Book Reviews: By subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
- The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
- by Alan Greenspan
- reviewed by Alexander J. Field on December 3, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Banksters, Bosses, and Smart Money: A Social History of the Great Toledo Bank Crash of 1931
- by Timothy Messer-Kruse
- reviewed by Lynne Pierson Doti on October 28, 2005
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Conversations on Growth, Stability, and Trade: An Historical Perspective
- by Brian Snowdon
- reviewed by Christopher Hanes on April 18, 2003
- 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), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Coping with Crisis: International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period
- by Makoto Kasuya (editor)
- reviewed by Kris James Mitchener on December 18, 2003
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800-1870
- by James Taylor
- reviewed by Ranald C. Michie on March 12, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- Deflation: Current and Historical Perspectives
- by Richard C.K. Burdekin and Pierre L. Siklos (editors)
- reviewed by Kris James Mitchener on November 9, 2005
- 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893
- by Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten
- reviewed by Anthony P. O'Brien on June 29, 1999
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- 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 Jim Tomlinson on February 21, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Deutschlands Krise und Konjunktur, 1924-1934: Binnenkonjuktur, Auslandsverschuldung und Reparationsproblem zwischen Dawes-Plan und Transfersperre
- by Albrecht Ritschl
- reviewed by Hans-Joachim Voth on March 10, 2003
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Economic Cycles: Long Cycles and Business Cycles since 1870
- by Solomos Solomou
- reviewed by Forrest Capie on August 12, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- 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)
- 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 the Great Depression
- by Mark Wheeler
- reviewed by Elmus Wicker on May 27, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Economics of the Great Depression: A Twenty-First Century Look Back at the Economics of the Interwar Era
- by Randall E. Parker
- reviewed by David C. Wheelock on November 3, 2007
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives and New Directions
- by Cathy Matson (editor)
- reviewed by David B. Ryden on January 24, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Business History (B), Servitude and Slavery (N), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- An Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics
- by Thomas Cate
- reviewed by Michael S. Lawlor on August 20, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression
- by Harold James
- reviewed by Tim Hatton on January 4, 2002
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Essays on the Great Depression
- by Ben S. Bernanke
- reviewed by Robert A. Margo on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Estadísticas históricas de España: Siglos XIX - XX
- by Albert Carreras and Xavier Tafunell (editors)
- reviewed by Mauricio Drelichman on August 16, 2006
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- 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 Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), 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), 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), Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services (Y)
- The European Macroeconomy: Growth, Integration and Cycles 1500-1913
- by Lee A. Craig and Douglas Fisher
- reviewed by Stephen N. Broadberry on October 31, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias
- by Peter M. Garber
- reviewed by Charles P. Kindleberger on August 15, 2000
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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 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 Great Depression in Europe, 1929-1939
- by Patricia Clavin
- reviewed by Pete Ferderer on April 17, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
- by David Hackett Fischer
- reviewed by John H. Munro on February 24, 1999
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- 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 Three: Economic Structure and Performance
- by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (editors)
- reviewed by Joseph H. Davis on July 23, 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: Business History (B), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Historical Geography (K), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Income and Wealth (Q), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- How the Republicans Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929: GPT's, Failed Transitions, and Commercial Policy
- by Bernard C. Beaudreau
- reviewed by Carlos D. Ramirez on August 24, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Technology, including Technological Change (M), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- 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)
- India: The Emerging Giant
- by Arvind Panagariya
- reviewed by Arjun Jayadev on September 29, 2008
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The Jacksonian Economy
- by Peter Temin
- reviewed by Richard Sylla on August 17, 2001
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole and Rehabilitation
- by Peter Fearon
- reviewed by Todd Sorensen on November 5, 2007
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I), Household, Family and Consumer History (P), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- 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)
- Mass Production, the Stock Market Crash, and the Great Depression: The Macroeconomics of Electrification
- by Bernard C. Beaudreau
- reviewed by William J. Hausman on February 28, 1998
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Migration and Economic Growth: A Study of Great Britain and the Atlantic Economy
- by Brinley Thomas
- reviewed by James Foreman-Peck on August 14, 2006
- 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: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
- by Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz
- reviewed by Hugh Rockoff on January 1, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Monetary History, Exchange Rates and Financial Markets: Essays in Honour of Charles Goodhart, Volume Two
- by Paul Mizen (editor)
- reviewed by Lars Jonung on March 10, 2004
- 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: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Natural Instability of Markets: Expectations, Increasing Returns, and the Collapse of Capitalism
- by Michael Perelman
- reviewed by Thomas E. Hall on May 15, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Markets and Institutions (W)
- 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 Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm
- by Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr
- reviewed by Jon R. Moen on October 3, 2008
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction
- by David Zimmerman
- reviewed by Scott Dalrymple on October 26, 2006
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929
- by Maury Klein
- reviewed by Robert Zevin on February 8, 2002
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Recessions and Depressions: Understanding Business Cycles
- by Todd A. Knoop
- reviewed by David Glasner on October 12, 2005
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Reflections on the Great Depression
- by Randall E. Parker
- reviewed by Gene Smiley on April 1, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (v)
- 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 Revival of Laissez-Faire in American Macroeconomic Theory: A Case Study of the Pioneers
- by Sherryl Davis Kasper
- reviewed by Roger W. Garrison on April 22, 2003
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- 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)
- Straining at the Anchor: The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880-1935
- by Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor
- reviewed by Peter Temin on May 2, 2002
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5)
- Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Understanding Economic Recovery in the 1930s: Endogenous Propagation in the Great Depression
- by Frank G. Steindl
- reviewed by David C. Wheelock on July 9, 2004
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860
- by Robert A. Margo
- reviewed by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on July 1, 2000
- Geographic area: North America (7)
- Time period: 19th Century (7)
- Subject: Income and Wealth (Q), Labor and Employment History (T), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump
- by Theo Balderston (editor)
- reviewed by Randall E. Parker on March 23, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
- Time period: 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
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