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

独占の政治－政策レジームの進化における競争と学習
Peinert, Erik, Monopoly Politics: Competition and Learning in the Evolution of Policy Regimes. 296 pp. 2025:8 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <750-268>
ISBN 978-0-19-778950-6 hard ¥20,908.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-778951-3 paper ¥6,325.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In Monopoly Politics, Erik Peinert provides a macro-historical explanation for why American and international markets are today monopolized by an ever-narrowing group of companies. Using original archival evidence from the United States and France, and borrowing insights from microeconomics, bureaucratic politics, sociology, psychology, and law, Peinert demonstrates how government policy towards competition and monopoly changes at key moments in the 20th century. Centrally, policy changes as a result of the interaction between staff turnover in policy circles and the diminishing returns to policy regimes. As policy regimes across different arenas such as antitrust, intellectual property, trade, and industrial policy push consistently either in favor of competition or monopoly, they generate diminishing returns. Unsustainably pushing for competition suppresses profits and destabilizes markets, whereas pushing to defend market power will raise prices, stifle innovation, and concentrate profits in stagnant monopolies. However, with policy regimes locked in by committed policymakers who have invested time, reputation, or the careers into implementing one approach to policy, government policy only changes through their replacement with non-committed officials willing to reconsider policy. Examining policy change in the United States and France over the 20th century, and leveraging tens of thousands of archival documents, Peinert traces new policy ideas or frameworks through each government, from the site of the original insight to final decision-making, showing the economic research, theories, and interests that motivated the policy discussions "in the room," and the key considerations influencing final policy choices.

W.プルンペ著　経済危機－歴史と現在　第6版
Plumpe, Werner, Wirtschaftskrisen: Geschichte und Gegenwart. 6., ueberarb. Aufl. (Beck'sche Reihe: Wissen 2701) 128 S. 2025:9 (Beck, GW) <750-269>
ISBN 978-3-406-83596-4 paper ¥2,970.- (税込) EUR 12.00

Rollwagen, Katharine, The Scramble for the Teenage Dollar: Creating the Youth Market in Mid-Century Canada. 224 pp. 2025:5 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <750-270>
ISBN 978-0-7748-6988-1 hard ¥23,232.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *

Co-ed, junior miss, grad, teenster. From the late 1930s to the 1950s, the teenager emerged as a distinct and ideal market segment. The Scramble for the Teenage Dollar explores how consumption became an integral part of being a teenager.This nascent consumer - always a white, middle-class, heterosexual high school student - had purchasing power that demanded recognition. At least, that was the image fashioned by Canadian advertisers and retailers, and especially the biggest department store of the time: Eaton's. Katharine Rollwagen dives into consumer magazines, Eaton's archives, and mail-order catalogues to discover how the commercialized Canadian teenager was created.Packed with insights about how retailers and advertisers attempted to shape the look, bodies, and behaviour of young Canadians, this is an intriguing look at the power of corporate actors to influence popular understandings of growing up. It also reveals the roots of the hyper-consumerism common among young people today.

ケニアの公債－経済史
Thegeya, Aaron, Public Debt in Kenya: An Economic History. (Routledge Studies in Development Economics) 150 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <750-180>
ISBN 978-1-041-09164-6 hard ¥15,329.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99 *

Public debt in developing economies has increased dramatically over the last 20 years, with debt repayment obligations putting the livelihoods of millions of individuals at risk and threatening to stall progress toward lowering poverty rates and achieving long- term development objectives across many countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Debt fragility is a systemic issue that affects many countries spanning different continents, regardless of the idiosyncratic nature of each country's system of government and drivers of growth. Kenya is one of these fragile economies, currently classified as an economy at high risk of default.This book gives a historical economic account of public debt in Kenya, dating back to the late 1800s. It describes the key episodes and events that resulted in the accumulation of debt and gives an intuitive understanding of the economic dynamics of debt during the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods in Kenya's history. Existing studies on Kenya's public debt are either not comprehensive, choosing to focus on a narrow period, or are technical empirical analyses, rendering them inaccessible to a large audience. By describing the dynamics of public debt in Kenya, the book increases familiarity with a topic that has important implications for Kenya, and which has occupied a central stage in Kenya's policy debates in the recent past.History shows that contagion from economic crises is not unique and isolated to individual nations, thus the book is relevant not only for policy debates in Kenya, but also for other low- income and emerging economies within sub- Saharan Africa.

S.ベッカート著　資本主義－グローバルヒストリー
Beckert, Sven, Capitalism: A Global History. 1344 pp. 2025:11 (Penguin, US) <251-56824>
ISBN 978-0-7352-2083-6 hard ¥10,348.- (税込) US$ 49.00