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- Pack, Spencer J.
- On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion
- by Samuel Fleischacker
- reviewed by Spencer J. Pack on July 27, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Paganelli, Maria Pia
- Essays on the History of Economics
- by Warren J. Samuels, Willie Henderson, Kirk D. Johnson and Marianne Johnson (editors)
- reviewed by Maria Pia Paganelli on January 18, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Palairet, Michael
- Central Europe in the Twentieth Century. An Economic History Perspective
- by Alice Teichova
- reviewed by Michael Palairet on August 20, 1998
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution
- by Susannah Handley
- reviewed by Michael Palairet on November 9, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Pamuk, Sevket
- Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950
- by Jeffrey G. Williamson
- reviewed by Sevket Pamuk on June 25, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Income and Wealth (Q), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Pamuk, Şevket
- Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
- by Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke
- reviewed by Şevket Pamuk on August 19, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), Middle East (6), North America (7)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Pandya, Sachin S.
- The Liability Century: Insurance and Tort Law from the Progressive Era to 9/11
- by Kenneth S. Abraham
- reviewed by Sachin S. Pandya on May 5, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Parente, Stephen L.
- Economic Growth and Change: National and Regional Patterns of Convergence and Divergence
- by John Adams and Francesco Pigliaru (editors)
- reviewed by Stephen L. Parente on May 8, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- Parker, Randall E.
- The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump
- by Theo Balderston (editor)
- reviewed by Randall E. Parker on March 23, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Parkerson, Donald
- Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors: The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720-1850
- by Thomas S. Wermuth
- reviewed by Donald Parkerson on January 30, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Parthasarathi, Prasannan
- The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c. 1350-1650
- by Carla M. Sinopoli
- reviewed by Prasannan Parthasarathi on October 27, 2005
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Paterson, Donald G.
- In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906
- by Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman and Karen Gleiter
- reviewed by Donald G. Paterson on August 18, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Patterson, Perry L.
- The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System: An Insiders' History
- by Michael Ellmanand and Vladimir Kontorovich (editors)
- reviewed by Perry L. Patterson on July 25, 2001
- Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile
- by Lewis H. Siegelbaum
- reviewed by Perry L. Patterson on August 6, 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), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Peart, Sandra
- Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland
- by Gordon Bigelow
- reviewed by Sandra Peart on July 20, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Peart, Sandra J.
- Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life
- by Mark Francis
- reviewed by Sandra J. Peart on October 13, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Pemberton, Hugh
- Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914
- by Martin Daunton
- reviewed by Hugh Pemberton on March 30, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- 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)
- Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914-1979
- by Martin Daunton
- reviewed by Hugh Pemberton on March 30, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- 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)
- Perdue, Peter
- Asia-Pacific Dynamism, 1550-2000
- by A.J.H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu (editors)
- reviewed by Peter Perdue on March 29, 2002
- Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
- 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: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Perelman, Michael
- Economics in the Long Run: New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies, 1933-1993
- by Theodore Rosenof
- reviewed by Michael Perelman on February 17, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Perez, Stephen J.
- Monetary Policy and the Great Inflation in the United States: The Federal Reserve and the Failure of Macroeconomic Policy, 1965-79
- by Thomas Mayer
- reviewed by Stephen J. Perez on January 26, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Perkins, Edwin J.
- The Origins and Economic Impact of the First Bank of the United States, 1791-1797
- by David J. Cowen
- reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins on May 22, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Origins of Commercial Banking in America, 1750-1800
- by Robert E. Wright
- reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins on November 12, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Advocate for American Enterprise: William Buck Dana and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1865-1910
- by Douglas Steeples
- reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins on August 18, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Perkins, Edwin
- Street of Dreams, Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century
- by Howard M. Wachtel
- reviewed by Edwin Perkins on August 22, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Perlman, Mark
- Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy
- by Edward C. Lorenz
- reviewed by Mark Perlman on March 14, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge
- by J. Adam Tooze
- reviewed by Mark Perlman on April 7, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Perren, Richard
- Food and the City in Europe since 1800
- by Peter J. Atkins, Peter Lummel and Derek J. Oddy (editors)
- reviewed by Richard Perren on February 27, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- 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), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Persson, Karl Gunnar
- Europe in the International Economy, 1500-2000
- by Derek H. Aldcroft and Anthony Sutcliffe
- reviewed by Karl Gunnar Persson on August 7, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Freedom and Growth: The Rise of States and Markets in Europe, 1300-1750
- by S. R. Epstein
- reviewed by Karl Gunnar Persson on February 15, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- 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)
- Peskin, Lawrence A.
- Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860
- by Tom Downey
- reviewed by Lawrence A. Peskin on January 25, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Phillips, William H.
- The New South's New Frontier: A Social History of Economic Development in Southwestern North Carolina
- by Stephen Wallace Taylor
- reviewed by William H. Phillips on March 13, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development
- by David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis
- reviewed by William H. Phillips on November 4, 2003
- 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
- by Angela Lakwete
- reviewed by William H. Phillips on April 19, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Phillips, Jim
- British Conservatism and Trade Unionism, 1945-1964
- by Peter Dorey
- reviewed by Jim Phillips on October 6, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Pilbeam, Pam
- The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914
- by Tracy C. Davis
- reviewed by Pam Pilbeam on July 25, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Pincus, Jonathan
- Economic Relations between Britain and Australasia, 1945-1970
- by John Singleton and Paul L. Robertson
- reviewed by Jonathan Pincus on January 16, 2004
- Geographic area: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Poitras, Geoffrey
- Forerunners of Modern Financial Economics: A Random Walk in the History of Economic Thought, 1900-1950
- by Donald R. Stabile
- reviewed by Geoffrey Poitras on November 2, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Pokorny, Michael
- Entertainment Industrialised: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890-1940
- by Gerben Bakker
- reviewed by Michael Pokorny on April 28, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- 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), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Pomeranz, Kenneth
- Chinese Capitalism, 1522-1840
- by Xu Dixin and Wu Chengming
- reviewed by Kenneth Pomeranz on August 24, 2000
- 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)
- Agricultural Development in Jiangnan, 1620-1850
- by Li Bozhong
- reviewed by Kenneth Pomeranz on July 7, 2003
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Pomfret, Richard
- In Search of Prosperity: Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth
- by Dani Rodrik (editor)
- reviewed by Richard Pomfret on August 22, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Poole, Keith T.
- To Form a More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution
- by Robert A. McGuire
- reviewed by Keith T. Poole on January 12, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Porter, Theodore M.
- At the Origins of Mathematical Economics: The Economics of A. N. Isnard (1748-1803)
- by Richard van den Berg (editor)
- reviewed by Theodore M. Porter on June 5, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Prakash, Om
- Monsoon Traders: Ships, Skippers and Commodities in Eighteenth-century Makassar
- by Gerrit Knaap and Heather Sutherland
- reviewed by Om Prakash on October 31, 2005
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Pritchett, Jonathan B.
- Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor
- by Stanley L. Engerman (editor)
- reviewed by Jonathan B. Pritchett on September 10, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Pritchett, Jonathan
- A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade
- by Robert H. Gudmestad
- reviewed by Jonathan Pritchett on July 9, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Pritchett, Jonathan B.
- Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South
- by Jonathan D. Martin
- reviewed by Jonathan B. Pritchett on September 6, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Pryor, Frederic L.
- Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism
- by Timur Kuran
- reviewed by Frederic L. Pryor on August 23, 2004
- Geographic area: Middle East (6)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
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