The publisher describes the book as a “surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics [that] traces the field’s history from Black colleges to ...

How Economics Explains the World. By Andrew Leigh. Mariner Books; 240 pages; $26. Published in Britain as “The Shortest History of Economics”; Old Street; £14.99 There is no shortage of books on the ...

This brisk study from Leigh (Randomistas), an economist and member of Australia’s parliament, traces how economic factors have shaped world history from the dawn of agriculture to the present. He ...

Dr. Burns is an associate professor of history at Stanford who studies American politics, economic thought and capitalism. She is the author of the forthcoming book “Milton Friedman: The Last ...

1. For several years, I have been teaching a freshman seminar at Harvard. I always start with this book, and the students always love it. Most economics books are bloodless. They give us ideas, but ...

Joel Mokyr was lauded by the Nobel committee Monday for demonstrating how innovations become a “self-generating process.” ...

Alan S. Blinder ’67 is the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and currently teaches Introduction to Macroeconomics. Alan Blinder: That’s the big story of the book ...

This course is available on the MA in Modern History, MRes in Accounting (AOI) (Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Track), MSc in Economic History, MSc in Economic History (Research), MSc in ...