New Books in Economic and Business History

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• Maria Bach, "Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 03.12.2025
• Jimmy Wales with Dan Gardner, "The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last" (Crown Currency, 2025) 02.12.2025
• Michael McCulloch, "Building a Social Contract: Modern Workers’ Houses in Early Twentieth-Century Detroit" (Temple UP, 2023) 30.11.2025
• Meg Bernhard, "Wine" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 28.11.2025
• Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023) 28.11.2025
• Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023) 28.11.2025
• Fahad Ahmad Bishara, "Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History" (U California Press, 2025) 27.11.2025
• Lauren E. M. Everett, "Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land: At Home in Santa Monica's Rent-Controlled Housing" (Temple UP, 2025) 26.11.2025
• Verena Halsmayer on Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact 24.11.2025
• Amy Hughes, "An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (U Michigan Press, 2025) 24.11.2025
• Emily Callaci, "Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor" (Seal Press, 2025) 20.11.2025
• Christina Jerne, "Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2025) 19.11.2025
• Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025) 19.11.2025
• Vanessa S. Williamson, "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History" (Basic Books, 2025) 18.11.2025
• Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022) 17.11.2025
• Joe Allen, "The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS" (Haymarket Books, 2020) 16.11.2025
• Pierre-Yves Donzé & Maki Umemura, "Pierre-Yves Donzé & Maki Umemura, Japan and the Great Divergence in Business History" (JESB, 2025) 13.11.2025
• How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse 10.11.2025
• Joseph Stiglitz, "The Origins of Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025) 10.11.2025
• Fahad Ahmad Bishara, "Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History" (U California Press, 2025) 06.11.2025