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

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 ¥20,143.- (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 ¥34,034.- (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 ¥9,588.- (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 ¥20,383.- (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 ¥22,781.- (税込) EUR 95.00