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Title: Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England by Peter Temin ISBN: 0-674-00099-4 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 05 May, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Too much economics, too little history
Comment: Paul Krugman, Margaret Newell, and the volume's other contributors have journeyed back through 300 years of New England history to test how well the historical record comports with modern economic theory, and found more than a few interesting questions and quirks along the way.
The contradictions discovered and the resolutions pursued may well fascinate the reader with an interest in economic theory, but are unlikely to truly engage the reader seeking an understanding of the history of New England. The book, truth be told, is only secondarily about New England. It is first and foremost about economic theories considered in the test lab of history.
That said, this book does grapple with the central challenge facing all historians of New England: Why here? Why, that is, did this rocky, weather-beaten, apparently inhospitable area prove such fertile ground for industrial innovation? The answers range from "intellectual capital" to the profits from the slave trade, and are not uninteresting. All the more shame, then, that the writing sometimes suffers from a lack of lucidity.
The student of economic theory will find this volume highly worthwhile. The general interest reader might more profitably seek out another recent book, Diana Muir's Reflections in Bullough's Pond, for a much more interesting and readable treatment of the Why New England? question.
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Title: Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850-1930 by Peter C. Baldwin ISBN: 0814250262 Publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: The Twentieth-Century American City (The American Moment) by Jon C. Teaford, Stanley I. Kutler ISBN: 0801845513 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Company : A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea by John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge ISBN: 0679642498 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua ISBN: 0385503024 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington by Robert E. Rubin, Jacob Weisberg ISBN: 0375505857 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 18 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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