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Philip Hoffman: Why Did Europe Conquer the World? http://amzn.to/29qmfd7: Scene-setter: Brad DeLong http://tinyurl.com/dl20170131a
Peter Temin and Joachim Voth: Prometheus Shackled: Goldsmith Bank and England’s Financial Revolution after 1700 http://amzn.to/29kqXMc: Scene-setter: Joachim Voth http://tinyurl.com/dl20170131b rapporteur: Brad DeLong
Lawrence Katz and Claudia Goldin: The Race Between Education and Technology http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/07/claudia-goldin-and-larry-katz-the-race-between-education-and-technology-the-economic-history-research-frontier-a-great-rec.html
Robert Allen: From Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrialization Experience http://amzn.to/29lo36h http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/02/reading-robert-c-allen-2003-farm-to-factory-a-reinterpretation-of-the-soviet-industrial-revolution.html
Robert Gordon: The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War http://amzn.to/29q7WX9, chapters 1-7, 12-13 and 16-18 http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/01/readingrobert-j-gordon-the-rise-and-fall-of-american-growth-the-us-standard-of-living-since-the-civil-war.html
Robert Allen: The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective http://amzn.to/29kOUhz http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/03/reading-robert-allen-2009-the-british-industrial-revolution-in-global-perspective.html
Richard Baldwin The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization http://amzn.to/2icGZHV http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/03/reading-richard-baldwin-2017the-great-convergence-information-technology-and-the-new-globalization.html
Ian Morris: Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future http://amzn.to/29AVKTj http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/07/ian-morris-why-the-west-rules-for-now-the-patterns-of-history-and-what-they-reveal-about-the-future-the-economic-history.html
Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson: Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700 http://amzn.to/29xpaVm
Barry Eichengreen: Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History http://amzn.to/29pp429 http://www.bradford-delong.com/2015/05/the-great-depression-and-the-great-recession-in-the-north-atlantic.html
Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind http://amzn.to/2j4tkHj
Sven Beckert: Empire of Cotton: A Global History http://amzn.to/2jrdin8 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/552143/pdf
Extras:
Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus (2012): The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press: 0674416772) Stanley Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff: Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions. http://amzn.to/29pRxlx http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/07/stanley-engerman-and-kenneth-sokoloff-economic-development-in-the-americas-since-1500-endowments-and-institutions-the-econ.html Steven Radelet: The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/07/steven-radelet-the-great-surge-the-ascent-of-the-developing-world-the-economic-history-research-frontier-a-great-recent-b.html http://amzn.to/29rguNR Gavin Wright: Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/07/template-gavin-wright-sharing-the-prize-the-economics-of-the-civil-rights-revolution-in-the-american-south-the-economic-h.html http://amzn.to/29pmIQV Richard von Glahn: The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/07/richard-von-glahn-the-economic-history-of-china-from-antiquity-to-the-nineteenth-century-the-economic-history-research-fro.html http://amzn.to/29jBkwt Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein: The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 http://amzn.to/2aKTV3X Peter Temin (2012): The Roman Market Economy http://amzn.to/2b72BG6 William Goetzmann, Money Changes Everything, de Cecco on State Capacity, Stasavage, Taxing the Rich, Wrigley, Coal… People: