The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities
EH-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by EH.NET (October 1998) Anne Booth, The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities. Basingstoke: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. xvi + 377 pp. Includes bibliographical references and index. $19.95 (paperback), ISBN 0-333-55310-1 (Macmillan). $79.95 (hardcover), ISBN 0-333-55309-8 (Macmillan) and 0-312-17749-6 (St. […]
The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century
Published by EH.NET (September 1998) Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White, editors, The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century. An NBER Project Report. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvi + 474 pp. $60.00 (cloth). ISBN: 0-226-06589-8 (cloth), 0-226-06589-8 (paper). Reviewed for EH.NET by […]
The Vanishing Irish: Households, Migration, and the Rural Economy in Ireland, 1850-1914
Published by EH.NET (August 1998) Timothy W. Guinnane, The Vanishing Irish: Households, Migration, and the Rural Economy in Ireland, 1850-1914. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. ix + 335 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-691-04307-8. Reviewed for EH.NET by H.A. Gemery, Department of Economics, Colby College. Over the post-Famine years from 1841 to the eve of […]
And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920 to the 1990s
EH.NET BOOK REVIEW Published by EH.NET (August 1998) Elliott Robert Barkan, And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920 to the 1990s. Wheeling, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, 1996. xi + 262 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical essay, index. $12.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-88295-928-X. Reviewed for EH.NET by Masao Suzuki, Department of Economics, Mills College. . Immigration to the […]
Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization
EH-NET BOOK REVIEW Published for H-Business@w3needs.com (April 1998) Saskia Sassen. Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization. University Seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. xvi + 148 pp. Bibliographic references and index. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-231-10608-4. Reviewed by for H-Business by Susan Ariel Aaronson , George Mason University Reordering […]
Between the Dollar-Sterling Gold Points: Exchange Rates, Parity, and Market Behavior
Published by EH.NET (March 1998) Lawrence H. Officer, Between the Dollar-Sterling Gold Points: Exchange Rates, Parity, and Market Behavior. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxi, 342 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0521365384. Reviewed for EH.NET by Alan M. Taylor, Department of Economics, Northwestern University. Lawrence Officer has been making influential contributions to international and monetary economics […]
Ideologies and Institutions: American Conservative and Liberal Governance Prescriptions Since 1933
J. Richard Piper. Ideologies and Institutions: American Conservative and Liberal Governance Prescriptions Since 1933. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997. ix + 451 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8476-8458-X; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8476-8459-8. Reviewed for H-Pol by Patrick D. Reagan , Tennessee Technological University Political History Redivivus Over the last fifteen […]
The Rise, Fall, and Replacement of Industrywide Bargaining in the Basic Steel Industry
EH-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by H-Business@w3needs.com (March, 1998) Garth L. Mangum and R. Scott McNabb. The Rise, Fall, and Replacement of Industrywide Bargaining in the Basic Steel Industry. Labor and Human Resources Series. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. xvii + 209 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $62.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-56324-982-0; $21.95 (paper), […]
Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal
Sanford M. Jacoby. Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xii + 345 pp. Notes and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-01570-8. Reviewed for H-Business by Edward Berkowitz , George Washington University Welfare capitalism represents one of those marginal academic side-shows that nonetheless has surprising staying power. At various times […]
American Work Values: Their Origin and Development
EH.NET BOOK REVIEW Published by EH.NET (February 1998) Paul Bernstein, American Work Values: Their Origin and Development. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997. 368 pp. $59.50 (cloth), ISBN: 079143257. Reviewed for EH.NET by Donald Frey, Department of Economics, Wake Forest University. Bernstein surveys a massive literature about work values and attitudes, including a wide array of primary […]