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Haar, Laura

Aspects of Independent Romania’s Economic History with Particular Reference to Transition for EU Accession

by David Turnock

reviewed by Laura Haar on September 1, 2008

Geographic area: 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)

Haefeli, Evan

Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782

by Ronald Hoffman

reviewed by Evan Haefeli on January 19, 2001

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Haigh, Thomas

Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century

by JoAnne Yates

reviewed by Thomas Haigh on May 9, 2007

Geographic area: 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)

Halcoussis, Dennis

Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South

by Shawn Everett Kantor

reviewed by Dennis Halcoussis on August 13, 1998

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)

Hall, Thomas E.

The Natural Instability of Markets: Expectations, Increasing Returns, and the Collapse of Capitalism

by Michael Perelman

reviewed by Thomas E. Hall on May 15, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)

Hall, Joshua C.

Thomas F. Walsh: Progressive Businessman and Colorado Mining Tycoon

by John C. Stewart

reviewed by Joshua C. Hall on December 17, 2007

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)

Hamilton, Gillian

Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century

by Robert J. Steinfeld

reviewed by Gillian Hamilton on March 11, 2002

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)

Hammond, J. Daniel

Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution: Studies of the Inter-war Literature on Money, the Cycle, and Unemployment

by David Laidler

reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on June 1, 2000

Geographic area: Africa (1)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Hammond, Claire

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)

Hammond, J. Daniel

The "Vanity of the Philosopher": From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics

by Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy

reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on October 2, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Paul Samuelson: On Being an Economist

by Michael Szenberg, Aron Gottesman and Lall Ramrattan

reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on March 5, 2007

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)

The Marketplace of Christianity

by Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Robert F. Hébert and Robert D. Tollison

reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on March 29, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: General or Comparative (0), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Hammond, Claire

The Antitrust Religion

by Edwin S. Rockefeller

reviewed by Claire Hammond on September 21, 2009

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), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

Hammond, J. Daniel

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)

Hamouda, O.F.

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)

Handberg, Roger

NASA and the Space Industry

by Joan Lisa Bromberg

reviewed by Roger Handberg on February 20, 1999

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)

Hanes, Christopher

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)

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)

Hanley, Anne

Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America: Essays in Policy, History, and Political Economy

by Stephen Haber (editor)

reviewed by Anne Hanley on April 18, 2001

Geographic area: 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: Markets and Institutions (W)

Hansen, Mary Eschelbach

Sowing Modernity: America's First Agricultural Revolution

by Peter D. McClelland

reviewed by Mary Eschelbach Hansen on February 28, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)

Hansen, Bradley A.

Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America

by Edward J. Balleisen

reviewed by Bradley A. Hansen on July 31, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)

Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America

by David A. Skeel

reviewed by Bradley A. Hansen on April 17, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
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), Markets and Institutions (W)

Hansen, Mary Eschelbach

Quantitative Economic History: The Good of Counting

by Joshua L. Rosenbloom (editor)

reviewed by Mary Eschelbach Hansen on September 26, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4), 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), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Hanson, John R.

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)

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)

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)

Hanson II, John R.

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)

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)

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)

Harley, Knick

British Economic Growth, 1688-1959: Trends and Structure

by Phyllis Deane and W. A. Cole

reviewed by Knick Harley on September 18, 2001

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)

Harpham, Edward J.

Harmony and the Balance: An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Economic Thought

by Andrea Finkelstein

reviewed by Edward J. Harpham on June 18, 2002

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 17th Century (5)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Harris, J. William

Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War

by John C. Willis

reviewed by J. William Harris on July 18, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Harris, Bernard

Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France

by Andrea A. Rusnock

reviewed by Bernard Harris on May 10, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)

The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: Social Policies Compared

by E. P. Hennock

reviewed by Bernard Harris on August 25, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)

Harrison, Mark

Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR

by Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff

reviewed by Mark Harrison on January 17, 2003

Geographic area: 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)

The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives

by Paul R. Gregory

reviewed by Mark Harrison on July 10, 2004

Geographic area: 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), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)

The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag

by Paul R. Gregory and Valery Lazarev (editors)

reviewed by Mark Harrison on July 10, 2004

Geographic area: 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), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)

Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs

by G. C. Peden

reviewed by Mark Harrison on September 23, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Military and War (O)

Harvey, Gordon E.

Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979

by Christopher MacGregor Scribner

reviewed by Gordon E. Harvey on December 17, 2002

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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Urban and Regional History (Z)

Hatton, Tim

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)

Hatton, Timothy J.

Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain

by Joyce Burnette

reviewed by Timothy J. Hatton on December 18, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)

Haupert, Michael

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)

Haupert, Michael J.

by John Sedgwick

reviewed by Michael J. Haupert on July 27, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Haupert, Michael

Much More than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921

by Robert F. Burk

reviewed by Michael Haupert on January 21, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T)

Haupert, Michael J.

Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903-2003

by Henry D. Fetter

reviewed by Michael J. Haupert on May 5, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T)

Haupert, Michael

Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary

by Michael E Lomax

reviewed by Michael Haupert on September 9, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Haupert, Mike

On Hollywood: The Place, the Industry

by Allen J. Scott

reviewed by Mike Haupert on October 18, 2005

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Historical Geography (K), Urban and Regional History (Z)

Haupert, Michael

Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians

by John S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain and Samuel H. Williamson (editors)

reviewed by Michael Haupert on August 29, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)

Hausman, William J.

Mass Production, the Stock Market Crash, and the Great Depression: The Macroeconomics of Electrification

by Bernard C. Beaudreau

reviewed by William J. Hausman on February 28, 1998

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)

Hautcoeur, Pierre-Cyrille

The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800-1930

by Michael Stephen Smith

reviewed by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on May 8, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B)

L’économie morale, pauvreté, crédit et confiance dans l’Europe préindustrielle

by Laurence Fontaine

reviewed by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on January 12, 2009

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Hawley, Ellis W.

FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

by Jim Powell

reviewed by Ellis W. Hawley on March 30, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)

Hayes, Patrick J.

Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican, 1850-1950

by Stephen F. Pollard

reviewed by Patrick J. Hayes on June 3, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 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)

Hayes, M. G.

Keynes and His Battles

by Gilles Dostaler

reviewed by M. G. Hayes on August 23, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Hayward, Oliver

Making Peasants Backward: Managing Populations in Russian Agricultural Cooperatives, 1861-1914

by Yanni Kotsonis

reviewed by Oliver Hayward on May 12, 2000

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)

Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade, and the Railways, 1917-1924

by Anthony Heywood

reviewed by Oliver Hayward on September 15, 2000

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Heckelman, Jac

Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll-Call Voting

by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal

reviewed by Jac Heckelman on August 20, 1998

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

Heinicke, Craig

Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South 1865-1965

by Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie

reviewed by Craig Heinicke on December 7, 2000

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), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South

by Donald Holley

reviewed by Craig Heinicke on March 26, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Hejeebu, Santhi

The Economic History of India 1857-1947

by Tirthankar Roy

reviewed by Santhi Hejeebu on March 18, 2002

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833

by H.V. Bowen

reviewed by Santhi Hejeebu on April 9, 2007

Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)

The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760

by K. N. Chaudhuri

reviewed by Santhi Hejeebu on December 20, 2000

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Helliwell, John F.

The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950

by Avner Offer

reviewed by John F. Helliwell on January 18, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)

Hemenway, Robin L. E.

Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883

by Joel Best

reviewed by Robin L. E. Hemenway on July 26, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Heston, Alan

The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century

by Rene J. Barendse

reviewed by Alan Heston on February 26, 2003

Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Europe (4), Middle East (6)
Time period: 17th Century (5)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century

by Fernand Braudel

reviewed by Alan Heston on August 1, 2000

Geographic area: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3)
Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)

Hewett, Roger

Taxation in Colonial America

by Alvin Rabushka

reviewed by Roger Hewett on August 27, 2008

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

Higgins, David

Firms, Networks and Business Values: The British and American Cotton Industries since 1750

by Mary B. Rose

reviewed by David Higgins on May 11, 2001

Geographic area: 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: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)

Higgs, Robert

The Future of U.S. Capitalism

by Frederic L. Pryor

reviewed by Robert Higgs on October 24, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Is War Necessary for Economic Growth? Military Procurement and Technology Development

by Vernon W. Ruttan

reviewed by Robert Higgs on June 21, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Military and War (O)

Hill, Peter J.

The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century West

by Gerald D. Nash

reviewed by Peter J. Hill on January 21, 2000

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)

Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature

by Mark Daniel Barringer

reviewed by Peter J. Hill on August 26, 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Urban and Regional History (Z)

Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935

by Donald J. Pisani

reviewed by Peter J. Hill on October 20, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

Hinde, Andrew

Population and Disease: Transforming English Society, 1550-1850

by Peter Razzell

reviewed by Andrew Hinde on July 9, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)

Hinz, Christienne L.

Kimono in the Boardroom: the Invisible Evolution of Japanese Women Managers

by Jean R. Renshaw

reviewed by Christienne L. Hinz on September 19, 2001

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Hirschman, Charles

An Economic History of Malaysia, c.1800-1990: The Transition to Modern Economic Growth

by John H. Drabble

reviewed by Charles Hirschman on July 9, 2001

Geographic area: Asia (2)
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)

Hodgson, Geoffrey M.

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)

Hoeveler, J. David

American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century

by Nelson Lichtenstein (editor)

reviewed by J. David Hoeveler on August 30, 2006

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)

Hoffman, Philip T.

Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade

by Avner Greif

reviewed by Philip T. Hoffman on August 7, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
Time period: Medieval (3)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)

Hogendorn, Jan

The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas

by David Eltis

reviewed by Jan Hogendorn on July 1, 2000

Geographic area: Africa (1), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)

Hohenberg, Paul M.

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 Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770

by David Ormrod

reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on December 11, 2003

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)

Riches from Atlantic Commerce: Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817

by Johannes Postma and Victor Enthoven (editors)

reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on June 28, 2004

Geographic area: 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: Business History (B), 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)

Hollander, Samuel

T.R. Malthus: The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University

by J. M. Pullen and Trevor Hughes Parry (editors)

reviewed by Samuel Hollander on March 10, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Honda, Gail

Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture

by Susan B. Hanley

reviewed by Gail Honda on July 16, 1997

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Honeyman, Katrina

Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution

by Steven King and Geoffrey Timmins

reviewed by Katrina Honeyman on September 21, 2001

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)

Horesh, Niv

China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937

by Tomoko Shiroyama

reviewed by Niv Horesh on August 22, 2008

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)

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)

Horn, Gerd-Rainer

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)

Hornstein, Jeffrey M.

Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940

by Arwen Mohun

reviewed by Jeffrey M. Hornstein on November 14, 2000

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Horowitz, David A.

Store Wars: Shopkeepers and the Culture of Mass Marketing, 1890-1939

by David Monod

reviewed by David A. Horowitz on September 8, 1997

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B)

Horowitz, Joel

Chimneys in the Desert: Industrialization in Argentina during the Export Boom Years, 1870-1930

by Fernando Rocchi

reviewed by Joel Horowitz on June 12, 2006

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

Horwitz, Steven

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)

Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics

by Kenneth R. Hoover

reviewed by Steven Horwitz on April 12, 2004

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

The Road to Serfdom: Texts and Documents -- The Definitive Edition

by F. A. Hayek

reviewed by Steven Horwitz on June 11, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4), 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)

Howard, Vicki

Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism

by Charles Perrow

reviewed by Vicki Howard on August 3, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants

by Kathleen M. Barry

reviewed by Vicki Howard on June 29, 2007

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), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Howlett, Peter

Castles, Battles and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History

by Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll

reviewed by Peter Howlett on February 3, 2009

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Military and War (O)

Huberman, Michael

Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal

by Sanford M. Jacoby

reviewed by Michael Huberman on March 18, 1999

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)

Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805

by Leonard N. Rosenband

reviewed by Michael Huberman on July 19, 2001

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)

Hudspeth, Harvey G.

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court Packing Crisis of 1937

by Marian C. McKenna

reviewed by Harvey G. Hudspeth on May 16, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

Railroads and American Law

by James W. Ely Jr.

reviewed by Harvey G. Hudspeth on July 16, 2003

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Business History (B)

Hueckel, Glenn

Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment

by Emma Rothschild

reviewed by Glenn Hueckel on September 16, 2002

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Huffman, Joseph P.

An Age of Transition? Economy and Society in the Later Middle Ages

by Christopher Dyer

reviewed by Joseph P. Huffman on December 13, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: Medieval (3)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)

Hughes, Lindsey

The Economy and Material Culture of Russia, 1600-1725

by Richard Hellie

reviewed by Lindsey Hughes on January 19, 2000

Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
Time period: 17th Century (5)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Hughes, Michael

Finance from Kaiser to Führer: Budget Politics in Germany, 1912-1934

by C. Edmund Clingan

reviewed by Michael Hughes on August 9, 2001

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)

Huijzendveld, Frans D.

Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia

by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley (editors)

reviewed by Frans D. Huijzendveld on September 14, 2005

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)

Hultén, Staffan

The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age

by Gijs Mom

reviewed by Staffan Hultén on March 28, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers

Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas

by Sally E. Hadden

reviewed by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel on July 22, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)

Humphries, Jane

Time and Work in England 1750-1830

by Hans-Joachim Voth

reviewed by Jane Humphries on February 4, 2002

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)

Huneke, William

Merging Lines: American Railroads, 1900-1970

by Richard Saunders Jr.

reviewed by William Huneke on February 20, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Hussey, David

The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660-1720

by Natasha Glaisyer

reviewed by David Hussey on July 5, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Hutchinson, William

Historical Statistics of U.S.

by 1997 Cambridge University Press

reviewed by William Hutchinson on December 3, 1997

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)

Hutchinson, William K.

The Tradition of Free Trade

by Lars Magnusson

reviewed by William K. Hutchinson on February 23, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

From Sugar Triangle to Cotton Triangle: Trade and Shipping between America and Baltic Russia, 1783-1860

by Kalevi Ahonen

reviewed by William K. Hutchinson on January 30, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

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