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Volume 89 - Spring 2015

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Defending the History of Economic Thought. BySteven Kates. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013. x + 140 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-84844-820-9.

Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie, and the Problem of Scientific Credit. ByTill Düppe andE. Roy Weintraub. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xxv + 276 pp. Photographs, references, index. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN: 978-0-691-15664-4.

Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America. ByKara W. Swanson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 333 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-28143-1.

Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America. ByErica Hannickel. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 298 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth: $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4559-2.

Management Innovation: Essays in the Spirit of Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Edited byWilliam Lazonick andDavid J. Teece. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xii + 378 pp. Tables, figures, references, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 978-0-19-969568-3.

Banking in Crisis: The Rise and Fall of British Banking Stability, 1800 to the Present. ByJohn D. Turner. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xi + 253 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $32.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-60986-0.

Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism. Edited byRebecca Kobrin. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2012. viii + 311 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8135-5307-8; paper, 978-0-8135-5308-5.

Walter Lippmann: Public Economist. ByCraufurd D. Goodwin. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2014. x + 414 pp. References, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-36813-2.

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World. ByGeoffrey Jones. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2013. ix + 225 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $115.00. ISBN: 978-1-7819-5194-1.

Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness. ByAlan Derickson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. xiii + 224 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4553-0.

Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600–1757. ByEmily Erikson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xiii + 252 pp. Map, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth: $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-15906.

Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare. ByGunnar Trumbull. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xi + 228 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-01565-4.

Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500–1900. ByAndrew Sluyter. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. xii + 308 pp. Tables, photographs, maps, illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-17992-7.

Open Standards and the Internet Age: History, Ideology, and Networks. ByAndrew L. Russell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xvii + 306 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, tables, bibliography, index. Paper, $32.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-61204-4.

Forging Capitalism: Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds, and the Rise of Modern Finance. ByIan Klaus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. viii + 287 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-18833-2.

American Railroads: Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century. ByRobert E. Gallamore andJohn R. Meyer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. xiii + 506 pp. Tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-72564-5.

Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Geniza Merchants and Their Business World. ByJessica L. Goldberg. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xxi + 426 pp. Figures, maps, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes. Cloth, $120.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-00547-1.

Matthew Boulton: Enterprising Industrialist of the Enlightenment. Edited byKenneth Quickenden, Sally Baggott, andMalcolm Dick. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2013. xviii + 294 pp. Tables, illustrations, figures, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $149.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-2218-1.

The Garage: Automobility and Building Innovation in America's Early Auto Age. ByJohn A. Jakle andKeith A. Sculle. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2013. xvii + 263 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, figures, notes, index. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-57233-958-3.

Cities of Commerce: The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250–1650. ByOscar Gelderblom. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xii + 293 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-14288-3.

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