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

グローバル経済危機の一世紀
Vinhas de Souza, Lucio, A Century of Global Economic Crises: Monetary Policy in Search of An Anchor. 193 pp. 2024:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-311>
ISBN 978-3-031-53459-1 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores the end of the era of low inflation and stable price increases, known as "The Great Moderation", and the impact this will have on monetary policy. The macroeconomic trends and economic policy issues observed within developed countries over the last 70 years are linked with the economic theory debates of the time to highlight how the current economic challenges came about. The limitations of past economic policies are highlighted to help create a new policy framework for an era defined by high inflation, low economic growth, large budget deficits, and increased private sector debt.This book presents a new understanding of monetary policy that engages with the changing behaviour of economic agents. It will be relevant to researchers and policymakers interested in monetary policy and the political economy.

パンのモラル・エコノミー及び市場経済－ウィーンにおける規制と改革　1775～1885年
Albrecht, Jonas, The Moral and Market Economies of Bread: Regulation and Reform in Vienna, 1775-1885. (Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations) 280 pp. 2024:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-372>
ISBN 978-1-350-39847-4 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

From the 1770s the Vienna bread market was rocked by a series of politico-economic and technological changes that questioned the way this everyday foodstuff was sold and produced. In this book, Jonas Albrecht explores how this reconfiguration of the bread market had wide-reaching and significant consequences for a society who relied on this foodstuff to live. Before 1860 the production and selling of bread was embedded into a moral economy with distinct regulations. But as the grain market expanded and new cereal varieties arrived from the empire's peripheries reformers sought to create a 'free' market through liberalizing reforms. The Moral and Market Economies of Bread shows that while terminating market regulation did mobilize and diversify Vienna's bread market in spatial terms, it intensified inequality among consumers. As opaque prices, non-transparent market procedures and diverging power relations between producers and consumers led to unrest, city officials and bakers struggled to meet the shortcomings of the free market from within. This book brings economic, social and urban histories together and employs a spatial approach and GIS methods to explore the relationship between market and society, and capitalism at large.

Del Prete, Rossella, The Neapolitan Creative Economy: The Growth of the Music Market and Creative Sector in Naples, 17th-19th Centuries. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 328 pp. 2024:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-373>
ISBN 978-3-031-55902-0 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book analyses the emergence and growth of the creative sector in Naples between the early modern and modern eras, focusing particularly on the development of music markets in the city. From the seventeenth century, Naples became one of the most culturally enriched regions in the Italian peninsula, with internationally known music schools, theatres and opera venues attracting visitors from across Europe in a burgeoning tourist market. This book sheds light on the driving economic factors and political contexts behind this key case study for the early growth of the opera and music sector in Europe. Starting with a discussion of the value of economic history to understanding cultural industries, the chapters approach this analysis through multiple lenses: the formation of human capital as the result of Naples' institutional urban welfare system; the role of cultural consumption as it evolved from a primarily religious activity to growing popular demand; and the rolethat central city authorities played in encouraging cultural activity through private investment and public policy. The book also draws on fascinating archival research to examine the contribution of Naples' music conservatories in the local creative economy. This book is a valuable resource to a broad range of readers, including those working in economic history, tourism history, the history of music and theatre, Italian social history and more.

ギリシア・ローマ経済への現代的アプローチを評価する
Murray, Sarah C. / Bernard, Seth (eds.), Models, Methods, and Morality: Assessing Modern Approaches to the Greco-Roman Economy. (Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies) 374 pp. 2024:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-375>
ISBN 978-3-031-58209-7 hard ¥48,616.- (税込) EUR 199.99

This edited volume presents a multi-perspectival inquiry into the models that have shaped the study of ancient economies in past decades. The contributions collected here respond to the prevailing tendency to measure ancient Mediterranean economies using methods and techniques designed for assessing the performance of modern economies, considering a range of approaches that might generate a more socially and morally attuned history of the ancient Mediterranean. The volume explores the challenges of quantification and critically examines the ideological assumptions implicit within the models usually applied to the study of ancient economic performance. The chapters advocate for more inclusive alternatives to traditional ideas of 'growth' that take factors such as social inequality, fairness, wellbeing and the relationship between humans and the natural environment into consideration. The book examines through a series of different questions the importance of querying the appropriateness of economic methods from an ethical or socially aware position. Rather than condemning older models, methods, and points of view for their inadequacies, this book focuses on leveraging the benefits from existing methods in economics and suggesting new frameworks to reach toward historical approaches that are both methodologically sophisticated and attuned to the moral, ethical, and political concerns of the twenty-first century. This book will be a valuable resource for interdisciplinary researchers in economics, economic history, ancient history and archaeology.

L.ニール著　ルイジアナ購入の忘れられた金融家－欧州の銀行家、米国、国際金融の台頭
Neal, Larry, The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase: European Bankers, the US, and the Rise of International Finance. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance) 251 pp. 2024:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-376>
ISBN 978-3-031-56276-1 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book provides a comprehensive account of how the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was financed. Where existing research has focused predominantly on the political and diplomatic significance of the Purchase, this book demonstrates the importance of the Purchase to global financial history. The book provides context and background for the Louisiana Purchase and examines the role of key actors and companies, focusing particularly on the 'forgotten financiers' of the Purchase - individuals from the US, France and the UK including Alexander Baring, Albert Gallatin, Pierre Cesar Labouchere and Francois Barbe-Marbois. Based on extensive, original archival research, the chapters will illuminate the role played by these individuals in bringing about financial innovation and facilitating a major transaction that doubled the size of the original United States and helped set the country on a path to global power. The book will be a valuable resource for historians of Europe and America, particularly those with interests in economic and financial history, as well as banking and finance scholars who are interested in the emergence of large-scale international finance in the 19th century.

計量経済史ハンドブック　第3版　全3巻
Diebolt, Claude / Haupert, Michael (eds.), Handbook of Cliometrics. 3rd ed. 3 vols. 2826 pp. 2024:6 (Springer, GW) <726-276>
ISBN 978-3-031-35582-0 hard ¥243,096.- (税込) EUR 999.99

This handbook is a milestone in the field of historical economics and econometric history through its emphasis on the concrete contribution of cliometrics to our knowledge in economics and history. The articles in the handbook authored by the leading scholars in the fields, stress the usefulness of cliometrics for economists, historians and social scientists in general. The handbook offers a comprehensive coverage of topics with each article providing an overview of the contributions of cliometrics to a particular topic. The handbook has set a new standard of quality in the field by offering a world-wide forum of discussion in cliometrics. This updated and extended third edition of the handbook of cliometrics offers a substantially enlarged collection of articles and thus stresses its unique position as authoritative reference work in this field.