Book Reviews: By subject: Markets and Institutions
- Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives
- by E. Wayne Carp (editor)
- reviewed by John Murray on June 8, 2005
- 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: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- An Age of Transition? Economy and Society in the Later Middle Ages
- by Christopher Dyer
- reviewed by Joseph P. Huffman on December 13, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- American Foundations: An Investigative History
- by Mark Dowie
- reviewed by Donald E. Frey on July 23, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Income and Wealth (Q), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Americanization of the European Economy: A Compact Survey of American Economic Influence in Europe since the 1880s
- by Harm G. Schröter
- reviewed by Graham Brownlow on January 27, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models
- by Joseph G. Manning and Ian Morris (editors)
- reviewed by Astrid Moeller on December 28, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korea, 1960-1990
- by Eum Mee Kim
- reviewed by Tawni Hunt Ferrarini on December 2, 1997
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America
- by Walter A. Friedman
- reviewed by Scott J. Vitell on September 23, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study
- by Stuart J. Borsch
- reviewed by John Munro on March 13, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Bruges: Cradle of Capitalism, 1280-1390
- by James M. Murray
- reviewed by Erin Jordan on April 5, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833
- by H.V. Bowen
- reviewed by Santhi Hejeebu on April 9, 2007
- Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- California Dreaming: Ideology, Society, and Technology in the Citrus Industry of Palestine, 1890-1939
- by Nahum Karlinsky
- reviewed by Paul Rhode on November 14, 2006
- Geographic area: Middle East (6), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America, Volume 2: The Long Twentieth Century
- by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, John Coatsworth and Roberto Cortes-Conde (editors)
- reviewed by Albert Fishlow on April 11, 2007
- 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), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Capital Intentions: Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920
- by Edith Sparks
- reviewed by Pamela J. Nickless on March 28, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America
- by Carl A. Zimring
- reviewed by Scott A. Beaulier on April 29, 2008
- 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: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950
- by Avner Offer
- reviewed by John F. Helliwell on January 18, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Civic Charity in a Golden Age: Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam
- by Anne E. C. McCants
- reviewed by Bronwyn Croxson on May 12, 1998
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century
- by Fernand Braudel
- reviewed by Alan Heston on August 1, 2000
- Geographic area: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life
- by Paul Seabright
- reviewed by Haim Ofek on January 29, 2007
- Geographic area:
- Time period: Prehistoric (1), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Consumers Against Capitalism? Consumer Cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840-1990
- by Ellen Furlough and Carl Strikwerda
- reviewed by Gerd-Rainer Horn on September 1, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- Copyright and Other Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen and the Commodification of Creativity
- by Helle Porsdam (editor)
- reviewed by B. Zorina Khan on June 16, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History
- by Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin (editors)
- reviewed by Louis P. Cain on August 2, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law and the Market Economy in Colonial New York
- by Deborah A. Rosen
- reviewed by Anne M. Boylan on April 7, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries: Work, Power, and Representation
- by Maarten Prak, Catharina Lis, Jan Lucassen and Hugo Soly (editors)
- reviewed by Gary Richardson on October 24, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- 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)
- Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture
- by Eric L. Jones
- reviewed by Avner Greif on July 31, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America
- by David A. Skeel
- reviewed by Bradley A. Hansen on April 17, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- Democracy and Redistribution
- by Carles Boix
- reviewed by Jari Eloranta on February 18, 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: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920
- by B. Zorina Khan
- reviewed by Robert A. Margo on June 30, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy
- by Robert Higgs
- reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on July 1, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks: Four Centuries of History
- by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Gelina Harlaftis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou (editors)
- reviewed by Sakis Gekas on July 15, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age
- by Thomas C. Owen
- reviewed by Steven Nafziger on June 2, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Discriminating Risk: The U.S. Mortgage Lending Industry in the Twentieth Century
- by Guy Stuart
- reviewed by William J. Collins on June 21, 2004
- 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), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
- by Stephen A. Marglin
- reviewed by Eric Jones on March 31, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950
- by Mark Tebeau
- reviewed by Dalit Baranoff on June 17, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Ecology, Colonialism, and Cattle: Central India in the Nineteenth Century
- by Laxman D. Satya
- reviewed by David Gilmartin on August 25, 2006
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Economic Future in Historical Perspective
- by Paul A. David and Mark P. Thomas (editors)
- reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on June 25, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag
- by Paul R. Gregory and Valery Lazarev (editors)
- reviewed by Mark Harrison on July 10, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Economics, Competition and Academia: An Intellectual History of Sophism versus Virtue
- by Donald R. Stabile
- reviewed by Donald E. Frey on February 15, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Economies beyond Agriculture in the Classical World
- by David J. Mattingly and John Salmon (editors)
- reviewed by Darel Engen on February 4, 2003
- Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England
- by Craig Muldrew
- reviewed by Anne E. C. McCants on August 2, 1999
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age
- by Gijs Mom
- reviewed by Staffan Hultén on March 28, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859
- by Akira Hayami, Osamu Saito and Ronald P. Toby (editors)
- reviewed by Carl Mosk on October 22, 2004
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias
- by Peter M. Garber
- reviewed by Charles P. Kindleberger on August 15, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
- A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
- by Gregory Clark
- reviewed by Robert A. Margo on March 11, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s
- by Lillian M. Li
- reviewed by Pierre-Étienne Will on May 7, 2008
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 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), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Firms, Networks and Business Values: The British and American Cotton Industries since 1750
- by Mary B. Rose
- reviewed by David Higgins on May 11, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia
- by Douglas C. Harris
- reviewed by D. Bruce Johnsen on January 15, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- 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)
- For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity
- by Jason Kaufman
- reviewed by David T. Beito on February 18, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia
- by Andrew M. Schocket
- reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams on July 19, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- 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)
- From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000
- by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal and Zephyr Frank (editors)
- reviewed by Jeremy Baskes on January 26, 2007
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis and Growth
- by Maurice Obstfeld and Alan M. Taylor
- reviewed by Marc D. Weidenmier on December 14, 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), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector
- by Lester M. Salamon, Helmut K. Anheier, Regina List and S. Stefan Toepler
- reviewed by Milton Goldin on March 27, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Globalisation? Internationalisation and Monopoly Capitalism: Historical Processes and Capitalist Dynamism
- by Bob Milward
- reviewed by Paul Benneworth on September 9, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Globalization and Its Enemies
- by Daniel Cohen
- reviewed by John R. Hanson on December 27, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Globalization in Historical Perspective
- by Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson (editors)
- reviewed by William J. Collins on November 7, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860
- by Mark A. Noll (editor)
- reviewed by Donald E. Frey on January 14, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Gold Rush Capitalists: Greed and Growth in Sacramento
- by Mark A. Eifler
- reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on August 30, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Golden Age: Essays in British Social and Economic History, 1850-1870
- by Ian Inkster, Colin Griffin, Jeff Hill and Judith Rowbotham (editors)
- reviewed by Giorgio Riello on February 18, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Government and the American Economy: A New History
- by Price Fishback et al (editor)
- reviewed by Gavin Wright on October 19, 2007
- 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900: Integration and Deregulation
- by Karl Gunnar Persson
- reviewed by Jean-Laurent Rosenthal on May 14, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster
- by Werner Troesken
- reviewed by Robert A. Margo on June 27, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
- by Karl Polanyi
- reviewed by Anne Mayhew on June 1, 2000
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century
- by Mark Blyth
- reviewed by Janet T. Knoedler on August 6, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic
- by Robert E. Wright
- reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on August 19, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- Hidden Collective Factors in Speculative Trading: A Study in Analytical Economics
- by Bertrand M. Roehner
- reviewed by David A. Zalewski on February 21, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W)
- A Historical Guide to World Slavery
- by Seymour Drescher and Stanley L. Engerman
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on July 28, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Historicity of Economics: Continuities and Discontinuities of Historical Thought in 19th and 20th Century Economics
- by Heino H. Nau and Bertram Schefold (editors)
- reviewed by Roberto Romani on April 8, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- History Matters: Essays on Economic Growth, Technology, and Demographic Change
- by Timothy Guinnane, William Sundstrom and Warren Whatley (editors)
- reviewed by Lance Davis on April 12, 2004
- 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- by Olivia Remie Constable
- reviewed by Avner Greif on July 25, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan
- by Kathleen Thelen
- reviewed by Thomas N. Maloney on November 23, 2005
- Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Immigrants and the Industries of London, 1500-1700
- by Lien Bich Luu
- reviewed by Patrick Wallis on December 27, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns
- by Dario Gaggio
- reviewed by Hugo Ceron-Anaya on October 6, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism
- by James Hudnut-Beumler
- reviewed by Donald E. Frey on June 22, 2007
- 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: Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Institutional Change and American Economic Growth
- by Lance E. Davis and Douglass C. North
- reviewed by Cynthia Taft Morris on November 4, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade
- by Avner Greif
- reviewed by Philip T. Hoffman on August 7, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850
- by Robin Pearson
- reviewed by Mark Tebeau on February 3, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions
- by Johann Peter Murmann
- reviewed by Brent Goldfarb on September 17, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
- La conexión cubana: Narcotráfico, contrabando y juego en Cuba entre los años 20 y comienzos de la Revolución
- by Eduardo Saenz Rovner
- reviewed by William McGreevey on August 22, 2005
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Labour, Land and Capital: From Slavery to Free Labour in Asante, 1807-1956
- by Gareth Austin
- reviewed by Nathan Nunn on August 21, 2006
- Geographic area: Africa (1)
- 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), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime: The Creation of Private Property in Russia, 1906-1915
- by Stephen F. Williams
- reviewed by Steven Nafziger on July 27, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization
- by Joshua L. Rosenbloom
- reviewed by Warren C. Whatley on October 18, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution
- by Steven King and Geoffrey Timmins
- reviewed by Katrina Honeyman on September 21, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
- by David Christian
- reviewed by J.W. Drukker on January 23, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Market Dominance: How Firms Gain, Hold, or Lose It and the Impact on Economic Performance
- by David I. Rosenbaum (editor)
- reviewed by Christopher J. Castaneda on March 2, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Marketplace of Christianity
- by Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Robert F. Hébert and Robert D. Tollison
- reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on March 29, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- 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 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)
- The Mexican Economy, 1870-1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth
- by Jeffrey L. Bortz and Stephen Haber (editors)
- reviewed by Philip Keefer on March 15, 2003
- 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), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Mills in the Medieval Economy: England, 1300-1540
- by John Langdon
- reviewed by Karine van der Beek on January 8, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
- Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal
- by Sanford M. Jacoby
- reviewed by Edward Berkowitz on February 28, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal
- by Sanford M. Jacoby
- reviewed by Michael Huberman on March 18, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Monetary History, Exchange Rates and Financial Markets: Essays in Honour of Charles Goodhart, Volume Two
- by Paul Mizen (editor)
- reviewed by Lars Jonung on March 10, 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), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Money, Land and Trade: An Economic History of the Muslim Mediterranean
- by Nelly Hanna (editor)
- reviewed by Metin Cosgel on August 8, 2003
- Geographic area: Middle East (6)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of John H.A. Munro
- by Lawrin Armstrong, Ivana Elbl and Martin M. Elb (editors)
- reviewed by Karine van der Beek on September 5, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The 'Mother of All Trades': The Baltic Grain Trade in Amsterdam from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century
- by Milja van Tielhof
- reviewed by Regina Grafe on August 18, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia
- by Peter Boomgaard, David Henley and Manon Osseweijer (editors)
- reviewed by S. Nawiyanto on August 18, 2006
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- 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), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Natural Instability of Markets: Expectations, Increasing Returns, and the Collapse of Capitalism
- by Michael Perelman
- reviewed by Thomas E. Hall on May 15, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Nature: An Economic History
- by Geerat J. Vermeij
- reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on April 8, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Naukratis: Trade in Archaic Greece
- by Astrid Möller
- reviewed by David Tandy on February 13, 2002
- Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America
- by Edward J. Balleisen
- reviewed by Bradley A. Hansen on July 31, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America
- by David R. Meyer
- reviewed by Ross Thomson on June 18, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Nonprofits and Government: Collaboration and Conflict
- by Elizabeth T. Boris and C. Eugene Steuerle
- reviewed by Milton Goldin on July 16, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- A Not-So-Dismal Science: A Broader View of Economies and Societies
- by Mancur Olson and Satu Kähkönen (editors)
- reviewed by John Adams on March 7, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden
- by Douglas Cazaux Sackman
- reviewed by Paul Rhode on November 14, 2006
- Geographic area: Middle East (6), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds
- by John E. Murray
- reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on February 4, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Owens Valley Revisited: A Reassessment of the West's First Great Water Transfer
- by Gary D. Libecap
- reviewed by Mark Kanazawa on March 1, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Income and Wealth (Q), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
- by Joel Mokyr (editor)
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on April 20, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), 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), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization and in the Age of Revolution
- by Jeff Horn
- reviewed by Noel D. Johnson on May 16, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Peasants, Merchants, and Markets: Inland Trade in Medieval England, 1150-1350
- by James Masschaele
- reviewed by Gregory Clark on April 1, 1998
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Philanthropic Foundations: New Scholarship, New Possibilities
- by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
- reviewed by Milton Goldin on August 30, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
- by Meg Jacobs
- reviewed by Robert Collins on July 13, 2005
- 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), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives
- by Paul R. Gregory
- reviewed by Mark Harrison on July 10, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America: Essays in Policy, History, and Political Economy
- by Stephen Haber (editor)
- reviewed by Anne Hanley on April 18, 2001
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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 Politics of Trade: The Overseas Merchant in State and Society, 1660-1720
- by Perry Gauci
- reviewed by Christian J. Koot on January 26, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Promise of Private Pensions: The First Hundred Years
- by Steven A. Sass
- reviewed by Samuel H. Williamson on October 12, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688-1789
- by David Stasavage
- reviewed by Stephen Quinn on June 16, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- Rationality and Freedom
- by Amartya Sen
- reviewed by Robert D. Tollison on February 11, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- Regions, Institutions and Agrarian Change in European History
- by Rosemary L. Hopcroft
- reviewed by George Grantham on September 13, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on Economics, Economic History, and Demography
- by Richard A. Easterlin
- reviewed by Lee A. Craig on November 30, 2004
- 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: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770
- by David Ormrod
- reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on December 11, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange: Merchants, Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countries, c. 1550-1630
- by Clé Lesger
- reviewed by Larry Neal on January 12, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Geography (K), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History
- by Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas
- reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on December 21, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control
- by Karen M. O'Neill
- reviewed by Brooks A. Kaiser on December 22, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control
- by Karen M. O'Neill
- reviewed by Brooks A. Kaiser on December 22, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917
- by Elizabeth Sanders
- reviewed by Gerald Friedman on April 6, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle
- by Leonard L. Richards
- reviewed by Robert A. McGuire on October 14, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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)
- 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)
- Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South 1865-1965
- by Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie
- reviewed by Craig Heinicke on December 7, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The 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)
- Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse
- by Richard R. John
- reviewed by Mary K. McGuire on August 27, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
- State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862
- by Christopher Mills Isett
- reviewed by Peer Vries on August 10, 2007
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
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