October 14, 2009, 8:12 pm
Why Was the Industrial Revolution Midlandish?
Leigh Shaw-Taylor writes: A podcast of Professor R.C. Allen’s, 2009 Tawney lecture, Why was the Industrial Revolution British?, given at the Economic History Society annual conference, is now available on the EHS website at http://www.ehs.org.uk/downloads.asp
http://www.yada-yada.co.uk/tawney2009/Tawney2009.html
via J. Bradford DeLong’s Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles.
September 28, 2009, 8:35 pm
A good book about U.S. economic history. It provides a counterpoint to the usual, cheerleader, US manifest destiny approach of many popular books. This focuses heavily on the lives of the majority of everyday Americans and also chronicles the rise of the American Capitalist model. It’s one of the few books that (IMHO) pays enough attention to the role of the invention of “corporations” in American economic history.
Available free pdf and html downloads/viewing. Also copies can be ordered quite cheaply.
A Short History of American Capitalism by Meyer Weinberg.
