While China is trying to find ways to become the dominant superpower around the world, Donald Trump’s...
Economics
Fears of great wealth and the need for economic equality go back to the country’s origins. Introduction...
Many factors, including World War I and its aftermath, set the stage for this economic disaster. Factors...
The scandal caused widespread public distrust of Congress and the federal government during the Gilded Age. Introduction...
The story of the DSEU helps fill in gaps on working women in the Great Depression By...
At the heart of the struggle was the continuing story that new unions were claiming freedoms and...
Introduction Once a medical practice bills a patient for the provided services, the amount delivered by the...
The collapsing economy is a rude awakening, but its fragility hides a transformative power. The coronavirus is...
Trade routes spanned China in early Shang dynasty times, but it was from mid-Zhou times that commerce...
Discussions of economics have existed since ancient times but it was not a separate discipline until the...
Economic theory today still rests in many areas upon the foundations laid by classical economists. Introduction Classical...
Monetary, fiscal, military, political, and economic issues are all very much intertwined. Two centuries ago, in 1776,...
Social class was prevalent and largely property-based in the colonies. The Colonial Elite Overview In New England...
Multinational corporations are increasingly encroaching on the functions of sovereign states. By Lorenzo Marsili “There is no...
The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” have too much historical baggage. In early 2019, Donald Trump warned against socialism: it “promises...
In 1758, Samuel Johnson noted that the “itch of scribbling” had seized the nation. Introduction In 1758,...
Starting with the medieval poor/rich-topics in the Aquinian tradition of the theological economy of charity, following a...
The archaeological evidence is clear, but the mechanisms of diffusion are still not entirely understood. By Dr....
A Phoenician-Punic ship from a relief carving on a 2nd century CE sarcophagus / Photo by NMB, Wikimedia...
This painting by Roberto Bompiani captures a common 19th-century association of Roman dining and excess. A Roman Feast,...
An overview of the main phases of the history of globalization, as well as of radical structural breaks....
Monetary, fiscal, military, political, and economic issues are all very much intertwined. Lecture by Dr. Joseph R....
A medieval baker with his apprentice (scanned from The Medieval Cookbook by Maggie Black). As both business...
Night of August 4th, abolition of feudality and fiscal privileges, by Léopold Morice / Photo by Teofilo,...
Mosaic of amphorae being unloaded from a ship, Ostia / Southampton University, Creative Commons The trade networks...
The Greeks failed miserably to see the need for the development of a discipline, economic science, devoted...
The country’s most vulnerable populations were the hardest hit. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 08.27.2018 Historian...
While it is misleading to view the stock market crash of 1929 as the sole cause of...
A One Hundred Dollar Confederate States of America banknote dated December 22, 1862. Issued during the American...
Mysia Islands off Troas, Tenedos. Circa 100-70 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 16.27 g 12). / Photo by Exekias,...