2004 ALA/RUSA Outstanding Reference Source
2003
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2004
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Edited by Joel Mokyr
900 entries
International in scope and spanning all time periods of human history,
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History includes 900 original articles by noted scholars from more than thirty-five countries. Articles range from 500-word entries on inventors, theoreticians, and industry leaders to overarching, 8,000-word essays on markets, industries, and labor. With coverage ranging from accounting and advertising to zoning and zoos, this landmark works stands at the busy intersection of history and the social sciences.
The general conceptual categories of the work are: Geography (entries on cities, countries, and regions); Agriculture; Production Systems, Business History, and Technology; Demography; Institutions, Governments, and Markets; Macroeconomic History and International Economics; Money, Banking and Finance; Labor; Natural Resources and the Environment; and Biographies.
Joel Mokyr is Robert H. Strotz Professor Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
e-reference edition ISBN: 0195187628
Print edition ISBN: 0195105079
Print edition publication date: 2003
Publishing history: First published 2003
Copyright: Copyright © 2003, 2005 by Oxford University Press, Inc.
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