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A
A Cultural History of Wall Street
A Strange Place for a Revolution: Lessons from Black Beauty Shops during an Era of Crisis
African American Business History: Is the Past Prologue?
Agriculture and American Economic Development
American Capitalism in Historical Perspective
B
"Buy for the Sake of the Slave": How Abstemious Abolitionists (and Southern Nationalists) Invented Modern Consumer Activism
Be a Shareholder in Victory! The Citizen-Investor in the First World War
Bernard Baruch and the Transformation of American Liberalism
Beyond Capitalism and Socialism: The Emerging Shape of the Next System
Bipartisanship and the Mexican Immigration Issue, from Reagan to Trump
C
Capitalism and Slavery
Cheap Food and the Political Economy of Recent America
Commodification of Black Culture in a Post-Civil-Rights American Global Economy
Contextualizing the Economics of Race, Class, and Gender in Post-Civil-Rights American Business
Corporate Personality Revisited
Counterfeiting and Capitalism in America
D
Donald Trump and Salesmanship in American Consumer History
E
E. T. Wilson and the Banks: A Study in Government Regulation and Service, 1893–1903
Economic Inequality and Progressive Taxation in Historical Perspective
Entrepreneurial Values
Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in American History
Entrepreneurs of the New Deal
F
Fear City: The Politics of Urban Fiscal Crisis in the 1970s and After
From Modernization to Microcredit: U.S. Foreign Assistance and the Politics of Development, 1960s-1980s
From Mortgage Crisis to Market Meltdown: The Infamous 1870s
From Public to Private Goods: The Evolution of Plant Properties in the American Political Economy
G
Gaming in Indian Country
Globalization in Historical Perspective
H
Historicizing "Shock": The Relevance of Piketty's "U-Shaped Curve" to the American Century
How Did We Get in Debt?
How the Automobile Transformed the American Metropolis
How the Civil War Was Won . . . in the Financial Markets
How the Economies of the North and South Came to Differ
I
Informal and Underground Economy
Investing in Distress: Predatory Tax Buying in America
Is There a Usable Past? Black Business from Slavery to Freedom
L
"Le Dérangement des Affaires Commerciales": New Orleans and Panic in 1837
Labor's Subversive Economics and the Rebuilding of America
Leadership in Global Business: How to Distinguish between Hype and History
M
Market Values and Family Values: A Historical Romance
N
Narrating the Great Recession: Economic Crisis and the Politics of Economic Reform
Narrator in Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Economic Crisis from FDR to Barack Obama
Northern Manufacturers, Southern Slavery, and the Antebellum Origins of American Business Ethics
Not All of Us Were Keynesians: The Origins of Supply-Side Economic Policy in the United States
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools
O
Oprah Winfrey: An American Entrepreneur, an African American Billionaire
R
Rethinking Consumer Politics in American History
Rethinking the Great Crash of 1929
Rich Man, Poor Man, Banker Man, Thief: The Rise and Fall of Erastus D. Edgerton, 1886–1898
S
Serve Yourself: Consumers, Corporations, and Sovereignty in the Modern Food System
Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
Socially Created Wealth and Its Distribution and Maldistribution
T
"The American and Foreign Agency": Profit and a Prophet of American Commercial Expansionism
"The Usurer's Grip": A Lost Silent Film and the Origins of the American Debt Wish
The "Real" Boardwalk Empire: Atlantic City and the Making of New Americans
The American Economy in Global Perspective
The Business of America: Business and Politics in American History
The Business of History in Museum Settings
The Case of the Leaky Clerk: Commercial Information, Confidence, and the Panic of 1837
The Civil War and the Rise of Big Business in America
The Forgotten Debate about "Public Spending" and "National Purpose": Lessons from the 1950s
The Gilded American Dream: Homeownership, Wealth, and Welfare from the New Deal to the Subprime Crash
The History of the Business Suit
The Jim Crow Cigarette in China: A Cultural History of the Corporation and Empire
The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis
The New Economy Movement
The Origins of Chop Suey: Ethnic Representation and Entrepreneurship
The Origins of the Gig Economy
The Panic-less Panic: The Strange Career of the Panic of 1837
The Politics of Shopping in Early America
The Postwar Boom in Retrospect
The Prince of Darkness: Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
The Quietly Developing Democratization of Wealth
The Revolution of Little Cans: How the Contents of a Union Soldier's Haversack Internationalized American Industry, 1862-1900
The Rhetoric of "Free Enterprise" from the New Deal to the Present
The Rise and Fall of Progressive Taxation in the United States
The Rise of the Modern American Fiscal State
Their Great Depression and Ours: Origins, Effects, and Paths to Recovery
They Were Capitalists: Black Entrepreneurs from Slavery to Freedom
U
U.S. Fiscal Policy in Comparative and Historical Perspective
U.S. Labor and Economic History from 1800 to the Present
W
Wall Street Is Dead! Long Live Wall Street!
Walmart and World History: How the Big Store is Reshaping Society and Economy
Who Put the Roar in the Roaring Twenties: How the Federal Reserve Displaced London as the Center of International Finance
Woolworth to Wal-Mart: Mass Merchandising and the Changing Culture of Consumption
Wrestling with El Pulpo: Honduras, United Fruit Company, and the fight to reform American business
Writing the History of Networks: J.P. Morgan and Gentlemen Bankers
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