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Macroeconomics in Retrospect: The Selected Essays of David Laidler
by David Laidler
reviewed by John H. Wood on February 10, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Maffeo Pantaleoni: At the Origin of the Italian School of Economics and Finance
by Mario Baldassarri
reviewed by Luigino Bruni on February 6, 1998
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002
by Richard Saunders Jr.
reviewed by William R. Childs on April 9, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000
by James C. McCann
reviewed by Allan G. Bogue on October 4, 2005
  • Geographic area: Africa (1)
  • 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)
Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain, 850-1520
by Christopher Dyer
reviewed by James Masschaele on September 9, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4)
  • Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry
by James M. Rubenstein
reviewed by Thomas Winpenny on February 25, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Making Chicago Price Theory: Friedman-Stigler Correspondence, 1945-1957
by J. Daniel Hammond and Claire H. Hammond (editors)
reviewed by Craig Freedman on September 27, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Making Connections: The Long-distance Bus Industry in the USA
by Margaret Walsh
reviewed by John Singleton on February 16, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1864-1900
by Sharon Ann Holt
reviewed by Nancy Virts on May 21, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
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)
Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Master Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850
by Donna J. Rilling
reviewed by James B. McSwain on July 17, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
The Making of Global Finance, 1880-1913
by Marc Flandreau and Frederic Zumer
reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on February 1, 2005
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Making of Harrod's Dynamics
by Daniele Besomi
reviewed by Steve Keen on April 11, 2000
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective
by Eric Helleiner
reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on September 26, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo Leon, 1848-1910
by Juan Mora-Torres
reviewed by Jeremy Baskes on June 25, 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), Urban and Regional History (Z)
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 Peasants Backward: Managing Populations in Russian Agricultural Cooperatives, 1861-1914
by Yanni Kotsonis
reviewed by Oliver Hayward on May 12, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A)
Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution
by A. D. Morrison-Low
reviewed by Christine MacLeod on December 27, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
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)
Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970
by Christophe Lecuyer
reviewed by Glenn Bugos on February 5, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader
by David C. Hammack
reviewed by Milton Goldin on April 10, 1999
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream
by M. Jeffrey Hardwick
reviewed by Scott J. Vitell on April 2, 2004
  • 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)
The Man behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
by Leslie Berlin
reviewed by Rasigan Maharajh on December 6, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance
by Dan Rottenberg
reviewed by Daniel A. Schiffman on January 8, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Management of the British Economy, 1945-2001
by Nicholas Woodward
reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on September 9, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Managing for the Long Run: Lessons in Competitive Advantage from Great Family Businesses
by Danny Miller and Isabel Le Breton-Miller
reviewed by Jeffrey J. Matthews on August 8, 2005
  • 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)
Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism
by Sarah Babb
reviewed by Jaime Ros on July 29, 2005
  • 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: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Managing the Modern Workplace: Productivity, Politics, and Workplace Culture in Postwar Britain
by Joseph Melling and Alan Booth (editors)
reviewed by Mike Richardson on August 9, 2008
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T)
Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America
by Robert E. May
reviewed by Ben Wynne on February 25, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Manpower in Economic Growth: The American Record since 1800
by Stanley Lebergott
reviewed by Robert A. Margo on February 27, 2006
  • Geographic area: 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)
Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry
by Lawrence A. Peskin
reviewed by David R. Meyer on July 7, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric
by Stephen B. Adams and Orville R. Butler
reviewed by Eric John Abrahamson on February 4, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
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)
Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis
by Alexander John Watson
reviewed by Robin Neill on March 15, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823-1893
by J. Forbes Munro
reviewed by Nicholas J. White on October 16, 2003
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands (3), Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Maritime Traders in the Ancient Greek World
by Charles M. Reed
reviewed by Darel Tai Engen on July 14, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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)
Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850-2000: British Performance in International Perspective
by Stephen Broadberry
reviewed by Alex Field on June 15, 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: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
The Market, the State, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 1934-2000
by William H. Becker and William M. McClenahan Jr.
reviewed by Jonathan J. Bean on July 1, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France
by Stephen L. Harp
reviewed by Esther Redmount on September 16, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
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)
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
by T. H. Breen
reviewed by Farley Grubb on December 7, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
The Marshall Plan: Fifty Years After
by Martin A. Schain (editor)
reviewed by Albrecht Ritschl on March 19, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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)
Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream: How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business
by Jane R. Plitt
reviewed by Sheila L. Skemp on August 12, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Mass Migration under Sail: European Immigration to the Antebellum United States
by Scott A. Carson
reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on May 18, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
Mass Motorization and Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis
by David W. Jones
reviewed by James A. Dunn Jr. on December 24, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
Mass Production, the Stock Market Crash, and the Great Depression: The Macroeconomics of Electrification
by Bernard C. Beaudreau
reviewed by William J. Hausman on February 28, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
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)
Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South
by William Kauffman Scarborough
reviewed by Robert Gudmestad on March 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N)
The Mechanics of Optimism: Mining Companies, Technology, and the Hot Spring Gold Rush, Montana Territory, 1864-1868
by Jeffery J. Safford
reviewed by Lynne Pierson Doti on November 16, 2005
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B)
Medieval Economic Thought
by Diana Wood
reviewed by Lawrin Armstrong on August 27, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Filling the Great Gap in European Economics
by S.M. Ghazanfar (editor)
reviewed by M. Umer Chapra on October 26, 2004
  • Geographic area: Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
The Mediterranean Response to Globalization before 1950
by Sevket Pamuk and Jeffrey G. Williamson (editors)
reviewed by James Simpson on August 22, 2001
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Mellon: An American Life
by David Cannadine
reviewed by Robert Whaples on December 29, 2008
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Men and Menswear: Sartorial Consumption in Britain, 1880-1939
by Laura Ugolini
reviewed by Clare Rose on June 26, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Mercantilism
by Eli F. Heckscher
reviewed by John J. McCusker on December 4, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Merchants and Markets in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1930
by Arup Banerji
reviewed by Alan Ball on January 5, 1998
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
Merchants and Migrations: Germans and Americans in Connection, 1776-1835
by Sam A. Mustafa
reviewed by Simone A. Wegge on October 3, 2002
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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)
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by Geoffrey Jones
reviewed by Mira Wilkins on August 22, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
Merging Lines: American Railroads, 1900-1970
by Richard Saunders Jr.
reviewed by William Huneke on February 20, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
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)
The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation
by Seymour Drescher
reviewed by David M. Levy on November 6, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Servitude and Slavery (N)
Migration and Economic Growth: A Study of Great Britain and the Atlantic Economy
by Brinley Thomas
reviewed by James Foreman-Peck on August 14, 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), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
Migration and Inequality in Germany, 1870-1913
by Oliver Grant
reviewed by Simone A. Wegge on April 21, 2009
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • 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), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
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 Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought
by Jerry Z. Muller
reviewed by Bruce Caldwell on April 26, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
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)
Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement
by James B. Jacobs
reviewed by Melvyn Dubofsky on October 19, 2006
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Labor and Employment History (T), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
Modeling Rational Agents: From Interwar Economics to Early Modern Game Theory
by Nicola Giocoli
reviewed by Esther-Mirjam Sent on December 19, 2003
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Modelling the Middle Ages: The History and Theory of England's Economic Development
by John Hatcher and Mark Bailey
reviewed by Gary Richardson on March 17, 2003
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Modern Economic Growth: Rate, Structure and Spread
by Simon Kuznets
reviewed by Richard A. Easterlin on October 29, 2001
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
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)
Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade, and the Railways, 1917-1924
by Anthony Heywood
reviewed by Oliver Hayward on September 15, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
The Monetary History of Gold: A Documentary History, 1660-1999
by Mark Duckenfield
reviewed by Lawrence H. Officer on December 14, 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire
by Sevket Pamuk
reviewed by John Munro on November 1, 2002
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire
by Sevket Pamuk
reviewed by John Munro on November 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: Africa (1), Asia (2), Europe (4)
  • Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
by Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz
reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on January 1, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
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)
Monetary Policy and the Great Inflation in the United States: The Federal Reserve and the Failure of Macroeconomic Policy, 1965-79
by Thomas Mayer
reviewed by Stephen J. Perez on January 26, 2000
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve: A History
by Robert L. Hetzel
reviewed by Gary Richardson on December 3, 2008
  • 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)
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)
Monetary Regimes of the Twentieth Century
by Andrew Britton
reviewed by George Macesich on August 8, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Monetary Standards in the Periphery: Paper, Silver and Gold, 1854-1933
by Pablo Martin Acena and Jaime Reis
reviewed by Angela Redish on September 18, 2000
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods: The Construction of an International Monetary Order
by Filippo Cesarano
reviewed by John H. Wood on June 2, 2007
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), 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), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
Money and Its Uses in the Ancient Greek World
by Andrew Meadows and Kirsty Shipton (editors)
reviewed by David M. Schaps on April 8, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Money and Monetary Regimes: Struggle for Monetary Supremacy
by George Macesich
reviewed by Gerald P. Dwyer Jr. on May 17, 2002
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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 Politics: European Monetary Unification and the International Gold Standard (1865-1873)
by Luca Einaudi
reviewed by Benjamin J. Cohen on January 30, 2004
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy
by Richard Seaford
reviewed by David Tandy on March 9, 2005
  • Geographic area: Europe (4)
  • Time period: Ancient (2)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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 and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican, 1850-1950
by Stephen F. Pollard
reviewed by Patrick J. Hayes on June 3, 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), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Money Doctors: The Experience of Financial Advising, 1850-2000
by Marc Flandreau (editor)
reviewed by Anna J. Schwartz on September 21, 2004
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar
by H.W. Brands
reviewed by David J. Cowen on October 3, 2007
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
  • 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)
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)
Money, Markets, and Sovereignty
by Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds
reviewed by George Selgin on November 4, 2009
  • Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
  • Time period: General or Comparative (0)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society
by Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J. Sparks (editors)
reviewed by David Ryden on April 2, 2003
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Servitude and Slavery (N)
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)
Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates
by Charles R. Geisst
reviewed by Werner Troesken on August 14, 2000
  • 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)
Monsoon Traders: Ships, Skippers and Commodities in Eighteenth-century Makassar
by Gerrit Knaap and Heather Sutherland
reviewed by Om Prakash on October 31, 2005
  • Geographic area: Asia (2)
  • Time period: 18th Century (6)
  • Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
Moose Pastures and Mergers: The Ontario Securities Commission and the Regulation of Share Markets in Canada, 1940-1980
by Christopher Armstrong
reviewed by Ben Forster on January 31, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America
by Robert M. Collins
reviewed by William Keech on February 13, 2001
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D)
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)
Moving Money: Banking and Finance in the Industrializing World
by Daniel Verdier
reviewed by Scott A. Redenius on October 7, 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)
Mr. Kaiser Goes to Washington: The Rise of a Government Entrepreneur
by Stephen B. Adams
reviewed by Mark S. Foster on January 14, 1998
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B)
Much More than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921
by Robert F. Burk
reviewed by Michael Haupert on January 21, 2002
  • Geographic area: North America (7)
  • Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
  • Subject: Business History (B), Labor and Employment History (T)
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)
Mutually Beneficial: The Guardian and Life Insurance in America
by Robert E. Wright and George David Smith
reviewed by Richard H. Keehn on November 30, 2005
  • 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), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
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)

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