Economic History
Works like a Charm
Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of “incentives” in public life from a Lacanian perspective.
Cinema of Discontent
Uses popular films to reveal the tensions generated during Japan’s postwar "economic miracle," challenging the prevailing view that it was a story of great national success.
Bitter Harvest
Explores the duality between humans and Earth through a focus on the economic system changes that began with grain agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.
Capitalism for All
Demonstrates that a true liberal capitalism has the capacity to enable personal well-being while dealing with new challenges such as pandemics, climate change, and automation.
The Atlantic and Africa
Traces the inner connections between the second slavery in the Americas, slavery in Africa, the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and the "Great Transformation" of the nineteenth century world economy.
Imagining the Fed
Traces the six-decade struggle for power within the Federal Reserve System from the perspective of the central bankers who shaped the Fed.
Capital in the Mirror
Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism’s darkest dynamics.
The Great Agrarian Conquest
Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.
The Future of (Post)Socialism
Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism.
The Politics of the Second Slavery
Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas.
Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition
Traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in nineteenth-century Martinique.
The Chinese Market Economy, 1000–1500
Documents the rise and fall of a market economy in China from 1000-1500.
Corporate Power, Oligopolies, and the Crisis of the State
Addresses the power of oligopolistic corporations in contemporary society.
Interstate Economic Relations
A comprehensive look at the economic relations among states, and how they might be better optimized.
Regulating the Business of Insurance in a Federal System
Analysis on a dual insurance regulation system and its effectiveness relevant to the current system of regulation.
Proving Up
Uses the interdisciplinary approach of evolutionary economics to explore the history of land domestication in the United States.
America's Economic Moralists
Traces the history of two rival American economic moralities from colonial times to the present.
Global Liberalism and Political Order
Examines the possibilities of global governance in the wake of the challenges of globalization.
Mediating Globalization
Argues that institutional context drives economic globalization in the United States and Britain.
The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories
Challenges existing views of crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Speculative Management
Argues that recent initiatives by industrial management were directed more toward short-term gains than improving efficiency.
In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity
Offers an analysis of the dynamics of Taiwan's export-oriented industrialization, particularly its impact on women and other workers.
Social Construction and the Logic of Money
Examines the nature of international economic leadership since the seventeenth century.
Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors
Explores the social and economic transformations of the mid-Hudson River Valley during the key expansionist period in American history.
Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America
In-depth case study of Costa Rican economic reform efforts.