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Downes E: Brazilian Agricultural
Development, 1890-1950

Brazilian Agricultural Development, 1890-1950

Educators, Capitalists, and Cold Warriors

Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance

This book brings together the most significant uncollected writings of the renowned economic historian Peter Spufford (1934–2017). Spanning topics from medieval coinage and monetary policy to international trade and shifting financial centres, this volume showcases Spufford’s unique ability to integrate numismatics, economic history, and archival research across multiple languages and disciplines.The collection includes both previously published and unpublished studies, some of which were originally available only in German, French, or Italian. These papers reflect Spufford’s lifelong commitment to uncovering the complexities of medieval economies through rigorous analysis of primary sources, archaeological evidence, and pictorial materials. The volume makes accessible a wealth of scholarship that had remained scattered or difficult to obtain, offering new insights into the monetary and commercial systems of Europe from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. It will be a fascinating resource for historians of money, trade, and medieval Europe.Jan Lucassen is an Honorary Fellow at the International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands.&nbsp;Peter Spufford was Professor of European History at the University of Cambridge, UK.&nbsp;

This book brings together the most significant uncollected writings of the renowned economic historian Peter Spufford (1934–2017). Spanning topics from medieval coinage and monetary policy to international trade and shifting financial centres, this volume showcases Spufford’s unique ability to integrate numismatics, economic history, and archival research across multiple languages and disciplines.The collection includes both previously published and unpublished studies, some of which were originally available only in German, French, or Italian. These papers reflect Spufford’s lifelong commitment to uncovering the complexities of medieval economies through rigorous analysis of primary sources, archaeological evidence, and pictorial materials. The volume makes accessible a wealth of scholarship that had remained scattered or difficult to obtain, offering new insights into the monetary and commercial systems of Europe from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. It will be a fascinating resource for historians of money, trade, and medieval Europe.

Collected Essays of Peter Spufford

Money, Trade and Shifting Financial Centres, 1000 – 1800

This research monograph examines agricultural e-commerce in emerging economies as a problem of market design rather than technology adoption. It asks a single question: how is digital readiness converted into trusted, formal and scalable agricultural transactions?Kazakhstan serves as the primary case, combining substantial agricultural potential, long distances between producers and consumers, uneven regional development, strong digital infrastructure and active policy interest in platform-based market access. Drawing on fieldwork in Azerbaijan and Malaysia, the book compares three contrasting routes to the same problem: infrastructure-led and private, administration-led and public, and platform-led and public.The author argues that readiness is conjunctive - the weakest layer binds - and that the constraint which recurs across all three countries is organisational: the capacity to aggregate dispersed smallholder output into commercially transactable consignments. The book closes with a sequencing framework for policy.It will interest economists of emerging markets and the digital economy, agricultural economists, and policymakers working on digital trade and rural market development.

This research monograph examines agricultural e-commerce in emerging economies as a problem of market design rather than technology adoption. It asks a single question: how is digital readiness converted into trusted, formal and scalable agricultural transactions?Kazakhstan serves as the primary case, combining substantial agricultural potential, long distances between producers and consumers, uneven regional development, strong digital infrastructure and active policy interest in platform-based market access. Drawing on fieldwork in Azerbaijan and Malaysia, the book compares three contrasting routes to the same problem: infrastructure-led and private, administration-led and public, and platform-led and public.The author argues that readiness is conjunctive - the weakest layer binds - and that the constraint which recurs across all three countries is organisational: the capacity to aggregate dispersed smallholder output into commercially transactable consignments. The book closes with a sequencing framework for policy.It will interest economists of emerging markets and the digital economy, agricultural economists, and policymakers working on digital trade and rural market development.

Agricultural E-Commerce in Emerging Economies

Oliver Hoffmann beschreibt, wie durch Angst Ressourcen unnötig verbraucht, Handlungsoptionen übersehen und Freiheiten eingeschränkt werden. Dazu gibt er zahlreiche Beispiele aus Unternehmen, Politik, Beziehung und Schule. Dabei zeigt er, wie Angst als Steuerungslogik funktioniert - und wo sie Wert begründet, aber auch zerstört. Der Weg raus aus dem lähmenden Angstzustand führt über eine Angstkompetenz sowie eine Ökonomie, deren Merkmale der Autor im abschließenden Kapitel aufzeigt.
Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende und Lehrende in Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Psychologiefächern sowie Entscheider:innen, die Angst nicht länger 
moralisch diskutieren, sondern betriebswirtschaftlich verstehen und systemisch reduzieren wollen.

Oliver Hoffmann beschreibt, wie durch Angst Ressourcen unnötig verbraucht, Handlungsoptionen übersehen und Freiheiten eingeschränkt werden. Dazu gibt er zahlreiche Beispiele aus Unternehmen, Politik, Beziehung und Schule. Dabei zeigt er, wie Angst als Steuerungslogik funktioniert – und wo sie Wert begründet, aber auch zerstört. Der Weg raus aus dem lähmenden Angstzustand führt über eine Angstkompetenz sowie eine Ökonomie, deren Merkmale der Autor im abschließenden Kapitel aufzeigt.
Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende und Lehrende in Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Psychologiefächern sowie Entscheider:innen, die Angst nicht länger 
moralisch diskutieren, sondern betriebswirtschaftlich verstehen und systemisch reduzieren wollen.

Zwischen Frühwarnsystem und Katastrophendenken

Die Ökonomie der Angst

Are digital technologies really a silver bullet for development in the Global South?


Digital technologies are supposed to solve the challenges of climate change, projected population growth, land conflicts and food insecurity, especially in rural areas. Yet NGOs, government institutions, and private companies are increasingly adopting a trial-and-error approach as they recognize the limitations of transferring Western science and technologies to the global South.
 
This book presents the ambivalent practices and implications of digital pilot projects which aim to 'develop' both farming communities and locally adapted innovations in East Africa. Inspired by laboratory ethnographies in Science and Technology Studies, it explores the practices of testing and developing digital technologies in rural Tanzania. The multi-sited ethnography, which takes in agricultural fairs, conferences, documents, online courses, tech hubs, project offices, villages and fields, centres on three case studies, namely DAST (a digital land-formalisation tool), STAS (an AI system for agricultural productivity) and iPlus (an e-extension tool). Rather than viewing these technologies simply as welcome tools to promote connectivity, empowerment and increased production - as commonly advanced in development policy - this book foregrounds the (un)intended consequences of the planning, set-up, maintenance and results of digital pilot projects. Against the backdrop of conflicting logics between testing technologies and developing Tanzanian agriculture through them, this book considers their (un)predictable impacts on new actors, the character of development and the trial communities in rural Tanzania.

Piloting Digital Technologies for Agriculture in Tanzania

Experimental Rural Development in the Global South

This volume explores the economic and financial contexts behind a period of large-scale bankruptcies in Europe across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With a particular focus on Spanish and Italian case studies, contributions analyse numerous aspects of failure and insolvency during this time.Despite growing contemporary interest in economic crises—particularly in the aftermath of 2008—the history of bankruptcy practices and the responsibilities of financial actors within the context of early globalisation remains largely underexplored. This volume responds to that need, offering a detailed, archivally grounded and theoretically robust investigation into parallels that exist in early modern Europe. Drawing out comparative analyses between modern and early modern financial crises, the book illuminates how early modern states developed systems of guarantees in tandem with the growth of mercantile capitalism, and covers questions including public debt management, financial transparency, the accountability of economic actors, and the relationship between political and economic power. This book will be a fascinating read for scholars of early modern financial and economic history.Giuseppe De Luca
 is Professor of Economic History at the University of Milan and holds a PhD in Economic and Social History from the Bocconi University. He is Honorary Professor at The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, and Associate to the National Research Council of Italy, Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe (ISEM). He is also currently a temporary lecturer in Economics on the Strategic Management MsC at LUISS, Rome.
 Ángel Alloza Aparicio 
 is Senior Researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC), where he holds the position of Científico Titular at the Institute of History, within the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CCHS) in Madrid.

This volume explores the economic and financial contexts behind a period of large-scale bankruptcies in Europe across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With a particular focus on Spanish and Italian case studies, contributions analyse numerous aspects of failure and insolvency during this time.Despite growing contemporary interest in economic crises—particularly in the aftermath of 2008—the history of bankruptcy practices and the responsibilities of financial actors within the context of early globalisation remains largely underexplored. This volume responds to that need, offering a detailed, archivally grounded and theoretically robust investigation into parallels that exist in early modern Europe. Drawing out comparative analyses between modern and early modern financial crises, the book illuminates how early modern states developed systems of guarantees in tandem with the growth of mercantile capitalism, and covers questions including public debt management, financial transparency, the accountability of economic actors, and the relationship between political and economic power. This book will be a fascinating read for scholars of early modern financial and economic history.

Bankruptcies, Defaults and Insolvency Proceedings in Spain and Italy, 16th – 17th Centuries

Was ist der Kapitalismus? Jürgen Kockas meisterhafte Analyse 
 
 Ist der Kapitalismus Fluch oder Segen? Fast immer ist er auf große Skepsis gestoßen, nicht nur bei Intellektuellen, sondern auch in der breiten Bevölkerung. Mit sehr guten Gründen, denn Zerstörung, Egoismus und Ungerechtigkeit sind seine ständigen Begleiter. Trotzdem hat er sich bis in jeden Winkel der Erde durchgesetzt und ist in nahezu alle unsere Lebensgebiete eingedrungen. Warum ist das so? Jürgen Kocka, der große Historiker, der seit Jahrzehnten die Geschichte des Kapitalismus erforscht, zieht in diesem Band die Summe seines Nachdenkens über den Kapitalismus. 
 
 Der Kapitalismus ist uralt, und er war im Grunde immer schon da, auch wenn er erst in der aufkommenden Moderne mit Industrialisierung, Globalisierung und Finanzialisierung seine volle Wucht entfaltet hat. Politische Macht, Disziplinierung und Gewalt gehören zu seinen Merkmalen, aber auch Innovation, Dynamik und Fortschritt. Wie er funktioniert, was er bedeutet, welche Folgen er hatte und hat ? Ungleichheit ebenso wie Konsum- und Lebenschancen, Unterdrückung ebenso wie Emanzipation -, das beleuchtet Jürgen Kocka anhand zentraler Aspekte wie etwa Arbeit, Freiheit oder Gerechtigkeit in diesem schmalen eindrucksvollen Band, der differenzierter, kenntnisreicher und aktueller nicht sein könnte.

Was ist der Kapitalismus? Jürgen Kockas meisterhafte Analyse Ist der Kapitalismus Fluch oder Segen? Fast immer ist er auf große Skepsis gestoßen, nicht nur bei Intellektuellen, sondern auch in der breiten Bevölkerung. Mit sehr guten Gründen, denn Zerstörung, Egoismus und Ungerechtigkeit sind seine ständigen Begleiter. Trotzdem hat er sich bis in jeden Winkel der Erde durchgesetzt und ist in nahezu alle unsere Lebensgebiete eingedrungen. Warum ist das so? Jürgen Kocka, der große Historiker, der seit Jahrzehnten die Geschichte des Kapitalismus erforscht, zieht in diesem Band die Summe seines Nachdenkens über den Kapitalismus. 
 Der Kapitalismus ist uralt, und er war im Grunde immer schon da, auch wenn er erst in der aufkommenden Moderne mit Industrialisierung, Globalisierung und Finanzialisierung seine volle Wucht entfaltet hat. Politische Macht, Disziplinierung und Gewalt gehören zu seinen Merkmalen, aber auch Innovation, Dynamik und Fortschritt. Wie er funktioniert, was er bedeutet, welche Folgen er hatte und hat Ungleichheit ebenso wie Konsum- und Lebenschancen, Unterdrückung ebenso wie Emanzipation -, das beleuchtet Jürgen Kocka anhand zentraler Aspekte wie etwa Arbeit, Freiheit oder Gerechtigkeit in diesem schmalen eindrucksvollen Band, der differenzierter, kenntnisreicher und aktueller nicht sein könnte.

Anmerkungen zum Kapitalismus

Late medieval Bruges was a commercial hub that connected Hanseatic, English, Scottish, Portuguese, Spanish, Aragonese, and Italian traders. This book focuses on the conflict resolution of the aldermen and how merchants operated within this legal framework. The key question being whether Bruges was a city of justice. Although this was sometimes claimed by travellers, a lot of merchants confronted with the practicalities of conflict resolution in Bruges, disagreed. Fieremans analyses how customary law, institutional frameworks, and commerce intersected and were challenged by the aldermen's pursuit of justice. By clarifying the working of the aldermen, it advances our knowledge of the basic mechanisms of a late medieval law court and the evolution of the law courts of late medieval Flanders. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book focuses on the interplay between commerce and justice, explores the diverse merchant communities, and considers the potential lessons it offers for understanding both historical and modern markets. It sheds light on the pragmatic legal culture of Bruges and the legal mechanisms that partially regulate commerce.

Foreign Merchants in a City of Justice

Law, Leverage, and Litigation in Late Medieval Bruges

2021 erschien Markus Brunnermeiers "Die resiliente Gesellschaft" erstmals und wurde sofort mit dem Deutschen Wirtschaftsbuchpreis ausgezeichnet. Mitten in der Coronapandemie gab das Buch wegweisende Antworten auf die Frage, wie Gesellschaften anpassungsfähiger und flexibler gegenüber künftigen Krisen werden können. Fünf Jahre und mehrere globale Erschütterungen später legt Brunnermeier eine grundlegend überarbeitete und weitgehend neu geschriebene Fassung vor. Darin analysiert er insbesondere die geopolitischen Folgen des russischen Angriffs auf die Ukraine und ihre Auswirkungen auf Wirtschaft und Industrie. Die zentrale Frage bleibt: Wie machen wir unsere Wirtschaftsordnung krisenfester? Ein "unverzichtbarer Leitfaden" (Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger Angus Deaton) für alle, die verstehen wollen, wie Staaten, Unternehmen und Gesellschaften gestärkt aus Krisen hervorgehen können.

2021 erschien Markus Brunnermeiers "Die resiliente Gesellschaft" erstmals und wurde sofort mit dem Deutschen Wirtschaftsbuchpreis ausgezeichnet. Mitten in der Coronapandemie gab das Buch wegweisende Antworten auf die Frage, wie Gesellschaften anpassungsfähiger und flexibler gegenüber künftigen Krisen werden können. Fünf Jahre und mehrere globale Erschütterungen später legt Brunnermeier eine grundlegend überarbeitete und weitgehend neu geschriebene Fassung vor. Darin analysiert er insbesondere die geopolitischen Folgen des russischen Angriffs auf die Ukraine und ihre Auswirkungen auf Wirtschaft und Industrie. Die zentrale Frage bleibt: Wie machen wir unsere Wirtschaftsordnung krisenfester? Ein „unverzichtbarer Leitfaden“ (Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger Angus Deaton) für alle, die verstehen wollen, wie Staaten, Unternehmen und Gesellschaften gestärkt aus Krisen hervorgehen können.

Wie wir Krisen meistern und dabei einen Sprung nach vorne machen – Das Update

Die resiliente Gesellschaft

This book presents the first historical study of how the Bank of England shaped the early development of international banking supervision during a period of profound economic and regulatory change. Drawing on extensive archival research across the Bank of England Archives, The UK National Archives, the Bank for International Settlements, and European and private‑sector collections, the book reconstructs the emergence of global supervisory cooperation from the 1970s through the late 1980s. The volume traces the evolution of prudential policy, the growth of macro‑prudential thinking, and the interplay between national sovereignty and the push for international coordination. It provides detailed examinations of the Bank of England’s supervisory practices, the formulation and revision of the UK Banking Acts of 1979 and 1987, the early Basel Committee negotiations, and the parallel development of European Community banking directives. Further chapters illuminate private-sector perspectives and offer a comparative analysis of supervisory systems in France, Germany, the United States, and Japan.Combining financial history, political economy, and the history of central banking, this study brings clarity to the origins of global banking supervision and demonstrates how British regulatory approaches influenced both European harmonisation and the Basel process. It will serve scholars of banking supervision, financial regulation, international monetary cooperation, and modern economic governance.

The Emergence of Global Supervisory Cooperation

The Bank of England and Basel Committee 1974–1989

Palgrave Studies in Economic History

This two volume edited collection presents a diverse and comprehensive examination of the history of Latin American agriculture over the last 150 years. It will fill a major gap in the literature by offering a coherent study of the agricultural sector that both involves all the national economies while revising and updating existing research on the long-run evolution of agriculture across the continent and its links with overall economic development.The second volume analyses the agricultural sector in&nbsp;eleven&nbsp;Latin American economies – Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela– in terms of agricultural production, use of inputs (land, capital, labour), technological change, institutional factors, the design of agricultural public policies and the consequences in terms of environmental degradation. Through these detailed case studies, the book deals with four core themes to offer an updated, informed perspective on Latin American agriculture, including its major institutions and reforms, the role of the state and public policy design, the impact of globalization and the continent’s engagement with global markets, as well as the still-evolving environmental impacts of the sector. Weaving an awareness of broader regional and global contexts into each chapter, the volume illuminates the diversity of developments and trends in agricultural history across different countries, facilitating stronger understanding of the role of agriculture in economic development and policy implications for the continent today. The book will be a valuable resource for scholars of economic and agricultural history, as well as development economics and Latin American economic policy.Miguel Martín-Retortillo
 is Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Alcala, Spain. His academic interests are related to agriculture and its main transformations in a long term perspective. The focus of his research has been in European and Latin American agriculture. He has also worked at the University of Zaragoza and Pompeu Fabra University.&nbsp;
 Vicente Pinilla 
 is Professor in Economic History at the University of Zaragoza and researcher at the Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragon, in Spain. His research interests are in international trade, agricultural products, long-term agricultural changes, environmental history, wine economics and depopulation processes and policies.
 Jackeline Velazco-Portocarrero
 is an Associate Professor of Economics affiliated with the University of Girona (Spain) and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She holds a Master’s degree in Development Studies, with a specialization in agricultural and rural development, from the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. She obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Manchester and a PhD in Economic History from the University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on the long-term analysis of agrarian productivity from a Latin American perspective, the role of agriculture in economic growth, urban–rural linkages over time, and the importance of non-farm rural activities within family farming systems.
 Henry Willebald
 is a faculty member of Economic Institute (IECON), Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración (FCEA), Universidad de la República, Uruguay, and Full Professor in Economic History and Economic Development.&nbsp; His research interests are in modern economic growth in settler economies and Latin American countries, diverse dimensions of economic development at national and regional level, inequality, productive specialization, natural resources and sustainability. His recent books are Tirado-Fabregat, D., Badia-Miró, M. and Willebald, H. (eds.) (2020) Time and Space: Latin American Regional Development in Historical Perspective. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN: 2662-6497, and Pinilla, V. and Willebald, H. (eds.) (2018) Agricultural Development in the World Periphery. A Global Economic History Approach.

This two volume edited collection presents a diverse and comprehensive examination of the history of Latin American agriculture over the last 150 years. It will fill a major gap in the literature by offering a coherent study of the agricultural sector that both involves all the national economies while revising and updating existing research on the long-run evolution of agriculture across the continent and its links with overall economic development.The second volume analyses the agricultural sector in&nbsp;eleven&nbsp;Latin American economies – Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela– in terms of agricultural production, use of inputs (land, capital, labour), technological change, institutional factors, the design of agricultural public policies and the consequences in terms of environmental degradation. Through these detailed case studies, the book deals with four core themes to offer an updated, informed perspective on Latin American agriculture, including its major institutions and reforms, the role of the state and public policy design, the impact of globalization and the continent’s engagement with global markets, as well as the still-evolving environmental impacts of the sector. Weaving an awareness of broader regional and global contexts into each chapter, the volume illuminates the diversity of developments and trends in agricultural history across different countries, facilitating stronger understanding of the role of agriculture in economic development and policy implications for the continent today. The book will be a valuable resource for scholars of economic and agricultural history, as well as development economics and Latin American economic policy.

National Trajectories, 1870–2020

Persistence, Evolution and Change in Latin American Agriculture, Volume II

Dreihundert deutsche Männer, schrieb Walther Rathenau zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, bestimmten die wirtschaftlichen Geschicke des Kontinents: gemeint war ein enges Geflecht aus Bankiers, Industriekapitänen und Lobbyisten, das sich mit dem Aufstieg von Firmen wie der Allianz, Krupp oder Siemens herausgebildet hatte. Man kannte einander, sprach miteinander – und sprach sich ab. Bis in die 1990er Jahre prägte dieses Netzwerk namens »Deutschland AG« die Politik und die Unternehmenskultur in der Bundesrepublik. Konstantin Richter montiert die Geschichten dieser Macher und Magnaten zu einer temporeichen szenischen Erzählung, einem Epos über Aufstieg und Niedergang der Deutschland AG von der Gründerzeit bis in die krisengebeutelte Gegenwart.

Aufstieg und Fall der Deutschland AG

Dreihundert Männer

The selected letters of Walter Eucken from the years 1933 to 1945 shed light on previously unknown aspects of his biography and offer insights into a range of personal and academic relationships that were of great significance for the genesis of his work as well as for the formation and activities of the Freiburg School and the Freiburg Circle. The letters are an important source for the genesis of Eucken's two major works. They make it evident how and why, in the mid-1930s, he abandoned his plan to write a "Theoretical Economics" and instead focused entirely on the "Foundations of Economics." The letters also reveal how his work on the "Foundations" led him to the later, posthumously published "Principles of Economic Policy." For many questions concerning the history of ordoliberalism and Eucken's biography and works, the letters are the decisive source. They show his conduct during the processes of political conformity in 1933/34 and provide an impression of Eucken's assessment of the general political situation and of specific political events. In some draft letters, Eucken's criticism of Nazi policies becomes openly visible. Some letters hint at the threats he and his family faced under the Nazi regime and the depth of his engagement with the basic tenets of Nazi conceptions of science. The letters also make clear his reflections on religion and worldview and their relationship to science. The letters make it possible to trace Eucken's path toward his understanding of order and "ordo" as well as the relationship between freedom and order. It becomes evident that Eucken's and the ordoliberal school's essential conception of order and freedom was a direct result of their confrontation with National Socialism.

Gesammelte Schriften Band III/2

Briefe 1933 - 1945

Brazilian Agricultural Development, 1890-1950

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