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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

Hayek, Friedman, and the Return of Laissez-Faire

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

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

P

Partly Green: The Past and Future of Sustainable Business

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 Crisis in Economic Development Policy in the Twenty-First Century South: South Carolina as a Test Case

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 Impact of Globalization on Economic Development in the Modern South

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 People Yes! Labor's Subversive Economics and the Rebuilding of America

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

The Uses and Abuses of Neoliberalism

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