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Volume 51 - Issue 2 - June 1991

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Administering the Taylor Law: Public Employee Relations in New York. By Ronald Donovan. Ithaca: ILR Press, 1990. Pp. x, 251. $32.00, cloth; $14.95, paper.
Edward P. Duggan
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Agriculture and National Development: Views on the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Lou Ferleger. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990. Pp. xxiii, 363. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.
Thomas Weiss
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03 March 2009, pp. 509-511
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Articles on American Slavery. Vol. 2: Slave Trade and Migration: Domestic and Foreign. Edited by Paul Finkelman. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1989. Pp. xx, 463. $70.00.
David Eltis
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03 March 2009, p. 511
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Articles on American Slavery. Vol. 7: Southern Slavery at the State and Local Level. Edited by Paul Finkelman. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1989. Pp. xiii, 332. $52.00.
David L. Lightner
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Grain Grades and Standards: Historical Issues Shaping the Future. By Lowell D. Hill. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 423. $39.95.
Murray N. Rothbard
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03 March 2009, pp. 513-514
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Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760–1808. By Rachel N. Klein, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 331. $34.95.
Peter A. Coclanis
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The Fictitious Commodity: A Study of the U.S. Labor Market, 1880–1940. By Ton Korver. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990: Pp. x, 196. $39.95.
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
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Contracting for Property Rights. By Gary D. Libecap. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 132. $39.50.
Lee J. Alston
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Workers and Workplace Dynamics in Reconstruction-Era Atlanta: A Case Study. By Jonathan W. McLeod. Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies and the Institute of Industrial Relations, 1990. Pp. viii, 135. $28.00, paper.
Joseph P. Reidy
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Income Inequality in the United States, 1947–1985. By Nan L. Maxwell. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 213. $42.95.
Lee Soltow
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The Cross of Gold: Money and the Canadian Business Cycle, 1867–1913. By Georg Rich. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1988. Pp. 307. $14.95.
Michael D. Bordo
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03 March 2009, pp. 521-523
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The Capacity To Budget. By Allen Schick. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 225. $32.50, cloth; $14.95, paper.
Robert Higgs
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Economic Thought - The Invisible Hand: Economic Equilibrium in the History of Science. By Bruna Ingrao and Giorgio Israel. Translated by Ian McGilvray. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 491. $47.50.
Gary Mongiovi
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General and Miscellaneous - The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. By Joel Mokyr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 349. $24.95.
Kenneth L. Sokoloff
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03 March 2009, pp. 526-528
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“The Workers Themselves”: Revolutionary Syndicalism and International Labour, 1913–1923. By Wayne Thorpe. Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. Pp. xviii, 352. $83.00.
Gerald Friedman
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The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis. Edited by Peter Mandler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. Pp. x, 259. $29.95.
Frances Gouda
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La Filature de coton dans le monde en 1910: Une analyse comparée (1908–1913)/Cotton Spinning Around the World in 1910: A Comparative Analysis (1908–1913). By David Asséo. Geneva: Centre of International Economic History, 1989. Pp. 98.
Gregory Clark
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American Management and British Labor: A Comparative Study of the Cotton Spinning Industry. By Isaac Cohen. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1990. Pp. x, 250. $45.00.
Michael Huberman
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Descent into Discourse: The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History. By Bryan D. Palmer. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. Pp. xvii, 289. $34.95.
Jack Amariglio
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03 March 2009, pp. 532-535
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The Evolution of Regional Economies: Entrepreneurship and Macroeconomic Change. By Luis Suarez-Villa. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1989. Pp. xvii, 263. $45.00.
David R. Meyer
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Administering the Taylor Law: Public Employee Relations in New York. By Ronald Donovan. Ithaca: ILR Press, 1990. Pp. x, 251. $32.00, cloth; $14.95, paper.

Agriculture and National Development: Views on the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Lou Ferleger. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990. Pp. xxiii, 363. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.

Articles on American Slavery. Vol. 2: Slave Trade and Migration: Domestic and Foreign. Edited by Paul Finkelman. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1989. Pp. xx, 463. $70.00.

Articles on American Slavery. Vol. 7: Southern Slavery at the State and Local Level. Edited by Paul Finkelman. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1989. Pp. xiii, 332. $52.00.

Grain Grades and Standards: Historical Issues Shaping the Future. By Lowell D. Hill. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 423. $39.95.

Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760–1808. By Rachel N. Klein, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 331. $34.95.

The Fictitious Commodity: A Study of the U.S. Labor Market, 1880–1940. By Ton Korver. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990: Pp. x, 196. $39.95.

Contracting for Property Rights. By Gary D. Libecap. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 132. $39.50.

Workers and Workplace Dynamics in Reconstruction-Era Atlanta: A Case Study. By Jonathan W. McLeod. Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies and the Institute of Industrial Relations, 1990. Pp. viii, 135. $28.00, paper.

Income Inequality in the United States, 1947–1985. By Nan L. Maxwell. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 213. $42.95.

The Cross of Gold: Money and the Canadian Business Cycle, 1867–1913. By Georg Rich. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1988. Pp. 307. $14.95.

The Capacity To Budget. By Allen Schick. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 225. $32.50, cloth; $14.95, paper.

Economic Thought - The Invisible Hand: Economic Equilibrium in the History of Science. By Bruna Ingrao and Giorgio Israel. Translated by Ian McGilvray. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 491. $47.50.

General and Miscellaneous - The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. By Joel Mokyr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 349. $24.95.

“The Workers Themselves”: Revolutionary Syndicalism and International Labour, 1913–1923. By Wayne Thorpe. Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. Pp. xviii, 352. $83.00.

The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis. Edited by Peter Mandler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. Pp. x, 259. $29.95.

La Filature de coton dans le monde en 1910: Une analyse comparée (1908–1913)/Cotton Spinning Around the World in 1910: A Comparative Analysis (1908–1913). By David Asséo. Geneva: Centre of International Economic History, 1989. Pp. 98.

American Management and British Labor: A Comparative Study of the Cotton Spinning Industry. By Isaac Cohen. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1990. Pp. x, 250. $45.00.

Descent into Discourse: The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History. By Bryan D. Palmer. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. Pp. xvii, 289. $34.95.

The Evolution of Regional Economies: Entrepreneurship and Macroeconomic Change. By Luis Suarez-Villa. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1989. Pp. xvii, 263. $45.00.

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