Book Reviews - By Title (V)
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- 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 Vanishing Irish: Households, Migration, and the Rural Economy in Ireland, 1850-1914
- by Timothy W. Guinnane
- reviewed by Henry A. Gemery on August 11, 1998
- Geographic area:
- Time period: 16th Century (4)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- The "Vanity of the Philosopher": From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics
- by Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy
- reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond on October 2, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Veblen in Perspective: His Life and Thought
- by Stephen Edgell
- reviewed by Donald Stabile on January 24, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- 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)
- Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes? A Tale of Two Schools of Free-Market Economics
- by Mark Skousen
- reviewed by Pedro Garcia Duarte on March 1, 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: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- 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)
- Virginia and the Panic of 1819: The First Great Depression and the Commonwealth
- by Clyde A. Haulman
- reviewed by James Karmel on June 25, 2009
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris, 1830-1870
- by Victoria E. Thompson
- reviewed by Jonathan J. Liebowitz on May 3, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
- by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
- reviewed by David S. Landes on February 12, 2001
- 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: Business History (B)
- Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France
- by Andrea A. Rusnock
- reviewed by Bernard Harris on May 10, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations
- by Karen S. Miller
- reviewed by Pamela W. Laird on September 9, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B)
- 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)
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