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21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19

Author(s)	Bernanke, Ben S.
Reviewer(s)	Ebenstein, Lanny
Subject(s)	Economic Planning and Policy Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Geographic Area(s)	North America
Time Periods(s)	20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

A Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America, 1960-2017

Reviewer(s)	Weller, Leonardo
Subject(s)	Economic Planning and Policy Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Geographic Area(s)	Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Time Periods(s)	20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States

Author(s)	Levy, Jonathan
Reviewer(s)	Campbell, Stephen W.
Subject(s)	Business History Economic Planning and Policy Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Geographic Area(s)	North America
Time Periods(s)	19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration

Author(s)	Chomsky, Aviva
Reviewer(s)	Hübner, Jamin Andreas
Subject(s)	Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Military and War International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Geographic Area(s)	Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean North America
Time Periods(s)	20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy

Author(s)	Tooze, Adam
Reviewer(s)	Peckham, Robert
Subject(s)	Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance Health, including Medicine, Disease, and Pandemics International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Geographic Area(s)	General, International, or Comparative
Time Periods(s)	21st Century

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

Author(s)	DeLong, J. Bradford
Reviewer(s)	Mokyr, Joel
Subject(s)	Economic Planning and Policy Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History History of Economic Thought; Methodology Income and Wealth Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Geographic Area(s)	General, International, or Comparative Europe North America
Time Periods(s)	20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

Understanding the Private-Public Divide: Markets, Governments, and Time Horizons

Author(s)	Offer, Avner
Reviewer(s)	Chick, Martin
Subject(s)	Economic Planning and Policy Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Geographic Area(s)	General, International, or Comparative Europe North America
Time Periods(s)	20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography

Author(s)	Alacevich, Michele
Reviewer(s)	Darnell, Adrian
Subject(s)	Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Economic Planning and Policy
Geographic Area(s)	General, International, or Comparative
Time Periods(s)	20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America

Author(s)	Horan, Caley
Reviewer(s)	Thomasson, Melissa
Subject(s)	Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History Health, including Medicine, Disease, and Pandemics
Geographic Area(s)	North America
Time Periods(s)	20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

Austerities and Aspirations: A Comparative History of Growth, Consumption, and Quality of Life in East Central Europe since 1945

Author(s)	Tomka, Béla
Reviewer(s)	Piatkowski, Marcin
Subject(s)	Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Income and Wealth Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Geographic Area(s)	Europe
Time Periods(s)	20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success

Author(s)	Abramitzky, Ran Boustan, Leah
Reviewer(s)	Kamphoefner, Walter D.
Subject(s)	Historical Demography, including Migration Labor and Employment History Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Geographic Area(s)	North America
Time Periods(s)	19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

A Brief History of Equality

Author(s)	Piketty, Thomas
Reviewer(s)	Alacevich, Michele
Subject(s)	Economic Planning and Policy Servitude and Slavery Income and Wealth
Geographic Area(s)	General, International, or Comparative
Time Periods(s)	18th Century 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy

Author(s)	Berman, Elizabeth Popp
Reviewer(s)	Kuehn, Daniel
Subject(s)	Economic Planning and Policy Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Geographic Area(s)	North America
Time Periods(s)	20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

Essays in Economic History: Purchasing Power Parity, Standard of Living, and Monetary Standards

Author(s)	Officer, Lawrence H.
Reviewer(s)	Devereux, John
Subject(s)	Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History International and Domestic Trade and Relations Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Geographic Area(s)	General, International, or Comparative Europe North America
Time Periods(s)	18th Century 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

Scotland: The Global History, 1603 to the Present

Author(s)	Pittock, Murray
Reviewer(s)	Wardle, William
Subject(s)	Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Geographic Area(s)	Europe
Time Periods(s)	17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

The Federal Reserve: A New History

Author(s)	Hetzel, Robert
Reviewer(s)	Bordo, Michael D
Subject(s)	Economic Planning and Policy Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Geographic Area(s)	North America
Time Periods(s)	20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain

Author(s)	Edwards, Amy
Reviewer(s)	Rutterford, Janette
Subject(s)	Business History Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Geographic Area(s)	Europe
Time Periods(s)	20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism

Author(s)	Harrison, Mark
Reviewer(s)	Åslund, Anders
Subject(s)	Economic Planning and Policy Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Geographic Area(s)	Europe
Time Periods(s)	20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

Unequal Cities: Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality

Author(s)	McGahey, Richard
Reviewer(s)	Gray, Rowena
Subject(s)	Economic Planning and Policy Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance Urban and Regional History
Geographic Area(s)	North America
Time Periods(s)	20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism

Author(s)	Liu, Glory M.
Reviewer(s)	Ebenstein, Lanny
Subject(s)	Economic Planning and Policy History of Economic Thought; Methodology
Geographic Area(s)	Europe North America
Time Periods(s)	18th Century 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism

Author(s)	Lichtenstein, Nelson Stein, Judith
Reviewer(s)	Galbraith, James K.
Subject(s)	Economic Planning and Policy Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Geographic Area(s)	North America
Time Periods(s)	20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century

The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America

Author(s)	Carruthers, Bruce
Reviewer(s)	Hansen, Bradley A.
Subject(s)	Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Geographic Area(s)	North America
Time Periods(s)	17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century: Pre WWII 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII 21st Century