Twentieth-Century Economic History, (4 Volume Set)

The study of economic phenomena over time is a well-established and flourishing area of research and study, and this new four-volume collection in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Economics, meets the need for an authoritative, up-to-date, and comprehensive reference work synthesizing the voluminous literature from twentieth-century economic historians. Indeed, the sheer scale of the research output - and the breadth of the field - makes this collection especially welcome. It answers the need for a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary contributions to facilitate ready access to the most influential and important scholarship from a wide range of theoretical and practical perspectives.

The collection is organized into ten principal parts. Part 1 explores theory and methodology and the role of economic history as either an alternative to mainstream economics, or as a ‘help discipline’. Part 2 gathers the key research on growth in economic history. The third and fourth parts cover the causes and social consequences of the Industrial Revolution, while Part 5 brings together the best and most influential work on the feudal and early modern economy. Part 6 deals with free trade, mercantilism, and imperialism. Part 7 focuses on the Great Depression, while Part 8 collects research on world economic history and the slave economy. The final part collects a fascinating miscellany of crucial issues, including taxation and gender.

Twentieth-Century Economic History is edited by Lars Magnusson, a leading scholar in the field. The collection is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the material in its intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research resource.

Volume I

Part 1 : Theory and Methodology
Chapter 1 : The Historical Method in Social Science’, Fact and Relevance : Essays on Historical Method
Chapter 2 : Economic History : A Science of Society?’, Past and Present, 1964
Chapter 3 : Of Empty Economic Boxes’, Economic Journal, 1922
Chapter 4 : The Reunification of Economic History with Economic Theory’, American Economic Review, 1965
Chapter 5 : Economic Theory, Statistical Interference and Economic History’, Journal of Economic History, 1957
Chapter 6 : Constitutions and Commitment : The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in 17th Century England, Empirical Studies in Institutional Change
Chapter 7 : What is Economic History?’, Scarcity and Choice in History
Chapter 8 : Property Rights in Economic History : Implications for Research’, Explorations in Economic History, 1996
Chapter 9 : Economic Theory and Economic History’, Economic History Review, 1929
Chapter 10 : Good Old Economic History’, Journal of Economic History, 1972

Part 2 : Growth in Economic History
Chapter 11 : Did Victorian Britain Fall?’, Economic History Review, 1970
Chapter 12 : Why was British Growth so Slow During The Industrial Revolution?’, Journal of Economic History, 1984
Chapter 13 : Economic History and Economic Growth’, Journal of Economic History, 1960
Chapter 14 : Capital Formation in Great Britain During The Industrial Revolution, Capital Formation in The Industrial Revolution

Volume II

Part 3 : The Causes of The Industrial Revolution
Chapter 15 : Proto-industrialization : The First Phase of The Industrialization Process’, Journal of Economic History, 1972
Chapter 16 : The Present and The Past in The English Industrial Revolution, 1880–1980’, Past & Present, 1984
Chapter 17 : The Causes of The Industrial Revolution : An Essay in Methodology, The Causes of The Industrial Revolution in England
Chapter 18 : Demand Versus Supply in The Industrial Revolution’, Journal of Economic History, 1977
Chapter 19 : The Industrious Revolution and The Industrial Revolution’, Journal of Economic History
Chapter 20 : Exogenous or Endogenous Growth? The Industrial Revolution Reconsidered’, Journal of Economic History, 1995
Chapter 21 : Rehabilitating The Industrial Revolution’, Economic History Review, 1992

Part 4 : The Social Consequences of The Industrial Revolution
Chapter 22 : Pessimism Perpetuated : Real Wages and The Standard of Living in Britain During and After The Industrial Revolution’, Journal of Economic History, 1998
Chapter 23 : Workshop of The World : Steam Power and Hand Technology in Mid-Victorian Britain’, History Workshop, 1977
Chapter 24 : The British Standard of Living, 1800–1850’, in Arthur J Taylor (ed.), The Standard of Living in Britain in The Industrial Revolution
Chapter 25 : The Rising Standard of Living in England 1800–1850’, in Arthur J Taylor (ed.), The Standard of Living in Britain in The Industrial Revolution
Chapter 26 : English Workers Living Standard During The Industrial Revolution : A New Look’, Economic History Review, 1984,
Chapter 27 : The Most Free from Objection : Sexual Division of Labour and Women´s Work in Nineteenth-Century England’,

Chapter 28 : Journal of Economic History, 1987 What Do Bosses Do? The Origins and Functions of Hierarchy in Capitalist Production’, Review of Radical Political Economics, 1974

Volume III

Part 5 : The Feudal and Early Modern Economy
Chapter 29 : The Crisis of The Seventeenth Century’, Past & Present, 1954
Chapter 30 : American Treasure and The Rise of Capitalism’, Economica, 1929,
Chapter 31 : The Rise of The Gentry, 1558–1640’, Economic History Review, 1941
Chapter 32 : Mohammed, Charlemagne and Ruric’, Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1953
Chapter 33 : The Common Fields’, Past & Present, 1964
Chapter 34 : The Efficiency and Distributional Consequences of Eighteenth-Century Enclosures’, Economic Journal, 1982
Chapter 35 : The Causes of Serfdom and Slavery : A HypoThesis’, Journal of Economic History, 1970
Chapter 36 : The Rise and Fall of a Theoretical Model : The Manorial System’, Journal of Economic History

Part 6 : Free Trade, Mercantilism, and Imperialism
Chapter 37 : Manpower and The Fall of Rome’, in Carlo M : Cipolla (ed.), The Economic Decline of Empire
Chapter 38 : Eli Heckscher and The Idea of Mercantilism’, Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1957
Chapter 39 : Imperialism : A Historiographical Revision’, Economic History Review, 1961
Chapter 40 : The Imperialism of Free Trade, 1815–1914’, Economic History Review, 1953
Chapter 41 : Imperialism and Imperialism in The Rise of The British Economy, 1688–1989’, New Left Review, 1999

Part 7 : The Great Depression
Chapter 42 : A New Interpretation of The Onset of The Great Depression’, Journal of Economic History, 1984
Chapter 43 : What Ended The Great Depression?’, Journal of Economic History, 1992

Volume IV

Part 8 : World Economic History and The Slave Economy
Chapter 44 : When did Globalization Begin?’, European Review of Economic History, 2002
Chapter 45 : European Economic Development : The Contribution of The Periphery’, Economic History Review, 1982
Chapter 46 : Proto-Industrialization and Pre-Colonial South Asia’, Past & Present, 1983
Chapter 47 : The Economics of Slavery in The Ante-Bellum South’, Journal of Political Economy, 1958
Chapter 48 : The Slave Trade and British Capital Formation in The Eighteenth Century’, Business History Review, 1972
Chapter 49 : The Rise of Europe : Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth’, American Economic Review, 2005

Part 9 : Miscellany
Chapter 50 : An Interpretation of Chinese Economic History’, Past & Present, 1952
Chapter 51 : Who Unbound PromeTheus? Science and Technical Change, 1600–1800, The Transformation of England
Chapter 52 : The Gold Standard as a Rule : An Essay on Exploration’, Explorations in Economic History, 1995
Chapter 53 : Women’s Work, Gender Contract and The Labour Market in Europe 1500–1900’, Economic History Review, 1991
Chapter 54 : Technological Inertia in Economic History’, Journal of Economic History, 1992
Chapter 55 : Taxation in England and France 1715–1810’, Journal of European Economic History, 1976