2009 Duke University Press

One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903-83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. Robinson studied economics at Cambridge University, ...

2008 Duke University Press

Carl Schmitt's magnum opus, "Constitutional Theory", was originally published in 1928 and has been in print in German ever since. This volume makes Schmitt's masterpiece of comparative constitutionalism available to English-language readers for the first ...

2008 Duke University Press

This collection of essays, a supplement to "History of Political Economy", brings together prominent scholars from economics, sociology, literature, and history to examine the role of biography and autobiography in the history of economics. The ...

2007 Duke University Press

As the United States moves to a low-carbon economy in order to combat global warming - first at the state level and eventually through a national program - credits for reducing carbon dioxide emissions will ...

2006 Duke University Press

In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor ...

2004 Duke University Press

Chile was the first major Latin American nation to carry out a complete neo-liberal transformation. Its policies - encouraging foreign investment, privatizing public sector companies and services, lowering trade barriers, reducing the size of the ...

2004 Duke University Press

Offers a detailed account of economic concepts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries While the history of early modern science is well-charted terrain, less has been recorded on the economic thinking of the same period, ...

2004 Duke University Press

Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States-Latin American interaction. "Banana Wars" is a history of the Americas as told ...

1998 Duke University Press

In the present volume, we can see one tangible result of this vision in the remarkable new essay by Adolfo Gilly, which is a product of, first, Gilly's own long-term reflections on Mexican politics and ...

1990 Duke University Press

Renowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French historians now refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French Revolution ...