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Aaronson, Susan Ariel From GATT to WTO: The Evolution of an Obscure Agency to One Perceived as Obstructing Democracy
Adams, Sean Patrick The US Coal Industry in the Nineteenth Century
Aldrich, Mark History of Workplace Safety in the United States, 1880-1970
Alexander, Barbara The National Recovery Administration
Amaral, Luciano Economic History of Portugal
Attard, Bernard The Economic History of Australia from 1788: An Introduction
Baack, Ben The Economics of the American Revolutionary War
Bakker, Gerben The Economic History of the International Film Industry
Baranoff, Dalit Fire Insurance in the United States
Bértola, Luis Bertola.Uruguay.final
Bierman, Harold The 1929 Stock Market Crash
Boal, William M. Monopsony in American Labor Markets
Bodenhorn, Howard Antebellum Banking in the United States
Bourne, Jenny Slavery in the United States
Boyd, Lawrence W. The Company Town
Boyer, George English Poor Laws
Brown, Stephen A. A History of the Bar Code
Bugos, Glenn E. The History of the Aerospace Industry
Burnette, Joyce Women Workers in the British Industrial Revolution
Butkiewicz, James Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Carlos, Ann M. & Lewis, Frank D. The Economic History of the Fur Trade: 1670 to 1870
Castaneda, Christopher Manufactured and Natural Gas Industry
Cha, Myung Soo The Economic History of Korea
Chandra, Siddharth Economic Histories of the Opium Trade
Chapra, M. Umer Islamic Economics: What It Is and How It Developed
Cohen, Benjamin J. Monetary Unions
Cohn, Raymond L. Immigration to the United States
Collins, William J. Fair Housing Laws
Couch, Jim The Works Progress Administration
Cowen, David The First Bank of the United States
Craft, Erik D. An Economic History of Weather Forecasting
Craig, Lee A. Public Sector Pensions in the United States
Crowley, Terry Oscar Douglas Skelton and Canada’s Economic History
Cuff, Timothy Historical Anthropometrics
Cunfer, Geoff The Dust Bowl
Deng, Kent Economic History of Premodern China (from 221 BC to c. 1800 AD)
Di Matteo, Livio The Use of Quantitative Micro-data in Canadian Economic History: A Brief Survey
Doti, Lynne Pierson Banking in the Western U.S.
Drabble, John H. Economic History of Malaysia
Eloranta, Jari Military Spending Patterns in History
Emery, Herb Fraternal Sickness Insurance
Engen, Darel Tai The Economy of Ancient Greece
Fishback, Price V. Workers' Compensation
Fisher, Glenn W. History of Property Taxes in the United States
Flynn, David T. Credit in the Colonial American Economy
Frank, Zephyr & Aldo Musacchio The International Natural Rubber Market, 1870-1930
Frey, Donald The Protestant Ethic Thesis
Friedman, Gerald Labor Unions in the United States
Gardner, Bruce U.S. Agriculture in the Twentieth Century
Grossman, Richard S. US Banking History, Civil War to World War II
Grytten, Ola Honningdal The Economic History of Norway
Gupta, Bishnupriya The History of the International Tea Market, 1850-1945
Haines, Michael Fertility and Mortality in the United States
Halevi, Nadav A Brief Economic History of Modern Israel
Hansen, Bradley Bankruptcy Law in the United States
Harreld, Donald J. The Dutch Economy in the Golden Age (16th – 17th Centuries)
Haupert, Michael J. The Economic History of Major League Baseball
Heckelman, Jac C. Historical Political Business Cycles in the United States
Henriksen, Ingrid An Economic History of Denmark
Herren, Robert Stanley Council of Economic Advisers
Hjerppe, Riitta An Economic History of Finland
Holley, Donald Mechanical Cotton Picker
Jacoby, Daniel Apprenticeship in the United States
Jones, Norman Usury
Kaplan, Edward S. The Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922
Khan, B. Zorina An Economic History of Copyright in Europe and the United States
Klein, Daniel B. & John Majewski Turnpikes and Toll Roads in Nineteenth-Century America
La Croix, Sumner Economic History of Hawai'i
Law, Marc T. History of Food and Drug Regulation in the United States
Lyons, John Cliometrics
Malone, Laurence J. Rural Electrification Administration
Maloney, Thomas N. African Americans in the Twentieth Century
Mason, David Savings and Loan Industry (U.S.)
McDonald, John Economy of England at the Time of the Norman Conquest
McGuire, Robert A. Economic Interests and the Adoption of the United States Constitution
Meyer, David R. The Roots of American Industrialization, 1790-1860
Michener, Ron Money in the American Colonies
Miron, Jeffrey A. Alcohol Prohibition
Mitch, David Education and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective
Moen, Jon The Panic of 1907
Mosk, Carl Japanese Industrialization and Economic Growth
Murphy, Sharon Ann Life Insurance in the United States through World War I
Murray, John E. Industrial Sickness Funds
Mushin, Jerry The Euro and Its Antecedents
Mushin, Jerry The Sterling Area
Neill, Robin Harold Adams Innis
Nelson, Jon P. Advertising Bans in the United States
Noll, Franklin, Ph.D. The United States Public Debt, 1861 to 1975
Nonnenmacher, Tomas History of the U.S. Telegraph Industry
Ó Gráda, Cormac Ireland's Great Famine
O'Brien, Anthony Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Officer, Lawrence H. Gold Standard
Olds, Kelly The Economic History of Taiwan
Owen, Laura History of Labor Turnover in the U.S.
Parker, Randall An Overview of the Great Depression
Patton, Randall L. A History of the U.S. Carpet Industry
Persson, Karl Gunnar The Law of One Price
Phillips, Ronnie J. & Mushinski, David Morris Plan Banks
Phillips, William H. Cotton Gin
Puffert, Douglas Path Dependence
Quinn, Stephen The Glorious Revolution of 1688
Ransom, Roger L. The Economics of the Civil War
Redish, Angela Bimetallism
Richardson, Gary Medieval Guilds
Ritschl, Albrecht The Marshall Plan, 1948-1951
Rockoff, Hugh U.S. Economy in World War I
Rosenbloom, Joshua Indentured Servitude in the Colonial U.S.
Routt, David Black Death, Economic Impact
Santos, Joseph A History of Futures Trading in the United States
Schenk, Catherine R. Economic History of Hong Kong
Schön, Lennart Sweden – Economic Growth and Structural Change, 1800-2000
Schrag, Zachary M. Urban Mass Transit In The United States
Scott, Carole E. The History of the Radio Industry in the United States to 1940
Selgin, George Gresham's Law
Short, Joanna Economic History of Retirement in the United States
Sicotte, Richard International Shipping Cartels
Siklos, Pierre L. Deflation
Singleton, John An Economic History of New Zealand in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Smiley, Gene The U.S. Economy in the 1920s
Smith, Fred & Sarah Allen Urban Decline (and Success) in the United States
Stack, Martin H. A Concise History of America's Brewing Industry
Stead, David R. Agricultural Tenures and Tithes
Stead, David R. Arthur Young
Stead, David R. Common Agricultural Policy
Stead, David R. David Ricardo
Stead, David R. Thomas Robert Malthus
Stead, David R. William Marshall
Steckel, Richard H. A History of the Standard of Living in the United States
Steindl, Frank G. Economic Recovery in the Great Depression
Stewart, James I. The Economics of American Farm Unrest, 1865-1900
Tassava, Christopher J. The American Economy during World War II
Thomasson, Melissa Health Insurance in the United States
Toma, Mark Federal Reserve System
Touwen, Jeroen The Economic History of Indonesia
Troost, William The Freedmen’s Bureau
Tuttle, Carolyn Child Labor during the British Industrial Revolution
Walsh, Margaret The Bus Industry in the United States
Weidenmier, Marc Money and Finance in the Confederate States of America
Whaples, Robert Carnegie, Andrew
Whaples, Robert Hours of Work in U.S. History
White, William J. Economic History of Tractors in the United States
Whitten, David O. The Depression of 1893
Wicker, Elmus Banking Panics in the US: 1873-1933
Wright, Robert E. Origins of Commercial Banking in the United States, 1781-1830