Market Education: The Unknown History
Published by EH.NET (July 1, 2000) Andrew J. Coulson, Market Education: The Unknown History, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999, x + 471 pp. $24.95 (paperback), 1-7658-0496-4, $24.95, $54.95 (cloth), 1-56000-408-8. Reviewed for EH.NET by Martin West, Worcester College, Oxford University. Each year more evidence is published indicating the persistence of vast inequalities within the […]
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 […]
European Industrial Policy: The Twentieth-Century Experience
Published by EH.NET (May 1, 2000) James Foreman-Peck and Giovanni Federico, European Industrial Policy: The Twentieth-Century Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xvi + 466 pp. $105 (cloth), ISBN: 0-19828998-7. Reviewed for EH.NET by Francesca Fauri, Professor of Istituzioni Economiche Europee, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bologna in Forl?. The aim of this multi-authored […]
Fifty Years of the Deutsche Mark. Central Bank and the Currency in Germany since 1948
Published by EH.NET (February 2000) ? Deutsche Bundesbank, editor, Fifty Years of the Deutsche Mark. Central Bank and the Currency in Germany since 1948, translated. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxv i + 836 pp. $90.00 (hardback), ISBN: 0-19-829254-6. Reviewed for EH.NET by Albrecht Ritschl, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland. . This […]
Exchange Rate Regimes in the Twentieth Century
Published by EH.NET (November 1999) Derek H. Aldcroft and Michael J. Oliver, Exchange Rate Regimes in the Twentieth Century. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 1998. xiii + 210 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN: 1 85898 320 7. Reviewed for EH. NET by Anna J. Schwartz, National Bureau of Economic Research. This is a […]
A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
Published by EH.NET (September 1999) ? Mary Poovey, A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxv + 419 pp. $49.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-226-67525-4; $17.00 (paper), I SBN: 0-226-67526-2. Reviewed for EH.NET by Timothy Alborn, Department of History, Lehman College, CUNY. […]
Consumers Against Capitalism? Consumer Cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840-1990
Published by EH.NET (September 1999) Ellen Furlough and Carl Strikwerda (eds.). Consumers Against Capitalism? Consumer Cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840-1990. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. 377 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $63.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8476-8648-5; $23.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8476-8649-3. Reviewed for H-Business and EH.NET by Gerd-Rainer Horn, Department of History, Western Oregon […]
Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s
Published by EH.NET (August , 1999) Charles K. Hyde. Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. xvii + 267 pp. Tables, maps, notes, and index. $40 (cloth), ISBN 0-8165-1817 3. Reviewed for H-Business and EH.NET by Roger Burt, School of Historical, Political […]
Studies in the Economic History of the Pacific Rim
Published by EH.NET ? Sally M. Miller, A.J.H. Latham, and Dennis O. Flynn, editors, Studies in the Economic History of the Pacific Rim. Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia. London and New York: Routledge , 1998. 253 pp. $90 (cloth), ISBN 0-415-114819-7. Reviewed for EH.NET by Sumner La Croix, Department of Economics, University […]
Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland
Published by EH.NET (June, 1999) Beth Holmgren. Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. xv + 240 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8229-4075-2; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8229-5679-9. Reviewed […]