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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 'Revolution and Consumption in Late Medieval England,' edited by Michael Hicks.

Reviews three books on west African economic history. `Middlemen of the Cameroons River: The Duala and their Hinterland, c.1600-c.1960,' by Ralph A. Austen and Jonathan Derrick; `El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900,' by Raymond E. Dumett; `Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa,' by Martin A. Klein.

Reviews two books on economic history edited by Carlo M. Cipolla. `The Fontana Economic History of Europe: The Twentieth Century,' volume 5; `The Fontana Economic History of Europe: Contemporary Economics,' volume 6.

A review of the book "The Empire of Credit: The Financial Revolution in Britain, Ireland, and America, 1688-1815," edited by Daniel Carey and Christopher J. Finlay is presented.

Reviews the book "The Mexican Economy, 1870-1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth," edited by Jeffery L. Bortz and Stephen Haber.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Monetary Standards in the Periphery: Paper, Silver and Gold, 1854-1933,' edited by Pablo Martin Acena and Jaime Reis.

The rest of Fenoaltea's book is devoted to the exposition of the evolution of Italy's historical accounts and the detailed discussion of his second generation estimates of Italian GDP 1861-1913. The industrial sector production series, on which Stefano worked directly for decades, are here only summarized. A "second generation" production series would respect the first three rules, while the "third generation" estimates would embody the fourth rule, and the "fourth generation" estimates also the fifth one. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "The Undevelopment of Capitalism: Sectors and Markets in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany," by Rebecca Jean Emigh, is presented.

The article reviews the book "The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson," edited by Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Alan M. Taylor.

Reviews the book "The Economic History of Byzantium From the Seventh Through the Fifteenth Century," by Angeliki E. Laiou.

Reviews the book 'Les Grains du Desorder: L'Etat Face aux Violences Frumentaires dans la Premiere Moitie du XIX Siecle,' by Nicholas Bourguinat.

Reviews the book 'Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791,' by Lare Haru Crowston.

A review of the book "Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies & Long-Term Economic Growth," by Richard G. Lipsey, Kenneth I. Carlaw, and Clifford T. Bekar, is presented.

A review of the book "The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World," edited by Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris, and Richard Saller is presented.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneirship in new York and London, 1880-1914: Enterprise and Culture,' by Andrew Godley.

The article reviews the book "The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America: The Colonial Era and the Short Nineteenth Century," vol. 1, edited by V. Bulmer Thomas, J. H. Coatsworth and R. Cortes Conde.

Reviews the book `The Plow, the Hammer and the Knout: An Economic History of Eighteenth-Century Russia,' by Arcadius Kahan.

Reviews the book `Business, Banking and Economic Thought in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Selected Studies of Raymond de Roover,' by Raymond de Roover and edited by Julius Kirshner.

The article reviews the book "The American National State and the Early West," by William H. Bergmann.

The article reviews the book "Economic Development in the Americas Since 1500: Endowments and Institutions," by Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Stephen Haber, Elisa V. Mariscal, and Eric M. Zolt, part of the NBER Series on Long- Term Factors in Economic Development.

A review of the book "Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850," by Prasannan Parthasrathi is presented.

A review of the book "Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction," by Robert C. Allen, is presented.

A review of the book "The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History," by Francesco Boldizzoni, is presented.

A review of the book "Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World," by Deirdre N. McCloskey, is presented.

A review of the book "Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium," by Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O'Rourke is presented.

A review of the book "Natural Experiments in History," edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson is presented.

A review of the book "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly," by Carmen M. Reinhart, and Kenneth S. Rogoff is presented.

The article reviews the book "Politics and Trade Cooperation in the Nineteenth Century: The 'Agreeable Customs' of 1815 to 1914," by Robert Pahre.

Reviews the book "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History," edited by Joel Mokyr.

Reviews the book "Wirtschaftspolitik nach dem Ende der Bretton-Woods-Ära."

Reviews the book 'Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science,' by Philip Mirowski.

Reviews the book 'An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America,' edited by Enrique Cardenas, Jose Antonio Ocampo and Rosemary Thorp.

The article reviews the book "Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South," by Gavin Wright.

The article reviews the book "The Economy of Israel from the Foundation of the State through the Twenty-First Century," by Paul Rivlin.

The article reviews the book "The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United Stales and Great Britain since 1950," by Avner Offer.

The article reviews the book "The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives and New Directions," edited by Cathy Matson.

The article reviews the book "The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Structural Change and Growth," edited by Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson.

Reviews the book "A New Economic History of Argentina," edited by Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M.Taylor.

Reviews the book "Origins of the New South Fifty Years Later," edited by John B. Boles and Bethany L. Johnson.

Reviews the book "Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic," by Theo Balderston.

Reviews the book 'Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England,' edited by Peter Temin.