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

Alvi, Maddalena, The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910-1925. (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare) 310 pp. 2025:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <738-305>
ISBN 978-1-009-60081-1 hard ¥24,123.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

The outbreak of the First World War shattered the established European art market. Amidst fighting, looting, confiscations, expropriation fears and political and economic upheaval, an integrated marketplace shaped by upper-class patrons broke down entirely. In its place, Maddalena Alvi argues, can be found the origins of a recognisably modern market of nationalised spheres driven by capitalist investment and speculation, yet open to wider social strata. Delving into auction records, memoirs, newspaper articles, financial and legal documents in six languages, Alvi explores these cultural and socio-economic developments across the British, French, and German markets, as well as trade spheres such as Russia and Scandinavia. 1914 marked the end of the European art market and cemented the connection between art and finance.

Conchon, Anne / Feller, L. / Huertas, E. (textes reunis), Cultures ecrites de l'economie aux epoques medievale et moderne. (Homme et societe) 272 p. 2024:10 (Ed. de la Sorbonne, FR) <738-307>
ISBN 979-10-351-0991-2 paper ¥6,498.- (税込) EUR 28.00

オフィスとオフィス・ワークの歴史
Harris, Rob, A History of the Office and Office Work: From Castle to Condominium. 374 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-308>
ISBN 978-1-032-94891-1 hard ¥45,408.- (税込) GB￡ 160.00
ISBN 978-1-032-91397-1 paper ¥17,024.- (税込) GB￡ 59.99

This book brings together the office and office working as an economic construct, as a business function, as a building type and as a mode of work. It explores social and economic relations, and it traces the evolution of work and the environment and equipment needed to support it over the last 400 years. In so doing, it helps to fill a void in popular understanding of the office.The role of the office has been examined over the past three years in ways that it has never been examined before. Whilst the existential crisis arising from COVID-19 has settled somewhat, there remain big questions over the future of office workers and office real estate. This book is a timely, well-researched and fascinating contribution to the debate.Rob Harris explores how the nature of work has changed, and continues to change, placing the events surrounding COVID-19 into a longer-term perspective and asking what is the future of the office? Will it go through a radical reinvention? How will office work evolve in the future? Whither office buildings? The book emphasises the continuum of change and that today's events are simply the latest stage of change, rather than something entirely novel.This book will be of interest to anyone with a stake in the built environment, whether as an investor, occupier, owner, manager or advisor. It is equally accessible to those with a non-technical background, including students on courses such as economic history, economics, geography, real estate and urban planning.

景気循環のモデル化を問う－計量経済学の根源　1887～1940年
Chancellier, Eric, Interroger la modelisation des cycles economiques: aux sources de l'econometrie (1887-1940). (E-conomiques) 217 p. 2024:10 (Editions materiologiques, FR) <738-201>
ISBN 978-2-37361-462-6 paper ¥6,982.- (税込) EUR 23.00

いかに経済思想が進化するか－ドイツ・イタリア福祉国家への宗教の影響
Hien, Josef, How Economic Ideas Evolve: The Impact of Religion on the German and Italian Welfare State. (Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology) 150 pp. 2025:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <738-203>
ISBN 978-1-009-56926-2 hard ¥24,123.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00