The power of entrepreneurship -- The power of institutions: economic regimes and the permanent renewal of capitalism -- The power of ideas and inventions -- Pioneering companies -- From the rise of industrial cities to post-industrial suburbanization -- Bubbles, great depressions: economic cycles

The debates surrounding women's relationship tomoney-making and investment in the late nineteenth century, as well as thehighly gendered nature of the process of capitalist accumulation, are the focusof this study. Following a discussion of the social and structural constraintson...

This study examines the darker side of England's culture of economic improvement between 1640 and 1720. It is often suggested that England in this period grew strikingly confident of its prospect for unlimited growth. Indeed, merchants, inventors, and others promised to achieve immense profit...

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) was founded in 1920, largely in response to controversies between free market advocates and proponents of centralized government planning, over the “fair” distribution of income in the American economy. As a result of an early agreement between...