General Economic History
Bordo, Michael, Claudia Goldin and Eugene White, (eds.), The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the 20th Century
Chandler, Alfred, Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise
Chandler, Alfred, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
Cipolla, Carlo, Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700
Clark, Gregory, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
Clark, Gregory, The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
See also Arnold Kling’s review of this title at Econlib.
Costa, Dora, The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990
Deane, Phyllis, The First Industrial Revolution
Easterlin, Richard, Growth Triumphant: The 21st Century in Historical Perspective
Eichengreen, Barry, Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
Engerman, Stanley and Robert Gallman, (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of the United States
Engerman, Stanley, (ed.), The Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor (Making of Modern Freedom)
Folsom, Burton, The Myth of the Robber Barons
Fogel, Robert and Stanley Engerman, Time On the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
See also Stanley Engerman on Slavery at EconTalk.
Fogel, Robert, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery
Friedman, Milton & Anna Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States
See also Milton Friedman on Money at EconTalk.
Goldin, Claudia, Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women
Hartwell, R. M., The Industrial Revolution and Economic Growth
Hartwell, R.M. The Causes of the Industrial Revolution in England
See also A Conversation with Max Hartwell at the Online Library of Liberty
Hayek, F. A., (ed.), Capitalism and the Historians
Higgs, Robert, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of Government
See also Robert Higgs on the Great Depression at EconTalk.
Higgs, Robert, Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy, 1865-1914
Irwin, Douglas, Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade
See also A Brief History of International Trade Policy, by Douglas Irwin at Econlib.
Landes, David, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are so Rich and Some are so Poor
Landes, David, The Unbound Prometheus
Libecap, Gary, and Claudia Goldin, (eds.), The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy
Mantoux, Paul, The Industrial Revolution in the 18th Century
McCloskey, Deirdre, The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
See also McCloskey’s EconTalk interview on this title.
McCloskey, D. N., Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain
McCloskey, D. N., (ed.) Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of American Economic History
McCusker, John and Russell Menard, The Economy of British America, 1607-1789
Mokyr, Joel, (eds.), The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective
Mokyr, Joel, A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
See also Arnold Kling’s review of this title at Econlib.
Mokyr, Joel, The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
Mokyr, Joel, The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
North, Douglass, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
North, Douglass, Structure and Change in Economic History
North, Douglass, Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860
North, Douglass and Robert Paul Thomas, The Rise of the Western World
North, Douglass, Understanding the Process of Economic Change
North, Douglass, Wallis, John Joseph, and Weingast, Barry, Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
See also Arnold Kling’s review of this title at Econlib and Barry Weingast’s EconTalk interview on this title.
John Nye, Wine, War, and Taxes
See also Nye’s EconTalk interview on this title.
O’Rourke, Kevin H. and Williamson, Jeffrey G. Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy
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
Solow, Barbara and Stanley Engerman, (eds.), British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams
Vaggi, Gianni and Groenewegen, Peter, A Concise History of Economic Thought
Vedder, Richard and Lowell Gallaway, Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in the Twentieth Century
Weber, Max, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
White, Lawrence H, The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years
See also White’s EconTalk interview on this title.
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