Hunger in War and Peace: Women and Children in Germany, 1914-1924
Published by EH.Net (July 2022). Mary Elisabeth Cox. Hunger in War and Peace: Women and Children in Germany, 1914-1924. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xviii + 383 pp. $105 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-882011-6. Reviewed for EH.Net by Timothy W. Guinnane, Philip Golden Bartlett Professor of Economic History, Emeritus, Yale University. Embargoes and blockades have […]
Progress through Regression: The Life Story of the Empirical Cobb-Douglas Production Function
Published by EH.Net (May 2022). Jeff Biddle. Progress through Regression: The Life Story of the Empirical Cobb-Douglas Production Function. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 334 pp. $110 (hardback), ISBN 978-1108492263. Reviewed for EH.Net by Alexander J. Field, Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University. Jeff Biddle has written an intellectual history of the […]
Centrally Planned Economies: Theory and Practice in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Published by EH.Net (May 2022). Libor Židek. Centrally Planned Economies: Theory and Practice in Socialist Czechoslovakia. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. xiii + 257 pp. £29:59 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-367-72862-5. Reviewed for EH.NET by Nigel Swain, Department of History, University of Liverpool. It is difficult to know how to react to this work. Books […]
The Gypsy Economist: The Life and Times of Colin Clark
Published by EH.Net (April 2022). Alex Millmow. The Gypsy Economist: The Life and Times of Colin Clark. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2021. xx + 396 pp. $119.99 (hardback), ISBN: 978-981-33-6945-0. Reviewed for EH.Net by Adrian Darnell, Retired Professor of Economics, Durham University. Colin Grant Clark was born in 1905; he was educated at Winchester […]
A Land of Milk and Butter: How Elites Created the Modern Danish Dairy Industry
Published by EH.Net (May 2020) Markus Lampe and Paul Sharp, A Land of Milk and Butter: How Elites Created the Modern Danish Dairy Industry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. x + 273 pp. $65 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-226-54950-7. Reviewed for EH.Net by Anthony Webster, Department of Humanities, Northumbria University. This collaboratively authored work by […]
Gavin Wright
Gavin Wright received his BA in economics from Swarthmore College in 1965, and his PhD from Yale in 1969, where he began his career as an assistant professor. In 1972 he moved to the University of Michigan, before moving to Stanford, where he would spend the rest of his career. In between, he held visiting […]
The Medieval Clothier
Published by EH.Net (April 2019) John S. Lee, The Medieval Clothier. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2018. xix + 365 pp. £25 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-78327-317-1. Reviewed for EH.Net byAlex Brown, Department of History, Durham University. John S. Lee’s The Medieval Clothier is an excellent first volume in Boydell’s new series Working in the Middle Ages, […]
Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development
Published by EH.Net (July 2018) Naomi R. Lamoreaux and John Joseph Wallis, editors, Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. ix + 380 pp. $130 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-226-42636-5. Reviewed for EH.Net by Werner Troesken, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh. Freedom of association has long been viewed […]
Famine in European History
Published by EH.Net (January 2018) Guido Alfani and Cormac Ó Gráda, editors, Famine in European History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xi + 325 pp. $30 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-316-63183-6. Reviewed for EH.Net by Natalya Naumenko, Department of Economics, Northwestern University. This collection of essays undertakes to construct a comprehensive history of famine in […]
The Chinese Market Economy, 1000-1500
Published by EH.Net (June 2017) William Guanglin Liu, The Chinese Market Economy, 1000-1500. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2015. xviii + 374 pp., $30 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4384-5568-6. Reviewed for EH.Net by Kenneth Pomeranz, Department of Economics, University of Chicago. William Guanglin Liu has written a valuable book on a big, important, topic: […]