qualitative and quantitative data, including several thousand interviews with former slaves, letters, labor contracts, memoirs …

, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning … surveys Mokyr’s important contributions to the field of economic history, and an essay by Mokyr himself on the origins of the …

Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration … rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both. Examining labor immigration policies … liberalization of international labor migration through temporary migration programs that protect a universal set of core rights and …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as reference a perfectly … competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets is the only textbook to focus … on imperfect labor markets and to provide a systematic framework for analyzing how labor market institutions operate …

within households, as well as market areas, like those pertaining to labor and credit markets and globalization. Mukesh … nonmarket domains. The author considers how women may be discriminated against in labor and credit markets, how their family and …

of neoliberalism, and the orientation of comparative political economy in political science and sociology. …