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Mills, Geofrey T.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
General, International, or Comparative
Jul 21, 1999
Published by EH.NET (July 1999)
Mark Harrison, editor, The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in
International Comparison. Cambridge, UK; Cambridge University Press, 1998.
xiii + 307 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-620465.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Geofrey T. Mills, College of Business, University of
Northern Iowa.
Scholars and students of World War II will find this collection of essays an
extremely useful addition to their libraries. The essays cover the six major
antagonists of the war: Germany, Japan, Italy, the Soviet Union, the UK and
the US. The editor succeeds in achieving a major goal of the book which is to
"provide...
Wishart, David M.
Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
General or Comparative
North America
Jul 18, 1999
EH.NET BOOK REVIEW
Bruce E. Johansen, editor, The Encyclopedia of Native American Economic
History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. xvii + 301 pp. $85, ISBN:
0-313-3062300.
Reviewed for EH.NET by David M. Wishart, Department of Economics,
Wittenberg University.
Compiling any sort
of volume on Native Americans with "Encyclopedia" in the title is a daunting
task given the diversity of Native American cultures and experiences. Johansen
is the Robert T. Reilly Professor of Communication and Native American Studies
at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and would seem to be a good choice for
editing a work such as this...
Goldin, Milton
Markets and Institutions
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Jul 15, 1999
Published by EH.NET (July 1999)
Elizabeth T. Bor is and C. Eugene Steuerle. Nonprofits and Government:
Collaboration and Conflict. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Press, 1999.
xii + 383pp. Tables, notes, bibliographies, index. $57.50 (cloth), ISBN
0-87766-687-5; $29.50 (paper), ISBN 0-87766-686-3.
Reviewed for H-Business and EH.NET by Milton Goldin, National Coalition of
Independent Scholars (NCIS).
The New Gospel of Wealth
Today, in the second Gilded Age, a hundred years after the first,
scholars at universities and think tanks have replaced clerics and muckraking
journalists as primary observers of America's philanthropic system. And...
Kerr, K. Austin
Business History
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Jul 13, 1999
Published by EH.NET (July 1999)
Neil A. Hamilton. American Business Leaders. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio, 1998. 1 CD-ROM and user's guide. standalone $49; lab pack (5 discs) $129; network (unlimited use) $199.
System Requirements: Windows: Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98; Pentium-compatible processor running at 75MHz or faster; 16MB RAM (32MB recommended); hard drive with at least 30MB free space; SVG A monitor, 640 x 480, 256 colors, small fonts; Windows-compatible mouse or pointing device; 4X-speed CD-ROM drive.
Reviewed for H-Business and EH.Net by K. Austin Kerr, Department of History, Ohio State University.
This CD is a convenient if...
Boumans, Marcel
Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods
19th Century
Europe
Jul 12, 1999
Published by EH.NET (July 1999)
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. and Robert F. Hebert. Secret Origins of Modern Microeconomics: Dupuit and the Engineers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xvi + 468 pp. $40.00 (cloth). ISBN: 0-226-19999-1.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Marcel Boumans, Department of Economics, University of Amsterdam.
Appropriated Origins of Microeconomics
Secrets should be divulged and not belong to a few only. Therefore, right from the start the secret of the origin of modern microeconomics is given away by presenting it as the main thesis of this book, namely that "Microeconomics as we now know it was developed first and foremost by engineers rather than economists, and that its origins...
Robertson, Andrew
Business History
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
Asia
Jul 6, 1999
Published by EH.NET (July 1999)
W. Mark Fruin, Knowledge Works: Managing Intellectual Capital at
Toshiba.
Japan Business and Economics Series. New York: Oxford University Press,
1997. 256 pp. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN: 0195081951
Reviewed for H-Business and EH.NET by Andrew Robertson, Harvard University.
Awash
in a sea of high quality, meticulously engineered electronic and mechanical
products bearing the label "Made in Japan", Americans -- both inside and
outside academia -- continue to wonder, despite Japan's recent economic
troubles, "How does Japanese industry do it?" In Knowledge Works:
Managing Intellectual...
Croix, Sumner La
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
General or Comparative
Asia
Jul 1, 1999
Published by EH.NET
Sally M. Miller, A.J.H. Latham, and Dennis O. Flynn, editors, Studies in the Economic History of the Pacific Rim. Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia. London and New York: Routledge , 1998. 253 pp. $90 (cloth), ISBN 0-415-114819-7.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Sumner La Croix, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii and Barnard College.
In the introduction to this volume, Dennis Flynn and Arturo Giraldez write that they searched "for books and articles which might provide an overview of over four centuries of Pacific Rim interchange. For years scholars around the world have given the same answer: no long-term overview of the...
O'Brien, Anthony P.
Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
19th Century
North America
Jun 28, 1999
Published by EH.NET (June 1999)
Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten, Democracy in Desperation: The
Depression of 1893. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. 261 pp. $59.95
(cloth), ISBN: 0-313-27943-8.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Anthony P. O'Brien, Department of Economics, Lehigh
University.
The depression of the 1890s is the least studied major event in the economic
history of the United States. The contrast is striking between the torrent of
work by economic historians on the depression of the 1930s and
the trickle of work on the 1890s. For most, the 1930s are the "defining moment"
for the twentieth-century U.S. economy (as the...
Blobaum, Robert E.
Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
19th Century
Europe
Jun 22, 1999
Published by EH.NET (June, 1999)
Beth Holmgren. Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late
Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland. Pitt Series in Russian and East
European Studies. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. xv
+ 240 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cloth),
ISBN 0-8229-4075-2; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8229-5679-9.
Reviewed for H-Business and EH.NET by Robert E. Blobaum, Department of History,
West Virginia University.
Reconciling Art and the Market in Russia and Poland
In this ambitious examination of the impact of capitalism on Russian and Polish
literature at turn-of-...
Fishback, Price V.
Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Jun 20, 1999
Published by EH.NET (June 1999)
Jim Couch and William F. Shughart II, T he Political Economy of the New
Deal. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 1998. xvi + 229
pp. $85 (hardback), ISBN 1-85898-899-3.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Price V. Fishback, Department of Economics,
University of Arizona.
The New Deal is certainly one of the most dramatic peace-time expansions of
government activity in recorded history. As a result, numerous social
scientists and historians have tried to understand the political economy of the
New Deal. In
particular,...