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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