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Gabel, David
The Second Information Revolution
by Gerald W. Brock
reviewed by David Gabel on August 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Galambos, Louis
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)
Galbi, Douglas
The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications
by Paul Starr
reviewed by Douglas Galbi on September 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Galenson, David W.
Landscape with Figures: A History of Art Dealing in the United States
by Malcolm Goldstein
reviewed by David W. Galenson on February 27, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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)
Ganster, Paul
Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border
by Casey Walsh
reviewed by Paul Ganster on June 30, 2009
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Gardner, Bruce
American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980
by Jon Lauck
reviewed by Bruce Gardner on June 12, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture
by Deborah Fitzgerald
reviewed by Bruce Gardner on June 20, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
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)
Garrison, Roger W.
The Revival of Laissez-Faire in American Macroeconomic Theory: A Case Study of the Pioneers
by Sherryl Davis Kasper
reviewed by Roger W. Garrison on April 22, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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)
Gekas, Sakis
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)
Gemery, Henry A.
The Vanishing Irish: Households, Migration, and the Rural Economy in Ireland, 1850-1914
by Timothy W. Guinnane
reviewed by Henry A. Gemery on August 11, 1998
  • Geographic area:
  • Time period: 16th Century (4)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
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)
Gerber, James
Revisiting U.S. Trade Policy: Decisions in Perspective
by Alfred E. Eckes Jr.
reviewed by James Gerber on December 5, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Gerber, Larry G.
Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer
by Kathleen G. Donohue
reviewed by Larry G. Gerber on June 8, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
Giedeman, Daniel
The Federal Reserve System: An Encyclopedia
by R. W. Hafer
reviewed by Daniel Giedeman on June 9, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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)
Gillingham, John
The Battle of the Single European Market: Achievements and Economic Thought, 1945-2000
by Gilles Grin
reviewed by John Gillingham on July 19, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Gilmartin, David
Ecology, Colonialism, and Cattle: Central India in the Nineteenth Century
by Laxman D. Satya
reviewed by David Gilmartin on August 25, 2006
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Giocoli, Nicola
European Economists of the Early Twentieth Century, Volume 2. Studies on Neglected Continental Thinkers of Germany and Italy
by Warren J. Samuels (editor)
reviewed by Nicola Giocoli on December 12, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Giraldez, Arturo
Asian Merchants and Businessmen in the Indian Ocean and the China Sea
by Denys Lombard and Jean Aubin
reviewed by Arturo Giraldez on November 7, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines
by Benito J. Legarda
reviewed by Arturo Giraldez on November 2, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), 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)
Gispen, Kees
The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps
by Michael Thad Allen
reviewed by Kees Gispen on March 4, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
Glasner, David
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)
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)
Godley, Andrew C.
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)
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)
Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe
by Derek J. Penslar
reviewed by Andrew C. Godley on January 23, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Godley, Andrew
Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce
by Sarah Abrevaya Stein
reviewed by Andrew Godley on June 23, 2009
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Goffe, Bill
Winners, Losers and Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology
by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis
reviewed by Bill Goffe on July 24, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Goldfarb, Brent
Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions
by Johann Peter Murmann
reviewed by Brent Goldfarb on September 17, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
Goldin, Milton
Four Books on Philanthropy
by Bruce R. Hopkins, Jody Blazek, D. Benson Tesdahl, Lester M. Salamon and Judith Sealander
reviewed by Milton Goldin on May 5, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
reviewed by Milton Goldin on June 24, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Unlikely Partners: Philanthropic Foundations and the Labor Movement
by Richard Magat
reviewed by Milton Goldin on December 16, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
reviewed by Milton Goldin on February 12, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Urban and Regional History (Z)
Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader
by David C. Hammack
reviewed by Milton Goldin on April 10, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Nonprofits and Government: Collaboration and Conflict
by Elizabeth T. Boris and C. Eugene Steuerle
reviewed by Milton Goldin on July 16, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Philanthropic Foundations: New Scholarship, New Possibilities
by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
reviewed by Milton Goldin on August 30, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Goldstone, Jack A.
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)
Gómez Galvarriato, Aurora
Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship: Networks and Private Protection during Mexico's Early Industrialization
by Armando Razo
reviewed by Aurora Gómez Galvarriato on September 30, 2008
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Goodhart, C.A.E.
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)
Goodwin, Craufurd
Designing US Economic Policy: An Analytical Biography of Leon H. Keyserling
by W. Robert Brazelton
reviewed by Craufurd Goodwin on November 23, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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)
Gordon, Colin
Beyond Broker State: Federal Policies Toward Small Business, 1936-1961
by Jonathan J. Bean
reviewed by Colin Gordon on January 9, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Blues: A History of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield System
by Robert Cunningham III and Robert M. Jr. Cunningham
reviewed by Colin Gordon on June 22, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
Gordon, Daniel V.
Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chain
by Ian MacLachlan
reviewed by Daniel V. Gordon on May 24, 2002
  • Geographic area: 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), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Gorman, Hugh
Ties That Bind: Economic and Political Dilemmas of Urban Utility Networks, 1800-1990
by Charles David Jacobson
reviewed by Hugh Gorman on December 7, 2001
  • Geographic area: 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Gottschang, Thomas R.
Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run
by Angus Maddison
reviewed by Thomas R. Gottschang on July 3, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Grafe, Regina
The 'Mother of All Trades': The Baltic Grain Trade in Amsterdam from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century
by Milja van Tielhof
reviewed by Regina Grafe on August 18, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Grant, Randy R.
U.S. Economic History Since 1945
by Michael French
reviewed by Randy R. Grant on October 1, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Grant, H. Roger
The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad
by Robert E. Mohowski
reviewed by H. Roger Grant on November 12, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Grantham, George
Regions, Institutions and Agrarian Change in European History
by Rosemary L. Hopcroft
reviewed by George Grantham on September 13, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Markets and Institutions (W)
Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour and Aristocratic Dominance
by Jairus Banaji
reviewed by George Grantham on May 12, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Baetica Felix: People and Prosperity in Southern Spain from Caesar to Septimius Severus
by Evan W. Haley
reviewed by George Grantham on July 27, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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)
The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750
by Jan de Vries
reviewed by George Grantham on October 3, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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)
Économie rurale et société dans l'Europe franque (VI-IX siècles)
by Jean-Pierre Devroey
reviewed by George Grantham on July 4, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Puissants et misérables: Système social et monde paysan dans l'Europe des Francs (VI-IX siècles)
by Jean-Pierre Devroey
reviewed by George Grantham on July 4, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Gratton, Brian
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990
by Dora L. Costa
reviewed by Brian Gratton on December 15, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Graves, Michael W.
Bronze Age Economics: The First Political Economies
by Timothy Earle
reviewed by Michael W. Graves on June 5, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), Prehistoric (1), 16th Century (4), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Gray, Jane
The Atlantic Economy: Britain, the US and Ireland
by Denis O'Hearn
reviewed by Jane Gray on February 24, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • 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), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Greasley, David
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)
Green, David R.
An Economic History of London, 1800-1914
by Michael Ball and David Sunderland
reviewed by David R. Green on April 8, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Urban and Regional History (Z)
Green, Jennifer R.
Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1865
by L. Diane Barnes
reviewed by Jennifer R. Green on March 6, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
Gregg, Matthew T.
On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment
by Geoff Cunfer
reviewed by Matthew T. Gregg on April 24, 2006
  • Geographic area: 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), Historical Geography (K)
Gregg, Samuel
America’s Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics
by Donald E. Frey
reviewed by Samuel Gregg on September 24, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • 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 Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Gregory, Paul R.
Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev
by R. W. Davies
reviewed by Paul R. Gregory on April 26, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Gregory, Timothy E.
The Byzantine Economy
by Angeliki E. Laiou and Cécile Morrisson
reviewed by Timothy E. Gregory on October 31, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian
by Peter Sarris
reviewed by Timothy E. Gregory on June 16, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Greif, Avner
Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
by Olivia Remie Constable
reviewed by Avner Greif on July 25, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Griffiths, David
Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce, AD 300-900
by Michael McCormick
reviewed by David Griffiths on July 16, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Gross, Nachum
Oil and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-63
by Uri Bialer
reviewed by Nachum Gross on May 19, 1999
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Grubb, Farley
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
by T. H. Breen
reviewed by Farley Grubb on December 7, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Grytten, Ola Honningdal
Norwegian Catch-Up: Development and Globalization before World War II
by Jonathon W. Moses
reviewed by Ola Honningdal Grytten on October 14, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • 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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Gudmestad, Robert
Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South
by William Kauffman Scarborough
reviewed by Robert Gudmestad on March 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
Guinnane, Timothy W.
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)
Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development
by Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (editors)
reviewed by Timothy W. Guinnane on September 8, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • 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), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Labor and Employment History (T)
The German Economy during the Nineteenth Century
by Toni Pierenkemper and Richard H. Tilly
reviewed by Timothy W. Guinnane on September 24, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Planning Ahead and Falling Behind: The East German Economy in Comparison with West Germany, 1936-2002
by Jaap Sleifer
reviewed by Timothy W. Guinnane on January 19, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • 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)
Die Kreditbanken in der Gründerzeit
by Carsten Burhop
reviewed by Timothy W. Guinnane on February 9, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Gunderson, Gerald
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
reviewed by Gerald Gunderson on September 18, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich
by Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen
reviewed by Gerald Gunderson on July 28, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)

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