliberal revolution of the 1980s. Featuring five detailed case studies on inflationary waves in various countries in the 1970s, the book identifies economic policy errors of the past, seeking to prevent their recurrence. Offering empirical and theoretical insights alike, the authors present strategies for effectively combating inflation and deflation. In turn, the book assesses the complex ties between wage increases, income distribution, and price changes, ultimately providing valuable recommendations on how wage policy can be used to stabilise price level increases at a low level in a world characterised by diverse and extreme economic shocks."The Resurgence of Inflation" fosters a vital discourse on wage and price dynamics, economic development and the role of trade unions, making it an essential read for policymakers, economists, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of today's economic challenges.