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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)
The American State Constitutional Tradition
by John J. Dinan
reviewed by John J. Wallis on May 9, 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: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
The Banana: Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization
by James Wiley
reviewed by Marcelo Bucheli on October 2, 2008
  • 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: 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), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
Christian Theology and Market Economics
by Ian R. Harper and Samuel Gregg (editors)
reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on October 8, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France
by Paul V. Dutton
reviewed by John Murray on July 12, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), 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)
The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler and the New Economy
by Richard N. Langlois
reviewed by Arthur M. Diamond Jr. on August 6, 2009
  • 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: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), 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)
The English Wool Market, c. 1230-1327
by Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks and Paul R. Dryburgh
reviewed by James M. Murray on June 19, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Entertainment Industrialised: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890-1940
by Gerben Bakker
reviewed by Michael Pokorny on April 28, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
Female Labour Power: Women Workers' Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860
by Janet Greenlees
reviewed by Pamela J. Nickless on June 28, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), 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)
Financing Innovation in the United States: 1870 to the Present
by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (editors)
reviewed by Charles W. Calomiris on July 17, 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), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860
by Stewart Davenport
reviewed by Donald E. Frey on September 24, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
by William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm
reviewed by William R. Keech on May 7, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400-1800
by S. R. Epstein and Maarten Prak (editors)
reviewed by Christine MacLeod on December 17, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T), 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)
Her Day in Court: Women’s Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada
by Maya Shatzmiller
reviewed by Ghislaine Lydon on May 1, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere: A Conceptual History, 1919-1933
by Vincent Gaddis
reviewed by Patrick D. Reagan on September 2, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), 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)
The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present
by Jan de Vries
reviewed by Hans-Joachim Voth on May 27, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), 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: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
Information Revolutions in the History of the West
by Leonard Dudley
reviewed by Eric Jones on December 16, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 17th Century (5), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Geography (K), Military and War (O), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
International Economic Integration in Historical Perspective
by Dennis M.P. McCarthy
reviewed by John R. Hanson II on June 11, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
by Peter T. Leeson
reviewed by Daniel K. Benjamin on October 3, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925
by Douglas C. Harris
reviewed by D. Bruce Johnsen on July 22, 2009
  • 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), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Liability Century: Insurance and Tort Law from the Progressive Era to 9/11
by Kenneth S. Abraham
reviewed by Sachin S. Pandya on May 5, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
L’économie morale, pauvreté, crédit et confiance dans l’Europe préindustrielle
by Laurence Fontaine
reviewed by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on January 12, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change
by Morris L. Bian
reviewed by Tim Wright on November 12, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), 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)
The Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects
by Gordon Morris Bakken
reviewed by Gary D. Libecap on December 9, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Muslim Civilization: The Causes of Decline and the Need for Reform
by M. Umer Chapra
reviewed by Jared Rubin on June 16, 2008
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (l), Military and War (O), 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)
The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson
by Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke and Alan M. Taylor (editors)
reviewed by Dan Bogart on June 3, 2008
  • 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), 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), Income and Wealth (Q), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), 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)
One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
by Dani Rodrik
reviewed by Alice Amsden on October 1, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), 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)
Pain and Profits: The History of the Headache and Its Remedies in America
by Jan R. McTavish
reviewed by Marc Law on May 12, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art
by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
reviewed by Bernadine Barnes on February 21, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce
by Sarah Abrevaya Stein
reviewed by Andrew Godley on June 23, 2009
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Political Institutions and Financial Development
by Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast (editors)
reviewed by Claudia Rei on July 2, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), 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: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), 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)
Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
by Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke
reviewed by Şevket Pamuk on August 19, 2008
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2), Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Military and War (O), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship: Networks and Private Protection during Mexico's Early Industrialization
by Armando Razo
reviewed by Aurora Gómez Galvarriato on September 30, 2008
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • 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)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Markets and Institutions (W)
Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Financial Markets
by Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on July 30, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller
by Steve Weinberg
reviewed by Bryan C. McCannon on January 20, 2009
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Titles, Conflict and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Frontier
by Lee J. Alston, Gary D. Libecap and Bernardo Mueller
reviewed by D. Bruce Johnsen on July 1, 2000
  • 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: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
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)
Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks, and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin
by Brett Sheehan
reviewed by Andrea McElderry on December 4, 2003
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W)
Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age
by Anne Goldgar
reviewed by Larry Neal on August 3, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Usury, Interest and the Reformation
by Eric Kerridge
reviewed by Norman Jones on December 29, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
by Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on June 24, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
The Voluntary City: Choice, Community and Civil Society
by David T. Beito, Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok (editors)
reviewed by Richard Lester on November 26, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
The War within World War II: The United States and International Cartels
by Robert Franklin Maddox
reviewed by Daniel Barbezat on May 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
Warhogs: A History of War Profits in America
by Stuart D. Brandes
reviewed by Jacob Vander Meulen on February 17, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates since 1917
by Marcel van der Linden
reviewed by Martin Kragh on October 9, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), 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), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization
by Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin
reviewed by James A. Jaffe on March 16, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Markets and Institutions (W)
The World System and the Earth System: Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability since the Neolithic
by Alf Hornborg and Carole L. Crumley (editors)
reviewed by Eric Jones on March 9, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Markets and Institutions (W)