Forthcoming Book Reviews in Economic History

Updated: May 9, 2012

Author:  Liaquat Ahamed
Title:  Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Publisher:  Penguin

Authors:  Franco Amatori, Robert Millward, and Pier Angelo Toninelli, editors
Title:  Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise: A Comparison of the UK and Italy
Publisher:  Routledge

Author:  Esben Sloth Andersen
Title:  Joseph A. Schumpeter: A Theory of Social and Economic Evolution
Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan

Author:  William A. Barnett
Title:  Getting It Wrong: How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Financial System, and the Economy
Publisher:  MIT Press

Authors:  Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes, editors
Title:  Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives
Publisher:  Routledge

Author:  Daniele Besomi, editor
Title:  Crises and Cycles in Economic Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias
Publisher: Routledge

Author:  Sambit Bhattacharyya
Title:  Growth Miracles and Growth Debacles: Exploring Root Causes
Publisher:  Edward Elgar

Author:  Johanna Bockman
Title:  Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism
Publisher:  Stanford University Press

Author: Michael B. Boston
Title:  The Business Strategy of Booker T. Washington: Its Development and Implementation
Publisher:  University Press of Florida

Author:  D. Clayton Brown
Title:  King Cotton in Modern America: A Cultural, Political, and Economic History since 1945
Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi

Author:  Anders Chydenius (edited by Maren Jonasson and Pertti Hyttinen)
Title:  Anticipating The Wealth of Nations: The Selected Works of Anders Chydenius, 1729-1803
Publisher:  Routledge

Authors:  Fernando Collantes and Francisco Pinilla
Title:  Peaceful Surrender. The Depopulation of Rural Spain in the Twentieth Century
Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Authors:  Andrea Colli and Michelangelo Vasta, editors
Title:  Forms of Enterprise in 20th Century Italy: Boundaries, Structures and Strategies
Publisher:  Edward Elgar

Author:  Jessica Dijkman
Title:  Shaping Medieval Markets: The Organisation of Commodity Markets in Holland, c. 1200 - c. 1450
Publisher:  Brill

Author:  Stefano Fenoaltea
Title:  The Reinterpretation of Italian Economic History: From Unification to the Great War
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Author:  Catherine L. Fisk
Title:  Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

Authors:  Mark Freeman, Robin Pearson, and James Taylor
Title:  Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850
Publisher:  University of Chicago Press

Author:  Louis Galambos
Title:  The Creative Society – and the Price Americans Paid for It
Publisher:  Cambridge University Press

Author:  Oded Galor
Title:  Unified Growth Theory
Publisher:  Princeton University Press

Author: Perry Gauci, editor  
Title:  Regulating the British Economy, 1660-1850
Publisher:  Ashgate

Author:  Leonard Gomes
Title:  German Reparations, 1919-32
Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan

Author:  Regina Grafe
Title: Distant Tyranny: Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800
Publisher:  Princeton University Press

Author:  Farley Grubb
Title:  German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709-1914
Publisher:  Routledge

Authors:  James Halteman and Edd Noell
Title:  Reckoning with Markets: Moral Reflection in Economics
Publisher:  Oxford University Press

Author:  Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor
Title:  The Ties That Buy: Woman and Commerce in Revolutionary America
Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press

Author:  Jonathan Harwood
Title:  Europe’s Green Revolution: The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant-Breeding, 1890-1945
Publisher: Routledge

Author:  Douglas A. Irwin
Title:  Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s
Publisher:  MIT Press

Author:  Martijn Konings
Title:  The Development of American Finance
Publisher:  Cambridge University Press

Author:  Simon Kuznets (Stephanie Lo and E. Glen Weyl, editors)
Title:  Jewish Economies: Development and Migration in American and Beyond – Volume 1: The Economic Life of American Jewry
Publisher:  Transaction Publishers

Author:  Jim Lacey
Title:  Keep from All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II
Publisher:  Naval Institute Press

Authors: A.J.H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu, editors
Title:   The Evolving Structure of the East Asian Economic System since 1700: A Comparative Analysis
Publisher:  Routledge

Author:  Robert Lee, editor
Title:  Commerce and Culture: Nineteenth-Century Business Elites
Publisher:  Ashgate

Author:  Robert Leonard
Title:  Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science, 1900-1960
Publisher:  Cambridge University Press

Authors:  Roger Lloyd-Jones, Myrddin John Lewis, Mark David Matthews, and Josephine Maltby, editors
Title:  Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance: British Manufacturing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Publisher:  Ashgate

Authors:  A. Ricardo López and Barbara Weinstein, editors
Title: The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History
Publisher:  Duke University Press

Authors:  Debin Ma and Jan Luiten Van Zanden, editors
Title:  Law and Long-Term Economic Change: A Eurasian Perspective
Publisher:  Stanford University Press

Author:  Jeff D. Makholm
Title:  The Political Economy of Pipelines: A Century of Comparative Institutional Development
Publisher:  University of Chicago Press

Author:  Sylvia Nasar
Title:  Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
Publisher:  Simon and Schuster

Author:  Spencer Pack
Title:  Aristotle, Adam Smith and Karl Marx:  On Some Fundamental Issues in 21st Century Political Economy
Publisher:  Edward Elgar

Author:  Helen Paul
Title:  The South Sea Bubble: An Economic History of Its Origins and Consequences
Publisher: Routledge

Author:  Indrajit Ray
Title:  Bengal Industries and the British Industrial Revolution, 1757-1857
Publisher:  Routledge

Author:  Sophus A. Reinert
Title:  Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy
Publisher:  Harvard University Press

Author:  Alasdair Roberts
Title:  America’s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837
Publisher:  Cornell University Press

Author:  William Rosen
Title:  The Most Powerful Idea in the World: The Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
Publisher:  Random House

Author:  Agnar Sandmo
Title:  Economics Evolving: A History of Economic Thought
Publisher:  Princeton University Press

Author:  Brian Schoen
Title:  The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University

Author:  Vaclav Smil
Title:  Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines
Publisher:  MIT Press

Author: Leslie Tomory
Title:  Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780-1820
Publisher:  MIT Press