Book Reviews: By subject: Economic Planning and Policy
- 1896: The Presidential Campaign: Cartoons and Commentary
- by Rebecca Edwards and Sarah DeFeo
- reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on February 13, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy
- by Andrew Gibson and Arthur Donovan
- reviewed by Gordon Boyce on September 11, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- An Affluent Society? Britain's Postwar Golden Age Revisited
- by Lawrence Black and Hugh Pemberton (editors)
- reviewed by Mark Clapson on April 6, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Alexander Hamilton
- by Ron Chernow
- reviewed by Robert E. Wright on May 3, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980
- by Jon Lauck
- reviewed by Saker Woeste on July 5, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- The American State Constitutional Tradition
- by John J. Dinan
- reviewed by John J. Wallis on May 9, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945
- by Paul A.C. Koistinen
- reviewed by Christopher Tassava on January 7, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Labor and Employment History (T)
- Aspects of Independent Romania’s Economic History with Particular Reference to Transition for EU Accession
- by David Turnock
- reviewed by Laura Haar on September 1, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption 1939-1955
- by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
- reviewed by John Singleton on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P)
- Banking, the State and Industrial Promotion in Developing Japan, 1900-73
- by Shinji Ogura
- reviewed by James Mak on March 5, 2003
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The Best of Intentions: The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society Under Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon
- by Irwin Unger
- reviewed by Stephen Ziliak on October 27, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California
- by Steven P. Erie
- reviewed by Gary D. Libecap on December 23, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The British Economy since 1945: Engaging with the Debate
- by Roger Middleton
- reviewed by Alan Booth on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956
- by Jason Scott Smith
- reviewed by Price V. Fishback on July 16, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Business and Industry in Nazi Germany
- by Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener (editors)
- reviewed by Thomas Ferguson on April 3, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America, Volume 2: The Long Twentieth Century
- by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, John Coatsworth and Roberto Cortes-Conde (editors)
- reviewed by Albert Fishlow on April 11, 2007
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Capitalist Development in the Twentieth Century: An Evolutionary-Keynesian Approach
- by John Cornwall and Wendy Cornwall
- reviewed by Richard K. Vedder on August 5, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile
- by Lewis H. Siegelbaum
- reviewed by Perry L. Patterson on August 6, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937
- by Tomoko Shiroyama
- reviewed by Niv Horesh on August 22, 2008
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization
- by William H. Roberts
- reviewed by David Surdam on September 2, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR
- by Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff
- reviewed by Mark Harrison on January 17, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History
- by Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin (editors)
- reviewed by Louis P. Cain on August 2, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Creating Better Futures: Scenario Planning as a Tool for a Better Tomorrow
- by James A. Ogilvy
- reviewed by Allen L. Bures on August 21, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century
- by Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin and Eugene N. White
- reviewed by Louis P. Cain on September 23, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy
- by Robert Higgs
- reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on July 1, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890 - 1943
- by Patrick D. Reagan
- reviewed by Robert Cuff on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- Designing US Economic Policy: An Analytical Biography of Leon H. Keyserling
- by W. Robert Brazelton
- reviewed by Craufurd Goodwin on November 23, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Designs Within Disorder: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Economists, and the Shaping of American Economic Policy, 1933-1945
- by William J. Barber
- reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on July 6, 1997
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System: An Insiders' History
- by Michael Ellmanand and Vladimir Kontorovich (editors)
- reviewed by Perry L. Patterson on July 25, 2001
- Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- The Development of Mexico's Tourism Industry: Pyramids by Day, Martinis by Night
- by Dina Berger
- reviewed by Byron Crites on December 20, 2006
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany
- by Paul Warde
- reviewed by Oliver Volckart on May 22, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays
- by Alexander Gerschenkron
- reviewed by Albert Fishlow on February 14, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century
- by Michael J. Oliver and Derek H. Aldcroft (editors)
- reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on June 8, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Military and War (O), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Economic Policy under the Conservatives, 1951-64: A Guide to Documents in the National Archives of the UK
- by Astrid Ringe, Neil Rollings and Roger Middleton
- reviewed by Alan Booth on June 18, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic
- by Theo Balderston
- reviewed by Mark Spoerer on March 24, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag
- by Paul R. Gregory and Valery Lazarev (editors)
- reviewed by Mark Harrison on July 10, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Economics of QWERTY: History, Theory, and Policy -- Essays by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis
- by Peter Lewin (editor)
- reviewed by Richard J. Sullivan on March 28, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- The Economics of World War I
- by Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison (editors)
- reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman on January 2, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Elusive Union: The Process of Economic and Monetary Union in Europe
- by Kenneth Dyson
- reviewed by Elaine Fuller on March 26, 1995
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945
- by Christopher Kobrak and Per H. Hansen (editors)
- reviewed by Thomas Ferguson on April 3, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- European Industrial Policy: The Twentieth-Century Experience
- by James Foreman-Peck and Giovanni Federico
- reviewed by Francesca Fauri on May 1, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century
- by Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht
- reviewed by William Boal on April 20, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution
- by Robert C. Allen
- reviewed by R. W. Davies on June 9, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
- by Jim Powell
- reviewed by Ellis W. Hawley on March 30, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century West
- by Gerald D. Nash
- reviewed by Peter J. Hill on January 21, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s
- by Lillian M. Li
- reviewed by Pierre-Étienne Will on May 7, 2008
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Geography (K), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State
- by Jennifer Klein
- reviewed by Melissa A. Thomasson on August 26, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
- by Amity Shlaes
- reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on August 21, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism
- by Robert William Fogel
- reviewed by John Murray on April 9, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (e), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- From Boardroom to the War Room: America's Corporate Liberals and FDR's Preparedness Program
- by Richard E. Holl
- reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on November 7, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
- From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective
- by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
- reviewed by George R. Boyer on August 6, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Globalization and Its Enemies
- by Daniel Cohen
- reviewed by John R. Hanson on December 27, 2006
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Governance, Growth and Global Leadership: The Role of the State in Technological Progress, 1750-2000
- by Espen Moe
- reviewed by Peter T. Leeson on July 25, 2007
- Geographic area: Asia (2), Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century
- by Mark Blyth
- reviewed by Janet T. Knoedler on August 6, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Guardians of the Nation? Economists, General, and Economic Reform in Latin America
- by Glen Biglaiser
- reviewed by William McGreevey on May 14, 2004
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere: A Conceptual History, 1919-1933
- by Vincent Gaddis
- reviewed by Patrick D. Reagan on September 2, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume Four: Economic Sectors
- by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
- reviewed by Lee J. Alston on June 26, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy
- by Richard H. K. Vietor
- reviewed by Jari Eloranta on August 17, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Hunger: A Modern History
- by James Vernon
- reviewed by Timothy Cuff on August 18, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Imperialism, Nationalism and the Making of the
- by Aditya Mukherjee
- reviewed by Tirthankar Roy on January 5, 2004
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- India and the World Economy, 1850-1950
- by G. Balachandran (editor)
- reviewed by David Clingingsmith on February 1, 2007
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Institutions and Investment: The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico before 1911
- by Edward Beatty
- reviewed by Kenneth L. Sokoloff on June 7, 2002
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Markets and Institutions (W)
- International Organizations and the Analysis of Economic Policy, 1919-1950
- by Anthony M. Endres and Grant A. Fleming
- reviewed by D. E. Moggridge on December 19, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917-1929
- by James W. Heinzen
- reviewed by Stephen Wheatcroft on June 17, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981
- by Amy Sue Bix
- reviewed by Robert H. Zieger on September 21, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M)
- Invisible Fuel: Manufactured and Natural Gas in America, 1800-2000
- by Christopher J. Castaneda
- reviewed by Andrew Jenkins on July 2, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits
- by W. Carl Biven
- reviewed by Toby G. Bates on January 23, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
- by Ha-Joon Chang
- reviewed by Douglas Irwin on April 26, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- The Legacy of Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose: Economic Liberalism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
- by Mark Wynne, Harvey Rosenblum and Robert Formaini (editors)
- reviewed by Ranald Taylor and Robert Leeson on November 8, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime: The Creation of Private Property in Russia, 1906-1915
- by Stephen F. Williams
- reviewed by Steven Nafziger on July 27, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Living with the Century
- by Alec Cairncross
- reviewed by Neil Rollings on August 8, 2000
- Geographic area:
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The Management of the British Economy, 1945-2001
- by Nicholas Woodward
- reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk on September 9, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism
- by Sarah Babb
- reviewed by Jaime Ros on July 29, 2005
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Managing the Modern Workplace: Productivity, Politics, and Workplace Culture in Postwar Britain
- by Joseph Melling and Alan Booth (editors)
- reviewed by Mike Richardson on August 9, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Marshall Plan: Fifty Years After
- by Martin A. Schain (editor)
- reviewed by Albrecht Ritschl on March 19, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Mercantilism
- by Eli F. Heckscher
- reviewed by John J. McCusker on December 4, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Merchants and Markets in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1930
- by Arup Banerji
- reviewed by Alan Ball on January 5, 1998
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade, and the Railways, 1917-1924
- by Anthony Heywood
- reviewed by Oliver Hayward on September 15, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican, 1850-1950
- by Stephen F. Pollard
- reviewed by Patrick J. Hayes on June 3, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- The New Deal and Public Policy
- by Byron D. Daynes, William D. Pederson and Michael P. Riccards
- reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on April 5, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes
- by Allen J. Matusow
- reviewed by David Stebenne on August 24, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America
- by Sean Patrick Adams
- reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn on May 6, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: Social Policies Compared
- by E. P. Hennock
- reviewed by Bernard Harris on August 25, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Labor and Employment History (T)
- The Origins of the American Income Tax: The Revenue Act of 1894 and Its Aftermath
- by Richard J. Joseph
- reviewed by W. Elliot Brownlee on September 28, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- The Origins of the British Welfare State: Social Welfare in England and Wales, 1800-1945
- by Bernard Harris
- reviewed by Mary MacKinnon on February 16, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
- by Joel Mokyr (editor)
- reviewed by Robert Whaples on April 20, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Education and Human Resource Development (G), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Servitude and Slavery (N), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Past and Future of America's Economy: Long Waves of Innovation that Power Cycles of Growth
- by Robert D. Atkinson
- reviewed by Wyatt Wells on May 26, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Peddling Panaceas: Popular Economists in the New Deal Era
- by Gary Dean Best
- reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on October 10, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America
- by Michael A. Bernstein
- reviewed by William J. Barber on April 2, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Planning Ahead and Falling Behind: The East German Economy in Comparison with West Germany, 1936-2002
- by Jaap Sleifer
- reviewed by Timothy W. Guinnane on January 19, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia
- by Chad Morgan
- reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams on July 22, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Military and War (O), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900
- by Richard Franklin Bensel
- reviewed by David L. Carlton on August 7, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Geography (K), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives
- by Paul R. Gregory
- reviewed by Mark Harrison on July 10, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Political Institutions and Financial Development
- by Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast (editors)
- reviewed by Claudia Rei on July 2, 2008
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Populism
- by Worth Robert Miller
- reviewed by Ranjit S. Dighe on February 13, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Poverty and Life Expectancy: The Jamaica Paradox
- by James C. Riley
- reviewed by Chulhee Lee on January 30, 2007
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Private and Public Enterprises in Europe: Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830-1990
- by Robert Millward
- reviewed by Pier Angelo Toninelli on February 20, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Profiting the Crown: Canada's Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990
- by Matthew J. Bellamy
- reviewed by Heather Nelson on February 19, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Railroading Economics: The Creation of the Free Market Mythology
- by Michael Perelman
- reviewed by Richard Vedder on January 19, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Rebuilding Germany: The Creation of the Social Market Economy, 1945-1957
- by James C. van Hook
- reviewed by Jonas Scherner on April 29, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979
- by Christopher MacGregor Scribner
- reviewed by Gordon E. Harvey on December 17, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Rethinking the Great Depression
- by Gene Smiley
- reviewed by David C. Wheelock on February 5, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Rise of "The Rest": Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies
- by Alice Amsden
- reviewed by John R. Hanson II on September 9, 2001
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770
- by David Ormrod
- reviewed by Paul M. Hohenberg on December 11, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Road to Serfdom: Texts and Documents -- The Definitive Edition
- by F. A. Hayek
- reviewed by Steven Horwitz on June 11, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery
- by Eliot A. Rosen
- reviewed by Elmus Wicker on June 19, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Rotten Fruits of Economic Controls and the Rise from the Ashes, 1965-1989
- by Thomas E. Hall
- reviewed by J. Peter Ferderer on July 2, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Russia's Economic Transitions: From Late Tsarism to the New Millennium
- by Nicolas Spulber
- reviewed by Carol Leonard on March 31, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Servitude and Slavery (N), Markets and Institutions (W), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-53
- by Julie Hessler
- reviewed by Valery Lazarev on January 12, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- South Carolina and the New Deal
- by Jack Irby Hayes Jr
- reviewed by Jim Couch on January 28, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge
- by J. Adam Tooze
- reviewed by Mark Perlman on April 7, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Studies in Economic and Social History: Essays in Honour of Derek H. Aldcroft
- by Michael J. Oliver (editor)
- reviewed by Ruggero Ranieri on January 28, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Great Debate Over Tax Reform
- by Joel Selmrod and Jon Bakija
- reviewed by James K. Self on October 5, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal
- by Keith J. Volanto
- reviewed by Ryan Johnson on December 22, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America and the New Deal
- by Sarah Phillips
- reviewed by Jon Fox on March 3, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Thurman Arnold: A Biography
- by Spencer Weber Waller
- reviewed by Michael V. Namorato on November 7, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Military and War (O)
- Ties That Bind: Economic and Political Dilemmas of Urban Utility Networks, 1800-1990
- by Charles David Jacobson
- reviewed by Hugh Gorman on December 7, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- To Provide for the General Welfare: A History of the Federal Spending Power
- by Theodore Sky
- reviewed by Michael R. Adamson on January 14, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power
- by Doron S. Ben-Atar
- reviewed by David Jeremy on October 15, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R)
- Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- by Marshall C. Eakin
- reviewed by Gail D. Triner on August 23, 2002
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- Troubled Waters: Steamboats, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821-1860
- by Paul F. Paskoff
- reviewed by Michael Allen on August 4, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- U.S. Development Aid: An Historic First
- by Samuel Hale Butterfield
- reviewed by John R. Hanson II on September 30, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- The Voluntary City: Choice, Community and Civil Society
- by David T. Beito, Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok (editors)
- reviewed by Richard Lester on November 26, 2002
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Markets and Institutions (W), Urban and Regional History (Z)
- War and Welfare: Europe and the United States, 1945 to the Present
- by Jytte Klausen
- reviewed by David Coates on September 5, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E)
- Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates since 1917
- by Marcel van der Linden
- reviewed by Martin Kragh on October 9, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economic Planning and Policy (E), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Labor and Employment History (T), Markets and Institutions (W)
- When the Potato Failed: Causes and Effects of the Last European Subsistence Crisis, 1845-1850
- by Cormac Ó Gráda, Richard Paping and Eric Vanhaute (editors)
- reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn on November 29, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E), Historical Demography, including Migration (J)
- Yankee Don't Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950
- by Julio Moreno
- reviewed by William Schell Jr. on September 7, 2004
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Business History (B), Economic Planning and Policy (E), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933
- by R. W. Davies and Stephen G. Wheatcroft
- reviewed by Mark B. Tauger on November 16, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economic Planning and Policy (E)
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