Should-Read: Time to start trying to think about what books to assign for Econ 210b next semester...
Pseudoerasmus: The 25 most stimulating economic history books since 2000: "Allen, The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective... https://pseudoerasmus.com/2017/01/12/9351/
...Clark, A Farewell to Alms.... De Vries, The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Culture and the Household Economy, 1650-present, Engerman & Sokoloff, Economic Development in the Americas since 1500, Federico, Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000, Findlay & O’Rourke, Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium.... Greif, Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade, Kuran, The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East, Lee & Feng, One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000.... Mokyr, Gifts of Athena: The Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy, Mitterauer, Why Europe? The Medieval Origins of its Special Path, North, Wallis & Weingast, Violence & Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History, O’Rourke & Williamson, Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy, Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy, Seabright, The Company of Strangers: The Natural History of Economic Life, Smil, Vaclav (several, but especially) Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact), Temin, The Roman Market Economy, Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy.... Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, Williamson, Trade and Poverty: How the Third World Fell Behind
