Brenner, Reuven, History: The Human Gamble

Brenner, Reuven, Betting on Ideas: Wars, Inflation and Invention

Jones, Eric The European Miracle

Landes, David, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are so Rich and Some are so Poor

Smith, Adam, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Mokyr, Joel, The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress

North, Douglass and Robert Paul Thomas, The Rise of the Western World

Rosenberg, Nathan and Leon Birdzell, How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World

Cipolla, Carlo, Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700

Cipolla, Carlo, Guns, Sails and Empires: Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansion

Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs, and Steel.

See: Overview and Reviews.

North, Douglass, Structure and Change in Economic History

North, Douglass and Robert Paul Thomas, The Rise of the Western World

Rosenberg, Nathan and Leon Birdzell, How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World

Simon, Julian, Richard Easterlin and Timur Kuran, The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause: What Governed the Speed of Human Progress Through the Ages

Weber, Max, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Deane, Phyllis, The First Industrial Revolution

Hartwell, R. M., The Industrial Revolution

Landes, David, The Unbound Prometheus

Mantoux, Paul, The Industrial Revolution in the 18th Century

McCloskey, D. N., and Roderick Floud, (eds.), Economic History of Britain since 1700

Mokyr, Joel, (eds.), The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective

Engerman, Stanley, (ed.), Trade and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850 (Growth of the World Economy, 2)

Engerman, Stanley and Robert Gallman, (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of the United States

McCloskey, D. N., (ed.) Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of American Economic History

North, Douglass, Terry Anderson and Peter Hill, Growth and Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History

McCusker, John and Russell Menard, The Economy of British America, 1607-1789

North, Douglass, Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860

Higgs, Robert, The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914

Folsom, Burton, The Myth of the Robber Barons

Martin, Albro, Enterprise Denied

Libecap, Gary, and Claudia Goldin, (eds.), The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy

Higgs, Robert, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of Government

Fogel, Robert, Railroads and American Economic Growth

Rosenberg, Nathan, Perspectives on Technology

Rosenberg, Nathan, Inside the Black Box