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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