Book Reviews: By time period: General or Comparative

Advances in Agricultural Economic History, Vol.1, New Frontiers in Agricultural History
by Kyle D. Kauffman (editor)
reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Against the Tide
by Douglas Irwin
reviewed by J. Bradford De Long on January 6, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
An Agrarian History of South Asia
by David Ludden
reviewed by Marcia J. Frost on June 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity
by Alexander J. Field
reviewed by Rick Szostak on June 13, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
American Work Values: Their Origin and Development
by Paul Bernstein
reviewed by Donald Frey on February 10, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Asian Merchants and Businessmen in the Indian Ocean and the China Sea
by Denys Lombard and Jean Aubin
reviewed by Arturo Giraldez on November 7, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere
by Richard H. Steckel and Jerome C. Rose (editors)
reviewed by William J. Collins on May 13, 2003
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), Prehistoric (1), Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870-1995
by K. Austin Kerr and Mansel G. Blackford
reviewed by Kenneth L. Simons on December 16, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Bimetallism: An Economic and Historical Analysis
by Angela Redish
reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on November 8, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Biological Standard of Living in Comparative Perspective
by John Komlos and Joerg Baten
reviewed by John E. Murray on February 21, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
The Blues: A History of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield System
by Robert Cunningham III and Robert M. Jr. Cunningham
reviewed by Colin Gordon on June 22, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
Bristol Historical Resource CD
by Peter Wardley (editor)
reviewed by Lisa Bud-Frierman on March 12, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Geography (K), Servitude and Slavery (N), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Bronze Age Economics: The First Political Economies
by Timothy Earle
reviewed by Michael W. Graves on June 5, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), Prehistoric (1), 16th Century (4), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia
by David Glasner
reviewed by Robert Whaples on September 5, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Business History and Business Culture
by Andrew Godley and Oliver M. Westall
reviewed by Ernest Teagarden on March 31, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
by Joseph A. Schumpeter
reviewed by Thomas K. McCraw on September 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Collapse of Darwinism, or The Rise of a Realist Theory of Life
by Graeme Donald Snooks
reviewed by Geoffrey M. Hodgson on June 27, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
A Companion to the History of Economic Thought
by Warren J. Samuels, Jeff F. Biddle and John B. Davis (editors)
reviewed by Mauro Boianovsky on December 5, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences
by James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (editors)
reviewed by Bertrand M. Roehner on March 19, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Competition and Growth: A Contemporary History of the Continental AG
by Paul Erker
reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford on April 13, 1998
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure
by Ester Boserup
reviewed by Giovanni Federico on April 16, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll-Call Voting
by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal
reviewed by Jac Heckelman on August 20, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire
by Peter N. Stearns
reviewed by Jasmine Aimaq on January 1, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), 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)
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)
Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies
by David E. Nye
reviewed by Martin V. Melosi on August 5, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s
by Charles K. Hyde
reviewed by Roger Burt on August 11, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium
by Dirk Hoerder
reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on April 21, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
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)
Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis
by Michael Williams
reviewed by Gary Libecap on August 4, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Historical Geography (K)
A Dictionary of Economics
by John Black
reviewed by Robert Whaples on March 17, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
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)
Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth
by Marc Egnal
reviewed by Leonard Carlson on August 18, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Dynamic of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980
by David B. Abernethy
reviewed by K. N. Chaudhuri on December 17, 2001
  • 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)
The Dynamic Society: Exploring the Sources of Global Change
by Graeme Donald Snooks
reviewed by Gregory Clark on March 16, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Economic Cycles: Long Cycles and Business Cycles since 1870
by Solomos Solomou
reviewed by Forrest Capie on August 12, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Economic Engagements with Art
by Neil De Marchi and Craufurd D.W. Goodwin (editors)
reviewed by Manuel Santos-Redondo on January 11, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Economics and the Historian
by Thomas G. Rawski
reviewed by Lynne Kiesling on September 30, 1996
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
Economics and the Historian
by Thomas G. Rawski
reviewed by Michael Dintenfass on September 30, 1996
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
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)
Education and Economic Decline in Britain, 1870 to the 1990s
by Michael Sanderson
reviewed by David Mitch on February 20, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
The Effortless Economy of Science?
by Philip Mirowski
reviewed by Lawrence Boland on February 1, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Encyclopedia of Native American Economic History
by Bruce E. Johansen
reviewed by David M. Wishart on July 19, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England
by Peter Temin
reviewed by David R. Meyer on August 9, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Essays in History: Financial, Economic, Personal
by Charles P. Kindleberger
reviewed by David Glasner on March 8, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Europe in the International Economy, 1500-2000
by Derek H. Aldcroft and Anthony Sutcliffe
reviewed by Karl Gunnar Persson on August 7, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India
by Om Prakash
reviewed by John Adams on February 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
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)
The Foundations of Economic Method: A Popperian Perspective
by Lawrence A. Boland
reviewed by O.F. Hamouda on April 7, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy
by James Macdonald
reviewed by Robert E. Wright on May 31, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy
by James Macdonald
reviewed by Robert E. Wright on May 31, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
The Free Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830-1996
by Mira Wilkins and Harm Schroter
reviewed by Gordon Boyce on July 30, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism
by William J. Baumol
reviewed by Joel Mokyr on July 26, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
by Barry J. Eichengreen
reviewed by George Selgin on October 6, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Great Breakthrough and its Cause
by Julian Simon
reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on May 29, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy
by Kenneth Pomeranz
reviewed by Deepak Lal on October 2, 2000
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
The Great Population Spike and After: Reflections on the 21st Century
by W. W. Rostow
reviewed by Timothy W. Guinnane on June 8, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
by David Hackett Fischer
reviewed by John H. Munro on February 24, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Growth Triumphant: The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective
by Richard A. Easterlin
reviewed by Dora L. Costa on August 23, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
reviewed by Joel Mokyr on May 28, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
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)
Historical Statistics of U.S.
by 1997 Cambridge University Press
reviewed by William Hutchinson on December 3, 1997
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship
by Juliet E. K. Walker
reviewed by Maceo Dailey on June 11, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The History of Consumer Credit: Doctrines and Practices
by Rosa-Maria Gelpi and François Julien-Labruyère
reviewed by Lendol G. Calder on August 25, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
A History of Corporate Finance
by Jonathan B. Baskin and Paul J. Miranti
reviewed by Robert E. Wright on July 20, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures
by Lionel Robbins
reviewed by Bradley W. Bateman on August 29, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The History of Foreign Exchange
by Paul Einzig
reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on January 20, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
A History of Mechanical Invention
by Abbott Payson Usher
reviewed by George Grantham on December 11, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
A History of Monetary Unions
by John F. Chown
reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on August 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
by Mary Poovey
reviewed by Timothy Alborn on September 13, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Honorable Merchants: Commerce and Self-Cultivation in Late Imperial China
by Richard John Lufrano
reviewed by Kwan Man Bun on October 18, 1997
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
How America Got On-Line: Politics, Markets, and the Revolution in Telecommunications
by Alan Stone
reviewed by Aristotle Tympas on September 28, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
In Praise of Empires: Globalization and Order
by Deepak Lal
reviewed by Jack A. Goldstone on February 24, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities
by Anne Booth
reviewed by Jeroen Touwen on October 7, 1998
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Industrial Constructions: The Sources of German Industrial Power
by Gary Herrigel
reviewed by Ronald A. Shearer on January 29, 1998
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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)
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)
Latin America and the World Economy since 1800
by John Coatsworth and Alan Taylor
reviewed by Richard Salvucci on February 21, 2000
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries
by Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff and Peter Temin
reviewed by Henry A. Gemery on February 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Les écrits de Fernand Braudel and Les mémoires de la Méditerranée: préhistoire et antiquité
by Fernand Braudel
reviewed by Cheng-chung Lai on August 23, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan
by Carl Mosk
reviewed by Mitsuhiko Kimura on October 31, 1997
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Making History Count: A Primer in Quantitative Methods for Historians
by Charles H. Feinstein and Mark Thomas
reviewed by Walter D. Kamphoefner on March 5, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
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)
Market Education: The Unknown History
by Andrew J. Coulson
reviewed by Martin West on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
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)
Marshall's Tendencies: What Can Economists Know?
by John Sutton
reviewed by Bruce Larson on March 28, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Monetary Regimes and Inflation: History, Economic and Political Relationships
by Peter Bernholz
reviewed by Pierre Siklos on July 22, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Money and Morals in America: A History
by Patricia O'Toole
reviewed by Donald Frey on January 25, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Money and the Nation State: The Financial Revolution, Government and the World Monetary System
by Kevin Dowd and Richard H. Timberlake Jr. (editors)
reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on November 18, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
Monitoring the World Economy: 1820-1992
by Angus Maddison
reviewed by John R. Hanson on February 5, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
The Mystery of Economic Growth
by Elhanan Helpman
reviewed by George K. Davis on March 29, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
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)
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright
reviewed by J. Bradford De Long on July 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
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)
On the Border of Economic Theory and History
by Amit Bhaduri
reviewed by Marcia J. Frost on May 1, 2001
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century
by Roger E. Backhouse
reviewed by Warren J. Samuels on August 7, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Other Side of the Frontier: Economic Explorations into Native American History
by Linda Barrington
reviewed by Thomas Weiss on January 19, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Patterns of Speculation: A Study in Observational Econophysics
by Bertrand M. Roehner
reviewed by Graeme D. Snooks on February 12, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Physioeconomics: The Basis for Long-Run Economic Growth
by Philip Parker
reviewed by Sylvain H. Boko on September 12, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
by William F. Ruddiman
reviewed by Robert Whaples on July 21, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • 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), Historical Geography (K), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations
by Peter Bernholz and Roland Vaubel (editors)
reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on April 5, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K)
Poverty, Wealth, Dictatorship, Democracy: Resource Scarcity and the Origins of Dictatorship
by Jack Barkstrom
reviewed by Peter Baofu on January 6, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Education and Human Resource Development (G)
Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century
by Rosemary Thorp
reviewed by Alan M. Taylor on August 16, 1999
  • Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
by Max Weber
reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on March 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), 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)
The Record of Global Economic Development
by Eric L. Jones
reviewed by Morris Altman on March 18, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Records of American Business
by James M. O'Toole
reviewed by Randall C. Jimerson on May 11, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England
by Diana Muir
reviewed by Jane Knodell on May 24, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K)
Reforming Financial Systems: Historical Implications for Policy
by Gerald Jr. Caprio and Dimitri Vittas
reviewed by Michael Haupert on December 4, 1997
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)
Self-Interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science
by Pierre Force
reviewed by Gloria Vivenza on September 20, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia
by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley (editors)
reviewed by Frans D. Huijzendveld on September 14, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
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)
Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 1889-1966
by Roy Church and Quentin Outram
reviewed by Judith Wale on August 23, 1999
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Studies in the Economic History of the Pacific Rim
by Sally M. Miller, A. J. H. Latham and Dennis O. Flynn (editors)
reviewed by Sumner La Croix on July 2, 1999
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth
by Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich and Will Steffen (editors)
reviewed by Philip R. P. Coelho on October 26, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France
by Leora Auslander
reviewed by Tracey Deutscht on September 16, 1997
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Great Debate Over Tax Reform
by Joel Selmrod and Jon Bakija
reviewed by James K. Self on October 5, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
by Carlota Perez
reviewed by Bertrand M. Roehner on January 22, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Technology Matters: Questions to Live With
by David E. Nye
reviewed by Rick Szostak on June 23, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
This Is A Test
by Thomas Whaples
reviewed by No Body on March 21, 2007
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Africa (1), Asia (2)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0), Prehistoric (1), Ancient (2)
  • Subject:
Understanding the Process of Economic Change
by Douglass C. North
reviewed by Alexander J. Field on February 15, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Factor Endowments, Culture, and Politics on Long-run Economic Performance
by Deepak Lal
reviewed by Carolyn Tuttle on December 21, 1999
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
Valuing Cultural Heritage: Applying Environmental Valuation Techniques to Historic Buildings, Monuments and Artifacts
by Ståle Navrud and Richard C. Ready (editors)
reviewed by John C. Whitehead on January 10, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
by Rodney Stark
reviewed by Eric Jones on March 20, 2006
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), Middle East (6), North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
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)
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Are Some So Rich and Others So Poor
by David S. Landes
reviewed by J. Bradford De Long on April 6, 1998
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought
by Alessandro Roncaglia
reviewed by Ingrid H. Rima on June 28, 2006
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Who's In Charge? Workers and Managers in the United States
by Peter Liebhold and Harry Rubenstein
reviewed by Nelson Lichtenstein on March 6, 1996
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T)
Who's Who in Economics (Third Edition)
by Mark Blaug
reviewed by Robert Whaples on February 11, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C)
The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective
by Angus Maddison
reviewed by Elise S. Brezis on November 26, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
A World History of Tax Rebellions: An Encyclopedia of Tax Rebels, Revolts, and Riots from Antiquity to the Present
by David F. Burg
reviewed by Richard Vedder on October 2, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
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)