New Books in Economic and Business History

When we talk about debt and its impact on our economy, we almost always mean “government debt.” Howe

Today’s European Union grew out of functional communities set up in the wake of world war in the 195

Adam Franklin-Lyons joins Jana Byars to talk about Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of

In Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931 (Princeton UP, 2024), A. G. Hop

For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created b

Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas (Oxford UP, 2023)

As the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Hammer: Auctions and

Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the ur-commodity of our global era, having been

Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Sc

Following Overwhelmed, Brigid Schulte's groundbreaking examination of time management and stress, th

Meltdown: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse (Pegasus Books, 2024) is a great busines

The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scr

California’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the “instant city” of San Francisco as a to base e

In the nineteenth century, the complex cultural meaning of hair was not only significant—it could af

The surprising history of the Commodore 64, the best-selling home computer of the 1980s—the machine

Why did Thomas Jefferson write that he would be happy if all dogs went extinct? What economic opport

For McDonald’s, the Chicken McNugget, the flagship product of further processed chicken, represented

What are fallen tyrants owed? What makes debt illegitimate? And when is bankruptcy moral? Drawing on

Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries—a period of vast economic change—reco

Growing up in a remote corner of the world’s largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita learned to hun