International Political Economy of Capitalism (Prof. Charles Maier)

Overviews and Theoretical Orientations

1. Arrighi, Giovanni. The Long Twentieth Century. Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times (1994)

2. Findlay, Ronald and Kevin H. O’Rourke. Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (2007)

3. Frieden, Jeffrey A. Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2006)4. Kocka, Juergen. Capitalism: A Short History (2016)5. Maier, Charles S. In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy

(1987)6. Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our

Time (1944)

The Industrial Revolution

7. Allen, Robert C. The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective ( )8. -- “The Spread of Manufacturing” in The Cambridge History of Capitalism, Vol 29. Crafts, Nicholas, “Industrial Revolution in England and France: Some Thoughts on the

Question,” "Why was England First?” (1977) and “Historical Perspectives on Development” (2000) —"Explaining the first Industrial Revolution : two views” (2010)

10. Gerschenkron, Alexander. “The Advantages of Backwardness.”11. Jones, E.L. Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History (1988)12. Kuznets, Simon. “Notes on the Take-Off”13. Landes, David. The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial

Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (1969)14. Mokyr, Joel. The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain, 1700-1850

(2009)15. Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence - China, Europe, and the Making othe

Modern World Economy (2000)

The Gold Standard and the First Globalization

16. Balachandran, G. “Power and markets in global finance: the gold standard, 1890–1926,” Journal of Global History (2008)

17. de Cecco, Marcello. Money and Empire: The International Gold Standard, 1890-1914 (1975)

18. Eichengreen, Barry. Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 (1992)

19. Eichengreen, Barry (editor). The Gold Standard in History and Theory (1985)20. Flandreau, Marc. “The French Crime of 1873: An Essay on the Emergence of the

International Gold Standard, 1870–1880,” The Journal of Economic History (Dec. 1996)21. Flandreau, Marc and Frédéric Zumer. The Making of Global Finance 1880-1913 (2003)

22. James, Harold. “International capital movements and the global order,” in The Cambridge History of Capitalism, Vol. 2 (Larry Neal and Kevin G. Williamson, eds.) (2014)

23. Metzler, Mark. Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan (2005)

24. O’Rourke, Kevin and Jeffrey Williamson. Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy (1999)

Great Depression and World War II

25. Bernstein, Michael A. The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929-1939 (1989)

26. Friedman, Milton and Anna J. Schwartz, The Great Contraction, 1929-33 (1963/1965)27. Gourevitch, Peter. Politics in Hard Times: Comparative Responses to International

Economic Crises (1986)28. Kindleberger, Charles P. The World in Depression, 1929-1939 (1973)29. Lichtenstein, Nelson. Labor's War at Home: The CIO In World War II (1982)30. Rothermund, Dietmar, The Global Impact of the Great Depression 1929-1939 (1996)31. Temin, Peter. Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? (1975)

Bretton Woods and Coordinated Capitalism

32. Armstrong, Philip, Andrew Glyn, and John Harrison, Capitalism Since 1945 (1991)33. Robert Brenner, The Economics of Global Turbulence: The Advanced Capitalist

Economies from Long Boom to Long Downturn, 1945-2005 (2006)34. Emile Despres, Charles P. Kindleberger, and Walter S. Salant, "The Dollar and World

Liquidity. A Minority View” (The Economist, February 1966)35. Eichengreen, Barry. The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and

Beyond (2007)36. Forsberg, Aaron. America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan's

Postwar Economic Revival, 1950-1960 (2000)37. Hall, Peter A. Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and

France (1986)38. Stebenne, David L., Irwin M. Wall, Volker R. Bergahn, Andrew Gordon, and Charles S.

Maier, “Scholarly Discussion: The Postwar Social Contract,” International Labor and Working-Class History (Fall 1996)

39. Triffin, Robert. Gold and the Dollar Crisis: The Future of Convertibility (1960)40. Wood, Robert E. “From the Marshall Plan to the Third World” in Origins of the Cold

War: An International History, edited by M. P. Leffler and D. S. Painter (1994)

Breakdown of Bretton Woods/Politics of Stagflation

41. Robert M. Collins, "The Economic Crisis of 1968 and the Waning of the 'American Century,'" American Historical Review, 101, 2, (April 1996), 396-422

42. Craufurd D. Goodwin, ed., Exhortation and controls: the search for a wage-price policy, 1945-1971 (1975)

43. Stefan Eich and Adam Tooze, “The Great Inflation” (2016)44. Philippe C. Schmitter, Gerhard Lehmbruch, eds. Trends Toward

Corporatist  Intermediation (1979)45. Robert Keohane, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political

Economy (1984)46. Leon Lindberg, Charles S. Maier eds., The Politics of Inflation and Economic Stagnation

(1985)47. Sargent, Daniel. “Dollar and Decline” in A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of

American Foreign Relations in the 1970s (2015)

Late Industrialization in China, the Soviet Union, Latin America

48. Allen, Robert C. Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution (2003)

49. Bénétrix, Agustín S., Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke, and Jeffrey G. Williamson, “The Spread of Manufacturing to the Poor Periphery 1870–2007” (2014)

50. Dornbusch, Rudiger and Sebastian Edwards, eds. The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America (1989)

51. Love, Joseph L. "Economic Ideas and Ideologies in Latin America since 1930" in The Cambridge History of Latin America Vol. 10 (1995)

52. Miller, Chris. The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR (2016)

53. Sanchez-Sibony, Oscar. Red Globalization: The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev (2014)

54. Vogel, Ezra. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (2011)55. An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America Volume 3: Industrialization

and the State in Latin America: The Postwar Years (2000)