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Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets. By Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xvi + 357 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-49642-1.
Sean H. Vanatta
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03 February 2021, pp. 855-858
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Robert Skidelsky Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics
Hugh Rockoff
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05 March 2020, pp. 257-261
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Robert Skidelsky, a historian whose fame for his monumental biography of John Maynard Keynes is well deserved, here provides us with a brilliant, well-informed history of macroeconomics stretching from the “British recoinage debates” of the 1690s to today. Money and Government was prompted by the 2008 financial crisis. It is an attempt, Skidelsky tells us, to answer the question that Queen Elizabeth II posed to a group of economists at the London School of Economics in October 2008: “Why did no one see it coming?” Not surprisingly, to skip to the bottom line, Skidelsky believes that macroeconomics reached its apogee with Keynes and that it has been more or less downhill from there. The 2008 financial crisis could have been predicted, and ameliorated after it occurred if not prevented, if macroeconomists had remained loyal to Keynes.

Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution. By Priya Satia. New York: Penguin Press, 2018. 544 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-735-22186-4.
Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
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20 August 2020, pp. 436-439
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Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875–1919. By Erik Grimmer-Solem. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xiv + 654 pp. Maps, photographs, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $44.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-48382-7.
Heidi Tworek
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25 November 2020, pp. 655-658
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The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. By Eugene McCarraher. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. xii + 799 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-98461-5.
Stefan Schwarzkopf
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20 August 2020, pp. 439-442
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Animal City: The Domestication of America. By Andrew A. Robichaud. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 352 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 9780674919365.
Joshua Specht
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25 November 2020, pp. 658-660
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Darkness by Design: The Hidden Power in Global Capital Markets. By Walter Mattli. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. x + 248 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-18066-3.
Leslie Hannah
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03 February 2021, pp. 858-859
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Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance before the New Deal. ByShennette Garrett-Scott. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xi + 273 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $105.00; paper, $35.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-231-18390-1; paper, 978-0-231-18391-8.
Janice Traflet
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30 April 2020, pp. 263-266
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Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat. By Ai Hisano. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 336 pp. Photographs, illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 9780674983892.
Bartow J. Elmore
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03 February 2021, pp. 859-861
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Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763–1789. By Joseph M. Adelman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 280 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 9781421428604.
Steven Carl Smith
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25 November 2020, pp. 660-664
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From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico. ByCasey Marina Lurtz. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. xiv + 280 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, appendixes, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 9781503603899.
Susan Gauss
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30 April 2020, pp. 266-269
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Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America. By Daniel Vaca. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 329 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 9780674980112.
Peter J. Wosh
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20 August 2020, pp. 442-445
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Savannah's Midnight Hour: Boosterism, Growth, and Commerce in a Nineteenth-Century American City. By Lisa L. Denmark. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019. xvi + 247 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 978-0-8203-5632-7.
Justene Hill Edwards
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03 February 2021, pp. 861-864
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Free Enterprise: An American History. By Lawrence B. Glickman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 360 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-23825-9.
Peter Eisenstadt
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20 August 2020, pp. 445-448
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Creating Global Shipping: Aristotle Onassis, the Vagliano Brothers, and the Business of Shipping, c. 1820–1970. By Gelina Harlaftis. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xxiv + 375 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, appendices, index. Cloth, $120.00. ISBN: 978-1-108-47539-6.
Richard Sicotte
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25 November 2020, pp. 664-666
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The Wealth of Religions: The Political Economy of Believing and Belonging. ByRachel M. McCleary andRobert J. Barro. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. viii + 199 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17895-0.
David E. Campbell
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30 April 2020, pp. 269-271
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The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism. By Jennifer A. Delton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 358 pp. Photographs, figures, table, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-16786-2.
Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl
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03 February 2021, pp. 864-867
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The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society. By Binyamin Appelbaum. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019. 448 pp. Photographs, table, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-316-51232-9.
William R. Childs
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20 August 2020, pp. 448-451
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Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940. By Eugenia Lean. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 416 pp. Notes, references, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-19348-1.
Emilie Takayama
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25 November 2020, pp. 666-669
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Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean: Private Order and Public Institutions. ByTaco Terpstra. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. x + 274 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17208-8.
Kostas Vlassopoulos
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30 April 2020, pp. 271-274
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Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets. By Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xvi + 357 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-49642-1.

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Robert Skidelsky Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics

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Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution. By Priya Satia. New York: Penguin Press, 2018. 544 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-735-22186-4.

Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875–1919. By Erik Grimmer-Solem. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xiv + 654 pp. Maps, photographs, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $44.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-48382-7.

The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. By Eugene McCarraher. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. xii + 799 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-98461-5.

Animal City: The Domestication of America. By Andrew A. Robichaud. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 352 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 9780674919365.

Darkness by Design: The Hidden Power in Global Capital Markets. By Walter Mattli. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. x + 248 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-18066-3.

Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance before the New Deal. ByShennette Garrett-Scott. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xi + 273 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $105.00; paper, $35.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-231-18390-1; paper, 978-0-231-18391-8.

Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat. By Ai Hisano. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 336 pp. Photographs, illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 9780674983892.

Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763–1789. By Joseph M. Adelman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 280 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 9781421428604.

From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico. ByCasey Marina Lurtz. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. xiv + 280 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, appendixes, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 9781503603899.

Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America. By Daniel Vaca. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 329 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 9780674980112.

Savannah's Midnight Hour: Boosterism, Growth, and Commerce in a Nineteenth-Century American City. By Lisa L. Denmark. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019. xvi + 247 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 978-0-8203-5632-7.

Free Enterprise: An American History. By Lawrence B. Glickman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 360 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-23825-9.

Creating Global Shipping: Aristotle Onassis, the Vagliano Brothers, and the Business of Shipping, c. 1820–1970. By Gelina Harlaftis. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xxiv + 375 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, appendices, index. Cloth, $120.00. ISBN: 978-1-108-47539-6.

The Wealth of Religions: The Political Economy of Believing and Belonging. ByRachel M. McCleary andRobert J. Barro. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. viii + 199 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17895-0.

The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism. By Jennifer A. Delton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 358 pp. Photographs, figures, table, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-16786-2.

The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society. By Binyamin Appelbaum. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019. 448 pp. Photographs, table, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-316-51232-9.

Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940. By Eugenia Lean. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 416 pp. Notes, references, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-19348-1.

Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean: Private Order and Public Institutions. ByTaco Terpstra. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. x + 274 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17208-8.

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