Book Reviews: By geographic area: General, International, or Comparative
- Across the Borders: Financing the World's Railways in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- by Ralf Roth and Gunter Dinhobl (editors)
- reviewed by Dan Bogart on September 22, 2009
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Advances in Agricultural Economic History, Vol.1, New Frontiers in Agricultural History
- by Kyle D. Kauffman (editor)
- reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing
- by Pamela Walker Laird
- reviewed by Jonathan Silva on December 3, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Against the Tide
- by Douglas Irwin
- reviewed by J. Bradford De Long on January 6, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact
- by Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson
- reviewed by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on September 8, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity
- by Alexander J. Field
- reviewed by Rick Szostak on June 13, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
- by Niall Ferguson
- reviewed by Niv Horesh on July 31, 2009
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Bank for International Settlements: Evolution and Evaluation
- by James C. Baker
- reviewed by A.M. Endres on July 11, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Battles for the Standard: Bimetallism and the Spread of the Gold Standard in the Nineteenth Century
- by Ted Wilson
- reviewed by Christopher M. Meissner on January 25, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Between East and West: The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices up to the Arrival of Europeans
- by R. A. Donkin
- reviewed by Gerrit Knaap on July 21, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2)
- Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Between the Dollar-Sterling Gold Points: Exchange Rates, Parity, and Market Behavior
- by Lawrence H. Officer
- reviewed by Alan M. Taylor on March 20, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Bimetallism: An Economic and Historical Analysis
- by Angela Redish
- reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on November 8, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Biological Standard of Living in Comparative Perspective
- by John Komlos and Joerg Baten
- reviewed by John E. Murray on February 21, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
- by Marc Levinson
- reviewed by William Sjostrom on April 4, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Britain and Japan: A Comparative Economic and Social History Since 1900
- by Kenneth D. Brown
- reviewed by Michael Smitka on September 17, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- British Petroleum and Global Oil, 1950-1975: The Challenge of Nationalism
- by James Bamberg
- reviewed by Jonathan Brown on March 4, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia
- by David Glasner
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on September 5, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Business History and Business Culture
- by Andrew Godley and Oliver M. Westall
- reviewed by Ernest Teagarden on March 31, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Business History around the World
- by Franco Amatori and Geoffrey Jones (editors)
- reviewed by William H. Becker on January 13, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Capital Flows and Crises
- by Barry Eichengreen
- reviewed by Joseph R. Mason on August 27, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Capital Markets and Corporate Governance in Japan, Germany and the United States: Organizational Response to Market Inefficiencies
- by Helmut Dietl
- reviewed by Hideaki Miyajima on October 19, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
- by Joseph A. Schumpeter
- reviewed by Thomas K. McCraw on September 1, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780-2005
- by Youssef Cassis
- reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on October 22, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements, 1930-1973
- by Gianni Toniolo
- reviewed by Geoffrey Wood on October 11, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Changing Face of Central Banking: Evolutionary Trends since World War II
- by Pierre L. Siklos
- reviewed by Richard C. K. Burdekin on May 29, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Christian Theology and Market Economics
- by Ian R. Harper and Samuel Gregg (editors)
- reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on October 8, 2009
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Classical Macroeconomics: Some Modern Variations and Distortions
- by James C. W. Ahiakpor
- reviewed by Marin Muzhani on December 28, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Coerced and Free Migrations: Global Perspectives
- by David Eltis (editor)
- reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on December 31, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- The Collapse of Darwinism, or The Rise of a Realist Theory of Life
- by Graeme Donald Snooks
- reviewed by Geoffrey M. Hodgson on June 27, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- A Companion to the History of Economic Thought
- by Warren J. Samuels, Jeff F. Biddle and John B. Davis (editors)
- reviewed by Mauro Boianovsky on December 5, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences
- by James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (editors)
- reviewed by Bertrand M. Roehner on March 19, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Comparative Public Policy: Patterns of Post-war Transformation
- by Francis G. Castles
- reviewed by Jim F. Couch on May 1, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Concept and Controversy: Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market
- by W. W. Rostow
- reviewed by Louis P. Cain on July 18, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- A Concise History of Economic Thought: From Mercantilism to Monetarism
- by Gianni Vaggi and Peter Groenewegen
- reviewed by David Andrews on January 9, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure
- by Ester Boserup
- reviewed by Giovanni Federico on April 16, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire
- by Peter N. Stearns
- reviewed by Jasmine Aimaq on January 1, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Consumers Against Capitalism? Consumer Cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840-1990
- by Ellen Furlough and Carl Strikwerda
- reviewed by Gerd-Rainer Horn on September 1, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Conversations on Growth, Stability, and Trade: An Historical Perspective
- by Brian Snowdon
- reviewed by Christopher Hanes on April 18, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Coping with Crisis: International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period
- by Makoto Kasuya (editor)
- reviewed by Kris James Mitchener on December 18, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Copyright and Other Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen and the Commodification of Creativity
- by Helle Porsdam (editor)
- reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on June 16, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Corn and Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance
- by Arturo Warman
- reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on August 1, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact
- by Vaclav Smil
- reviewed by Joel Mokyr on December 30, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
- by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey
- reviewed by Philip R.P. Coelho on June 10, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium
- by Dirk Hoerder
- reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on April 21, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture
- by Eric L. Jones
- reviewed by Avner Greif on July 31, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Currency Boards and Dollarization
- by Kurt Schuler
- reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on November 14, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- De Revolutie die in Haar Eigen Staart Beet: Hoe de Economische Geschiedenis onze ideeën over Economische Groei veranderde
- by J.W. Drukker
- reviewed by Joel Mokyr on September 5, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy
- by Edward C. Lorenz
- reviewed by Mark Perlman on March 14, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Deflation: Current and Historical Perspectives
- by Richard C.K. Burdekin and Pierre L. Siklos (editors)
- reviewed by Kris James Mitchener on November 9, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis
- by Michael Williams
- reviewed by Gary Libecap on August 4, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K)
- Democracy and Redistribution
- by Carles Boix
- reviewed by Jari Eloranta on February 18, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Determinants of Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Empirical Study
- by Robert J. Barro
- reviewed by John W. Dawson on July 18, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks: Four Centuries of History
- by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Gelina Harlaftis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou (editors)
- reviewed by Sakis Gekas on July 15, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- A Dictionary of Economics
- by John Black
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on March 17, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
- The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
- by Stephen A. Marglin
- reviewed by Eric Jones on March 31, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Distinguished Women Economists
- by James Cicarelli and Julianne Cicarelli
- reviewed by Claire Hammond on October 7, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Dragon Multinational: A New Model for Global Growth
- by John A. Mathews
- reviewed by Stephen A. Kolenda on July 21, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- The Dynamic of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980
- by David B. Abernethy
- reviewed by K. N. Chaudhuri on December 17, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- The Dynamic Society: Exploring the Sources of Global Change
- by Graeme Donald Snooks
- reviewed by Gregory Clark on March 16, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler and the New Economy
- by Richard N. Langlois
- reviewed by Arthur M. Diamond Jr. on August 6, 2009
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays
- by Alexander Gerschenkron
- reviewed by Albert Fishlow on February 14, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Economic Cycles: Long Cycles and Business Cycles since 1870
- by Solomos Solomou
- reviewed by Forrest Capie on August 12, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century
- by Michael J. Oliver and Derek H. Aldcroft (editors)
- reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on June 8, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The Economic Future in Historical Perspective
- by Paul A. David and Mark P. Thomas (editors)
- reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on June 25, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Economic Growth and Change: National and Regional Patterns of Convergence and Divergence
- by John Adams and Francesco Pigliaru (editors)
- reviewed by Stephen L. Parente on May 8, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- An Economic History of the Silk Industry, 1830-1930
- by Giovanni Federico
- reviewed by Philip Scranton on December 5, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
- by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
- reviewed by Michael Munger on October 8, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Economic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural, and Industrial Societies
- by Frederic L. Pryor
- reviewed by George Grantham on January 25, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long-term Economic Growth
- by Richard G. Lipsey, Kenneth I. Carlaw and Clifford T. Bekar
- reviewed by Joel Mokyr on August 28, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Economics and the Historian
- by Thomas G. Rawski
- reviewed by Lynne Kiesling on September 30, 1996
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
- Economics and the Historian
- by Thomas G. Rawski
- reviewed by Michael Dintenfass on September 30, 1996
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
- Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
- by Robert H. Nelson
- reviewed by Robert D. Tollison on April 15, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Economics in the Shadows of Darwin and Marx: Essays on Institutional and Evolutionary Themes
- by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
- reviewed by Gary Mongiovi on March 24, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The Economics of QWERTY: History, Theory, and Policy -- Essays by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis
- by Peter Lewin (editor)
- reviewed by Richard J. Sullivan on March 28, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- The Economics of the Great Depression
- by Mark Wheeler
- reviewed by Elmus Wicker on May 27, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Economics of the Great Depression: A Twenty-First Century Look Back at the Economics of the Interwar Era
- by Randall E. Parker
- reviewed by David C. Wheelock on November 3, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison
- by Mark Harrison
- reviewed by Geofrey T. Mills on July 22, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- Economics: The Culture of a Controversial Science
- by Melvin W. Reder
- reviewed by Ross B. Emmett on March 31, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Economists in Parliament in the Liberal Age (1848-1920)
- by Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi (editors)
- reviewed by Vincent Barnett on September 29, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The Effortless Economy of Science?
- by Philip Mirowski
- reviewed by Lawrence Boland on February 1, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Eli Heckscher, International Trade, and Economic History
- by Ronald Findlay, Rolf G.H. Henriksson, Hakan Lindgren and Mats Lundahl (editors)
- reviewed by Nick Crafts on August 27, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Elites, Minorities, and Economic Growth
- by Elise S. Brezis and Peter Temin (editors)
- reviewed by Rick Szostak on May 28, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Emergence of Modern Central Banking from 1918 to the Present
- by Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, Jaime Reis and Gianni Toniolo (editors)
- reviewed by Mark Toma on July 13, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Emigration from Europe, 1815-1930
- by Dudley Baines
- reviewed by Simone A. Wegge on August 1, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- An Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics
- by Thomas Cate
- reviewed by Michael S. Lawlor on August 20, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The End of Economics
- by Michael Perelman
- reviewed by Anthony P. O'Brien on August 21, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression
- by Harold James
- reviewed by Tim Hatton on January 4, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production
- by Vaclav Smil
- reviewed by D. Gale Johnson on November 28, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World
- by Robert William Fogel
- reviewed by Cormac Ó Gráda on October 19, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Essays in History: Financial, Economic, Personal
- by Charles P. Kindleberger
- reviewed by David Glasner on March 8, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Essays on the History of Economics
- by Warren J. Samuels, Willie Henderson, Kirk D. Johnson and Marianne Johnson (editors)
- reviewed by Maria Pia Paganelli on January 18, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Evolution and Procedures in Central Banking
- by David E. Altig and Bruce D. Smith (editors)
- reviewed by Stefano Battilossi on March 26, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Evolution of International Business: An Introduction
- by Geoffrey Jones
- reviewed by Graham D. Taylor on July 10, 1996
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Law, Politics, and Economics of the GATT and the WTO
- by John H. Barton, Judith L. Goldstein, Timothy E. Josling and Richard H. Steinberg
- reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on January 9, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Evolution of the World Economy, Precious Metals and India
- by John McGuire, Patrick Bertola and Peter Reeves (editors)
- reviewed by Arturo Giraldez on May 4, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows: Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1865-1914
- by Lance E. Davis and Robert E. Gallman
- reviewed by Alan M. Taylor on May 7, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Exchange Rate Regimes in the Twentieth Century
- by Derek H. Aldcroft and Michael J. Oliver
- reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on November 24, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Exchange Rates and Economic Policy in the Twentieth Century
- by Ross E. Catterall and Derek H. Aldcroft (editors)
- reviewed by Stefano Battilossi on December 14, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
- by Gregory Clark
- reviewed by Robert A. Margo on March 11, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000
- by Giovanni Federico
- reviewed by Bruce Gardner on March 14, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
- Financial Crises and What to Do about Them
- by Barry Eichengreen
- reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on September 8, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The First World War and the International Economy
- by Chris Wrigley (editor)
- reviewed by David Greasley on May 31, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Forerunners of Modern Financial Economics: A Random Walk in the History of Economic Thought, 1900-1950
- by Donald R. Stabile
- reviewed by Geoffrey Poitras on November 2, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The Foundations of Economic Method: A Popperian Perspective
- by Lawrence A. Boland
- reviewed by O.F. Hamouda on April 7, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy
- by James Macdonald
- reviewed by Robert E. Wright on May 31, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
- A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy
- by James Macdonald
- reviewed by Robert E. Wright on May 31, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
- The Free Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830-1996
- by Mira Wilkins and Harm Schroter
- reviewed by Gordon Boyce on July 30, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism
- by William J. Baumol
- reviewed by Joel Mokyr on July 26, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- From Gold to Euro: On Monetary Theory and the History of Currency Systems
- by Heinz-Peter Spahn
- reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on May 10, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
- by Joel Mokyr
- reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on January 24, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis and Growth
- by Maurice Obstfeld and Alan M. Taylor
- reviewed by Marc D. Weidenmier on December 14, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Global Chemical Industry in the Age of the Petrochemical Revolution
- by Louis Galambos, Takashi Hikino and Vera Zamagni (editors)
- reviewed by Alessandro Nuvolari on August 17, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- The Global Cigarette: Origins and Evolution of British American Tobacco, 1880-1945
- by Howard Cox
- reviewed by Geoffrey Tweedale on March 1, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector
- by Lester M. Salamon, Helmut K. Anheier, Regina List and S. Stefan Toepler
- reviewed by Milton Goldin on March 27, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Global Economy in the 1990s: A Long-Run Perspective
- by Paul W. Rhode and Gianni Toniolo (editors)
- reviewed by Christopher Hanes on July 13, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Income and Wealth (Q)
- Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods
- by Barry J. Eichengreen
- reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on March 21, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance
- by Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson
- reviewed by Drew Keeling on June 13, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Globalisation? Internationalisation and Monopoly Capitalism: Historical Processes and Capitalist Dynamism
- by Bob Milward
- reviewed by Paul Benneworth on September 9, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy
- by Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson
- reviewed by Marvin McInnis on August 4, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Globalization and Its Enemies
- by Daniel Cohen
- reviewed by John R. Hanson on December 27, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950
- by Jeffrey G. Williamson
- reviewed by Sevket Pamuk on June 25, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Income and Wealth (Q), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Globalization in Historical Perspective
- by Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson (editors)
- reviewed by William J. Collins on November 7, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Globalization: A Short History
- by Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Petersson
- reviewed by Kevin H. O'Rourke on May 15, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
- by Barry J. Eichengreen
- reviewed by George Selgin on October 6, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929
- by Douglas Fetherling
- reviewed by Ralph Mann on May 19, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
- by William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm
- reviewed by William R. Keech on May 7, 2009
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Great Breakthrough and its Cause
- by Julian Simon
- reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on May 29, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- The Great Population Spike and After: Reflections on the 21st Century
- by W. W. Rostow
- reviewed by Timothy W. Guinnane on June 8, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
- by Karl Polanyi
- reviewed by Anne Mayhew on June 1, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century
- by Mark Blyth
- reviewed by Janet T. Knoedler on August 6, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
- by David Hackett Fischer
- reviewed by John H. Munro on February 24, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2: Further Evidence
- by Peter H. Lindert
- reviewed by Robert A. Margo on June 18, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume I: The Story
- by Peter H. Lindert
- reviewed by Robert A. Margo on April 28, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Growth Triumphant: The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective
- by Richard A. Easterlin
- reviewed by Dora L. Costa on August 23, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- Growth, Inequality and Globalization: Theory, History and Policy
- by Philippe Aghion and Jeffrey C. Williamson
- reviewed by John R. Hanson on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Income and Wealth (Q)
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- by Jared Diamond
- reviewed by Joel Mokyr on May 28, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Hayek: Economist and Social Philosopher, A Critical Retrospect
- by Stephen Frowen
- reviewed by Steven Horwitz on June 11, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Health and Welfare During the Industrial Revolution
- by Richard Steckel and Roderick Floud
- reviewed by Lee A. Craig on January 15, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Income and Wealth (Q)
- Henry George's Legacy in Economic Thought
- by John Laurent (editor)
- reviewed by Donald E. Frey on May 12, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Hidden Collective Factors in Speculative Trading: A Study in Analytical Economics
- by Bertrand M. Roehner
- reviewed by David A. Zalewski on February 21, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Historians of Economics and Economic Thought: The Construction of Disciplinary Memory
- by Steven Medema and Warren Samuels (editors)
- reviewed by Roger Frantz on October 4, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- A Historical Guide to World Slavery
- by Seymour Drescher and Stanley L. Engerman
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on July 28, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The History of Consumer Credit: Doctrines and Practices
- by Rosa-Maria Gelpi and François Julien-Labruyère
- reviewed by Lendol G. Calder on August 25, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- A History of Corporate Finance
- by Jonathan B. Baskin and Paul J. Miranti
- reviewed by Robert E. Wright on July 20, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures
- by Lionel Robbins
- reviewed by Bradley W. Bateman on August 29, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The History of Family Business, 1850-2000
- by Andrea Colli
- reviewed by Alison C. Kay on December 23, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- The History of Foreign Exchange
- by Paul Einzig
- reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on January 20, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945
- by Mira Wilkins
- reviewed by Michael Edelstein on January 28, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- A History of Mechanical Invention
- by Abbott Payson Usher
- reviewed by George Grantham on December 11, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- A History of Monetary Unions
- by John F. Chown
- reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on August 26, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- How Cartels Endure and How They Fail: Studies of Industrial Collusion
- by Peter Z. Grossman (editor)
- reviewed by Richard Sicotte on January 25, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy
- by Richard H. K. Vietor
- reviewed by Jari Eloranta on August 17, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- How Economics Became a Mathematical Science
- by E. Roy Weintraub
- reviewed by Robert D. Tollison on August 7, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science
- by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
- reviewed by Julian Reiss on December 24, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- In Praise of Empires: Globalization and Order
- by Deepak Lal
- reviewed by Jack A. Goldstone on February 24, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- In Search of Prosperity: Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth
- by Dani Rodrik (editor)
- reviewed by Richard Pomfret on August 22, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Inside the Economist's Mind: Conversations with Eminent Economists
- by Paul A. Samuelson and William Barnett (editors)
- reviewed by Michael Szenberg on April 27, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- International Economic Integration in Historical Perspective
- by Dennis M.P. McCarthy
- reviewed by John R. Hanson II on June 11, 2009
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- International Financial History in the Twentieth Century: System and Anarchy
- by Marc Flandreau, Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich and Harold James (editors)
- reviewed by Joseph R. Mason on March 3, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- International Organizations and the Analysis of Economic Policy, 1919-1950
- by Anthony M. Endres and Grant A. Fleming
- reviewed by D. E. Moggridge on December 19, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries
- by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
- reviewed by Kenneth Lipartito on January 8, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
- by Peter T. Leeson
- reviewed by Daniel K. Benjamin on October 3, 2009
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Business History (B), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Japanese Success? British Failure? Comparisons in Business Performance since 1945
- by Etsuo Abe and Terry Gourvish (editors)
- reviewed by Andrew C. Godley on February 19, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
- by Ha-Joon Chang
- reviewed by Douglas Irwin on April 26, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Kinship and Capitalism: Marriage, Family, and Business in the English-Speaking World, 1580-1740
- by Richard Grassby
- reviewed by Stephen Caunce on June 4, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Land Rights, Ethno-Nationality and Sovereignty in History
- by Stanley L. Engerman and Jacob Metzer (editors)
- reviewed by David M. Wishart on February 26, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries
- by Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff and Peter Temin
- reviewed by Henry A. Gemery on February 15, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Les écrits de Fernand Braudel and Les mémoires de la Méditerranée: préhistoire et antiquité
- by Fernand Braudel
- reviewed by Cheng-chung Lai on August 23, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- The Limits of Protectionism: Building Coalitions for Free Trade
- by Michael Lusztig
- reviewed by Anthony Patrick O'Brien on December 3, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Living Economic and Social History
- by Pat Hudson (editor)
- reviewed by Simon Ville on March 15, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
- Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization
- by Saskia Sassen
- reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on March 31, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- The Lost Art of Economics: Essays on Economics and the Economics Profession
- by David Colander
- reviewed by Lall B. Ramrattan on February 20, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Macroeconomics in Retrospect: The Selected Essays of David Laidler
- by David Laidler
- reviewed by John H. Wood on February 10, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Making History Count: A Primer in Quantitative Methods for Historians
- by Charles H. Feinstein and Mark Thomas
- reviewed by Walter D. Kamphoefner on March 5, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
- The Making of Global Finance, 1880-1913
- by Marc Flandreau and Frederic Zumer
- reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on February 1, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Making of Harrod's Dynamics
- by Daniele Besomi
- reviewed by Steve Keen on April 11, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective
- by Eric Helleiner
- reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on September 26, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
- by David Christian
- reviewed by J.W. Drukker on January 23, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Market Education: The Unknown History
- by Andrew J. Coulson
- reviewed by Martin West on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
- Marshall's Tendencies: What Can Economists Know?
- by John Sutton
- reviewed by Bruce Larson on March 28, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Modeling Rational Agents: From Interwar Economics to Early Modern Game Theory
- by Nicola Giocoli
- reviewed by Esther-Mirjam Sent on December 19, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Modern Economic Growth: Rate, Structure and Spread
- by Simon Kuznets
- reviewed by Richard A. Easterlin on October 29, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- The Monetary History of Gold: A Documentary History, 1660-1999
- by Mark Duckenfield
- reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on December 14, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Monetary History, Exchange Rates and Financial Markets: Essays in Honour of Charles Goodhart, Volume Two
- by Paul Mizen (editor)
- reviewed by Lars Jonung on March 10, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Monetary Regimes and Inflation: History, Economic and Political Relationships
- by Peter Bernholz
- reviewed by Pierre Siklos on July 22, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Monetary Regimes of the Twentieth Century
- by Andrew Britton
- reviewed by George Macesich on August 8, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Money and Monetary Regimes: Struggle for Monetary Supremacy
- by George Macesich
- reviewed by Gerald P. Dwyer Jr. on May 17, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Money and the Nation State: The Financial Revolution, Government and the World Monetary System
- by Kevin Dowd and Richard H. Timberlake Jr. (editors)
- reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on November 18, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Money Doctors: The Experience of Financial Advising, 1850-2000
- by Marc Flandreau (editor)
- reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on September 21, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Money, Markets, and Sovereignty
- by Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds
- reviewed by George Selgin on November 4, 2009
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Monitoring the World Economy: 1820-1992
- by Angus Maddison
- reviewed by John R. Hanson on February 5, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Moving Money: Banking and Finance in the Industrializing World
- by Daniel Verdier
- reviewed by Scott A. Redenius on October 7, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Mystery of Economic Growth
- by Elhanan Helpman
- reviewed by George K. Davis on March 29, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- Nation, State, and the Economy in History
- by Alice Teichova and Herbert Matis (editors)
- reviewed by Joerg Baten on April 23, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Natural Resources: Neither Curse nor Destiny
- by Daniel Lederman and William F. Maloney (editors)
- reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on February 22, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Nature: An Economic History
- by Geerat J. Vermeij
- reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on April 8, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson
- by Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke and Alan M. Taylor (editors)
- reviewed by Dan Bogart on June 3, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Income and Wealth (Q), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
- by Robert Wright
- reviewed by J. Bradford De Long on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- A Not-So-Dismal Science: A Broader View of Economies and Societies
- by Mancur Olson and Satu Kähkönen (editors)
- reviewed by John Adams on March 7, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution
- by Susannah Handley
- reviewed by Michael Palairet on November 9, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity
- by David W. Galenson
- reviewed by Robert B. Ekelund Jr. on May 19, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
- by Dani Rodrik
- reviewed by Alice Amsden on October 1, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Orderly Change: International Monetary Relations since Bretton Woods
- by David M. Andrews (editor)
- reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on September 26, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O)
- The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century
- by Roger E. Backhouse
- reviewed by Warren J. Samuels on August 7, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Origins and Growth of the Global Economy: From the Fifteenth Century Onward
- by Ronald E. Seavoy
- reviewed by Laura Cruz on November 25, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- Origins of the Modern Career
- by David Mitch, John Brown and Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
- reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on April 13, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Other People's Money: Debt Denomination and Financial Instability in Emerging Market Economies
- by Barry Eichengreen and Ricardo Hausmann (editors)
- reviewed by Hans-Joachim Voth on November 21, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
- by Joel Mokyr (editor)
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on April 20, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Painting Outside the Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art
- by David W. Galenson
- reviewed by Richard Agnello on May 31, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Past and Future of Central Bank Cooperation
- by Claudio Borio, Gianni Toniolo and Piet Clement (editors)
- reviewed by C.A.E. Goodhart on February 23, 2009
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Pattern and Repertoire in History
- by Bertrand M. Roehner and Tony Syme
- reviewed by John Nye on January 26, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Patterns of Speculation: A Study in Observational Econophysics
- by Bertrand M. Roehner
- reviewed by Graeme D. Snooks on February 12, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Physioeconomics: The Basis for Long-Run Economic Growth
- by Philip Parker
- reviewed by Sylvain H. Boko on September 12, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Pioneers of Financial Economics: Volume 2, Twentieth-Century Contributions
- by Geoffrey Poitras (editor)
- reviewed by Ramon P. DeGennaro on October 29, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
- by William F. Ruddiman
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on July 21, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Political Economy and Statesmanship: Smith, Hamilton, and the Foundation of the Commercial Republic
- by Peter McNamara
- reviewed by Richard Sylla on May 14, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The Political Economy of the World Bank: The Early Years
- by Michele Alacevich
- reviewed by Louis Galambos on October 14, 2009
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- Political Institutions and Financial Development
- by Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast (editors)
- reviewed by Claudia Rei on July 2, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Poverty from the Wealth of Nations: Integration and Polarization in the Global Economy since 1760
- by M. Shahid Alam
- reviewed by Pierre van der Eng on January 14, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- Poverty, Wealth, Dictatorship, Democracy: Resource Scarcity and the Origins of Dictatorship
- by Jack Barkstrom
- reviewed by Peter Baofu on January 6, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
- Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
- by Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke
- reviewed by Şevket Pamuk on August 19, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), Middle East (6), North America (7)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Pricing Theory, Financing of International Organisations and Monetary History
- by Lawrence H. Officer
- reviewed by Richard Sylla on November 27, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry: Labour, Capital, and Technology in Britain and America, 1860-1914
- by Gary Bryan Magee
- reviewed by Andrew C. Godley on February 17, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- by Max Weber
- reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on March 1, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Public Spending in the 20th Century: A Global Perspective
- by Vito Tanzi and Ludger Schuknecht
- reviewed by Roger Middleton on October 16, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Rationality and Freedom
- by Amartya Sen
- reviewed by Robert D. Tollison on February 11, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855
- by F. Matthew Gallman
- reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on August 15, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Recessions and Depressions: Understanding Business Cycles
- by Todd A. Knoop
- reviewed by David Glasner on October 12, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Reclaiming Marx’s Capital: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency
- by Andrew Kliman
- reviewed by David Kristjanson-Gural on September 23, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The Record of Global Economic Development
- by Eric L. Jones
- reviewed by Morris Altman on March 18, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Records of American Business
- by James M. O'Toole
- reviewed by Randall C. Jimerson on May 11, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Reforming Financial Systems: Historical Implications for Policy
- by Gerald Jr. Caprio and Dimitri Vittas
- reviewed by Michael Haupert on December 4, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on Economics, Economic History, and Demography
- by Richard A. Easterlin
- reviewed by Lee A. Craig on November 30, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Reluctant Partners: A History of Multilateral Trade Cooperation, 1850-2000
- by Andrew Brown
- reviewed by Susan Ariel Aaronson on September 16, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries
- by Michael Tomz
- reviewed by Kim Oosterlinck on February 11, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster
- by Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella (editors)
- reviewed by Donald E. Frey on November 2, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Military and War (O), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Rise of "The Rest": Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies
- by Alice Amsden
- reviewed by John R. Hanson II on September 9, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History
- by James C. Riley
- reviewed by Richard A. Easterlin on February 12, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Schumpeter on the Economics of Innovation and the Development of Capitalism
- by Arnold Heertje
- reviewed by Mark W. Frank on August 23, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution
- by Haim Ofek
- reviewed by João Ricardo Faria on May 30, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: Prehistoric (1)
- Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Separatism and Integration: A Study in Analytical History
- by Bertrand M. Roehner
- reviewed by Enrico Spolaore on January 5, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Silver and Gold: The Political Economy of International Monetary Conferences, 1867-1892
- by Steven P. Reti
- reviewed by John H. Wood on February 22, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Size of Nations
- by Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore
- reviewed by Leonard Dudley on February 2, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Slavery in the Development of the Americas
- by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (editors)
- reviewed by Gavin Wright on June 24, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Africa (1), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800
- by Kenneth Morgan
- reviewed by David Eltis on October 10, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Small Firms, Large Concerns: The Development of Small Business in Comparative Perspective
- by Konosuke Odaka and Minoru Sawai
- reviewed by Zoltan J. Acs on October 11, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters
- by Diane Coyle
- reviewed by John A. MacDonald on September 21, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Sources of Industrial Leadership: Studies of Seven Industries
- by David C. Mowery and Richard R. Nelson (editors)
- reviewed by Paul L. Robertson on January 16, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth
- by Liah Greenfeld
- reviewed by Deepak Lal on February 17, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The State, the Financial System and Economic Modernization
- by Richard Sylla, Richard Tilly and Gabriel Tortella (editors)
- reviewed by Caroline Fohlin on May 1, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the Unite dStates, 1876-1914
- by Gerald Friedman
- reviewed by Melvyn Dubofsky on February 20, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Financial Markets
- by Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
- reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on July 30, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth
- by Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich and Will Steffen (editors)
- reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on October 26, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
- by Carlota Perez
- reviewed by Bertrand M. Roehner on January 22, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Technology Matters: Questions to Live With
- by David E. Nye
- reviewed by Rick Szostak on June 23, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor
- by Stanley L. Engerman (editor)
- reviewed by Jonathan B. Pritchett on September 10, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences
- by Vaclav Smil
- reviewed by Joel Mokyr on December 30, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- The Triumph of Capitalism
- by Robert A. Degen
- reviewed by Joseph M. Santos on August 26, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns
- by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton
- reviewed by John A. James on August 28, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680
- by Stuart B. Schwartz (editor)
- reviewed by David Eltis on December 31, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Two Hundred Years of Say's Law: Essays on Economic Theory's Most Controversial Principle
- by Steven Kates (editor)
- reviewed by Ingrid H. Rima on November 18, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- U.S. Development Aid: An Historic First
- by Samuel Hale Butterfield
- reviewed by John R. Hanson II on September 30, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present
- by David S. Landes
- reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on April 1, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Understanding the Process of Economic Change
- by Douglass C. North
- reviewed by Alexander J. Field on February 15, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Factor Endowments, Culture, and Politics on Long-run Economic Performance
- by Deepak Lal
- reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on December 21, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- Valuing Cultural Heritage: Applying Environmental Valuation Techniques to Historic Buildings, Monuments and Artifacts
- by Ståle Navrud and Richard C. Ready (editors)
- reviewed by John C. Whitehead on January 10, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
- by Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast
- reviewed by Robert A. Margo on June 24, 2009
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Are Some So Rich and Others So Poor
- by David S. Landes
- reviewed by J. Bradford De Long on April 6, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought
- by Alessandro Roncaglia
- reviewed by Ingrid H. Rima on June 28, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates since 1917
- by Marcel van der Linden
- reviewed by Martin Kragh on October 9, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Who's Who in Economics (Third Edition)
- by Mark Blaug
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on February 11, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
- The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump
- by Theo Balderston (editor)
- reviewed by Randall E. Parker on March 23, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective
- by Angus Maddison
- reviewed by Elise S. Brezis on November 26, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- A World History of Tax Rebellions: An Encyclopedia of Tax Rebels, Revolts, and Riots from Antiquity to the Present
- by David F. Burg
- reviewed by Richard Vedder on October 2, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization
- by Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin
- reviewed by James A. Jaffe on March 16, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- The World System and the Earth System: Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability since the Neolithic
- by Alf Hornborg and Carole L. Crumley (editors)
- reviewed by Eric Jones on March 9, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W)
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