Economic History and Sociology

The Fulton Fish Market

A History Jonathan H. Rees

This book is a lively and comprehensive history of the Fulton Fish Market, from its founding in 1822 through its move to the Bronx in 2005. Jonathan H. Rees explores the market’s workings and significance, tracing the transportation, retailing, and consumption of fish.

$30.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-20256-5 December 2022 312 pages 30 illus.

ARTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE TABLE: PERSPECTIVES ON CULINARY HISTORY

The Rise of Corporate Feminism

Women in the American Office, 1960–1990 Allison Elias

How did feminism in corporate America come to represent the individual success of the executive woman and not the collective success of the secretary? Allison Elias argues that feminist goals of advancing equal opportunity and promoting meritocracy unintentionally undercut the status and prospects of so-called pink-collar workers.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18075-7 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18074-0 December 2022 336 pages

THE HISTORY OF U.S. CAPITALISM

Gender and the Dismal Science

Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession Ann Mari May

Gender and the Dismal Science is a groundbreaking account of the role of women during the formative years of American economics, from the late nineteenth century into the postwar period. Ann Mari May details the vicissitudes of women in economics, including their success in writing monographs and placing journal articles, their limitations in obtaining academic positions, their marginalization in professional associations, and other hurdles that the professionalization of the discipline placed in their path.

$32.00 /£25.00 paper 978-0-231-19291-0 $125.00 / £98.00 cloth 978-0-231-19290-3 2022 256 pages . Trade and Nation

How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought Emily Erikson

In the seventeenth century, English economic theorists lost interest in the moral status of exchange and became increasingly concerned with the roots of national prosperity. This shift marked the origins of classical political economy and provided the foundation for the contemporary discipline of economics. Emily Erikson brings together historical, comparative, and computational methods to explain the institutional forces that brought about this transformation.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18435-9 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18434-2 2021 312 pages 40 illus.

THE MIDDLE RANGE SERIES

Histories of Racial Capitalism

Edited by Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy

The relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. By theorizing and testing the concept of racial capitalism in different historical circumstances, this book shows its analytical and political power for today’s scholars and activists.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19075-6 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19074-9 2021 288 pages 5 illus.

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF U.S. CAPITALISM

Finntopia

What We Can Learn From the World’s Happiest Country Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen

What is it about Finland that makes the country so successful and seemingly such a great place to live? Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen explore what we might learn from Finnish success and what they might usefully learn from us.

$19.99 paper 978-1-78821-216-8 2021 328 pages

AGENDA PUBLISHING

Speculation

A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI Gayle Rogers

Speculation fueled the development of modern capitalism, spurring booms, busts, and bubbles-and recently artificial intelligence has automated the speculation previously done by humans, with uncertain and troubling consequences. Unraveling these histories and many other disputes, Gayle Rogers argues that what has always been at stake in arguments over speculation-and why it so often appears so threatening-is the authority to produce and control knowledge about the future.

$30.00 /£25.00 paper 978-0-231-20021-9 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20020-2 2021 264 pages The Power of Persuasion

Becoming a Merchant in the Eighteenth Century Lucas Haasis

The merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens, who lived in eighteenth-century Hamburg, traveled France between 1743 and 1745, becoming a successful wholesaler. Based on the complete archive of his mercantile letters, this microhistorical study examines the practices of early modern merchants.

$75.00 paper 978-3-8376-565-7 2022 660 pages 20 illus.

TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING

Unequal Cities

Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality in the United States Richard McGahey

Richard McGahey explores how cities can foster equitable economic growth despite the obstacles in their way. Drawing on extensive experience as well as historical analysis, he examines the failures of public policy and conventional economic wisdom that have led to the neglect of American cities and highlights opportunities for reform.

$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-17334-6 December 2022 304 pages The Everyday Practice of Valuation and Investment

Political Imaginaries of Shareholder Value Horacio Ortiz

Horacio Ortiz provides a critical analysis of the social institutions and practices that produce and regulate stock pricing and valuation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among financial professionals in New York and Paris, this book shows how the political imaginaries that underpin financial markets legitimize global inequalities.

$30.00 /£25.00 paper 978-0-231-20119-3 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20118-6 2021 312 pages