"Vermont Riflemen in the War for the Union, 1861 to 1865" by William Young Warren Ripley is a detailed account of the contributions made by Vermont soldiers during the American Civil War. The book highlights the bravery and sacrifices of these riflemen, showcasing their experiences on the battlefield and their commitment to the Union cause. Ripley, drawing from personal accounts and historical records, provides a vivid portrayal of the challenges faced by these men, emphasizing their role ...

In "Vermont Riflemen in the War for the Union, 1861 to 1865," William Young Warren Ripley provides a meticulously researched and gripping account of the contributions of Vermont soldiers during the American Civil War. Through a blend of narrative storytelling and detailed analysis, Ripley captures the valor and sacrifices of these riflemen, illustrating their experiences on the battlefield and the socio-political context of the time. His literary style, marked by clarity and emotional dept...

Forgotten Heroes of the Civil War gathers twenty volumes that restore the conflict's human scale through memoir, regimental history, biography, battlefield narrative, and reflective historical prose. Its range encompasses tactical recollection and military analysis alongside accounts of service, sacrifice, captivity, leadership, and remembrance. Rather than reducing the war to a familiar pantheon, the collection foregrounds lesser-known actors and episodes, making the volume a valuable cou...

The Unsung Heroes & Heroines of the Civil War: A 20-Volume Tribute assembles a capacious memorial literature of the American Civil War, shifting attention from celebrated commanders toward the courage, endurance, and moral complexity of lesser-known participants. Across reminiscence, biography, local history, military narrative, and commemorative essay, the collection illuminates battlefront service, civilian sacrifice, nursing, espionage, captivity, and the sustaining labor of communities...

A Financial Theory of the Business Cycle presents a new approach to business cycle theory based on the net present value. The book develops a novel diagrammatic approach to illustrate how fractional reserve banking systematically distorts net-present-value calculations. In addition to providing fresh insights, the new diagrammatic approach provides a comparative framework that can be used to compare pre-existing theories, including those of John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, Mi...

Endogenous Growth traces the intellectual evolution of growth theory, from its formative origins to its modern formalisation. The authors investigate how endogenous growth theory developed alongside the dominant analytical frameworks of dynamic macroeconomics. The book examines why models incorporating imperfect competition, heterogeneous returns, and alternative equilibrium concepts were long overshadowed. Through careful attention to the mathematical foundations—Hamiltonians, dy...

This book examines the origins of the IS-LM model, one of the most significant innovations in the history of economic thought. It shows that the complete IS-LM model, including the equations and diagram, was produced by a group of economists who contributed their respective mathematical models of Keynes’s General Theory, including Champernowne, Reddaway, Harrod, and Meade, not to mention Hicks. Furthermore, the book discusses the implications of newly discovered archival material, includin...

This Pictorial is a collection of images that represents a small part of Rabaul history. some of the imaged are a little distorted , many of these images are old and many have faded,many are over 100 years old Rabaul was known as Simpsonhafen during the German New Guinea administration which controlled the area between 1884 and formally till 1919. From 1910 Rabaul was the headquarters of German New Guinea until captured by the British Empire during World War I, when it became the capital o...

This book combines historical and policy-oriented perspectives on the relevance of the Keynesian approach for economic theory, policy, and crisis analysis. The first part focuses on historical, theoretical, and methodological issues, and puts them in context with current developments. The second part focuses on the application of the Keynesian approach to modeling the economy, policy-making, and analyzing the ongoing crisis of the early 21st century. Bringing together contributions by lead...

This book illustrates the role of international economic advisors in the development of Israel’s economic policies. Based on extensive archival and historical research, it presents case studies on the policy impacts of the world-renowned advisors Michal Kalecki, Abba Lerner, Richard Kahn, Milton Friedman, Herbert Stein and Stanley Fischer. The authors evaluate the contributions of these advisors to policy developments in various fields, including international trade and capital flows, exch...

The purpose of this book is to describe the intellectual process by which Real Business Cycle models were developed. The approach taken focuses on the core elements in the development of RBC models: (i) building blocks, (ii) catalysts, and (iii) meta-syntheses. This is done by detailed examination of all available unpublished variorum drafts of the key papers in the RBC story, so as to determine the origins of the ideas. The analysis of the process their discovery is then set out followed ...

This book provides a unique historical perspective on expectations in economic theory, and applications of expectations models in economic history. Based on papers presented at the 2017 Thomas Guggenheim Conference, it brings together the work of economists, historians of economics, and economic historians on issues and events concerning expectations in economics and economic history. The contributions address: (i) the history of expectations models; (ii) growth, expectations and political...