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Economics -- History -- To 1800

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• Economics -- History

• An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching, by George Augustine Thomas O'Brien (PDF at McMaster)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Revolution or Renaissance: Making the Transition from an Economic Age to a Cultural Age (2008), by D. Paul Schafer (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• Historical Economics: Art or Science? (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Charles P. Kindleberger (HTML at UC Press)
• Economic Doctrine and Method: An Historical Sketch (New York: Oxford University Pres, 1954), by Joseph A. Schumpeter, trans. by R. Aris (PDF at mises.org)
• Early Economic Thought: Selections From Economic Literature Prior to Adam Smith (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1951), ed. by Arthur Eli Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Economic Point of View: An Essay in the History of Economic Thought (second edition; Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, c1976), by Israel M. Kirzner
  • HTML at econlib.org
  • PDF at mises.org
• Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (in German; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1924), by Max Weber, contrib. by Marianne Weber
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A History of Political Economy, by John K. Ingram (HTML at McMaster)
• Wirtschaftsgeschichte (in German; Munich and Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1923), by Max Weber, contrib. by Siegmund Hellmann and Melchior Palyi
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The History of Economics (London: Bliss, Sands and Co., 1896), by Henry Dunning Macleod (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory, by James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)

• The Physiocrats: Six Lectures on the French Economistes of the 18th Century, by Henry Higgs (PDF at McMaster)

• The Betrayal of the Church: Apostasy and Renewal in the Mainline Denominations (1986), by Edmund W. Robb and Julia Robb (HTML at cmpage.org)

• Confusion de Confusiones, 1688: Portions Descriptive of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (Kress Library publication #13, bound with some others; Boston: Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, c1957), by Josef Penso de la Vega, trans. by Hermann Kellenbenz (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Short History of American Capitalism (c2002), by Meyer Weinberg (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the Twenty-First Century (fourth edition; c2005), by J. W. Smith (PDF with commentary at ied.info)
• Projecting Capitalism: A History of the Internationalization of the Construction Industry (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, c1994), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa
• Leninism, the Only Marxism Today: A Discussion of the Characteristics of Declining Capitalism (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1934), by Alex Bittelman and V. J. Jerome
  • PDF at flvc.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century (London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, c2016), by Verity Burgmann
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by William B. Friedricks
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Ohio State Press

• Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors In Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Susan Ingalls Lewis (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by David Harris Sacks (HTML at UC Press)

• Capitalism From Within: Economy, Society, and the State in a Japanese Fishery (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), by David Luke Howell (HTML at UC Press)

• Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law, and the Market Economy in Colonial New York (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Deborah A. Rosen (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• A Short History of American Capitalism (c2002), by Meyer Weinberg (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• A History of Business (2 volumes; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1963), by Miriam Beard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of the Business Man (New York: Macmillan, 1938), by Miriam Beard (page images at HathiTrust)
• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1), by Edward Potts Cheyney (Gutenberg text)
• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904), by Edward Potts Cheyney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean, by a Merchant of the First Century (New York et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912), ed. by Wilfred H. Schoff (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean (2 volumes; London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807), by William Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)

• EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History, ed. by Robert Whaples (HTML at eh.net)

• The Casting-Counter and the Counting-Board: A Chapter in the History of Numismatics and Early Arithmetic (Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1916), by Francis Pierrepont Barnard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Neighbours and Networks: The Blood Tribe in the Southern Alberta Economy, 1884-1939 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2009), by W. Keith Regular (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Neighbours and Networks: The Blood Tribe in the Southern Alberta Economy, 1884-1939 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2009), by W. Keith Regular (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Historical Economics: Art or Science? (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Charles P. Kindleberger (HTML at UC Press)

• A Historical Perspective of Industry, With Special Emphasis on Methods of Industrial Production and Their Inter-related Social And Economic Systems (American Council on Industrial Arts Teacher Education Yearbook #17; Bloomington, IL: McKnight and McKnight, 1968), ed. by Joseph F. Luetkemeyer (PDF at vt.edu)
• The Onward Sweep of the Machine Process, by Nils H. Hanson (HTML at Arizona)
• A History of Business (2 volumes; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1963), by Miriam Beard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Instinct of Workmanship, and the State of the Industrial Arts (new edition; New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918), by Thorstein Veblen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A History of the Business Man (New York: Macmillan, 1938), by Miriam Beard (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, by Friedrich Engels (HTML at marxists.org)
• Babylonian Legal and Business Documents, From the Time of the First Dynasty of Babylon, Chiefly from Nippur, by A. Poebel (PDF at ETANA)
• Legal and Administrative Documents From Nippur (Philadelphia: University Museum, 1914), by Edward Chiera (PDF at ETANA)

• The Spirit of American Economics: A Study in the History of Economic Ideas in the United States Prior to the Great Depression (with a supplement on the development of Canadian economic ideas; New York: Committee on the Study of Economic Thought, dist. by the John Day Co., c1943), by J. F. Normano, contrib. by Arthur R. M. Lower (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Cameralists: The Pioneers of German Social Polity, by Albion W. Small (PDF at McMaster)
• Der Katheder-Sozialismus (in German; Berlin: R. Oppenheim, 1873), by Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Postulates of English Political Economy, by Walter Bagehot (HTML at econlib.org)
• Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England, by Arnold Toynbee (text at McMaster)

• The Building of Economics at Adelaide, 1901-2001 (this edition published 2009), by Kym Anderson and Bernard O'Neil (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• The Spirit of American Economics: A Study in the History of Economic Ideas in the United States Prior to the Great Depression (with a supplement on the development of Canadian economic ideas; New York: Committee on the Study of Economic Thought, dist. by the John Day Co., c1943), by J. F. Normano, contrib. by Arthur R. M. Lower (multiple formats at archive.org)

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