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

中世イングランドに食料を供給する－700～1300年の長い「農業革命」
Hamerow, Helena / McKerracher, Mark / Bogaard, Amy et al., Feeding Medieval England: A Long 'Agricultural Revolution', 700-1300. 352 pp. 2025:11 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <749-314>
ISBN 978-0-19-887852-0 hard ¥27,987.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The population of England grew steeply in the Middle Ages, especially between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. This volume investigates how medieval farmers managed to produce the large harvests needed to sustain this growth, growth that in turn fuelled a major expansion of towns and markets. New evidence is presented for the development of the medieval farming regimes that shaped the English landscape in ways still visible today. Medieval farming is a contentious topic, not least because of the different approaches taken by historians, archaeologists and geographers and no consensus has been reached about the cultivation regimes that underpinned medieval cereal production. This volume presents a new perspective on this question, based on the results of a project that analysed the remains of medieval crops, arable weeds, livestock and pollen from hundreds of excavations. The new evidence that this generated reveals the conditions in which medieval crops were grown and how land use changed between the late Roman period and the Black Death. The authors relate the results to archaeological and written evidence for farms and farming, bringing an ecological perspective to the debate about the so-called medieval 'agricultural revolution'. The 'cerealisation' of England emerges as a regionally varied process lasting several centuries, whose overall impact was nevertheless revolutionary.

Harvey, Eric J., Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel. (Elements in Ancient and Pre-modern Economies) 75 pp. 2025:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <749-315>
ISBN 978-1-009-55988-1 hard ¥15,548.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00
ISBN 978-1-009-55991-1 paper ¥5,088.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00

Creation myths in the ancient Middle East served, among other things, as works of political economy, justifying and naturalizing materially intensive ritual practices and their entanglements with broader economic processes and institutions. These rituals were organized according to a common ideology of divine service, which portrayed the gods as an aristocratic leisure class whose material needs were provided by human beings. Resources for divine service were extracted from the productive sectors of society and channeled inward to the temple and palace institutions, where they served to satiate the gods and support their human servants. This Element examines various forms of the economics of divine service, and how they were supported in a selection of myths - Atra?asis, Enki and Ninma?, and Enuma Elis from Mesopotamia and the story of the Garden of Eden from the southern Levant (Israel).

Kypta, Ulla, Kooperative Individualisten: Gesellschafter, Diener und Bevollmaechtigte deutscher Kaufleute im Antwerpen des spaeten 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts. (Vierteljahrschrift fuer Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Beihefte 262) 400 S. 2025:6 (F. Steiner, GW) <749-318>
ISBN 978-3-515-13647-1 hard ¥17,419.- (税込) EUR 74.00

近世のグローバルなコンテクストにおけるシュレージエンの経済
Steffen, Anka, Am leinenen Faden: Schlesiens Wirtschaft im globalen Kontext der fruehen Neuzeit. (Beitraege zur Globalgeschichte 5) 493 S. 2025:6 (F. Steiner, GW) <749-320>
ISBN 978-3-515-13909-0 hard ¥22,127.- (税込) EUR 94.00

Die schlesische Leinwandherstellung war in der fruehen Neuzeit eng mit dem transatlantischen Sklavenhandel und der Plantagensklaverei verbunden. Leinwand aus Schlesien wurde an der Kueste Westafrikas gegen Versklavte eingetauscht. In den amerikanischen Kolonien diente sie sowohl zur Bekleidung der dorthin Verschleppten als auch der europaeischen Einwanderer. Die Leinwandkaufleute aus den schlesischen Gebirgshandelsstaedten Hirschberg, Greiffenberg, Landeshut, Schmiedeberg und Waldenburg drueckten die Verkaufspreise fuer die Gewebe auf ein wettbewerbsfaehiges Niveau, indem sie als Gutsherren untertaenige Spinner und Weber ausbeuteten. Anka Steffen zeigt, wie sich die Riesengebirgsregion Schlesiens seit dem 16. Jahrhundert als Gewerberaum im Kontext globaler Waren- und Menschenstroeme entwickelte. Sie veranschaulicht die Verflechtung zwischen schlesischer Leibeigenschaft und Plantagensklaverei sowie deren strukturelle Auswirkung auf die Region bis ins 20. Jahrhundert, jenseits ideologischer West-Ost-Gegensaetze. Der Band wurde ausgezeichnet mit dem Martin Behaim-Preis (Gesellschaft fuer Globalgeschichte), dem Karin-Biermann-Preis (Stiftung Kulturwerk Schlesien) und dem Georg R. Schroubek Dissertationspreis (Sonderfonds Oestliches Europa).

Xie, Fuzhan / Cai, Fang (eds.), Chronicling China's Reform and Opening-Up. (China Insights) 365 pp. 2025:7 (Springer, GW) <749-191>
ISBN 978-981-9618-80-4 hard ¥47,076.- (税込) EUR 199.99

This book aims to describe and explain the whole process of China's reform and opening-up based on a long-term and global view, trying to reveal the path and philosophy inside. This book is divided into five parts, with 18 chapters, including key topics around economic growth, public policy, social issues and national strategy such as urbanization, migrant works, state-owned enterprise, land reform, political system reform, BRI, which presents an overview of China's economic history since Reform and Opening-up.

インドにおける成長、開発、生産性の75年
Maiti, Dibyendu / Goldar, B. / Krishna, K. L. (eds.), 75 Years of Growth, Development and Productivity in India: Issues, Measures, Causes, and Impacts. (India Studies in Business and Economics) 810 pp. 2025:8 (Springer, GW) <749-192>
ISBN 978-981-9780-53-2 hard ¥40,014.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This edited volume documents through its 75 years post-independence, the developmental complexities, economic achievements and challenges unique to India, given its vast population and regional, cultural, and climatic diversities, with simple illustrations, making them accessible to readers with varying levels of expertise. Since gaining independence, the Indian economy has embarked on a distinctive journey, navigating through a series of economic policy experiments in diverse economic landscapes. This distinct trajectory has not only accelerated its pace of economic growth but also addressed a myriad of developmental issues, from poverty to well-being, with varied degrees of success over the years. The detailed analysis and anecdotal evidence are at the core to show how the country's experience and challenges are different from the linear model of development transition, and must be understood in their own context. The academic papers, both theoretical and empirical, highlight the pace and patterns of sectoral dynamics since independence, unfold the issues and factors affecting development, with a particular focus on the productivity growth of the Indian economy, and showcase debates that may help planning policy for Vision@2047, the year when India would celebrate its centenary year of independence. The book contains 24 chapters divided into ten sections, covering issues related to growth strategies, productivity growth, agricultural transition, growth heterogeneity, labour, rural non-farm sector and migration, social sectors including education and environment, and debates on industrialisation and servicification - the principle features of Indian growth and development story. Given such diverse collection of chapters and discussions in them, the book will find readers across the developmental economics sphere ranging from academics to policy makers as well as industry experts.

韓国の経済成長　1876～2022年
Kim, Nak Nyeon, Korean Economic Growth, 1876 - 2022: Openness, Institutional Change, and Learning. (Studies in Economic History) 347 pp. 2025:6 (Springer, GW) <749-199>
ISBN 978-981-9648-31-3 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book provides the first comprehensive explanation of Korea's 150 years of economic growth, from the opening of the ports to the present, based on consistently organized long-term statistics. The book also compares Korea's experience with that of other countries. During this period, Korea experienced major systemic transitions, from a traditional society to colonial rule, and after liberation, the division between North and South Korea. East Asian latecomer nations, including Korea, rapidly closed the gap with advanced countries through learning and adaptation following their opening to the world. The book uses Korea's case to demonstrate how institutional changes influence economic performance and explain the conditions under which rapid catch-up growth can occur or fail to occur. Korea's high growth was achieved under an authoritarian regime with state-led industrial policies. As the limitations of this model became evident, Korea transitioned to a private-sector-led approach, facing economic crises in the process. Economic growth led to the rise of a highly educated middle class. This, in turn, surfaced demands that had been suppressed under the authoritarian regime, paving the way for democratization. Social development and fairness, long overshadowed by economic growth, became key policy agendas. Following the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Korea has faced the dual challenges of slow growth and rising inequality, driving increased calls for income redistribution and the establishment of a Korean-style welfare state. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 explores long-term trends in Korea's economic growth, comparing them with other countries. Part 2 provides a detailed, stage-by-stage analysis, highlighting the specific institutional and policy changes that shaped Korea's development.

現代の石油の取引の社会・経済史
Imsirovic, Adi / Bryce, Colin, The Rivers of Money: Social and Economic History of Modern Oil Trading. 240 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-241>
ISBN 978-3-031-91805-6 paper ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

Modern oil trading, as we know it today, has its roots in the 1970s, especially after the collapse of the vertically integrated structure of the oil industry, controlled by oil majors. Oil trading flourished in the 1980s, following the energy liberalisation policies in the UK and US. In the process, the largest trading companies such as Vitol, Trafigura, Marcuria and others have taken on new roles in the industry, including financing of major new projects. The authors Adi Imsirovic and Colin Bryce have participated in oil trading during its pivotal years and through knowledge of the industry, experience and contacts hope to bring to life this period in rich details with key industry interviews. A serious academic study of the social history of modern trading but written in a way that makes it accessible to a wider audience, this book will be of interest to anyone involved in finance, economics, energy, policy, and trading.

Wang, Q. Edward, Staple to Superfood: A Global History of the Sweet Potato. (Columbia Studies in International and Global History) 496 pp. 2025:11 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <749-258>
ISBN 978-0-231-21735-4 hard ¥31,185.- (税込) US$ 150.00
ISBN 978-0-231-21736-1 paper ¥7,900.- (税込) US$ 38.00

Sweet potatoes were among the American crops Christopher Columbus brought back to Europe-where they were thought to be an aphrodisiac. In China, this versatile root became a staple that fueled rapid population growth. Introduced to Japan to stave off famine, sweet potatoes later sustained the country's imperial expansion. Because this hardy plant can thrive in almost any soil, it has long been cultivated as a subsistence crop in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Oceania. In recent years, Western health experts have begun touting the humble sweet potato as a "superfood" with numerous nutritional benefits.Considering these events and many others, Staple to Superfood explores the sweet potato's rich history and remarkable global influence. Q. Edward Wang demonstrates how this resilient root has not only nourished communities but also defined their identities. Tracing its journeys through the intricate networks of global trade and cultural exchange, he shows how the sweet potato transformed agricultural practices, culinary traditions, and social structures worldwide. From the Americas to Europe to Asia and the Pacific, the spread of this crop illuminates the varied paths that global development has taken. Wang also contrasts the sweet potato with its botanically unrelated namesake, the white potato. Blending agricultural, cultural, and historical perspectives, Staple to Superfood offers a fresh look at the power of food to transform societies. It is a compelling exploration of how the sweet potato shaped the modern world and continues to influence global food systems today.

開発の使徒－6人の経済学者と彼らが形成した世界
Engerman, David, Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made. 576 pp. 2025:9 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <748-163>
ISBN 978-0-19-776620-0 hard ¥8,305.- (税込) US$ 39.95

国際開発における脱歴史主義の歴史
Gubser, Michael, Their Future: A History of Ahistoricism in International Development. 408 pp. 2025:8 (Yale U. Pr., US) <748-186>
ISBN 978-0-300-27581-0 hard ¥10,395.- (税込) US$ 50.00

A compelling examination of how economic development projects ignore local history, and the effects of this shortsightedness Foreign aid planners rarely consider the history of the societies in which they work, an oversight noted in the development literature but rarely examined. Aid programs costing billions of dollars operate largely in a historical vacuum, divorced from the knowledge of what succeeded or failed in the past. Michael Gubser chronicles the varieties of ahistoricism in international development theory and practice since 1945. He traces the history of development ideas, analyzing key theoretical and policy statements to highlight the marginalization of history in favor of technical solutions to economic and social problems; and he examines aid programs in several developing countries to show how Western models of social and economic development have been applied and misapplied.

未払いの債務－メキシコの経済における困難と対立の2世紀
Walker, Louise E., Debts Unpaid: Two Centuries of Trouble and Conflict in Mexico's Economy. (Cambridge Latin American Studies) 338 pp. 2025:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-203>
ISBN 978-1-009-36044-9 hard ¥25,443.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00
ISBN 978-1-009-36043-2 paper ¥7,915.- (税込) GB￡ 28.00

Power struggles between debtors and creditors about unpaid debts have animated the history of economic transformation from the emergence of capitalist relations to the recent global financial crashes. Illuminating how ordinary people fought for economic justice in Mexico from the eve of independence to the early 2000s, this study argues that conflicts over small-scale debts were a stress test for an emerging economic order that took shape against a backdrop of enormous political and social change. Drawing on nearly 1,500 debt conflicts unearthed from Mexican archives, Louise E. Walker explores rapidly changing ideas and practices about property rights, contract law, and economic information. This combination of richly detailed archival research, with big historical and theoretical interpretations, raises provocative new questions about the moral economy of the credit relationship and the shifting line between exploitation and opportunity in the world of everyday exchange.

石油危機のグローバル金融史
Altamura, Carlo Edoardo, A Global Financial History of Oil Crises. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 150 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-296>
ISBN 978-0-367-48303-6 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

In this book, Altamura analyses the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979, considering their impact on the world economy and subsequent reactions to the global instability.In terms of actors, the focus is on how international organizations such as the IMF, World Bank and OECD responded to the crisis, as well as the behavior of commercial banks and central banks, and of countries in the Global South. Altamura draws on newly-available archival material from private financial institutions to paint a full picture of a rapidly changing world which paved the way for stagflation and interdependency.This monograph will be illuminating reading for economic and financial historians, plus scholars looking at energy history, the Cold War in a global context, the New International Economic Order and the political economy of the 1970s.

Ancori, Bernard, Figures du tiers et consensus monetaire en Grece ancienne. (Bibliotheque de l'economiste) 569 p. 2025:3 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <748-297>
ISBN 978-2-406-17739-5 hard ¥22,598.- (税込) EUR 96.00
ISBN 978-2-406-17738-8 paper ¥11,299.- (税込) EUR 48.00

T.ロイ他編　近現代南アジア経済史
Chaudhary, Latika / Roy, Tirthankar / Swamy, Anand V. (ed.), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern South Asia. 1048 pp. 2026:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-298>
ISBN 978-1-108-83303-5 hard ¥33,924.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

South Asia's economies, as well as the scholarship on their economic histories, have been transformed in recent decades. This landmark new reference history will guide economists and historians through these transformations in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Part I revisits the colonial period with fresh perspectives and updated scholarship, incorporating recent research on topics such as gender, caste, environment, and entrepreneurship. The contributors highlight the complex and diverse experiences of different groups to offer a more nuanced understanding of the past. Part II focuses on economic and social changes in South Asia over the last seventy-five years, offering a comprehensive view of the region's historical trajectory. Together, the contributions to this volume help to reassess the impact of colonialism through a more informed lens, as well as providing analysis of the challenges and progress made since independence.

スペイン領アメリカにおける金で動く開発の起源
Guardado, Jenny, The Venal Origins of Development in Spanish America. (Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society) 250 pp. 2025:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-300>
ISBN 978-1-009-63515-8 hard ¥24,029.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00
ISBN 978-1-009-63512-7 paper ¥7,629.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99

Venal Origins is a comparative and historical study of the roots of spatial inequalities in Spanish America. The book focuses on the Spanish colonial administration and the 18th-century practice of office-selling-where colonial positions were exchanged for money-to analyze its lasting impact on local governance, regional disparities, and economic development. Drawing on three centuries of rich archival and administrative data, it demonstrates how office-selling exacerbated venality and profit-seeking behaviors among colonial officials, fostering indigenous segregation, violent uprisings, and the institutionalization of exploitative fiscal and labor systems. The enduring legacies from their rule remain visible today, in the form of subnational authoritarian enclaves, localized cycles of violence, and marginalized indigenous communities, which have reinforced and deepened regional inequalities. By integrating perspectives from history, political science, and economics, Venal Origins provides a nuanced and empirically grounded analysis of how colonial officials shaped-and still influence-subnational development in Spanish America.

前近代の経済－比較研究
Hirth, Kenneth / Earle, Timothy (eds.), Premodern Economies: A Comparative Study. 350 pp. 2025:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-302>
ISBN 978-1-009-67721-9 hard ¥26,856.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

Economies are fundamental to all human societies by providing the material support for their populations and respective social institutions. This volume brings together scholars from archaeology, anthropology, and history in a collaborative examination of how premodern societies produced and mobilized resources to support social, political, and religious institutions. Thirteen societies from horticultural/pastoral groups to expansionistic states are used to develop a truly comparative view of economic development. Topics discussed include the nature of productive self-sufficiency, forms of economic specialization, the economics of labor and resource mobilization, economic inequality and stratification, commerce and the marketplace, and urban and ritual economies. The book's collective discussions have led to the construction of five generalizations and eighteen specific hypotheses about the way that ancient and premodern societies navigated the material worlds in which they lived. These hypotheses will serve as a basis for scholars exploring how societies in other times and places navigated their economic landscapes.

ブレトンウッズの失敗
Largentaye-Schrameck, Helene de, L'echec de Bretton Woods. (Ecrits sur l'economie) 248 p. 2025:3 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <748-303>
ISBN 978-2-406-17787-6 hard ¥18,361.- (税込) EUR 78.00
ISBN 978-2-406-17786-9 paper ¥6,826.- (税込) EUR 29.00

Niccolo Sofia, Pierre, De Venise au monde: production et commerce global de perles de verre au XVIIIe siecle. (Histoire) 317 p. 2025:3 (Pr. U. de Rennes, FR) <748-304>
ISBN 978-2-7535-9657-3 paper ¥5,885.- (税込) EUR 25.00

経済戦争と十字軍
Stantchev, Stefan K. (ed.), Economic Warfare and the Crusades. (Meridiennes. Les croisades tardives) 420 p. 2025:3 (Pr. U. du Midi, FR) <748-305>
ISBN 978-2-8107-1302-8 paper ¥6,355.- (税込) EUR 27.00

T.ロイ著　水と開発－乾燥熱帯の問題を抱えた経済史
Roy, Tirthankar, Water and Development: The Troubled Economic History of the Arid Tropics. 312 pp. 2025:6 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <747-346>
ISBN 978-0-19-780239-7 hard ¥8,305.- (税込) US$ 39.95

From the early twentieth century, a big part of the world--the arid tropics--began extracting, storing, and recycling vast quantities of water to sustain population growth and economic development. These regions worked on water to deal with seasonality, or the rotation between extreme aridity for a part of the year and a concentrated period of rain. The idea of storing water in the wet season to use it in the dry season was not a new one in this geography. Indeed, it was an intrinsic part of ancient culture, statecraft, and technology. Most ancient projects, however, were local and small in scale. The capability of water extraction on a scale large enough to transform whole regions and create new cities improved in the early twentieth century. The process gave rise to a sharp break in the long-term population and economic growth pattern from the mid-twentieth century. The world knows that rapid economic growth must take a toll on the environment. The tropics were no exception. However, the economic emergence of the arid tropics reinforces the message differently from how climate activists imagine. The geography of the arid tropics makes transforming landscapes to extract and recycle large quantities of water damaging to the environment and disputatious. The book is about that troubled history of economic emergence.

欧州の農業における国家と市民社会の相互作用　1870～1940年
Planas, Jordi / Schuurman, Anton / Segers, Yves (eds.), The Formation of Agricultural Governance: The Interplay Between State and Civil Society in European Agriculture, 1870-1940. 271 pp. 2025:3 (Brepols, BE) <747-352>
ISBN 978-2-503-60049-9 paper ¥19,773.- (税込) EUR 84.00

ローマを生き抜く－90％の人々の経済生活
Bowes, Kim, Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent. 504 pp. 2025:10 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-430>
ISBN 978-0-691-27333-4 hard ¥8,305.- (税込) US$ 39.95

A radical revision-and worker's-eye view-of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economyThe story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived through a combination of grit and grinding labor.Focusing on the working majority, Kim Bowes tells the stories of people like the tenant farmer Epimachus, Faustilla the moneylender, and the pimp Philokles. She reveals how the economic changes of the period created a set of bitter challenges and opportunistic hustles for everyone from farmers and craftspeople to day laborers and slaves. She finds working people producing a consumer revolution, making and buying all manner of goods from fine pottery to children's toys. Many of the poorest working people probably pieced together a living from multiple sources of income, including wages. And she suggests that Romans' most daunting challenge was the struggle to save. Like many modern people, saving enough to buy land or start a business was a slow, precarious slog. Bowes shows how these economies of survival were shared by a wide swath of the populace, blurring the lines between genders, ages, and legal status.Drawing on new archaeological and textual evidence, Surviving Rome presents a radical new perspective on the economy of ancient Rome while speaking to the challenges of today's laborers and gig workers surviving in an unforgiving global world.

商業と英連邦－経営者団体、政治文化、経済カバナンス　1886～1975年
Dilley, Andrew Richard, Commerce and the Commonwealth: Business Association, Political Culture, and Economic Governance, 1886-1975. 416 pp. 2025:11 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <747-431>
ISBN 978-0-19-880754-4 hard ¥33,641.- (税込) GB￡ 119.00

いかに進歩が終わるか－技術、イノベーション、国家の運命
Frey, Carl Benedikt, How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations. 552 pp. 2025:9 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-432>
ISBN 978-0-691-23307-9 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapseIn How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of human history, stagnation was the norm, and even today progress and prosperity in the world's largest, most advanced economies-the United States and China-have fallen short of expectations. To appreciate why we cannot depend on any AI-fueled great leap forward, Frey offers a remarkable and fascinating journey across the globe, spanning the past 1,000 years, to explain why some societies flourish and others fail in the wake of rapid technological change.By examining key historical moments-from the rise of the steam engine to the dawn of AI-Frey shows why technological shifts have shaped, and sometimes destabilized, entire civilizations. He explores why some leading technological powers of the past-such as Song China, the Dutch Republic, and Victorian Britain-ultimately lost their innovative edge, why some modern nations such as Japan had periods of rapid growth followed by stagnation, and why planned economies like the Soviet Union collapsed after brief surges of progress. Frey uncovers a recurring tension in history: while decentralization fosters the exploration of new technologies, bureaucracy is crucial for scaling them. When institutions fail to adapt to technological change, stagnation inevitably follows. Only by carefully balancing decentralization and bureaucracy can nations innovate and grow over the long term-findings that have worrying implications for the United States, Europe, China, and other economies today.Through a rich narrative that weaves together history, economics, and technology, How Progress Ends reveals that managing the future requires us to draw the right lessons from the past.

J.Mokyr他著　繁栄への二つの道－ヨーロッパと中国における文化と制度　1000～2000年
Greif, Avner / Mokyr, Joel / Tabellini, Guido, Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000-2000. 528 pp. 2025:11 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-433>
ISBN 978-0-691-26594-0 hard ¥8,305.- (税込) US$ 39.95

How the social organization of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millenniumIn the eleventh century, when Europe was still backward and poor, China was a rich and sophisticated civilization. Yet Europe became the birthplace of democracy and the Industrial Revolution, driving the Great Enrichment, while China stagnated until the end of the twentieth century and was always ruled by autocracies. Two Paths to Prosperity traces the emergence of two very different social organizations in premodern China and Europe-the clan and the corporation-showing how they were key factors in the economic and political divergence of these two great civilizations.In this landmark book, three leading economists offer a bold new account of why Europe and China evolved along such different trajectories. In the early Middle Ages, public goods like risk sharing, religious worship, education, and conflict resolution were provided by nonstate organizations in both societies. China increasingly relied on kin-based cooperation within clans, while weaker kinship ties in Europe gave rise to corporations such as guilds, universities, and self-governing towns. Despite performing similar functions, clans and corporations were built on very different principles-with lasting consequences until today.Providing a novel answer to a fundamental question in economic and political history, Two Paths to Prosperity shows how extended kinship in Chinese society facilitated the consolidation of autocracy and hindered innovation and economic development, and how corporations in Europe influenced emerging state institutions and set the stage for the Industrial Revolution.

Hall, Jonathan, The Unfinished History of the Indebted Nation-State. 76 pp. 2025:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <747-434>
ISBN 978-3-031-84001-2 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99 *

This book traces the genesis of the indebtedness of the nation-state in the West, arguing that it is a phenomenon which preceded the emergence of capitalism. Even prior to the emergence of the capitalist mode of production, the ruling class of feudal landowners in the West were dependent on credit, and had to repay the loans provided by their international creditors. Those monetary loans were unavoidable, both for the defence of the emergent territorial state against its rivals and for its expansion in the struggle against them. However autonomous the early Western nation-states may appear to have been, in reality they were all dependent on the transnational creditors of the time, while the latter in their turn depended on them for the extraction of surplus value from the geographically widening circle of their subject populations. In the modern world of international capitalism, the various nationalisms are still inseparable from the international framework of financial institutions which struggle to sustain the global regime for the perpetual extraction of surplus value.

無限の成長の発明－いかに経済学者が危険な妄想を信じるようになったか
Jones, Christopher F., The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Came to Believe a Dangerous Delusion. 352 pp. 2025:10 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-435>
ISBN 978-0-226-72204-7 hard ¥6,756.- (税込) US$ 32.50

初期中世における小さな変化－鋳貨への新視点　400～1100年
Naismith, Rory (ed.), Small Change in the Early Middle Ages: New Perspectives on Coined Money c. 400-1100. (Studies in the Early Middle Ages 35) 300 pp. 2025:7 (Brepols, BE) <747-436>
ISBN 978-2-503-61537-0 hard ¥20,009.- (税込) EUR 85.00

中世リヴォニア
Selart, Anti / Murray, Alan V. (eds.), Medieval Livonia: History, Society and Economy of a Territory on the Baltic Frontier. (Outremer. Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East 18) 375 pp. 2025:5 (Brepols, BE) <747-439>
ISBN 978-2-503-57806-4 hard ¥22,363.- (税込) EUR 95.00

近世の知識経済における天然資源
Omodeo, Pietro Daniel / Wendt, Helge (eds.), Natural Resources in Early Modern Economies of Knowledge. (Episteme in Bewegung. Beitraege zu einer transdisziplinaeren Wissensgeschichte 40) 240 S. 2025:7 (O. Harrassowitz, GW) <746-85>
ISBN 978-3-447-12369-3 paper ¥13,653.- (税込) EUR 58.00

Gaulin, Jean-Louis / Rau, Susanne (eds.), Fairs, Cities and Merchants: Spatiotemporal Analyses (14th-17th century). (SpatioTemporality / RaumZeitlichkeit 19) 420 pp. 2025:3 (de Gruyter, GW) <746-370>
ISBN 978-3-11-162083-1 hard ¥21,173.- (税込) EUR 89.95 *

Today, it has largely been forgotten that fairs played a decisive role in trade and finance in pre-modern Europe. In the Middle Ages and Early Modern period, many cities endeavoured to obtain a fair privilege and attract as many merchants as possible. Through the economic activities and infrastructures provided, a supra-regional spatial configuration gradually emerged, which was not only made up of places within a region, but across the whole of Europe and in some cases the wider world. The contributions in this volume are based on a project jointly funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche and the German Research Foundation, which focussed mainly on fairs and cities in France, the Holy Roman Empire and Italy. In chronological terms, they cover the period from the end of the Champagne fairs (ca. 1320) to the success of the Besancon fairs (ca. 1580 to 1630), which epitomised a new type of fair. The geographical focus has been extended to include fairs and trade routes in Eastern Europe and China (temple fairs). This overall view makes it possible for the first time to analyse the functions of the various market forms in their regional context and in their development: from the exchange of goods to the credit market and financing government debt, but also the deep integration of the merchant culture into urban and religious culture. Based on archival studies and the integration of artefacts, new graphs and maps, this volume provides a new look at the history of annual markets and fairs. In addition to functional aspects, spatiotemporal aspects such as disputes over fair dates, visiting rhythms, the transport of goods and routes (by land and water) are dealt with. Credit activities, transport of goods, and mobility of merchants, trading families and companies point to the highly developed transnational dimension of pre-modern trade. The volume concludes with a presentation of the project database, its functionalities and opportunities to participate.

スイス国立銀行－非伝統的な歴史
Huber, Mikael, The Swiss National Bank: An Unconventional History. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 288 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-371>
ISBN 978-1-032-75831-2 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Echoing new trends in central banking history, this book traces the story of the Swiss National Bank from the end of the Second World War, going beyond monetary policy and inflation to explore the full scope of the bank's activities.Drawing on extensive archival research, it examines the broader landscape in which the central bank operated, including the role of Swiss banks, government oversight via the Federal Council, the influence of the international monetary system, and the negotiation of central bank independence-particularly the use of non-legal instruments and their limitations within Switzerland's decentralised political system. Throughout, the Swiss National Bank had to reconcile three sometimes conflicting factors: corporate liberalism, which allowed major economic players a say in policy; the imperative of maintaining the stability of the Swiss franc; and the need to curb potential threats to monetary stability. In response, the SNB developed a sophisticated arsenal of non-legal and unconventional tools to regulate the financial system on a temporary basis. The history of these exceptional measures' sheds light on the unconventional evolution of the Swiss National Bank.This book will appeal to readers of economic history, financial history, central banking, and Swiss history.

Iberg, Ludovic, Le grand patronat suisse et l'Europe (1957-1984): le role de Vorort face aux organisations patronales europeennes. (Histoire) 729 p. 2025:2 (Alphil, SZ) <746-372>
ISBN 978-2-88930-673-2 hard ¥8,239.- (税込) EUR 35.00

Jou-Badal, Xavier, The Recipe to Sweet Success: Competitive Advandates for a Chocolatier Family Dynasty, 1797 - 1936. (Frontiers of Familiy Economics) 224 pp. 2025:6 (Emerald, UK) <746-373>
ISBN 978-1-83662-231-4 hard ¥21,829.- (税込) US$ 105.00

多国籍企業－現代の世界史
Petitjean, Olivier / du Roy, Ivan, Multinationales: une histoire du monde contemporain. (Cahiers libres) 857 p. 2025:2 (La Decouverte, FR) <746-375>
ISBN 978-2-348-07707-4 paper ¥6,591.- (税込) EUR 28.00

羊毛と戦争の歴史を解明する
Shaw, Madelyn / FitzSimons, Trish, Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War. 224 pp. 2025:4 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <746-376>
ISBN 979-88-8180-380-3 hard ¥7,068.- (税込) US$ 34.00

Chazee, Laurent, Retour sur 40 ans de developpement international, 1984-2024: entre Trente Glorieuses et globalisation. (Economie plurielle) 149 p. 2025:1 (L'Harmattan, FR) <745-163>
ISBN 978-2-336-48355-9 paper ¥4,001.- (税込) EUR 17.00

泥炭とロシアの化石経済の忘れれられた余白
Bruisch, Katja, Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy. (Studies in Environment and History) 300 pp. 2025:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <745-201>
ISBN 978-1-009-60308-9 hard ¥26,856.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

This groundbreaking environmental history recounts the story of Russia's fossil economy from its margins. Unpacking the forgotten history of how peat fuelled manufacturing industries and power plants in late Imperial and Soviet Russia, Katja Bruisch provides a corrective to more familiar historical narratives dominated by coal, oil, and gas. Attentive to the intertwined histories of matter and labor during a century of industrial peat extraction, she offers a fresh perspective on the modern Russian economy that moves beyond the socialism/capitalism binary. By identifying peat extraction in modern Russia as a crucial chapter in the degradation of the world's peatlands, Bruisch makes a compelling case for paying attention to seemingly marginal places, people, and resources as we tell the histories of the planetary emergency.

Husz, Orsi, Bankminded: Banks as Intimate Agents of Everyday Life in Welfare State Sweden. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 303 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-226>
ISBN 978-3-031-77652-6 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book explores the history of how banks and banking services have become part of everyday life. Taking welfare state Sweden as its setting, the book identifies key cultural challenges and shows how banks and finance companies made inroads into the workplace, the family, spaces of consumption and the world of social movements while also taking on tasks typically associated with state authorities. Focusing on this 'bankification of everyday life' reveals the historical links between the post-war welfare state and the financialised everyday culture of the late twentieth century. This book will be of interest to scholars of economic and cultural history and sociology, as well as those interested in the history of welfare states and the development of commercial surveillance.

Felber-Seligman, Yaari, Fashioning Inland Communities: Trade and Popular Culture in Central East Africa. (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture) 344 pp. 2025:6 (U. Wisconsin Pr., US) <745-261>
ISBN 978-0-299-35040-6 hard ¥18,700.- (税込) US$ 89.95 *

When viewed from the economic centers of the Indian or Atlantic Oceans, the Ruvuma region of East Africa, crossing what is now Tanzania, Malawi, and Mozambique, would look like a periphery. But the same factors that marginalize the region historically brought distinct opportunities. In Fashioning Inland Communities, Yaari Felber-Seligman traces the long history-from the first millennium CE into the twentieth century-of Ruvuma trade practices within a changing world. Felber-Seligman argues that Ruvuma trade should be understood fundamentally as a set of voluntary choices undertaken and revised to further communities' aspirations. Ruvuma used fashion to build varied communities, from local to pan-regional, reflecting the dynamic relationships among inland groups. Examples of Ruvuma popular fashions reveal processes of meaning-making and community building that call for us to expand our attention to the ways in which East African peoples interacted alongside, as well as beyond, trade networks that sourced prestige and commercial goods. Popular culture here emerges as a heterarchical force that shaped lasting multidirectional connections across and between Ruvuma and their neighbors. As both a subject and a strategy for analysis, the history of popular fashion shifts how we view histories of small, decentralized societies as they encounter larger economies. Felber-Seligman demonstrates that this has implications for our understanding not only of trade but of material culture, community, gender, and family.

P.フランクス著　日本における家事、消費、女性の労働　1600～1940年－生活水準の決定における無償労働の役割を理解する－
Francks, Penelope, Housework, Consumption and Female Labour in Japan, 1600-1940: Understanding the Role of Unpaid Work in Determining Living Standards. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 77 pp. 2025:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-262>
ISBN 978-3-031-83692-3 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99 *

This book illuminates the largely neglected contribution of unpaid, primarily female household labour to economic production and living standards in Japan from the early modern period to the eve of World War Two. The difficulties involved in measuring time devoted to housework and other forms of household labour in the past have meant that most attempts to assess the process of industrialisation have failed to recognise the ways in which such labour is essential to the sustainability and welfare of the population. In this context, Japan presents a significant example of a historical case of industrialisation occurring within an economy that continued to be dominated by the institution of the household. This short study argues that this must have led to a particularly significant underestimation of Japanese living standards in the past, with implications for comparative and global analysis, and to neglect of the key role of women in the historical economy. Providing a nuanced yet concise analysis, this book will be valuable reading for scholars of economic history and feminist economics, as well as introducing important comparative angles for researchers in Japanese studies and gender studies more widely.

アイルランドの国家建設－政府、企業、権力　1922～58年
Oliver, Emmet, Irish Nation Building: Government, Business and Power, 1922-1958. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 234 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-264>
ISBN 978-3-031-84930-5 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book examines the early decades of economic nation building in Ireland. It draws on a large amount of previously unstudied archival material to construct a novel contribution to Irish business and economic history that focuses on government relations, business power and wider dynamics of power in a decolonising context. The book adopts a different approach to the early decades of Irish independence, decentering the typical focus on party political developments, Church-state relations and Anglo-Irish relations. Instead, the book explores the role of Irish businesses and services and their engagement with the governing elites of the time. More than just offering a general survey of Irish businesses in the early years of independence, the chapters of this book illuminate and analyse the 'commanding heights' of the economy, the Marxist term for the core distribution channels of capital and labour. In particular, the book focuses on four key strategic sectors - banking, insurance, shipping and rail - to analyse the tensions between the new Irish nationalist political elite and embedded business interests from the pre-independence era, how these led to the transformation of the Irish economic model by the late 1950s, and its gradual integration into a newly globalising world economy. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers of economic and business history, and Irish history and independence broadly.

いかにネスレ社が援助産業を形成したか
Wilhelm, Lola, Formulating Development: How Nestle Shaped the Aid Industry. (Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches) 288 pp. 2025:7 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-275>
ISBN 978-1-5261-8099-5 hard ¥25,443.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

In the 1970s, Nestle became a lightning rod for criticism against the food industry's negative impacts on humans and their environment, especially in the Global South. But what has so far eluded historical scrutiny is that the picture was more nuanced.This book tells the exclusive story of how the Swiss food giant, and more broadly corporate capitalism, have shaped the aid industry since the late nineteenth century. It follows Nestle's bid for a share of the humanitarian market brokered by the Red Cross in wartime Europe, of its clinical trials in Swiss and Senegalese maternities, and of its agricultural modernisation schemes in Mexico, India, and the Ivory Coast.Based on extensive research in the firm's own historical archives and the records of national and international aid agencies, the volume interrogates the legacies of this long history for international development today.

Zhiyong, Yang, Fiscal Policy in China (1949-2019). (China Perspectives) 262 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-282>
ISBN 978-1-032-91660-6 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of China's fiscal policy since 1949. It provides an in-depth understanding of the contextual factors that shape its implementation and examines the transition logic between planned fiscal policy and market-oriented fiscal approaches.The author introduces fiscal policy focused on national economic recovery (1949-1952), planned fiscal policy (1953-1977), fiscal policy adapted to economic transition (1978-2011), and fiscal policy in the new era (2012-present). With "fiscal balance" as the central theme, he summarizes the fundamental principles and key dynamics underpinning China's fiscal policy and presents a clear framework for understanding the evolution and strategic rationale behind the country's approach to fiscal governance.The title will appeal to scholars of Chinese economy, comparative economics, public finance, and macroeconomics.

Battilani, Patrizia / Larrinaga, C. / Strangio, D. (eds.), Tourism and Economic Development: Southern Europe through the 20th Century. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) 256 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-356>
ISBN 978-1-032-62895-0 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

By the end of the nineteenth century, there were already some countries in southern Europe whose economies benefitted from the arrival of tourists. But it was during the twentieth century, and particularly after the Second World War, that the phenomenon of mass tourism arrived and dramatically impacted the economies of southern Europe.This edited volume analyses when, how and why tourism gained an important role in the economy and social life of Southern Europe. It contributes to a reassessment of mass tourism focusing on two main dimensions: first, the impact on the economic development of the different southern European countries; second, the building of a new sociality focusing on the rituals and values of middle and the working class. The book adopts a comparative approach which opens with a comparison of European countries in terms of international market share and tourist products. The other chapters focus on national case studies which allow the reader to better understand not only the similarities and differences between some countries and others, but also the phenomenon as a whole. Since tourism is a transnational phenomenon, this book makes an important contribution to the study of tourism development and its economic, but also social, impact in Southern Europe.The book will be of great interest to readers of economic history, business history, tourism history and European history more broadly.

Chen, Tao / Zofka, Jan (eds.), Economic Alliance, Economic Split: Technology Transfers, Trade and Models of Industrialization between China and Soviet Eastern Europe in the Early Cold War. 157 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-357>
ISBN 978-1-041-06018-5 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book delivers crucial historical background in these times, as bloc-building returns to the global economy and China and Russia massively intensify their economic cooperation. It gathers global cutting-edge research on the economic exchanges in the early years of the Cold War between the newly formed People's Republic of China and Soviet Eastern Europe.Based on multidimensional archival sources from China, Eastern Europe, and beyond, the book departs from the traditional Cold War accounts of superpowers and geopolitics and looks into economic practices: how Chinese officials tried to access foreign markets via the Leipzig trade fair, how the Soviet-modelled car industry had to be built with US-trained Chinese engineers, or how socialist bureaucrats rationalized the giant projects of factory-building in China with developing future markets for industrial products on a global scale. Such a perspective helps to understand, how economic rationales and second-tier actors contributed to the forming of the short-lived but far-reaching alliance and how cooperation on the ground for a while was able to survive, while generally mutual disappointment about the quick exhaustion of the cooperation's benefits benefitted the swift split. These insights also provide a basis for rethinking the relationship between politics and economy in socialist regime-building during the Cold War.This book will appeal to scholars and students of Cold War history, international relations, and economic history. The chapters in this book were originally published as special issue of European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire.

欧州農村部における農場の報告　1700～1914年
D'Onofrio, Federico / Joly, Nathalie (eds.), Farm Accounts in Rural Europe, c.1700-1914: "To Better Know One's Own?". (Boydell Studies in Rural History) 260 pp. 2025:6 (Boydell, UK) <744-359>
ISBN 978-1-83765-100-9 hard ¥24,029.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Analyses how book-keeping and estate accounting transformed attitudes and practices in farm management over three centuries of European history. From the eighteenth until well into the twentieth century, an ideal model developed of a farmer as accountant, who would record economic transactions meticulously; tidy book-keeping was regarded as the basis of sound management, and only those who accurately dealt with finances would survive and thrive. It is clear that this happened in both theory and practice, with growing numbers of farmers (men and women) keeping increasingly formalized records of their businesses during this period; a wide range of valuable documentation, originating from large estates, small sharecroppers, tenant and owner-farmers alike, has survived. Drawing on that rich body of sources, this book examines book-keeping and account practices in farm management across Europe, with case studies ranging from Westphalia and the Rhineland to France and Switzerland, over three centuries. It considers who kept these records and their motivations, how practices changed and developed across the period, and in what ways and to what extent accounts and accounting influenced the development of agriculture. It also examines the role of farmers' own organisations and government in encouraging higher standards of accounting. The Introduction and chapters 7 and 9 are available as Open Access under the Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-ND.

西部・中西部アフリカの奴隷貿易における沿岸部のブローカーとしてのヨーロッパ人　1680～1720年
Godinho Guarda, Maria Ines, Europeans as Coastal Brokers in the West and West-Central African Slave Trade (1680-1720). (European Expansion and Indigenous Response 46) 294 pp. 2025:6 (Brill, NE) <744-360>
ISBN 978-90-04-73093-9 hard ¥27,071.- (税込) EUR 115.00

The years between 1680 and 1720 saw the intensification of the regional slave trade in West Africa. Previous scholarship has focused almost exclusively on Africans and Afro-descendants as brokers in the region, placing Europeans as Atlantic intermediaries. Europeans as Coastal Brokers in the West and West-Central African Slave Trade (1680-1720) argues that not only was European mediation in Africa deeply interwoven with endogenous trade networks, but also that it was eagerly desired by the powerful potentates of the hinterland as a means of increasing their political and economic power over the region. Examining the interconnected interests of coastal authorities and Europeans, this book demonstrates that Europeans were the key brokers in the diversification of slave trade routes to the shore.

Herget, Lukas, Wettbewerb oder Industriepolitik?: Die Europaeische Fusionskontrolle als Spielball nationaler Wirtschaftspolitiken (1958-1989). (Rechtsordnung und Wirtschaftsgeschichte) 320 S. 2025:5 (Mohr, GW) <744-361>
ISBN 978-3-16-164390-3 paper ¥21,186.- (税込) EUR 90.00

Lukas Herget untersucht die Entstehung der Europaeischen Fusionskontrolle von den 1950er Jahren bis zum Erlass der Fusionskontrollverordnung 1989 und analysiert dabei die Rolle zentraler Akteure auf supranationaler, intergouvernementaler und nationaler Ebene. Im Fokus stehen zwei uebergeordnete Fragen: Wie wirkten sich Pfadabhaengigkeiten gegenueber nationalen Ordnungsvorstellungen auf die Verhandlungspositionen zur Ausgestaltung der Fusionskontrolle aus? Welche Strategien verfolgten die beteiligten Akteure, um ihre jeweiligen Interessen durchzusetzen? Der Autor stuetzt sich auf Archivmaterial aus deutschen und europaeischen Archiven und verfolgt einen akteurszentrierten Ansatz, der personelle und rechtliche Kontinuitaeten sowie Brueche offenlegt. Interdisziplinaer werden dabei rechtsgeschichtliche, wettbewerbstheoretische sowie integrations- und politikgeschichtliche Perspektiven verbunden.