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Free Download Holy Entrepreneurs: Cistercians, Knights, and Economic Exchange in Twelfth-Century Burgundy By Constance Brittain Bouchard
2009 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 1501721038 | PDF | 14 MB
The twelfth century was characterized by intense spirituality as well as rapid economic development. Drawing on unprecedented research, Constance Brittain Bouchard demonstrates that the Cistercian monks of Burgundy were exemplary in both spheres. Bouchard explores the web of economic ties that linked the Cistercian monasteries with their secular neighbors, especially the knights, and reaches some surprising conclusions about Cistercian attitudes.

Free Download Yijing Li, "Geography of Crime in China since the Economic Reform of 1978: A Multi-scale Analysis"
English | ISBN: 144387535X | 2015 | 455 pages | PDF | 3 MB
China has seen dramatic social changes since the Economic Reform of 1978; however, the economic upsurge and rapid urbanization present a two-edged sword, with the consequence of more challenging crime problems. This book presents an analysis of criminal issues in China from a geographic perspective, utilizing both spatio-temporal analysis and qualitative techniques at multiple spatial and temporal scales. It pays particularly close attention to a pilot study in Shenzhen city, testing the applicability of theories developed in Western society to the Chinese context. As such, this book is not merely a piece of research work, but rather a systematic overview of Chinese national crime issues.

Free Download Exchange in the Mamluk Sultanate: Economic and Cultural
by Marlis J. Saleh
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9789042952324 | 203 Pages | True PDF | 1.9 MB

Free Download Economic Approach To Religion, An by Michael Mcbride
English | August 30, 2022 | ISBN: 9811259542 | 420 pages | MOBI | 3.83 Mb
Why is religion so widespread? Why do individuals donate large amounts of time, money, and effort to religious groups? What forms does the religious competition take? Why are individuals more religious in some countries than others? What is the future of religion? This book provides a non-technical introduction to how the economic approach answers these and other questions about religion. It defines the economic approach to religion and demonstrates how it is used to study a variety of religious decisions. It explains how religious groups confront credibility, free-rider, and coordination problems that challenge the collective production of religious goods and services. It also examines competition and regulation in religious markets around the world, how religious beliefs and preferences are transmitted and sustained, how religion likely emerged in humankind’s distant past, and what the future of religion may hold. The book thus demonstrates how the tools and methods of economics provide fresh insight into a variety of religious behaviors. This book is intended for a wide audience in and out of economics. Though not a textbook per se, its discussion questions and suggested readings at the end of each chapter allow for easy incorporation into the classroom. The mathematics and statistics used by researchers are generally avoided. Both theory and evidence are presented, but the focus is on the ideas that provide a coherent conceptual framework that grounds a deeper exploration of the theoretical and empirical research in the economics of religion.

Free Download China’s Economic Development and Democratization By Yanlai Wang
2003 | 253 Pages | ISBN: 0754636208 | PDF | 70 MB
‘China’s Economic Development and Democratization’ examines China’s transformation from an institutional perspective. It focuses on whether there is any evidence to suggest that China’s economic transformation may lead to political change. Students and sc

Free Download Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries By Jacques Gernet
1995 | 440 Pages | ISBN: 0231073801 | PDF | 15 MB
This seminal study of the religious and economic history of Buddhism by the premier French sinologue has for decades been considered an unsurpassed classic. Here, for the first time, it is available to English-language readers in an updated edition. The fifth through tenth centuries were the period of the greatest expansion of the Buddhist Church in China. Monastic estates controlled a sizeable share of the economy, owning a considerable amount of land and agricultural and manufacturing enterprises. Gernet examines the religious and economic aspects of the society dominated by this power, and explores the Church’s effect on Chinese thought and culture. A much broader historical overview than many works that discuss the economic intricacies of Buddhism in China, Buddhism in Chinese Society interweaves an understanding of social and political organization, Buddhist religious philosophy and doctrine, legal tenets, customs of the day, and many other significant layers of Chinese culture. Drawing largely upon primary sources – from the work of official Chinese historians to the writings of Buddhist monks – Gernet demonstrates the far-reaching influence of Buddhism on the economic development of China during a time when the religion was growing at an unprecedented rate among all levels of society. Buddhism in Chinese Society looks at state and imperial policy but also delves into the lives of villagers far away from the major centers of religious and economic power. Translated and revised by respected scholar of Chinese religions Franciscus Verellen, who has worked closely with Gernet, this edition includes new references, an extensive, up-to-date bibliography, and a comprehensive index.

Free Download Economic Warfare and the Sea: Grand Strategies for Maritime Powers, 1650-1945 By David Morgan-Owen, Louis Halewood
2020 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 1789621593 | PDF | 4 MB
Economic Warfare and the Sea examines the relationship between trade, maritime warfare, and strategic thought between the early modern period and the late-twentieth century. Featuring contributions from renown historians and rising scholars, this volume forwards an international perspective upon the intersection of maritime history, strategy, and diplomacy. Core themes include the role of ‘economic warfare’ in maritime strategic thought, prevalence of economic competition below the threshold of open conflict, and the role non-state actors have played in the prosecution of economic warfare.Using unique material from 18 different archives across six countries, this volume explores critical moments in the development of economic warfare, naval technology, and international law, including the Anglo-Dutch Wars, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War. Distinct chapters also analyse the role of economic warfare in theories of maritime strategy, and what the future holds for the changing role of navies in the floating global economy of the twenty-first century.

Free Download The Economic Turn: Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe By Sophus Reinert; Steven Kaplan
2019 | 792 Pages | ISBN: 1783088567 | PDF | 7 MB
The mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an economic turn that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. The discipline of economics itself emerged amidst this turn, and it is frequently traced back to the work of François Quesnay and his school of Physiocracy. Though lionized by the subsequent historiography of economics, the theoretical postulates and policy consequences of Physiocracy were disastrous at the time, resulting in a veritable subsistence trauma in France. This galvanized relentless and diverse critiques of the doctrine not only in France but also throughout the European world that have, hitherto, been largely neglected by scholars. Though Physiocracy was an integral part of the economic turn, it was rapidly overcome, both theoretically and practically, with durable and important consequences for the history of political economy. The Economic Turn brings together some of the leading historians of that moment to fundamentally recast our understanding of the origins and diverse natures of political economy in the Enlightenment.

Free Download The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, 2nd Edition by Karl Polanyi
English | March 28, 2001 | ISBN: 080705643X | True PDF | 360 pages | 2.1 MB
In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New introductory material reveals the renewed importance of Polanyi’s seminal analysis in an era of globalization and free trade.

Free Download Nothing is Sacred: Economic Ideas for the New Millennium by Robert J. Barro
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0262025264 | 184 Pages | PDF | 7.4 MB
Since the 1970s, Robert Barro’s academic research has significantly influenced macroeconomic theory.