The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times
Published by EH.NET (May 2010) David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr and William J. Baumol , editors, The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. xv + 566 pp. $49.50 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-691-14370-5. Reviewed for EH.NET by Reuven Brenner, Desautels School of Management, McGill University. Carl Schramm, who […]
The Fisherman?s Cause: Atlantic Commerce and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution
Published by EH.NET (April 2010) Christopher P. Magra, The Fisherman?s Cause: Atlantic Commerce and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. x + 243 pp. $75 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-521-51838-3. Reviewed for EH.NET by David Surdam, Department of Economics, University of Northern Iowa. Christopher Magra, Assistant Professor at California State University, […]
Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries
Published by EH.NET (February 2008) Michael Tomz, Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. xxi + 299 pp. $60 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-691-12930-3. Reviewed for EH.NET by Kim Oosterlinck, Solvay Business School, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles. In view of the sovereign nature of their issuer, and in the […]
China Maritime Customs and China’s Trade Statistics, 1859-1948
Published by EH.NET (July 2004) Thomas P. Lyons, China Maritime Customs and China’s Trade Statistics, 1859-1948. Trumansburg, NY: Willow Creek Press, 2003. viii + 168 pp. + data and text files on CD. $34.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-9729147-5-7. Reviewed for EH.NET by Tim Wright, Chinese Studies, University of Sheffield. Studies of the economic history of China […]
Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment
Published by EH.NET (September 2002) Emma Rothschild, Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. ix + 353 pp. $50 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-674-00489-2; $18.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-674-00837-5. Reviewed for EH.NET by Glenn Hueckel, Department of Economics, Pomona College. This is a book that will itself provoke in […]
The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy
Published by EH.NET (September 2000) Andrew Gibson and Arthur Donovan, The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. xiv + 362 pp. $39.95 (hardback), ISBN: 1-57003-319-6. Reviewed for EH.NET by Gordon Boyce, School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. In […]
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. 1944. xiii + 305. Review Essay by Anne Mayhew, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tennessee. amayhew@utk.edu Markets to Market to Protection: Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation Karl Polanyi, once a World War I officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, a lecturer at […]
Determinants of Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Empirical Study
EH.NET BOOK REVIEW Published by EH.NET (July 1998) Robert J. Barro, Determinants of Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Empirical Study. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. xii + 145 pp. $22.50 (cloth), $12.50 (paper); ISBN: 0-262-02421-7 (cloth), 0-262-52254-3 (paper). Reviewed for EH.NET by John W. Dawson, Department of Economics, Bellarmine College. Robert Barro and his associates have […]
The Blues: A History of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield System
EH.NET BOOK REVIEW Published by H-Business@w3needs.com and EH.Net (June 1998) Robert Cunningham III and Robert M. Cunningham Jr. The Blues: A History of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield System. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. xii + 311 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $36.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-87580-224-9. Reviewed for H-Business by Colin […]
C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian
Published by EH.Net (July 2023). James C. Cobb. C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 490 pp. $37.50 (hardcover). ISBN978-1469670218. Reviewed for EH.Net by Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Any shortlist of the greatest American historians of the twentieth century would include C. Vann Woodward. […]