Alexander J. Field

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• Santa Clara University / Department of Economics
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• Asset Exchanges and the Transactions Demand for Money, 1919-29 (RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:74:y:1984:i:1:p:43-59)
  by Field, Alexander J
• The Most Technologically Progressive Decade of the Century (RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:93:y:2003:i:4:p:1399-1413)
  by Alexander J. Field
• Ideology, Economic Policy, and Economic History: Cohen and DeLong's Concrete Economics (RePEc:aea:jeclit:v:55:y:2017:i:4:p:1526-55)
  by Alexander J. Field
• The origins of US total factor productivity growth in the golden age (RePEc:afc:cliome:v:1:y:2007:i:1:p:63-90)
  by Alexander J. Field
• The impact of the Second World War on US productivity growth1 (RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:61:y:2008:i:3:p:672-694)
  by Alexander J. Field
• The decline of US manufacturing productivity between 1941 and 1948 (RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:76:y:2023:i:4:p:1163-1190)
  by Alexander J. Field
• Causal Explanation and Model Building in History, Economics, and the New Economic History. By Peter D. McClelland. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1975. Pp. 290. $12.50 (RePEc:cup:buhirw:v:50:y:1976:i:01:p:96-99_04)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• The School upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England. By James Axtell. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1974. Pp. xxi + 298. $17.50. - Education and the Industrial Revolution. By E. (RePEc:cup:buhirw:v:51:y:1977:i:01:p:115-118_03)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century: The Piketty Opportunity. Edited by Pat Hudson and Keith Tribe . New York: Columbia University Press, Agenda Publishing, 2017. xii + 256 pp. F (RePEc:cup:buhirw:v:91:y:2017:i:01:p:180-183_00)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Jim Lacey. Keep from all Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2011. 288 pp. ISBN 978-1-59114-491-5, $34.95 (cloth) (RePEc:cup:entsoc:v:15:y:2014:i:01:p:176-178_00)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Educational Reform and Manufacturing Development in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:36:y:1976:i:01:p:263-266_11)
  by Field, Alexander James
• Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life. By Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. New York: Basic Books, 1976. Pp. 340. $13.95 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:37:y:1977:i:02:p:491-492_09)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Political Economy in Parliament, 1819–1823. By Barry Gordon. New York: Bames and Noble, 1977. Pp. ix, 246. $21.50 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:38:y:1978:i:03:p:773-775_08)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Economic and Demographic Determinants of Educational Commitment: Massachusetts, 1855 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:39:y:1979:i:02:p:439-459_09)
  by Field, Alexander James
• The Evolution of Economic Ideas. By Phyllis Deane. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xv, 236. $21.00 cloth, $7.95 paper (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:39:y:1979:i:02:p:606-607_09)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century. By Richard Edwards. New York: Basic Books, 1979. Pp. ix + 261. $12.95 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:39:y:1979:i:04:p:1073-1075_09)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• A System of Social Science: Papers Relating to Adam Smith. By Andrew S. Skinner. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. vi, 278. $24.95. - John Locke: Economist and Social Scientist. By Karen Iv (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:40:y:1980:i:02:p:448-450_10)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Economic Thought and Social Change. By J. Ron Stanfield. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979. Pp. xxi, 194. $12.95 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:40:y:1980:i:03:p:680-681_08)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Economic Thought and Doctrine - The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy, 1815–1848. By Maxine Berg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. x, 379. $35.00 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:41:y:1981:i:01:p:252-253_04)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Region und Industrialisierung: Studien zur Rolle der Region in der Wirtschaftsgeschichte der letzten zwei Jahrhunderte. Edited by Sidney Pollard. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1980. Pp. 297. D (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:41:y:1981:i:03:p:676-677_04)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• The Rise of Literacy and the Common School in the United States: A Socioeconomic Analysis to 1870. By Lee Soltow and Edward Stevens. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 247. $20.00 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:42:y:1982:i:03:p:720-721_02)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Land Abundance, Interest/Profit Rates, and Nineteenth-Century American and British Technology (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:43:y:1983:i:02:p:405-431_02)
  by Field, Alexander James
• A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America. by Patricia Cline Cohen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. pp. x, 269 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:43:y:1983:i:04:p:1031-1032_03)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• A New Interpretation of the Onset of the Great Depression (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:44:y:1984:i:02:p:489-498_03)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• The Origins of Public High Schools: A Reexamination of the Beverly High School Contoversy. By Maris A. Vinovskis. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. Pp, xiv, 172. $27.50 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:46:y:1986:i:03:p:859-861_04)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Class and Reform: School and Society in Chicago, 1880–1930. By David John Hogan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. Pp. xxv, 328. $30.00 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:46:y:1986:i:04:p:1075-1077_05)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Modern Business Enterprise as a Capital-Saving Innovation (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:47:y:1987:i:02:p:473-485_04)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Enterprise and History: Essays in Honour of Charles Wilson. Edited by D. C. Coleman and Peter Mathias. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. x, 290. $49.50. - Business Life and Public Polic (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:48:y:1988:i:01:p:235-237_00)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Modern Europe - Europe and the Rise of Capitalism. Edited by Jean Baechler, John A. Hall, and Michael Mann. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. vi, 249. $45.00 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:48:y:1988:i:04:p:921-922_00)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Against Mechanism: Protecting Economics from Science. By Philip Mirowski. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1988. Pp. ix, 250. $34.95 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:50:y:1990:i:01:p:247-250_03)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Modern Europe - The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Vol. 8: The Industrial Economies: The Development of Economic and Social Policies. Edited By Peter Mathias and Sidney Pollard. New York: Cambr (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:50:y:1990:i:02:p:459-462_03)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. By Douglass C. North. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 152. $32.50, cloth; $10.95, paper (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:51:y:1991:i:04:p:999-1001_04)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• The Magnetic Telegraph, Price and Quantity Data, and the New Management of Capital (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:52:y:1992:i:02:p:401-413_01)
  by Field, Alexander James
• Uncontrolled Land Development and the Duration of the Depression in the United States (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:52:y:1992:i:04:p:785-805_01)
  by Field, Alexander James
• Europe, America, and the Wider World: Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism. Vol. 2: America and the Wider World. By William N. Parker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:52:y:1992:i:04:p:983-985_01)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Modern Housing in America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era. By Gail Radford. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. x, 273. $45.00, cloth; $17.95, paper (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:57:y:1997:i:03:p:757-758_01)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Technological Revolutions in Europe: Historical Perspectives. Edited by Maxine Berg and Kristine Bruland. Cheltenham, U.K., and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 1998. Pp. xiii, 325. $85.00 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:59:y:1999:i:03:p:810-811_02)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• R&D, Education, and Productivity: A Retrospective. By Zvi Griliches. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 127. $39.95 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:61:y:2001:i:02:p:577-578_49)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE: THE CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, VOLUMES II AND III The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Volume II: The Long Nineteenth Century; Volume III: (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:61:y:2001:i:03:p:806-818_03)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution. By Chris Freeman and Francisco Louçã. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 407 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:62:y:2002:i:02:p:634-636_00)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution. By Haim Ofek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 254. $74.95, cloth; $27.95, paper (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:62:y:2002:i:03:p:922-924_00)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Rethinking the Great Depression: A New View of its Causes and Consequences. By Gene Smiley. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. xii, 179. $24.95 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:63:y:2003:i:01:p:288-289_49)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• The Company of Strangers. By Paul Seabright. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 304. $29.95 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:64:y:2004:i:03:p:921-923_40)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Technological Change and U.S. Productivity Growth in the Interwar Years (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:66:y:2006:i:01:p:203-236_00)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• The Procyclical Behavior of Total Factor Productivity in the United States, 1890–2004 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:70:y:2010:i:02:p:326-350_00)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences. By Herbert Gintis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii, 286. $37.50 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:71:y:2011:i:01:p:256-258_00)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Mathew Boulton: Enterprising Industrialist of the Enlightenment. Edited by Quickenden Kenneth, Sally Baggott, Malcolm Dick. Farnham: Ashgate. 2013. Pp. xviii, 294. $124.95, hardcover (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:73:y:2013:i:03:p:874-876_00)
  by Field, Alexander
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:74:y:2014:i:03:p:916-920_00)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• British Economic Growth: 1270–1870. By Stephen Broadberry, Bruce M.S. Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton, and Bas van Leeuwen Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 461. $39.99, paper (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:76:y:2016:i:01:p:236-238_00)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• The Idea of History in Constructing Economics. By Michael H. Turk London: Routledge, 2015. Pp. viii, 242. $160.00, cloth (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:76:y:2016:i:04:p:1273-1274_00)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Beyond foraging: behavioral science and the future of institutional economics (RePEc:cup:jinsec:v:3:y:2007:i:03:p:265-291_00)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Sectoral shift in antebellum Massachusetts: A reconsideration (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:15:y:1978:i:2:p:146-171)
  by Field, Alexander James
• The problem with neoclassical institutional economics: A critique with special reference to the North/Thomas model of pre-1500 Europe (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:18:y:1981:i:2:p:174-198)
  by Field, Alexander James
• On the unimportance of machinery (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:22:y:1985:i:4:p:378-401)
  by James Field, Alexander
• Do legal systems matter? (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:28:y:1991:i:1:p:1-35)
  by Field, Alexander James
• The equipment hypothesis and US economic growth (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:44:y:2007:i:1:p:43-58)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• Erratum to "The equipment hypothesis and US economic growth" [Explor. Econ. Hist. 44 (2007) 43-58] (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:44:y:2007:i:2:p:363-362)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• US economic growth in the gilded age (RePEc:eee:jmacro:v:31:y:2009:i:1:p:173-190)
  by Field, Alexander J.
• The Savings and Loan Insolvencies and the Costs of Financial Crisis (RePEc:eme:rehizz:s0363-326820170000033003)
  by Alexander J. Field
• Economics, Biology, And Culture: Hodgson On History (RePEc:eme:rhetzz:s0743-4154(03)22024-1)
  by Alexander J Field
• Why Multilevel Selection Matters (RePEc:esi:evopap:2004-19)
  by Alexander Field
• Schelling, von Neumann, and the Event that Didn’t Occur (RePEc:gam:jgames:v:5:y:2014:i:1:p:53-89:d:33342)
  by Alexander J. Field
• Why multilevel selection matters (RePEc:kap:jbioec:v:10:y:2008:i:3:p:203-238)
  by Alexander Field
• Biological and cultural group selection: Comments on Janet Landa’s paper (RePEc:kap:jbioec:v:10:y:2008:i:3:p:287-290)
  by Alexander Field
• Marc D. Hauser: Moral minds: How nature designed our universal sense of right and wrong (RePEc:kap:jbioec:v:12:y:2010:i:2:p:173-177)
  by Alexander Field
• Prosociality and the military (RePEc:kap:jbioec:v:16:y:2014:i:2:p:129-154)
  by Alexander Field
• The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Current Crisis (RePEc:mes:challe:v:52:y:2009:i:4:p:94-105)
  by Alexander Field
• On the Explanation of Rules Using Rational Choice Models (RePEc:mes:jeciss:v:13:y:1979:i:1:p:49-72)
  by Alexander James Field
• The Adversity/Hysteresis Effect: Depression-Era Productivity Growth in the U.S. Railroad Sector (RePEc:nbr:nberch:12372)
  by Alexander J. Field
• The Interwar Housing Cycle in the Light of 2001-2012: A Comparative Historical Perspective (RePEc:nbr:nberch:12793)
  by Alexander J. Field
• The Interwar Housing Cycle in the Light of 2001-2011: A Comparative Historical Approach (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:18796)
  by Alexander J. Field
• Robert E. Gallman and Paul W. Rhode: Capital in the Nineteenth Century (RePEc:pal:buseco:v:57:y:2022:i:2:d:10.1057_s11369-021-00247-y)
  by Alexander J. Field
• Historical Measures of Economic Output (RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-35583-7_38)
  by Alexander J. Field
• Mirowski's Machine Dreams (RePEc:taf:eujhet:v:10:y:2003:i:4:p:611-622)
  by Alexander Field
• Microeconomics, Norms, and Rationality (RePEc:ucp:ecdecc:v:32:y:1984:i:4:p:683-711)
  by Field, Alexander James
• Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life by Samuel Bowles; Herbert Gintis (RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:12:y:1977:i:2:p:275-277)
  by Alexander J. Field
• Industrialization and Skill Intensity: The Case of Massachusetts (RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:15:y:1980:i:2:p:149-175)
  by Alexander James Field