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Greenberg's depictions show that bank notes were more alive to people than money today and that each transaction required a keen eye and careful negotiation. The first covers the major players in the market and how bank notes were used in transactions, the second examines the physical nature of bank notes, and the third highlights how personal experiences with bank notes influenced political leanings and movements. Most chapters focus on bank notes before 1840 (though there are scattered examples going forward in time), whereas the last chapter discusses how the issue of greenbacks and standardized national bank notes during the Civil War replaced the chaotic bank note system. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book 'The Cotton Dust Papers: Science, Politics and Power in the 'Discovery' of Byssinosis in the U.S.,' by Charles Levenstein, Gregory F. De Laurier and Mary Lee Dunn.

A review of the book "Argentine Railways: Seven Papers on Their Economics & History," by Sylvester Damus is presented.

Reviews the book 'The Color of the Work: The Stuggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980,' by Timothy J. Minchin.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784,' Vol.9, edited by Elizabeth M. Nuxoll and Mary A. Gallagher.

Reviews the book `Agricultural Development in China, 1949-1989: The Collected Papers of Kenneth R. Walker (1931-1989),' edited by Robert F. Ash.

Reviews the book `Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry. Labour, Capital, and Technology in Britain and America, 1860-1914,' by Gary Bryan Magee.

Reviews the book 'Papermaking in Eighteenth Century France: Management, Labor and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805,' by Leonard N. Rosenband.

A review of the book "Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time," edited by Paul W. Rhode, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, and David F. Weiman is presented.

Reviews the book `Canadian Papers in Rural History. Volume VII,' edited by Donald H. Akenson.

Reviews the book `Canadian Papers in Business History. Vol. 1,' edited by Peter Baskerville.

Reviews the book `Paper & Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897-1927,' by Niall Ferguson.

Reviews the book `The Samuel Gompers Papers, Volume 4: A National Labor Movement Takes Shape, 1895-98,' edited by Stuart B. Kaufman, Peter J. Albert and Grace Palladino.

Reviews the book `Advances in Behavioral Finance,' edited by Richard H. Thaler.

The article reviews the book "Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern," by Enrico Dal Lago and Constantina Katsari.

Reviews the book `Working Toward Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South,' edited by Larry E. Hudson Jr.

The article reviews the book "Natural Resources: Neither Curse nor Destiny," edited by Daniel Lederman and William F. Maloney.

Reviews the book `Labor Statistics Measurement Issues,' edited by John Haltiwanger, Marilyn E. Manser and Robert Topel.

Reviews the book "Labor Markets and Firm Benefit Policies in Japan and the United States," edited Seiritsu Ogura, Toshiaki Tachibanaki and David A. Wise.

Reviews the book `Economics as Discourse: An Analysis of the Language of Economists,' edited by Warren J. Samuels.

Reviews the book `A Retrospective on the Classical Gold Standard, 1821-1931,' edited by Michael D. Bordo and Anna J. Schwartz.

Reviews the book `Building in Britain: The Origins of a Modern Industry,' by Akira Satoh as translated in English by Ralph Morton.

Reviews the book `Distant Magnets: Expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience, 1840-1930,' edited by Dirk Hoerder and Horst Rossler.

Reviews the book `Brides of the Sea: Port Cities of Asia from the 16th-20th Centuries,' edited by Frank Broeze.

Reviews the books `The Economic Development of Ireland Since 1870,' edited by Cormac O. Grada and `Landlords and Tenants in Mid-Victorian Ireland,' by W.E. Vaughan.

Reviews books about American slavery which caused the beginnings of capitalism and the growth of the worldwide market. Includes `Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery,' by Robert William Fogel; `Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. Markets and Production: Technical Papers, Volume I,' edited by Robert William Fogel and Stanley Engerman.

Finally, Hintz covers the postwar period in which corporations were most dominant, followed by the reemergence of independent inventors as heroic figures in the last decades of the century. While Hintz may therefore err in being too sympathetic to independent inventors, his work is nevertheless a useful corrective for the too-common misconception that all innovation comes from large corporations. Hintz next discusses patent reform; many reform proposals from the 1920s to the 1940s will be very familiar to any who followed debates over the America Invents Act in the early 2010s. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "Productivity, Growth, Inflation, and Unemployment," by Robert J. Gordon.

Reviews the book "Race, Liberalism, and Economics," edited by David Colander, Robert E. Prasch and Falguni A. Sheth.

Reviews the book `Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutionalist Approaches,' edited by Cornell W. Clayton and Howard Gillman.

Reviews the book `From Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England,' by Margaret Ellen Newell.

Reviews the book `Coordination and Information: Historical Perspectives on the Organization of Enterprise,' edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Daniel M.G. Raff. How firms handle information; Layout of book; Examination of issues.

Reviews the book `Stature, Living Standards, and Economic Development: Essays in Anthropometric History,' edited by John Komlos.

Reviews the book `The Political Economy of North American Indians,' edited by John H. Moore.

Reviews the book `The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870,' by Robert J. Steinfeld.

Reviews two books. `Wealth in America,' by Lisa Keister; `Inheritance and Wealth in America,' edited by Robert K. Miller Jr. and Stephen J. McNamee.

Reviews the book `E. W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers,' by Gerald J. Baldasty.

Reviews the books `American Public Finance and Financial Services, 1700-1815' by Edwin J. Perkins and `Monetary Policy in the United States: An Intellectual and Institutional History,' by Richard H. Timberlake.

Reviews the book `Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel,` edited by Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff.

Reviews the book `Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth,' edited by Stanley J. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman.

Reviews books about doctrinal history. `Studies in the Labor Theory of Value,' 2nd ed., by Ronald L. Meek; `James and John Stuart Mill: Papers of the Centenary Conference,' edited by John M. Robson and Michael Laine; `Essays on Hayek,' edited by Fritz Machlup; `Science and Ceremony: The Institutional Economics of C.E. Ayres,' edited by William Breit and William P. Culbertson Jr.

Reviews the book `At the End of the Road: The Rise and Fall of Austin-Healey, MG and Triumph Sports Cars,' by Timothy R. Whisler.

Reviews the book `Steuern, Abgaben und Dienste vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart,' edited by Eckart Schremmer.

Reviews the book `Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870-1914,' by Elinor A. Accampo, Rachel Fuchs, and Mary Lynn Stewart.

Reviews the book `Business Enterprise in Modern Britain: From the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century,' edited by Maurice W. Kirby and Mary B. Rose.

Reviews the book `Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922,' by David Northrup.