The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Published by EH.Net (November 2023). Clara E. Mattei. The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. 480 pp. $30 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0226818399. Reviewed for EH.Net by Max Harris, Senior Fellow, The Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation. Clara Mattei’s book, The […]
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism–DRAFT 1
Published by EH.Net (November 2023). Clara E. Mattei. The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. 480 pp. $30 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0226818399. Reviewed for EH.Net by Max Harris, Senior Fellow, The Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation. Clara Mattei’s book, The […]
No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe
Published by EH.Net (October 2023). Rowan Dorin. No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. 374 pp. $49.95 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0691249823. Reviewed for EH.Net by Jamin Andreas Hübner, LCC International University and University of the People. In No Return, historian Rowan Dorin wants […]
Winifred Barr Rothenberg
In Memoriam ECONOMICS HISTORY ASSOCIATION REMEMBERS WINIFRED BARR ROTHENBERG October 1, 2023 By Anne McCants Our colleague, Winnifred Barr Rothenberg, passed away on October 1, 2023. We would be sorely remiss if we failed to take proper notice of a life that was lived so extraordinarily well. So on this somber occasion I would like […]
Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England 1979-2003
Published by EH.Net (October 2023). Harold James. Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England 1979-2003. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Studies in Macroeconomic History), 2020. xxiii + 543 pp. £31.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1108799492. Reviewed for EH.Net by John Singleton, Sheffield Hallam University. Harold James’s Making a Modern Central Bank is the latest in […]
The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism
Published by EH.Net (October 2023). Sebastian Edwards. The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. 376 pp. $32 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0691208626. Reviewed for EH.Net by Andrew Zimbalist, Smith College. The Chile Project is replete with interesting storylines, but the central theme that runs […]
The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America
Published by EH.Net (September 2023). Bruce Carruthers. The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 408 pp. $35 (hardback), ISBN 978-0691235387. Reviewed for EH.Net by Bradley A. Hansen, University of Mary Washington. In The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America Bruce Carruthers sets out […]
A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism
Published by EH.Net (September 2023). Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein. A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. 525 pp. $39.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0691245508. Reviewed for EH.Net by James K. Galbraith, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin. This […]
Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States
Published by EH.Net (September 2023). Sharon Ann Murphy. Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 419 pp. $105 (hardback), ISBN 978-0226824598. Reviewed for EH.Net by Jenny Bourne, Carleton College. In 2005, JP Morgan Chase made history by apologizing for its involvement in Southern slavery […]
Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution, 1700–1776
Published by EH.Net (September 2023). Jeremy Land. Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution, 1700–1776. Leiden: Brill, 2023. xiv + 239 pp. $134 (hardback), ISBN 978-9004542693. Reviewed for EH.Net by Benjamin L. Carp, Department of History, Brooklyn College. Most students of the American Revolution have a sense that the northern […]