Economic History
Brett W. Parris

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Books

Bairoch, P., (1993) Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, xvi + 184 pp.

Bernstein, P.L., (1998) Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, John Wiley & Sons, New York, xi + 383 pp.

Bernstein, W.J., (2004) The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created, McGraw-Hill, New York, xii + 420 pp.

Cameron, R. and Neal, L., (2002) A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present, 4th Edition; Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, 480 pp.

Chang, H.-J., (2002) Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective, Anthem Press, London, 187 pp.

Cipolla, C.C., (1993) Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy 1000-1700, W.W. Norton & Company, New York & London, xiv + 333 pp.

Davis, M., (2001) Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World, Verso, London & New York, x + 463 pp.

Diamond, J., (1997) Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years, Vintage, London, 480 pp.

Fischer, D.H., (1996) The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History, Oxford University Press, Oxford, xvi + 536 pp.

Fogel, R.W., (2004) The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; New York & Melbourne, xx + 191 pp.

Hochschild, A., (1998) King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Mariner Books, Boston, 366 pp.

Karsh, E., (2006) Islamic Imperialism: A History, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 276 pp.

Kennedy, H., (2007) The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In, Da Capo Press, Philadephia, PA, xxiii + 421 pp.

Kindleberger, C.P., (1992) A Financial History of Western Europe, 2nd Edition; Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, xix + 524 pp.

Kindleberger, C.P. and Aliber, R.Z., (2005) Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, 5th Edition; Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, viii + 309 pp.

Landes, D.S., (1998) The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, Little, Brown and Company, London, xxi + 650 pp.

Landes, D.S., (2003) The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present, 2nd Edition; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, xii + 576 pp.

Levathes, L., (1996) When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 252 pp.

Lewis, B., (2002) What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 180 pp.

Maddison, A., (1995) Monitoring the World Economy, 1820-1992, Development Centre Studies; OECD, Paris, 255 pp.

Maddison, A., (2001) The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective, OECD, Paris, 383 pp.

Maddison, A., (2003) The World Economy: Historical Statistics, OECD, Paris, 273 pp.

Mokyr, J., (1990) The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress, Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, ix + 349 pp.

Mokyr, J. (Ed.) (1993) The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, xi + 362  pp.

Mokyr, J., (2002) Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, xiii + 359 pp.

Padfield, P., (2000) Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World 1588-1782, Pimlico, London, xi + 340 pp.

Polanyi, K., (1944) The Great Transformation, Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 1957 reprint, 315 pp.

Rosenberg, N. and Birdzell Jr., L.E., (1986) How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World, Basic Books, New York, xii + 353 pp.

Segal, R., (2002) Islam's Black Slaves: A History of Africa's Other Black Diaspora, Atlantic Books, 284 pp.

Shafaeddin, M., (2005) Trade Policy at the Crossroads: The Recent Experience of Developing Countries, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke & New York, xx + 259 pp.

Shin, J.-S., (1996) The Economics of the Latecomers: Catching-up, Technology Transfer and Institutions in Germany, Japan and South Korea, Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia; Routledge, London & New York, xiv + 214 pp.

Smil, V., (1994) Energy in World History, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, xviii + 300 pp.

Thomas, H., (1997) The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870, Picador, London, 925 pp.

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Papers

Abramovitz, M., (1986) "Catching Up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind", Journal of Economic History, Vol. 46, No. 2, June, pp. 385-406.

Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S. and Robinson, J.A., (2001) "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation", American Economic Review, Vol. 91, No. 5, December, pp. 1369-1401.

Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S. and Robinson, J.A., (2002) "Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution", Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 117, No. 4, November, pp. 1231-1294.

Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S. and Robinson, J.A., (2005) "The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth", American Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 3, June, pp. 546-579.

Ayres, R.U., Ayres, L.W. and Warr, B., (2003) "Exergy, Power and Work in the US Economy, 1900-1998", Energy, Vol. 28, No. 3, March, pp. 219-273.

Bairoch, P., (1989) "The Paradoxes of Economic History: Economic Laws and History", European Economic Review, Vol. 33, No. 2-3, March, pp. 225-249.

Banerjee, A. and Iyer, L., (2005) "History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India", American Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 4, September, pp. 1190-1213.

Berument, H. and Gunay, A., (2007) "Inflation Dynamics and its Sources in the Ottoman Empire: 1586–1913", International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 21, No. 2, April, pp. 207-245.

Birchenall, J.A., (2007) "Economic Development and the Escape from High Mortality", World Development, Vol. 35, No. 4, April, pp. 543-568.

Chambers, J.D., (1940) "Enclosure and the Small Landowner", Economic History Review, Vol. 10, No. 2, November, pp. 118-127.

Chang, H.-J., (2002) "Kicking Away the Ladder: An Unofficial History of Capitalism, Especially in Britain and the United States", Challenge, Vol. 45, No. 5, September-October, pp. 63-97.

Chang, H.-J., (2003) "Kicking Away the Ladder: Infant Industry Promotion in Historical Perspective", Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1, March, pp. 21-32.

Chang, H.-J., (2004) "What is Wrong with the 'Official History of Capitalism'? With Special Reference to the Debates on Globalisation and Economic Development", In A Guide to What's Wrong with Economics ed. Fullbrook, E.; Anthem Press, London, pp. 279-288.

Clark, G., (2007) "The Long March of History: Farm Wages, Population, and Economic Growth, England 1209-1869", Economic History Review, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 97-135.

Clingingsmith, D. and Williamson, J.G., (2005) "India's De-Industrialization Under British Rule: New Ideas, New Evidence", CEPR Discussion Papers No. 5066, Center for Economic Policy Research, May.

Cohn, S., (2007) "After the Black Death: Labour Legislation and Attitudes towards Labour in Late-Medieval Western Europe", Economic History Review, Vol. 60, No. 3, August, pp. 457-485.

Cutler, D.M. and Miller, G., (2005) "The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: The Twentieth-Century United States", Demography, Vol. 42, No. 1, February, pp. 1-22.

Deaton, A., (2006) "The Great Escape: A Review of Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100", Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 44, No. 1, March, pp. 106-114.

De Vries, J., (1994) "The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution", Journal of Economic History, Vol. 54, No. 2, June, pp. 249-270.

Easterlin, R.A., (2000) "The Worldwide Standard of Living Since 1800", Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 14, No. 1, Winter, pp. 7-26.

Elbaum, B., (1990) "Cumulative or Comparative Advantage? British Competitiveness in the Early 20th Century", World Development, Vol. 18, No. 9, September, pp. 1255-1272.

Eltis, D. and Engerman, S.L., (2000) "The Importance of Slavery and the Slave Trade to Industrializing Britain", Journal of Economic History, Vol. 60, No. 1, March, pp. 123-144.

Engerman, S.L., (1972) "The Slave Trade and British Capital Formation in the Eighteenth Century: A Comment on the Williams Thesis", Business History Review, Vol. 46, No. 4, Winter, pp. 430-443.

Estevadeordal, A., Frantz, B. and Taylor, A.M., (2003) "The Rise and Fall of World Trade, 1870-1939", Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 118, No. 2, May, pp. 359-407.

Hamilton, E.J., (1929) "Imports of American Gold and Silver Into Spain, 1503-1660", Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 43, No. 3, May, pp. 436-472.

Hamilton, E.J., (1938) "Revisions in Economic History: VIII.-The Decline of Spain", Economic History Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, May, pp. 168-179.

Heckscher, E.F., (1936) "Revisions in Economic History: V. Mercantilism", Economic History Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, November, pp. 44-54.

Inikori, J.E., (1990) "The Credit Needs of the African Trade and the Development of the Credit Economy in England", Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 27, No. 2, April, pp. 197-231.

Inikori, J.E., (1992) "Slavery and Atlantic commerce, 1650-1800" American Economic Review, Vol. 82, No. 2, May, pp. 151-157.

Inikori, J.E., (1994) "Ideology versus the Tyranny of Paradigm:  Historians and the Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on African Societies", African Economic History, No. 22, pp. 37-58.

Irwin, D.A., (2001) "Tariffs and Growth in Late Nineteenth Century America", World Economy, Vol. 24, No. 1, January, pp. 15-30.

Irwin, D.A., (2002) "Interpreting the Tariff-Growth Correlation of the Late 19th Century", American Economic Review, Vol. 92, No. 2, May, pp. 165-169.

Irwin, D.A., (2004) "The Aftermath of Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures"", Journal of Economic History, Vol. 64, No. 3, September, pp. 800-821.

Kessler, D. and Temin, P., (2007) "The Organization of the Grain Trade in the Early Roman Empire", Economic History Review, Vol. 60, No. 2, May, pp. 313–332.

Landes, D.S., (1990) "Why Are We So Rich and They So Poor?" American Economic Review, Vol. 80, No. 2, May, pp. 1-13.

Landes, D.S., (2006) "Why Europe and the West? Why Not China?" Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 20, No. 2, Spring, pp. 3-22.

Lange, M.K., (2004) "British Colonial Legacies and Political Development", World Development, Vol. 32, No. 6, June, pp. 905-922.

Livi-Bacci, M., (2006) "The Depopulation of Hispanic America after the Conquest", Population and Development Review, Vol. 32, No. 2, June, pp. 199-232.

Maddison, A., (2005) "Measuring and Interpreting World Economic Performance 1500-2001", Review of Income & Wealth, Vol. 51, No. 1, March, pp. 1-35.

McCloskey, D.N., (1997) "Polanyi Was Right, and Wrong", Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4, Fall, pp. 483-487.

McCraw, T.K., (1994) "The Strategic Vision of Alexander Hamilton", The American Scholar, Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 31-57.

Mokyr, J., (2005) "Is There a Theory of Economic History?" In The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics ed. Dopfer, K.; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 195-218.

Mokyr, J., (2006) "Useful Knowledge as an Evolving System: The View from Economic History", In The Economy as an Evolving Complex System III ed. Blume, L.E. and Durlauf, S.N.; Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 309-337.

Morris, C.T. and Adelman, I., (1989) "Nineteenth-Century Development Experience and Lessons for Today", World Development, Vol. 17, No. 9, September, pp. 1417-1432.

Mundell, R.A., (2000) "A Reconsideration of the Twentieth Century", American Economic Review, Vol. 90, No. 3, June, pp. 327-340.

North, D.C., (1994) "Economic Performance Through Time", American Economic Review, Vol. 84, No. 3, June, pp. 359-368.

Nunn, N., (2008) "The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades", Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 123, No. 1, February, pp. 139-176.

Nye, J.V., (1991) "The Myth of Free-Trade Britain and Fortress France: Tariffs and Trade in the Nineteenth Century", Journal of Economic History, Vol. 51, No. 1, March, pp. 23-46.

O'Brien, P., (1982) "European Economic Development: The Contribution of the Periphery", Economic History Review, Second Series, Vol. 35, No. 1, February, pp. 1-18.

O'Rourke, K.H., (2000) "Tariffs and Growth in the Late 19th Century", Economic Journal, Vol. 110, No. 463, April, pp. 456-483.

Rashid, S., (1992) "The Wealth of Nations and Historical Facts", Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 14, No. 2, Fall, pp. 225-43.

Reinert, E.S., (1995) "Competitiveness and its Predecessors - a 500-year cross-national perspective", Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 23-42.

Shafaeddin, M., (1998) "How Did Developed Countries Industrialize? The History of Trade and Industrial Policy: The Cases of Great Britain and the USA", UNCTAD/OSG/DP/139, Geneva, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Discussion Paper No. 139, December, 27 pp.

Sokoloff, K.L. and Engerman, S.L., (2000) "History Lessons: Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World", Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 14, No. 3, Summer, pp. 217-232.

Szostak, R., (2006) "Economic History as it Is and Should Be: Toward an Open, Honest, Methodologically Flexible, Theoretically Diverse, Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Causes and Consequences of Economic Growth", Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol. 35, No. 4, August, pp. 727-750.

Szreter, S., (1988) "The Importance of Social Intervention in Britain's Mortality Decline c. 1850-1914: A Reinterpretation of the Role of Public Health", Social History of Medicine, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-37.

Voth, H.-J., (2003) "Living Standards during the Industrial Revolution: An Economist's Guide", American Economic Review, Vol. 93, No. 2, May, pp. 221-226.

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Quotes

The wealth of the West didn't come primarily through the exploitation of poorer countries - exploited though they were
"... if in fact from 1955 onwards the large dependence on raw materials from the Third World was a reality, before that period it was a complete myth."
Bairoch, P., (1993) Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, p. 70.

The second phase of colonialism was fueled by the industrial revolution
"The fact that, for example, at the turn of the twentieth century 79% of British cotton textiles were exported and that more than half of those exports went to the Third World is probably the major explanation for the myth concerning the role of colonization in the British Industrial Revolution. In fact, there is almost an inverse relationship: British colonization, and more generally European modern colonization, can largely be explained by the Industrial Revolution. ... [W]e have to wait for the increase in the standard of living resulting from the Industrial Revolution to allow a high level of consumption of tropical products and therefore make profitable a large colonial empire."
Bairoch, P., (1993) Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, p. 85.


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A Comparative Chronology of Money

Economic History Association - USA

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