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Nobody Panic: The Emerging Worlds of Economics and History in America - Jonathan Levy. Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2012. 414 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-04748-8, $35.00 (cloth). - Jessica M. Lepler. The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xvii + 337 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-11653-4, $85.00 (hardback); 978-1-107-64086-3, $29.99 (paper).

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Jonathan Levy. Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2012. 414 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-04748-8, $35.00 (cloth).
Jessica M. Lepler. The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xvii + 337 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-11653-4, $85.00 (hardback); 978-1-107-64086-3, $29.99 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2015

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Enterprise & Society , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 2015 , pp. 686 - 695
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Lepler, Jessica M. The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Levy, Jonathan. Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Novick, Peter. That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession. New York: Cambridge, 1988.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Adelman, Jeremy, and Levy, Jonathan. “The Fall and Rise of Economic History.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 61, no. 14 (Dec. 1, 2014): B9–B12.Google Scholar
Hansen, Per H. “From Finance Capitalism to Financialization: A Cultural and Narrative Perspective on 150 Years of Financial History.” Enterprise and Society 15, no. 4 (2014): 605–642.Google Scholar
Hyman, Louis. “Why Write the History of Capitalism?” Symposium Magazine, July 8, 2013. http://www.symposium-magazine.com/why-write-the-history-of-capitalism-louis-hyman/Google Scholar
“Interchange: The History of Capitalism.” Journal of American History 101, no. 2 (2014): 503–536.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kunkel, Benjamin. “How Much Is Too Much?” London Review of Books, Feb. 3, 2011, pp. 9–14.Google Scholar
McCloskey, Deirdre. “It Was Ideas and Ideologies, not Interests or Institutions, which Changed in Northwestern Europe, 1600–1848.” Journal of Evolutionary Economics 25 (forthcoming).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Norwood, Dael. “What Counts? Political Economy, or, Ways to Make Early America Add Up.” Paper presented at “Economic History’s Many Muses,” Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES), October 24–25, 2014.Google Scholar
Rockman, Seth. “What Makes the History of Capitalism Newsworthy.” Journal of the Early Republic 34, no. 3 (2014): 439–466.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sklansky, Jeffrey. “The Elusive Sovereign: New Intellectual and Social Histories of Capitalism.” Modern Intellectual History 9, no. 1 (2012): 233–248.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sklansky, Jeffrey. “Labor, Money, and the Financial Turn in the History of Capitalism.” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 11, no. 1 (2014): 23–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stone, Lawrence. “The Revival of Narrative: Reflections on a New Old History.” Past and Present 85, no. 1 (1979): 3–24.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
De Vries, Jan. “The Return from the Return to Narrative.” Max Weber Lecture No. 2013/01, European University Institute. Available athttp://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/25278/MWP_LS_DeVries_2013_01.pdf.Google Scholar
Zakim, Michael. “Bringing the Economy Back In.” Reviews in American History 42, no. 3 (2014): 398–404.CrossRefGoogle Scholar