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

金融の地図－貨幣のグローバルな物語のマッピング
Wojcik, Dariusz, Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money. 240 pp. 2024:9 (Yale U. Pr., US) <728-270>
ISBN 978-0-300-25305-4 hard ¥8,624.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *

A unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today's interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finance has always taken place on an international stage. Finance is one of the most globalized and networked of human activities, and one of the most important social technologies ever invented. This volume, the first visually based book dedicated to finance, uses graphics and maps to bring the complex and abstract world of finance down to earth, showing how geography is fundamental for understanding finance, and vice versa. It illuminates the people-including Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes-who have shaped our thinking about global finance; brings to life the ways that place-specific histories, laws, regulations, and institutions influence finance; shows how finance relates to innovation, globalization, and environmental change; and details how finance plays a key part in drawing the landscape of uneven development, inequality, and instability. The Atlas of Finance, with word and image, will change the way you view both your money and your world.

20世紀における病院の経営史
Fernandez Perez, Paloma (eds.), Business History of Hospitals in the 20th Century: Entrepreneurship, Organization, and Finances. (Frontiers in Economic History) 300 pp. 2025:2 (Springer, GW) <728-331>
ISBN 978-3-031-59422-9 hard ¥42,368.- (税込) EUR 179.99

新興市場の現代経済史　1950～2020年
Akarli, Ahmet, A Modern Economic History of Emerging Markets (1950-2020): Dirigisme, Globalization and Disruption. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 298 pp. 2024:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <728-356>
ISBN 978-3-031-55209-0 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book offers a comprehensive economic history of emerging market economies post-WWII and identifies a complex web of sustainability problems that face the EMEs going forward. It seeks to present a truly global perspective on the development of EMEs and the long-term trends that have brought EMEs to a critical economic juncture. The first section of the book charts how EMEs became tightly integrated into the global economy at rapid pace, analysing economic achievements as well as imbalances and sustainability issues that have been generated over time. It considers how EMEs have withstood episodes of complex structural transitions and financial shocks, and offers comparative perspectives on patterns of dispersion within the EME landscape from the end of WWII to the present. The second part of the book seeks to understand how EMEs might cope with the volatility brought about by a new 'age of disruption' defined by major structural challenges to the neo-liberal economic order. It considers which EMEs are best positioned to respond to issues of economic inequality, financial excess, technological disruption and climate change, what a global historical understanding of the EMEs can offer to policymakers, and the impact on the EME investment landscape. This book will be of interest to a broad audience including researchers of economic history and political economy, as well as policymakers, investment professionals, and the general reader interested in global economic development.

古典期アテナイにおける日常生活－社会経済的分析
Economou, Emmanouil M. L. / Kyriazis, Nicholas C., Daily Life in Classical Athens: A Socioeconomic Analysis. (Frontiers in Economic History) 368 pp. 2024:8 (Springer, GW) <728-357>
ISBN 978-3-031-58540-1 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book presents the economic heartbeat and institutional details that shaped Athenian society during the Classical period (508-323 BCE), employing an innovative and outside-the-box approach to studying history. It answers questions about societal structure, the roles of women, foreigners, and slaves, the transformation of their economy from agrarian to maritime, and commercially-oriented. 28 short fictional stories enliven the narrative, each accompanied by rigorous academic analysis - revealing how banking, insurance, and the Athenian drachma, the internationally accepted currency of the times, shaped their world. Exploring the symbiotic relationship between democracy and economic evolution, the book examines the sophisticated economic institutions of ancient Athens -ranging from property rights protection to market-driven price determination, anti-profiteering measures, measures to protect the Athenian currency's trustworthiness from forgery, business and labor mentality and practices, international trade patterns, as well as the existence of a robust public sector related also to the provision of a series of public goods. In a comprehensive analysis, the book scrutinizes daily life, societal structures, and customs, addressing a variety of questions such as marriage, cuisine, attire, values, and entertainment. Employing New Institutional Economics as a methodology, the book puts together historical evidence with institutional analysis, offering an interdisciplinary lens through economics, political science, strategy, and behavioral theory. Richly supported by ancient sources, inscriptions, and a vast modern bibliography, this work not only explains ancient Athens but also proposes its socioeconomic pattern as a guide for modern societal challenges in economic governance and democracy.

銃と台帳－初期の経済的グローバル化の時代における中国と東アジア世界
Li, Bozhong, Guns and Ledgers: China and the East Asian World in the Age of Early Economic Globalization. 367 pp. 2024 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <728-359>
ISBN 978-981-9963-22-5 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book seeks to reconcile the dual forces of war and economic globalization in tracing China's early modernity. For late imperial China, there were two forms of encounter with the West; the guns of invading Europeans, and the ledgers by which trade between China and the West was measured and regulated. Even today, China's reactions to the West oscillate between business-driven openness and military paranoia. In this intellectual tour de force, Bozhong Li, one of China's preeminent intellectual and economic historians, traces the unprecedented transition that led China into the modern world; the book will be of value for economists, historians, and sinophiles alike.

ボヘミアとハプスブルクの財政・金融・軍事レジーム　1650～1710年
Sander-Faes, Stephan, Lordship and State Transformation: Bohemia and the Habsburg Fiscal-Financial-Military Regime, 1650-1710. 472 pp. 2024:12 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <728-360>
ISBN 978-0-228-02290-9 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00

Although state transformation - continuous struggle and bargaining between rulers and their subjects, producing an unpredictable variety of political structures - is often overlooked, the process is crucial in assessing the organizational development of early modern composite monarchies and deserves further investigation.In Austria, the monarchy's emergence as a great power required it to overcome several successive crises that culminated in the decades around 1700. The Habsburgs succeeded more by adjusting relations between Crown and lordships than through institution building. This unusual interaction of state and non-state actors resulted in an Austria that markedly deviated from the centralizing nation-state exemplified by Britain or France. The nascent Habsburg fiscal-financial-military regime transformed regional and local authority, leading to armed conflict and causing disintegration of the administrative and social fabric. From the mid-seventeenth century onward, power - whether local or central, or social or political - would undergo enormous changes.Grounded in extensive research into Czech archives and spanning an era from the Thirty Years' War to the coronation of Charles VI, Lordship and State Transformation delves into the complex transitions that characterized the first instance of a balance of power in Europe, with a focus on its underresearched great power, the Habsburg monarchy.

V.スミル著　発明とイノベーション
Smil, Vaclav, Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure. 232 pp. 2024:9 (MIT Pr., US) <728-361>
ISBN 978-0-262-55101-4 paper ¥4,301.- (税込) US$ 19.95 *

From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity and its attendant breakthroughs and busts. Included in BILL GATES's 2023 Holiday Reading List Included in Lit Hub s Most Anticipated Books of 2023 Included in The Next Big Idea Club s February 2023 Must-Read Books. 'Every Smil book that I own is marked up with lots of notes that I take while reading. Invention and Innovation is no exception. Even when I disagree with him, I learn a lot from him...he always strengthens my thinking.' Bill Gates, Gates Notes. The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author a favorite of Bill Gates pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises that accompany everything from new cures for diseases to AI. He reminds us that even after we go quite far along the invention-development-application trajectory, we may never get anything real to deploy. Or worse, even after we have succeeded by introducing an invention, its future may be marked by underperformance, disappointment, demise, or outright harm. Drawing on his vast breadth of scientific and historical knowledge, Smil explains the difference between invention and innovation, and looks not only at inventions that failed to dominate as promised (such as the airship, nuclear fission, and supersonic flight), but also at those that turned disastrous (leaded gasoline, DDT, and chlorofluorocarbons). And finally, most importantly, he offers a 'wish list' of inventions that we most urgently need to confront the staggering challenges of the twenty-first century. Filled with engaging examples and pragmatic approaches, this book is a sobering account of the folly that so often attends human ingenuity and how we can, and must, better align our expectations with reality.

Tinn, Honghong, Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industry. (History of Computing) 456 pp. 2025:1 (MIT Pr., US) <728-362>
ISBN 978-0-262-54938-7 paper ¥12,936.- (税込) US$ 60.00