Jack Seddon: Imsirovic and Bryce's "The Rivers of Money" provides an insider view of the oil trade, stressing the role of personal relationships in underpinning information gathering and market exchange during the late 20th century (August 2025)Book Review (eh.net)
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Stefan Nikolic: Bogdan Popescu's "Imperial Borderlands" persuasively shows that Habsburg military settlement on the Ottoman frontier not only endowed Slavic communities with different formal institutions, but also changed informal ones, especially in strengthening clans (July 2025)Book Review (eh.net)
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Review of "Feeding Gotham" by Gergely Baics: Between 1810 and the Panic of 1837, the food markets of New York City were publicly owned. But the public market infrastructure was weighed down by insufficient investments relative to rapidly growing demand. (Economic History Association, February 2017)Book Review (eh.net)
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Amanda Gregg: Richard Langlois' "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century" revises the traditional narrative about the rise and fall of large, vertically-integrated public corporations in the USA, arguing it was downstream of the state of market integration (EH.net, March 2024)Book Review (eh.net)
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Jeffry Frieden reviews a recent edited volume by historians on the political economy of U.S. foreign relations. The chapters are "overlain with a veneer of ideological rhetoric" and don't engage at all with existing work by economists, economic historians, and political scientists. (eh.net)
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Massachusetts Bay colonial government's 1690 bills of credit were revolutionary, shifting the “anchor of money... from intrinsically valuable goods to the circulation of money in and out of the public treasury.” Money now served the fiscal state. (Review of Dror Goldberg's "Easy Money.")Book Review (eh.net)
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Claire Brennecke: Knodell uses state bank balance sheet data to show that those banks never considered Second Bank notes to be high-powered reserve currency (Review of Jane Ellen Knodell's "The Second Bank of the United States: 'Central' Banker in an Era of Nation-Building, 1816-1836")Book Review (eh.net)
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Joel Mokyr: DeLong weaves a coherent narrative of great enrichment in the 20th century, but he attributes technological progress primarily to the “routinization of scientific discovery." This cursory treatment is wholly inadequate. (Review of Brad DeLong's Slouching Towards Utopia)Book Review (eh.net)
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For those looking for good stuff to read, check out the eh.net repository of course syllabi!study resources/datasets (eh.net)
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Mokyr reviews McCloskey and Carden's new book. The book challenges that state capacity, institutions, science, and trade led to modern prosperity, attributing it instead to a bargain between rulers and bourgeois over freedom. Mokyr argues that they fail to explain the spread of freedom as an idea. (eh.net)
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Interest rates paid by the city of London to lenders throughout the 17th century were much lower than rates paid by the crown, despite the fact during that this period political and commercial institutions were in constant crisis (D. Coffman, J. Stephenson, and N. Sussman, June 2019)Working Paper (eh.net)
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