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- Saito, Osamu
- The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan
- by Thomas C. Smith
- reviewed by Osamu Saito on May 11, 2006
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Salvucci, Richard
- Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899-1929
- by Alan B. Dye
- reviewed by Richard Salvucci on September 6, 1999
- 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)
- Latin America and the World Economy since 1800
- by John Coatsworth and Alan Taylor
- reviewed by Richard Salvucci on February 21, 2000
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Salvucci, Linda K.
- Encumbered Cuba: Capital Markets and Revolt, 1878-1895
- by Susan J. Fernández
- reviewed by Linda K. Salvucci on June 18, 2003
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Salvucci, Richard J.
- The Decline of Latin American Economies: Growth, Institutions, and Crisis
- by Sebastian Edwards, Gerardo Esquivel and Graciela Márquez (editors)
- reviewed by Richard J. Salvucci on January 31, 2008
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Salvucci, Richard
- New Spain's Century of Depression
- by Woodrow Wilson Borah
- reviewed by Richard Salvucci on August 1, 2001
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Samuels, Warren J.
- The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century
- by Roger E. Backhouse
- reviewed by Warren J. Samuels on August 7, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Keynes, Chicago and Friedman
- by Robert Leeson
- reviewed by Warren J. Samuels on February 2, 2005
- 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)
- A History of Russian Economic Thought
- by Vincent Barnett
- reviewed by Natalia A. Makasheva and Warren J. Samuels on February 5, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Thorstein Veblen and the Revival of Free Market Capitalism
- by Janet T. Knoedler, Robert E. Prasch and Dell P. Champlin (editors)
- reviewed by Warren J. Samuels on November 7, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Economics in Russia: Studies in Intellectual History
- by Vincent Barnett and Joachim Zweynert (editors)
- reviewed by Warren J. Samuels on May 22, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- 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)
- Sanderson, Michael
- Technology, Industrial Conflict and the Development of Technical Education in Nineteenth-Century England
- by Bernard Cronin
- reviewed by Michael Sanderson on July 19, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Santoni, Gary
- Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
- by Didier Sornette
- reviewed by Gary Santoni on April 15, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Santoni, Gary J.
- The Federal Reserve and the Bull Markets: From Benjamin Strong to Alan Greenspan
- by Roger W. Spencer and John H. Huston
- reviewed by Gary J. Santoni on July 13, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Santos, Joseph M.
- The Triumph of Capitalism
- by Robert A. Degen
- reviewed by Joseph M. Santos on August 26, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Building a Global Bank: The Transformation of Banco Santander
- by Mauro F. Guillen and Adrian Tschoegl
- reviewed by Joseph M. Santos on January 22, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- 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)
- Santos-Redondo, Manuel
- Economic Engagements with Art
- by Neil De Marchi and Craufurd D.W. Goodwin (editors)
- reviewed by Manuel Santos-Redondo on January 11, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Saunders, Dawn
- Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West
- by Thomas A. Krainz
- reviewed by Dawn Saunders on April 12, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Sautet, Frederic
- Schumpeter's Market: Enterprise and Evolution
- by David Reisman
- reviewed by Frederic Sautet on September 2, 2005
- 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)
- Schachter, Hindy Lauer
- The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
- by Robert Kanigel
- reviewed by Hindy Lauer Schachter on November 10, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Schaefer, Donald F.
- The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery
- by Don E. Fehrenbacher and Ward M. McAfee
- reviewed by Donald F. Schaefer on April 9, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Schaps, David M.
- Money and Its Uses in the Ancient Greek World
- by Andrew Meadows and Kirsty Shipton (editors)
- reviewed by David M. Schaps on April 8, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Schell Jr., William
- Yankee Don't Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950
- by Julio Moreno
- reviewed by William Schell Jr. on September 7, 2004
- 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: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Schenk, Catherine R.
- Tariffs, Trade and European Integration 1947-1957: From Study Group to Common Market
- by Wendy Asbeek Brusse
- reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on February 18, 1999
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- From Gold to Euro: On Monetary Theory and the History of Currency Systems
- by Heinz-Peter Spahn
- reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on May 10, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Schenk, Catherine
- A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China's Finance Capitalism
- by Zhaojin Ji
- reviewed by Catherine Schenk on October 9, 2003
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Remaking the Postwar World Economy: Robot and British Policy in the 1950s
- by Peter Burnham
- reviewed by Catherine Schenk on January 18, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Schenk, Catherine R.
- The Management of the British Economy, 1945-2001
- by Nicholas Woodward
- reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on September 9, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780-2005
- by Youssef Cassis
- reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on October 22, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Scherner, Jonas
- Rebuilding Germany: The Creation of the Social Market Economy, 1945-1957
- by James C. van Hook
- reviewed by Jonas Scherner on April 29, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Inside IG Farben: Hoechst during the Third Reich
- by Stephan H. Lindner
- reviewed by Jonas Scherner on January 7, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Schiffman, Daniel A.
- The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance
- by Dan Rottenberg
- reviewed by Daniel A. Schiffman on January 8, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Schiltz, Michael
- From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes
- by Richard J. Smethurst
- reviewed by Michael Schiltz on February 7, 2008
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
- Schneirov, Richard
- A Living Wage
- by Lawrence B. Glickman
- reviewed by Richard Schneirov on July 3, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Schramm, Jeff
- Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920
- by Steven W. Usselman
- reviewed by Jeff Schramm on September 14, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Schuler, Kurt
- La economía argentina en la segunda mitad del siglo XX
- by Juan Carlos de Pablo
- reviewed by Kurt Schuler on November 28, 2005
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Schulze, Max-Stephan
- History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century
- by Ivan T. Berend
- reviewed by Max-Stephan Schulze on August 17, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Schwab, Robert M.
- Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984
- by Steven High
- reviewed by Robert M. Schwab on September 25, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Schwartz, Anna J.
- Exchange Rate Regimes in the Twentieth Century
- by Derek H. Aldcroft and Michael J. Oliver
- reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on November 24, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Big Problem of Small Change
- by Thomas J. Sargent and Francois R. Velde
- reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on July 15, 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)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Financial Crises and What to Do about Them
- by Barry Eichengreen
- reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on September 8, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Money Doctors: The Experience of Financial Advising, 1850-2000
- by Marc Flandreau (editor)
- reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on September 21, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods
- by Barry J. Eichengreen
- reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on March 21, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Schweikart, Larry
- Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America
- by Gretchen Ritter
- reviewed by Larry Schweikart on October 14, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- The Second Bank of the United States and Ohio (1803-1860): A Collision of Interests
- by Marion A. Brown
- reviewed by Larry Schweikart on January 13, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- American Business, 1920-2000: How It Worked
- by Thomas K. McCraw
- reviewed by Larry Schweikart on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Schwekendiek, Daniel
- Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung, Sozialstruktur und biologischer Lebensstandard in München und dem südlichen Bayern im 19. Jahrhundert
- by Klaus Schuster
- reviewed by Daniel Schwekendiek on April 17, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Scott, Carole E.
- Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960
- by Hugh R. Slotten
- reviewed by Carole E. Scott on March 8, 2002
- 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Scott, Peter
- Working Class Credit and Community since 1918
- by Avram Taylor
- reviewed by Peter Scott on August 30, 2003
- 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), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Scranton, Philip
- Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic
- by Rosalind Remer
- reviewed by Philip Scranton on December 19, 1996
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- An Economic History of the Silk Industry, 1830-1930
- by Giovanni Federico
- reviewed by Philip Scranton on December 5, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry
- by Albert J. Churella
- reviewed by Philip Scranton on January 7, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Self, James K.
- Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Great Debate Over Tax Reform
- by Joel Selmrod and Jon Bakija
- reviewed by James K. Self on October 5, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- Selgin, George
- Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
- by Barry J. Eichengreen
- reviewed by George Selgin on October 6, 1997
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Money, Markets, and Sovereignty
- by Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds
- reviewed by George Selgin on November 4, 2009
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Sent, Esther-Mirjam
- Modeling Rational Agents: From Interwar Economics to Early Modern Game Theory
- by Nicola Giocoli
- reviewed by Esther-Mirjam Sent on December 19, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Sexton, Terri A.
- A Penny for the Governor, A Dollar for Uncle Sam: Income Taxation in Washington
- by Phil Roberts
- reviewed by Terri A. Sexton on October 15, 2003
- 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)
- Shammas, Carole
- Production and Consumption in English Households, 1600-1750
- by Mark Overton, Jane Whittle, Darron Dean and Andrew Hann
- reviewed by Carole Shammas on April 1, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Shanor, Charles A.
- From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America, 1933-1972
- by Paul D. Moreno
- reviewed by Charles A. Shanor on May 27, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Sharpe, Pamela
- Child Workers in England, 1780-1820: Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force
- by Katrina Honeyman
- reviewed by Pamela Sharpe on October 6, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Shearer, Ronald A.
- Industrial Constructions: The Sources of German Industrial Power
- by Gary Herrigel
- reviewed by Ronald A. Shearer on January 29, 1998
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Shepherd, James F.
- In Irons: Britain's Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy
- by Richard Buel Jr.
- reviewed by James F. Shepherd on April 16, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Sheridan Jr., George J.
- Art, luxe et industrie: Bianchini Férier, un siècle de soieries lyonnaises
- by Pierre Vernus
- reviewed by George J. Sheridan Jr. on February 23, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Sheriff, Abdul
- Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970
- by Erik Gilbert
- reviewed by Abdul Sheriff on February 9, 2005
- Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Shiue, Carol H.
- Contract and Property in Early Modern China
- by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko and Robert Gardella (editors)
- reviewed by Carol H. Shiue on September 30, 2004
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China
- by Madeleine Zelin
- reviewed by Carol H. Shiue on September 5, 2006
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Short, Joanna
- America's First Veterans and the Revolutionary War Pensions
- by Emily J. Teipe
- reviewed by Joanna Short on December 13, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937
- by Susan M. Sterett
- reviewed by Joanna Short on December 9, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Shubik, Martin
- Augustin Cournot: Modelling Economics
- by Jean-Philippe Touffut
- reviewed by Martin Shubik on October 10, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Shughart II, William F.
- American Economic Policy in the 1990s
- by Jeffrey A. Frankel and Peter R. Orszag (editors)
- reviewed by William F. Shughart II on August 16, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
- by Joel Mokyr
- reviewed by William F. Shughart II on March 15, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Shy, John
- The New Imperial Economy: The British Army and the New American Frontier, 1764-1768
- by Walter S. Dunn Jr.
- reviewed by John Shy on June 8, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Sicilia, David B.
- From Edison to Enron: The Business of Power and What It Means for the Future of Electricity
- by Richard Munson
- reviewed by David B. Sicilia on January 20, 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), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Sicotte, Richard
- How Cartels Endure and How They Fail: Studies of Industrial Collusion
- by Peter Z. Grossman (editor)
- reviewed by Richard Sicotte on January 25, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820-1920
- by William H. Thiesen
- reviewed by Richard Sicotte on November 3, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Sicsic, Pierre
- The Gold Standard Illusion: France, the Bank of France, and the International Gold Standard, 1914-1939
- by Kenneth Moure
- reviewed by Pierre Sicsic on January 21, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Glitter of Gold: France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848-1873
- by Marc Flandreau
- reviewed by Pierre Sicsic on December 5, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Siklos, Pierre
- Monetary Regimes and Inflation: History, Economic and Political Relationships
- by Peter Bernholz
- reviewed by Pierre Siklos on July 22, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Silva, Jonathan
- Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing
- by Pamela Walker Laird
- reviewed by Jonathan Silva on December 3, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Silver, Morris
- The Ancient Economy
- by Walter Scheidel and Sitta von Reden (editors)
- reviewed by Morris Silver on January 3, 2003
- Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece
- by David M. Schaps
- reviewed by Morris Silver on April 19, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Heqanakht Papyri
- by James P. Allen
- reviewed by Morris Silver on November 9, 2004
- Geographic area: Middle East (6)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Simons, Kenneth L.
- BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870-1995
- by K. Austin Kerr and Mansel G. Blackford
- reviewed by Kenneth L. Simons on December 16, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Simpson, James
- The Mediterranean Response to Globalization before 1950
- by Sevket Pamuk and Jeffrey G. Williamson (editors)
- reviewed by James Simpson on August 22, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- 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)
- Singleton, John
- Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption 1939-1955
- by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
- reviewed by John Singleton on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Making Connections: The Long-distance Bus Industry in the USA
- by Margaret Walsh
- reviewed by John Singleton on February 16, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Sivin, Nathan
- Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China
- by Kai-wing Chow
- reviewed by Nathan Sivin on October 29, 2004
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Sjostrom, William
- The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
- by Marc Levinson
- reviewed by William Sjostrom on April 2, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
- by Marc Levinson
- reviewed by William Sjostrom on April 4, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Skemp, Sheila L.
- Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream: How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business
- by Jane R. Plitt
- reviewed by Sheila L. Skemp on August 12, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Smil, Vaclav
- Heat, Power and Light: Revolutions in Energy Services
- by Roger Fouquet
- reviewed by Vaclav Smil on December 30, 2008
- 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Smiley, Gene
- Reflections on the Great Depression
- by Randall E. Parker
- reviewed by Gene Smiley on April 1, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (v)
- American Economic Development Since 1945: Growth, Decline and Rejuvenation
- by Samuel Rosenberg
- reviewed by Gene Smiley on October 26, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
- Smith, John K.
- Growth Company: Dow Chemical's First Century
- by E. N. Brandt
- reviewed by John K. Smith on January 19, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Smith, Daniel Scott
- Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England
- by Gloria L. Main
- reviewed by Daniel Scott Smith on December 10, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Smith, Fred H.
- Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers
- by Herbert H. Harwood Jr.
- reviewed by Fred H. Smith on August 5, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919
- by Margaret Garb
- reviewed by Fred H. Smith on May 1, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
- by Carl Abbott
- reviewed by Fred H. Smith on May 26, 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 Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Smitka, Michael
- Britain and Japan: A Comparative Economic and Social History Since 1900
- by Kenneth D. Brown
- reviewed by Michael Smitka on September 17, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Snooks, Graeme D.
- Patterns of Speculation: A Study in Observational Econophysics
- by Bertrand M. Roehner
- reviewed by Graeme D. Snooks on February 12, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Snowden, Kenneth A.
- Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors
- by Edwin J. Perkins
- reviewed by Kenneth A. Snowden on September 12, 2000
- 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)
- Snyder, D. Jonathan
- Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s
- by Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley
- reviewed by D. Jonathan Snyder on February 12, 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)
- Snyder, Jonathan
- Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood
- by Bernard F. Dick
- reviewed by Jonathan Snyder on October 19, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Sokoloff, Kenneth L.
- Institutions and Investment: The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico before 1911
- by Edward Beatty
- reviewed by Kenneth L. Sokoloff on June 7, 2002
- 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), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Sorensen, Todd
- Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole and Rehabilitation
- by Peter Fearon
- reviewed by Todd Sorensen on November 5, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Southall, Roger
- Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business
- by Lowell J. Satre
- reviewed by Roger Southall on June 21, 2005
- Geographic area: Africa (1)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N)
- Spechler, Martin C.
- East-West Trade and the Cold War
- by Jari Eloranta and Jari Ojala (editors)
- reviewed by Martin C. Spechler on November 4, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Spoerer, Mark
- Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic
- by Theo Balderston
- reviewed by Mark Spoerer on March 24, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Spolaore, Enrico
- Separatism and Integration: A Study in Analytical History
- by Bertrand M. Roehner
- reviewed by Enrico Spolaore on January 5, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Squatriti, Paolo
- The Carolingian Economy
- by Adriaan E. Verhulst
- reviewed by Paolo Squatriti on May 20, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- St. Clair, David J.
- Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars
- by Georg Leidenberger
- reviewed by David J. St. Clair on October 17, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Stabile, Donald
- Veblen in Perspective: His Life and Thought
- by Stephen Edgell
- reviewed by Donald Stabile on January 24, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Stabile, Donald R.
- From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
- by Rakesh Khurana
- reviewed by Donald R. Stabile on November 12, 2007
- 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), Education and Human Resource Development (G)
- One Nation under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe
- by Robert E. Wright
- reviewed by Donald R. Stabile on July 7, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Stallbaumer-Beishline, L. M.
- West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955
- by S. Jonathan Wiesen
- reviewed by L. M. Stallbaumer-Beishline on June 24, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Stanciu Haar, Laura N.
- Economic Change and the National Question in Twentieth-Century Europe
- by Alice Teichova, Herbert Matis and Jaroslav Pátek (editors)
- reviewed by Laura N. Stanciu Haar on March 12, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Stanger, Howard R.
- The Rise, Fall, and Replacement of Industrywide Bargaining in the Basic Steel Industry
- by Garth L. Magnum and R. Scott McNabb
- reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on March 12, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930
- by Nikki Mandell
- reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on June 20, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Boss: Management Tips for Today from a Nineteenth Century Cattle Drive
- by Tim Frazier and Dana Frazier
- reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on June 1, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
- A Man of Salt and Trees: The Life of Joy Morton
- by James Ballowe
- reviewed by Howard R. Stanger on January 27, 2010
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- Stead, David
- Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain
- by Keith Wrightson
- reviewed by David Stead on March 30, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Stebenne, David
- Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes
- by Allen J. Matusow
- reviewed by David Stebenne on August 24, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- Steckel, Richard H.
- Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum U.S.,1840-1860
- by Joseph P. Ferrie
- reviewed by Richard H. Steckel on August 4, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Sexual Revolutions: Gender and Labor at the Dawn of Agriculture
- by Jane Peterson
- reviewed by Richard H. Steckel on June 24, 2003
- Geographic area: Middle East (6)
- Time period: Prehistoric (1)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Steeples, Douglas
- Investing for Middle America: John Elliot Tappan and the Origins of American Express Financial Advisors
- by Kenneth Lipartito and Carol Heher Peters
- reviewed by Douglas Steeples on February 19, 2003
- 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)
- Steindl, Frank
- Banking Panics of the Gilded Age
- by Elmus Wicker
- reviewed by Frank Steindl on March 8, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Stewart, Larry
- William Crookes (1832-1919) and the Commercialization of Science
- by William H. Brock
- reviewed by Larry Stewart on July 1, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Stitt, James W.
- Trade Unionism and the State: The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890-2000
- by Chris Howell
- reviewed by James W. Stitt on January 8, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Stobart, Jon
- The Rise of the English Town 1650-1850
- by Christopher Chalklin
- reviewed by Jon Stobart on October 22, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Subramanian, Lakshmi
- Bullion for Goods: European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean Trade, 1500-1800
- by Om Prakash
- reviewed by Lakshmi Subramanian on May 20, 2005
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Sullivan, Timothy E.
- The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory
- by Ranjit S. Dighe (editor)
- reviewed by Timothy E. Sullivan on January 20, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Sullivan, Richard J.
- The Economics of QWERTY: History, Theory, and Policy -- Essays by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis
- by Peter Lewin (editor)
- reviewed by Richard J. Sullivan on March 28, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Sumida, Jon
- Iron Shipbuilding on the Thames, 1832-1915: An Economic and Business History
- by A. J. Arnold
- reviewed by Jon Sumida on January 28, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Sundstrom, William A.
- Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990
- by Daniel Nelson
- reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on August 15, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
- Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States since 1945
- by William A. Darity Jr. and Samuel L. Myers Jr.
- reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on February 15, 2000
- 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)
- Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal
- by David Brian Robertson
- reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on January 8, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America
- by Stephen H. Norwood
- reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on August 15, 2003
- 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)
- Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
- by Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
- reviewed by William A. Sundstrom on August 15, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Income and Wealth (Q)
- Surdam, David
- Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War
- by Harold S. Wilson
- reviewed by David Surdam on September 20, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization
- by William H. Roberts
- reviewed by David Surdam on September 2, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Surdam, David G.
- Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War
- by Mark Thornton and Robert B. Ekelund Jr.
- reviewed by David G. Surdam on April 14, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Surdam, David
- The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America
- by Robert G. Angevine
- reviewed by David Surdam on March 24, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Sutherland, Heather
- Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000
- by Howard W. Dick
- reviewed by Heather Sutherland on October 21, 2002
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Suzuki, Masao
- And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920 to the 1990s
- by Elliott Barkan
- reviewed by Masao Suzuki on August 6, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Swearingin, Steven D.
- The Whiskey Trade of the Northwestern Plains: A Multidisciplinary Study
- by Margaret A. Kennedy
- reviewed by Steven D. Swearingin on July 10, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Sylla, Richard
- Political Economy and Statesmanship: Smith, Hamilton, and the Foundation of the Commercial Republic
- by Peter McNamara
- reviewed by Richard Sylla on May 14, 1998
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The Origins of National Financial Systems: Alexander Gerschenkron Reconsidered
- by Douglas J. Forsyth and Daniel Verdier (editors)
- reviewed by Richard Sylla on March 25, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Pricing Theory, Financing of International Organisations and Monetary History
- by Lawrence H. Officer
- reviewed by Richard Sylla on November 27, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Jacksonian Economy
- by Peter Temin
- reviewed by Richard Sylla on August 17, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Szenberg, Michael
- Inside the Economist's Mind: Conversations with Eminent Economists
- by Paul A. Samuelson and William Barnett (editors)
- reviewed by Michael Szenberg on April 27, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Szostak, Rick
- Elites, Minorities, and Economic Growth
- by Elise S. Brezis and Peter Temin (editors)
- reviewed by Rick Szostak on May 28, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity
- by Alexander J. Field
- reviewed by Rick Szostak on June 13, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Technology Matters: Questions to Live With
- by David E. Nye
- reviewed by Rick Szostak on June 23, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
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