Book Reviews By Subject (Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity)

Subject:
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Servitude and Slavery
Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress: Diseases and Economic Development
McGuire, Robert A.
Coelho, Philip R. P.
Murray, John E.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Servitude and Slavery
Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
North America
May 8, 2012

Subject:
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe
Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent
Wong, R. Bin
Ma, Debin
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Medieval
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
Asia
Europe
Feb 8, 2012

Subject:
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economic Planning and Policy
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Markets and Institutions

Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850
Parthasarathi, Prasannan
Mokyr, Joel
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economic Planning and Policy
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Markets and Institutions
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
Asia
Europe
Jan 9, 2012

Subject:
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Urban and Regional History

Locating the Industrial Revolution: Inducement and Response
Jones, Eric L.
Bogart, Dan
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Urban and Regional History
18th Century
19th Century
Europe
Dec 15, 2011

Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth
Field, Alexander J.
Rhode, Paul
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Dec 1, 2011
Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed through Natural Resource Exploitation
Barbier, Edward B.
Hanson, John R.
Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
General or Comparative
General, International, or Comparative
Aug 5, 2011
Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution
Horn, Jeff
Rosenband, Leonard N.
Smith, Merritt Roe
Jones, Eric
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
General, International, or Comparative
Jul 1, 2011
The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East
Kuran, Timur
Çizakça, Murat
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Medieval
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
Middle East
Jun 30, 2011
Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding and How We Can Improve the World Even More
Kenny, Charles
Garces-Voisenat, Juan-Pedro
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
General, International, or Comparative
Jun 28, 2011
Manors and Markets: Economy and Society in the Low Countries, 500-1600
van Bavel, Bas
McCants, Anne E.C.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Markets and Institutions
Medieval
16th Century
17th Century
Europe
Jun 20, 2011
Living Standards in Latin American History: Height, Welfare, and Development, 1750-2000
Salvatore, Ricardo D.
Coatsworth, John H.
Challú, Amílcar E.
Salvucci, Richard
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Jun 6, 2011
Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation
Majewski, John
Delfino, Susanna
Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economic Planning and Policy
19th Century
North America
Mar 8, 2011
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Allen, Robert C.
Leunig, Tim
Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
Europe
Feb 15, 2011
The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain, 1700-1850
Mokyr, Joel
Harley, C. Knick
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
History of Technology, including Technological Change
18th Century
19th Century
Europe
Dec 2, 2010
Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans
Anderson, Terry L.
Benson, Bruce L.
Flanagan, Thomas E.
Carlson, Leonard
Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Markets and Institutions
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Nov 16, 2010
Capitalism, Institutions, and Economic Development
Heller, Michael G.
Dupont, Brandon
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
History of Economic Thought; Methodology
Markets and Institutions
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
General, International, or Comparative
Oct 11, 2010
Why America is Not a New Rome
Smil, Vaclav
Temin, Peter
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Historical Demography, including Migration
Ancient
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
Europe
North America
Aug 10, 2010
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
North, Douglass C.
Wallis, John Joseph
Weingast, Barry R.
Margo, Robert A.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Military and War
Markets and Institutions
General or Comparative
General, International, or Comparative
Jul 20, 2010
The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
Appleby, Joyce
Hohenberg, Paul M.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Labor and Employment History
Markets and Institutions
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
General, International, or Comparative
Jun 15, 2010
Agriculture and Economic Development in Europe since 1870
Lains, Pedro
Pinella, Vincente
Grantham, George
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
Europe
Jan 21, 2010
Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition
Carter, Susan B.
Gartner, Scott Sigmund
Haines, Michael R.
Olmstead, Alan L.
Sutch, Richard
Wright, Gavin
Williamson, Samuel H.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Oct 24, 2006
The Mystery of Economic Growth
Helpman, Elhanan
Davis, George K.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
General or Comparative
General, International, or Comparative
Mar 28, 2005
Understanding the Process of Economic Change
North, Douglass C.
Field, Alexander J.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
General or Comparative
General, International, or Comparative
Feb 14, 2005
Origins and Growth of the Global Economy: From the Fifteenth Century Onward
Seavoy, Ronald E.
Cruz, Laura
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
General, International, or Comparative
Nov 24, 2003
Concept and Controversy: Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market
Rostow, W. W.
Cain, Louis P.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
General, International, or Comparative
Jul 17, 2003
Poverty from the Wealth of Nations: Integration and Polarization in the Global Economy since 1760
Alam, M. Shahid
Eng, Pierre van der
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
General, International, or Comparative
Jan 13, 2003
American Economic Policy in the 1990s
Frankel, Jeffrey A.
Orszag, Peter R.
Shughart, William F. II
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Aug 15, 2002
The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective
Maddison, Angus
Brezis, Elise S.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
General or Comparative
General, International, or Comparative
Nov 25, 2001
Modern Economic Growth: Rate, Structure and Spread
Kuznets, Simon
Easterlin, Richard A.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
General, International, or Comparative
Oct 28, 2001
British Economic Growth, 1688-1959: Trends and Structure
Deane, Phyllis
Cole, W. A.
Harley, Knick
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
20th Century: Pre WWII
Europe
Sep 17, 2001
The Great Breakthrough and its Cause
Simon, Julian
Hohenberg, Paul M.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
General or Comparative
General, International, or Comparative
May 28, 2001
The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure
Boserup, Ester
Federico, Giovanni
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
General or Comparative
General, International, or Comparative
Apr 15, 2001

Subject:
Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America
Collins, Robert M.
Keech, William
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Feb 12, 2001

Subject:
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

The Economic Development of Latin America in the Twentieth Century
Hofman, André H
Maurer, Noel
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Oct 12, 2000

Subject:
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy
Pomeranz, Kenneth
Lal, Deepak
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
General or Comparative
Asia
Oct 1, 2000

Subject:
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England
Temin, Peter
Meyer, David R.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
General or Comparative
North America
Aug 8, 2000
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
Wright, Robert
Long, J. Bradford De
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
General or Comparative
General, International, or Comparative
Jun 30, 2000

Subject:
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Markets and Institutions

Economic Growth and Change: National and Regional Patterns of Convergence and Divergence
Adams, John
Pigliaru, Francesco
Parente, Stephen L.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
General, International, or Comparative
May 7, 2000

Subject:
Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economic Planning and Policy

Production Efficiency in Domesday England, 1086
McDonald, John
Botticini, Maristella
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Medieval
Europe
Mar 14, 2000

Subject:
Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Factor Endowments, Culture, and Politics on Long-run Economic Performance
Lal, Deepak
Tuttle, Carolyn
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
General or Comparative
General, International, or Comparative
Dec 20, 1999

Subject:
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
History of Technology, including Technological Change

The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison
Harrison, Mark
Mills, Geofrey T.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
General, International, or Comparative
Jul 21, 1999

Subject:
Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Markets and Institutions

Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev
Davies, R. W.
Gregory, Paul R.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
Europe
Apr 25, 1999

Subject:
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
History of Economic Thought; Methodology
Markets and Institutions

The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities
Booth, Anne
Touwen, Jeroen
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
General or Comparative
Asia
Oct 6, 1998

Subject:
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Historical Demography, including Migration

Determinants of Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Empirical Study
Barro, Robert J.
Dawson, John W.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
General, International, or Comparative
Jul 17, 1998

Subject:
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Military and War
Markets and Institutions

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Are Some So Rich and Others So Poor
Landes, David S.
De Long, J. Bradford
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
General or Comparative
General, International, or Comparative
Apr 5, 1998

Subject:
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Labor and Employment History
Markets and Institutions

Growth Triumphant: The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective
Easterlin, Richard A.
Costa, Dora L.
Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
General or Comparative
General, International, or Comparative
Aug 22, 1997