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La Croix, Sumner

Studies in the Economic History of the Pacific Rim

by Sally M. Miller, A. J. H. Latham and Dennis O. Flynn (editors)

reviewed by Sumner La Croix on July 2, 1999

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle_

by Harold James

reviewed by Sumner La Croix on March 9, 2010

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), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)

Lai, Cheng-chung

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)

Laird, Pamela W.

The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations

by Karen S. Miller

reviewed by Pamela W. Laird on September 9, 1999

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B)

Lal, Deepak

The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy

by Kenneth Pomeranz

reviewed by Deepak Lal on October 2, 2000

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)

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)

Landes, David S.

The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business

by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.

reviewed by David S. Landes on February 12, 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: Business History (B)

Landry, Michael

Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter & Gamble

by Davis Dyer, Frederick Dalzell and Rowena Olegario

reviewed by Michael Landry on June 17, 2005

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)

Langdon, John

Britain and Ireland, 1050-1530: Economy and Society

by Richard Britnell

reviewed by John Langdon on December 8, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Langlois, Richard N.

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction

by Thomas K. McCraw

reviewed by Richard N. Langlois on November 14, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: 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), Markets and Institutions (W)

Larson, Bruce

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)

Laurent, Jerome K.

The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862

by Carol Sheriff

reviewed by Jerome K. Laurent on July 14, 1997

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933

by Margaret Beattie Bogue

reviewed by Jerome K. Laurent on July 12, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)

Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990

by John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith and Randy William Widdis

reviewed by Jerome K. Laurent on January 20, 2006

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: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Labor and Employment History (T), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Law, Marc

Pain and Profits: The History of the Headache and Its Remedies in America

by Jan R. McTavish

reviewed by Marc Law on May 12, 2008

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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)

Lawlor, Michael S.

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)

Joan Robinson's Economics: A Centennial Celebration

by Bill Gibson (editor)

reviewed by Michael S. Lawlor on November 13, 2006

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

John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace

by Donald Markwell

reviewed by Michael S. Lawlor on February 2, 2008

Geographic area: Europe (4)
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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Lazarev, Valery

A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-53

by Julie Hessler

reviewed by Valery Lazarev on January 12, 2005

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)

Lazarev, Valéry

Russia's Foreign Trade and Economic Expansion in the Seventeenth Century: Windows on the World

by J. T. Kotilaine

reviewed by Valéry Lazarev on April 28, 2006

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 17th Century (5)
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Lee, Ming-Hsuan

Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949

by Kaoru Sugihara (editor)

reviewed by Ming-Hsuan Lee on December 17, 2005

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)

Lee, Chulhee

Poverty and Life Expectancy: The Jamaica Paradox

by James C. Riley

reviewed by Chulhee Lee on January 30, 2007

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)

Leeson, Robert

The Legacy of Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose: Economic Liberalism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

by Mark Wynne, Harvey Rosenblum and Robert Formaini (editors)

reviewed by Ranald Taylor and Robert Leeson on November 8, 2006

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)

Leeson, Peter T.

Governance, Growth and Global Leadership: The Role of the State in Technological Progress, 1750-2000

by Espen Moe

reviewed by Peter T. Leeson on July 25, 2007

Geographic area: 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: 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)

Leonard, Carol

Russia's Economic Transitions: From Late Tsarism to the New Millennium

by Nicolas Spulber

reviewed by Carol Leonard on March 31, 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), Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Lester, Richard

The Voluntary City: Choice, Community and Civil Society

by David T. Beito, Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok (editors)

reviewed by Richard Lester on November 26, 2002

Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
Time period: General or Comparative (0), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)

Levenstein, Margaret

Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America

by William G. Roy

reviewed by Margaret Levenstein on August 12, 1998

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)

Levenstein, Margaret C.

The Effects of Competition: Cartel Policy and the Evolution of Strategy and Structure in British Industry

by George Symeonidis

reviewed by Margaret C. Levenstein on July 9, 2003

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)

Levy, Barry

Rum and Axes: The Rise of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 1795-1850

by Janet Siskind

reviewed by Barry Levy on August 9, 2002

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Levy, David M.

The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation

by Seymour Drescher

reviewed by David M. Levy on November 6, 2003

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

by James P. Huzel

reviewed by David M. Levy on March 26, 2007

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

Lewis, Frank D.

The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier

by Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill

reviewed by Frank D. Lewis on January 6, 2005

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)

Libecap, Gary

The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume III: The Twentieth Century

by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman (editors)

reviewed by Gary Libecap on March 28, 2001

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

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)

The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876-1929

by Stephen Haber, Armando Razo and Noel Maurer

reviewed by Gary Libecap on May 21, 2004

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)

The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century

by William R. Childs

reviewed by Gary Libecap on March 3, 2006

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), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)

Libecap, Gary D.

Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume Five: Governance and International Relations

by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)

reviewed by Gary D. Libecap on April 19, 2006

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: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Urban and Regional History (Z)

Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California

by Steven P. Erie

reviewed by Gary D. Libecap on December 23, 2006

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), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)

The Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects

by Gordon Morris Bakken

reviewed by Gary D. Libecap on December 9, 2008

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), Markets and Institutions (W)

Licht, Walter

State of the Union: A Century of American Labor

by Nelson Lichtenstein

reviewed by Walter Licht on September 13, 2002

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)

Lichtenstein, Nelson

Who's In Charge? Workers and Managers in the United States

by Peter Liebhold and Harry Rubenstein

reviewed by Nelson Lichtenstein on March 6, 1996

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: General or Comparative (0)
Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)

Liebowitz, Jonathan J.

Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860

by Judith A. Miller

reviewed by Jonathan J. Liebowitz on January 13, 2000

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)

The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris, 1830-1870

by Victoria E. Thompson

reviewed by Jonathan J. Liebowitz on May 3, 2001

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 19th Century (7)
Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

A History of the European Economy, 1000-2000

by François Crouzet

reviewed by Jonathan J. Liebowitz on May 9, 2002

Geographic area: Europe (4)
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: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Liebowitz, Jonathan

The Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution

by John Shovlin

reviewed by Jonathan Liebowitz on April 10, 2007

Geographic area: Europe (4)
Time period: 18th Century (6)
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Liggio, Leonard P.

Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Liberalism: Richard Cobden Bicentenary Essays

by Anthony Howe and Simon Morgan (editors)

reviewed by Leonard P. Liggio on July 26, 2007

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

Lin, Rachel Chernos

The Atlantic Slave Trade

by Johannes Postma

reviewed by Rachel Chernos Lin on August 24, 2004

Geographic area: 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: Servitude and Slavery (N)

Lindert, Peter H.

The Race between Education and Technology

by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz

reviewed by Peter H. Lindert on November 29, 2008

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Labor and Employment History (T)

Lindo-Fuentes, Héctor

Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930

by Julie A. Charlip

reviewed by Héctor Lindo-Fuentes on September 8, 2003

Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)

Lindstrom, Diane

River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850

by Kim M. Gruenwald

reviewed by Diane Lindstrom on January 19, 2004

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)

Lipartito, Kenneth

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)

Logan, Trevon D.

Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume One: Population

by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)

reviewed by Trevon D. Logan on July 17, 2006

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: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Logan, Trevon

The Cost of Living in America: A Political History of Economic Statistics, 1880-2000

by Thomas A. Stapleford

reviewed by Trevon Logan on February 11, 2010

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), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)

Lufrano, Richard

The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China

by Timothy Brook

reviewed by Richard Lufrano on August 26, 1998

Geographic area: Asia (2)
Time period: Medieval (3)
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)

Lydon, Ghislaine

Her Day in Court: Women’s Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada

by Maya Shatzmiller

reviewed by Ghislaine Lydon on May 1, 2009

Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
Time period: Medieval (3)
Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

Lyons, Thomas

Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980

by Timothy Minchin

reviewed by Thomas Lyons on June 18, 1999

Geographic area: North America (7)
Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)

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