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Economic History

Economic History

Morality, Economic Inequality, and Policy Responses

A review of What We Deserve:The Moral Origins of Economic Inequality and Our Policy Responses to It, by Jacob S. Bower-Bir. Continued interactions amo...
Economic History

Locke, Burke, Wakefield and the British Empire

A review of Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism: Locke, Burke, Wakefield and the British Empire, by Onur Ulas Ince. Onur Ulas Ince’s di...
China

Sex Ratios and Female Educational Attainment in China

A review of The Relationship Between Cohort Sex Ratios and Relative Female Educational Attainment in Post-1949 China, by Christina Jenq Both the rapid...
Economic History

Money and Mercantilism in the 17th-cent. English Atlantic

A review of Money, Mercantilism and Empire in the Early English Atlantic, 1607-1697, by Jonathan Barth. Historians of the seventeenth-century English ...
Economic History

Supersized Christianity: Protestant Megachurches in America

A review of Supersized Christianity: The Origins and Consequences of Protestant Megachurches in America, by David Edwin Eagle. Megachurches are one of...
Economic History

Partisan Banking and the Emergence of Free Banking in early 19th-cent Massachusetts

A review of From Partisan Banking to Open Access: A Study on the Emergence of Free Banking in Early Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts, by Qian Lu. How....
Economic History

Marine Insurance, Governance, and the Early American State

A review of Underwritten States: Marine Insurance and the Making of Bodies Politic in America, 1622-1815, by Hannah Atlee Farber. Marine insurance com...
Economic History

A History of Money in Palestine

A Review of A History of Money in Palestine: From the 1900s to the Present, by Sreemati Mitter. Sreemati Mitter’s groundbreaking dissertation treating...
Economic History

Coffee, Migration, and Development in Mexico, 1867-1920

A review of Exporting from Eden: Coffee, Migration, and the Development of the Soconusco, Mexico, 1867-1920, by Casey Marina Lurtz. In Exporting from ...
Cultural Anthropology

Private Equity Investing in New York City

A review of Songs of Profit, Song of Loss: Private Equity Investing in New York City, by Daniel Souleles Daniel Souleles’ ethnographic study of Americ...
Economic History

Credit Ratings, Regulatory Reasoning, and Legal Change in the 20th and 21st Century

A review of Calculating and Governing Risk in Times of Crisis: The Role of Credit Ratings in Regulatory Reasoning and Legal Change (1930s-2010s), by P...
China

Money and Trade in Qing China

A review of Money and Trade, Hinterland and Coast, Empire and Nation-State: An Unusual History of Shanxi Piaohao, 1820-1930, by Luman Wang. Shanxi pia...
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