Explore the history of the global stock market, from early stock exchanges to modern financial markets and global investing ...

In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power.

The brilliant and late economic historian Angus Maddison estimated that India was the world's largest economy for a staggering one and a half millennia. China surpassed India by 1820 but they remained ...

A century ago, the Republican Congress passed the Fordney–McCumber Tariff of 1922. This post-First World War effort to protect the United States from German competition and rescue business from ...

Daunton has written a sweeping history of international economic cooperation and of the meetings and institutions through which it is organized. The author’s original design for this book, many years ...

Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Tom Standage, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and ...

How many female entrepreneurs, bankers, and industrialists from the past can you name? You could be forgiven for thinking that, until relatively recently, there were none at all. Women are commonly ...