Political Economy Bibliography

by Dave Robertson, University of Missouri-St. Louis / Last Updated August 17, 2007

This bibliography supplements the graduate Political Economy syllabus and the undergraduate Politics of Business Regulation syllabus

Business, Labor, Corporatism, Labor Market and Collective Bargaining Policy have been relocated here

("UP" indicates University Press)

INDEX: Basics / Data / Theories: Past * Present / History of Economic Thought / Economic Development: General and US / The State * the American State * Property * Revenue * Planning & Infrastructure / Policy Making / Rational Choice / Business * Antitrust / Labor * Labor Markets and Labor Market Policy * Collective Bargaining / Corporatism / Equality & Inequality / Monetary, Financial & Credit Policy * Money, Credit, Bankruptcy * Banks & Thrifts * US Federal Reserve and Central Banks * Securities & Corporate Finance * International Finance / Budget Process & Deficit / Trade / Policy Towards Specific Markets * Regulation * FTC * NRA * Industrial Policy * Specific Sectors / Regional Economies, Unevenness & Competition / Economics & Democracy

Basics

· Glossary of Political Economy Terms, by Professor Paul M. Johnson

· Glossary of Budget and Economic Terms, U.S. Congressional Budget Office

· Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms, by Jerry White and Jordan Goodman

· Herbert Stein and Murray Foss, An Illustrated Guide to the American Economy: A Hundred Key Issues (AEI, 1992)

· Charles A. Lindblom, Politics and Markets: The World's Political-Economic Systems (Basic Books, 1977) and The Market System (Yale UP, 2001)

· Edmund S. Phelps, Political Economy: An Introductory Text (New York: WW Norton, 1985).

· Martin Staniland, What is Political Economy? A Study of Social Theory and Underdevelopment (Yale, 1985).

· Allan Drazen, Political Economy in Macroeconomics (Princeton: 2000)

· Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini, Political Economics: Explaining Economic Policy (MIT Press, 2000)

· R. Dahl and C. Lindblom, Politics, Economics, and Welfare.

· Leonard Silk, Economics in the Real World (Simon and Schuster)

· Paul Peretz, ed., The Politics of American Economic Policymaking 2nd ed.(M.E. Sharpe, 1996)

· Charles P. Kindleberger, Historical Economics: Art or Science? (California, 1991)

· Michael H. Best and William E. Connolly, The Politicized Economy (D.C. Heath, 1982)

· Paul Krugman, The Age of Diminished Expectations, 3rd ed. (Cambridge, MIT Press, 1997)

· Peter A. Gourevich, Politics in Hard Times (Cornell, 1988)

· Norman J. Vig and Steven E. Schier, Political Economy in Western Democracies (Holmes and Meier, 1985)

· Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers, eds., The Political Economy: Readings in the Politics and Economics of American Public Policy (M.E. Sharpe, 1984)

· Denise E. Markovich and Ronald E. Pynn, American Political Economy: Using Economics with Politics (Brooks/Cole, 1988)

· Caroline P. Clotfelter, ed., On the Third Hand: Humor in the Dismal Science, An Anthology (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996).

· Challenge

· OECD Outlook

Data Sources

· Office of Management and Budget / Economic Report of the President / Congressional Budget Office

· U.S. Census Bureau / Federal Statistics / FRED / Federal Reserve Bank of New York Research page

· National Bureau of Economic Research

· Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development / International Monetary Fund

· International Labor Organization Statistics (LABORSTA)

· Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research / Economic Time Series /

· Econ Data & Links / Other Statistical Sources

· Peter Flora, State, Economy and Society in Western Europe 1815-1975: A Data Handbook (St. James Press, 1983).

· B.R. Mitchell, International Historical Statistics: The Americas and Australasia (Gale Research Co, 1983); International Historical Statistics: Africa and Asia (New York UP, 1982); European Historical Statistics, 1750-1970, 2nd Ed (Facts on File, 1981)

· The Tax Foundation, Facts and Figures on Government Finance (Johns Hopkins), periodic

· U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Long Term Economic Growth, 1860-1970

· U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Governments, Historical Statistics on Governmental Finances and Employment (GPO: twice each decade)

· U.S. Office of Business Economics, The National Income and Product Accounts of the United States, 1929-1965 (GPO: 1966)

· U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Handbook of Economic Statistics, [year].

· U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Handbook of Labor Statistics (GPO: occasional, with historical volume in 1975)

Theories

Past

· Jerry Z. Muller, The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought (Anchor Books, 2003).

· A. Lindbeck, "Merchantilism," Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

· Eli F. Heckscher, Mercantilism (George Allen and Unwin, revised, second edition, edited by Ernst F. Söderlund, 1955), 2 vol. (Originally published as Merkantilisment: Ett led i den ekonomiska politikens historia. Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt and Söner, 1931)

· D.C. Coleman, ed., Revisions in Mercantilism (Methuen, 1969)

· Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (originally 1776)

· David Riccardo, The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (originally 1817)

· Karl Marx, The Grundrisse (Harper, 1971)

· Karl Marx, Capital (originally 1867-1894)

· Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics

· Alfred Marshall, Money, Credit, and Commerce (1923)

· Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

· J.R. Commons, The Legal Foundations of Capitalism (1924)

· John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1935)

· Alvin Hansen, Business Cycles and National Income (1951)

Present

· James A. Caporaso and David P. Levine, Theories of Political Economy (Cambridge, 1992)

· Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (U of Chicago Press, 1944), Individualism and the Economic Order (U of Chicago Press, 1960), and Law, Legislation, and Liberty, 3 vols. (U of Chicago Press, 1973 & 1979)

· Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago, 1962)

· George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty (Basic, 1981)

· Jude Wanniski, The Way the World Works (Touchstone, 1978)

· Murray Weidenbaum, Rendezvous with Reality: The American Economy After Reagan (Basic, 1988).

· George J. Stigler, Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist (Basic, 1988).

· Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson, eds. Feminist Economic Theory Today: Beyond Economic Man (U of Chicago Press, 2003)

· Tyler Cowen, The Theory of Market Failure (George Mason U, 1988).

· Robert Dahl and Charles Lindblom, Politics, Economics, and Welfare (Harper and Row, 1953)

· Walter Heller, New Dimensions of Political Economy (Harvard, 1966)

· Paul Samuelson, Economics (many editions)

· John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (Houghton Mifflin, 1958), The New Industrial State (Houghton Mifflin, 1967), and Economics and the Public Purpose (Signet, 1973)

· Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone, The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America (Basic, 1988).

· Bernard Lonergan, For a New Political Economy (University of Toronto Press, 1998). Volume 21 of The Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan

· James O'Connor, The Fiscal Crisis of the State (St. Martin's, 1973)

· Jurgen Habermas, Legitimation Crisis (Beacon, 1975)

· Fred Block, Postindustrial Possibilities: A Critique of Economic Discourse (California UP, 1990)

· Ralph Miliband, The State in Capitalist Society (Quartet, 1976).

· John E. Roemer, Free to Lose: An Introduction to Marxist Economic Philosophy (Harvard, 1988), and A Future for Socialism (Harvard UP, 1994).

· Andrew Bard Schmookler, The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny (SUNY, 1994).

· E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful (1973).

· Albert O. Hirschman, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Harvard, 1970)

· Fred Hirsch, Social Limits to Growth (Harvard, 1978)

· Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Values (New Haven: Yale UP, 1982)

· Mancur Olson and Satu Kähkönen, eds. A Not-So-Dismal Science: A Broader View of Economies and Societies (Oxford UP, 2000)

· Henry Nau, The Myth of America's Decline (Oxford, 1990)

· Oliver E. Williamson, The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets, Relational Contracting (Free Press, 1985) and Economic Organization: Firms, Markets, and Policy Control (Wheatsheaf, 1986)

· Tyler Cowen, ed., The Theory of Market Failure: A Critical Examination (George Mason U Press, 1988)

· J. Rogers Hollingsworth and Robert Boyer, Contemporary Capitalism: The Embeddedness of Institutions (Cambridge, 1997)

· Richard R. Nelson, Technology, Institutions, and Economic Growth (Harvard UP, 2005)

History and Analysis of Economic Thought

· Steven Medema and Warren Samuels, eds, Historians of Economics and Economic Thought: The Construction of Disciplinary Memory (Routledge, 2001)

· J.A. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis (1954)

· Margaret Schabas, The Natural Origins of Economics (U of Chicago Press, 2005)

· D. P. O'Brien, The Classical Economists Revisited (Princeton UP, 2004).

· Harro Maas, William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics (Cambridge UP, 2005)

· Mark Blaug, Economic Theory in Retrospect (1985).

· Horst Claus Recktenwald, ed., Political Economy: A Historical Perspective (1973)

· Phyllis Deane, The State and the Economic System: An Introduction to the History of Political Economy (Oxford, 1989)

· Peter A. Hall, ed. The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism Across Nations (Princeton UP: 1989).

· Robert Lekachman, A History of Economic Ideas (1959) and The Age of Keynes (1966)

· Alessandro Roncaglia, The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought (Cambridge UP, 2005).

· Michael A. Bernstein, A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton UP, 2001)

· Emma Rothschild, Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. (Harvard UP, 2001)

· Henry William Spiegel, The Growth of Economic Thought (1971)

· Geoffrey M. Hodgson, How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science. (Routledge, 2001)

· John Kenneth Galbraith, Economics in Perspective: A Critical History (Houghton Mifflin, 1987).

· Charles P. Kindleberger, Historical Economics: Art or Science? (California, 1991)

· Deborah A. Redman, The Rise of Political Economy as a Science: Methodology and the Classical Economists (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997)

· Patricia Werhane, Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism (Oxford, 1991).

· A. Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph (Princeton, 1977).

· J. Dorfman, The Economic Mind in American Civilization

· James T. Kloppenberg, Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (New York: Oxford UP, 1986)

· R. Jeffrey Lustig, Corporate Liberalism: The Origins of American Political Theory (Knopf, 1966)

· Desmond King, The New Right: Politics, Markets, and Citizenship (Dorsey, 1987).

· Kenneth Hoover and Raymond Plant, Conservative Capitalism in Britain and the United States (Routledge, 1989)

· Andrew Gamble, The Free Economy and the Strong State (Duke, 1988).

· Morris Bornstein, Comparative Economic Systems: Models and Cases, 5th ed. (R.D. Irwin, 1985).

· Edward Greenberg, Capitalism and the American Political Ideal (M.E. Sharpe, 1985).

· Steven E. Rhoads, The Economist's View of the World: Government, Markets, and Public Policy (Cambridge, 1985).

· Andrew Bard Schmookler, The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny (SUNY, 1994)

· John Martin Gilroy and Maurice Wade, eds., The Moral Dimensions of Public Policy Choice (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992)

· Conrad P. Waligorski, Liberal Economics and Democracy: Keynes, Galbraith, Thurow, and Reich (UP of Kansas, 1997).

· Andrew Sayer, Radical Political Economy: Critique and Reformulation (Blackwell, 1995).

· Review of Radical Political Economics

3. Economic Development

General

· Raymond W. Goldsmith, Comparative National Balance Sheets: A Study of Twenty Countries, 1688-1978 (Chicago, 1984).

· Angus Maddison, Dynamic Forces in Capitalist Development: A Long-Run Comparative View (1991).

· Hendrik Van den Berg, Economic Growth And Development (McGraw-Hill, 2001)

· Robert. M. Solow, Growth Theory - An Exposition, 2^nd ed. (Oxford UP, 2000)

· Walter Eltis, The Classical Theory of Economic Growth (Palgrave, 2000)

· W. W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto, 3^rd ed. (Cambridge UP, 1991)

· Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (Oxford UP, 1999)

· Torben Andersen and Karl-Ove Moene, eds. Endogenous Growth (Blackwell, 1994)

· Douglass C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Cambridge UP, 1990) and Understanding the Process of Economic Change (Princeton UP, 2005)

· Alexander Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays (Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1962)

· Eric Hobsbawn (Chris Wrigley, ed.), Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution (New Press, 1999)

· Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (Rinehart & Co., 1944)

· Mark Blyth, Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge UP, 2002)

· Peter N. Stearns, The Industrial Revolution in World History (Westview, 1993)

· Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformations (Princeton UP, 1995).

· Andrew Graham and Anthony Seldon, eds., Government and Economies in the Postwar World (Routledge, 1990)

· H.W. Arndt, Economic Development: The History of an Idea (Chicago, 1987).

· Nathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdzell, Jr., How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World (Basic Books, 1986)

· Solomos Solomou, Economic Cycles: Long Cycles and Business Cycles since1870 (Manchester UP, 1998)

· Richard R. Nelson, The Sources of Economic Growth (Harvard UP, 1996).

· Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (Beacon, 1967)

· The Cambridge Economic History of Europe (1963)

· Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904-5)

· Fred Hirsch, Social Limits to Growth (1977)

· Warren Ilchman and Norman T. Uphoff, The Political Economy of Change (California, 1969).

· Hiram Caton, The Politics of Progress: The Origins and Development of the Commercial Republic, 1600-1835 (Florida, 1988).

· Charles L. Schultze, Other Times, Other Places: Macroeconomic Lessons from U.S. and European History (Brookings, 1986).

· Gerold Ambrosius and William H. Hubbard, A Social and Economic History of Twentieth Century Europe (Harvard, 1989)

· G.M. Holmes, Britain and America: A Comparative Economic History (1976).

· David S. Landes, The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (Cambridge University, 1969).

· Nick Crafts and Gianni Toniolo, eds., Economic Growth in Europe since 1945 (New York: Cambridge UP, 1996).

· Henry Rosovsky, David S. Landes, and Patrice Higonnet, eds. Favorites of Fortune: Technology, Growth, and Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution (Harvard UP, 1991)

United States Economic Development & MacroPolicy

· Gary M. Walton and Hugh Rockoff, History of the American Economy. 8th ed. (Fort Worth: Dryden Press, 1998)

· Marc Allen Eisner, The State in the American Political Economy: Public Policy and the Evolution of State-Economy Relations (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1995).

· Sumner Slichter, Economic Growth in the United States (1962).

· Martin Feldstein, ed., The American Economy in Transition (Chicago UP, 1980).

· Robert D. Atkinson, The Past and Future of America's Economy: Long Waves of Innovation that Power Cycles of Growth (Edward Elgar, 2004).

· Thomas Weiss and Donald Schaefer, eds., American Economic Development in Historical Perspective (Stanford UP, 1994).

· W. Elliott Brownlee, Dynamics of Ascent: A History of the American Economy (Dorsey, 1979).

· Patrick Akard, The Return of the Market: The Politics of U.S. Economic Policy from Carter to Clinton (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998)

· Herbert Stein and Murray Foss. The New Illustrated Guide to the American Economy, 2nd ed. (American Enterprise Institute, 1995).

· John L. Campbell, J. Rogers Hollingsworth, and Leon N. Lindberg, eds. Governance of the American Economy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991)

· Jonathan Hughes, American Economic History.

· Robert Heilbroner, The Economic Transformation of America

· Lance E. Davis and Douglass C. North, Institutional Change and American Economic Growth (Cambridge UP, 1971)

· Frederic L. Pryor. Economic Evolution and Structure: The Impact of Complexity on the U.S. Economic System (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

· David Hounshell, From the American System to Mass Production, 180-0-1932 (Johns Hopkins UP, 1984)

· John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard, The Economy of British America, 1607-1789 (North Carolina, 1991).

· Gary M. Walton and James F. Sheperd, The Economic Rise of early America (Cambridge UP, 1979).

· Stuart Bruchey, The Roots of American Economic Growth 1607-1861: An Essay in Social Causation (Hutchinson University Library, 1965)

· E.J. Perkins, The Economy of Colonial America, 2nd ed. (Columbia UP, 1988)

· Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman, eds. 1996. The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Vol. 1: the Colonial Era. New York: Cambridge University Press.

· Allan Kulikoff, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (U of North Carolina Press, 2000)

· Richard R. John, Ruling Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America (Penn State UP, 2006)

· Victor S. Clark, History of Manufacturers in the United States, 1607-1860 (Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1916)

· Winifred B. Rothenberg, From Market-Places to a Market Economy: The Transformation of Rural Massachusetts, 1750-1850 (U of Chicago Press, 1992)

· Peter McNamara, Political Economy and Statesmanship: Smith, Hamilton, and the Foundation of the Commercial Republic (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, . 1998)

· Paul K. Conkin, Prophets of Prosperity: America's First Political Economists (1980)

· Michael B. Folsom and Steven D. Lubar, eds. The Philosophy of Manufactures: Early Debates over Industrialization in the United States (MIT, 1982). Original documents.

· Daniel Raymond, The Elements of Political Economy (1823)

· Frank Bourgin, The Great Challenge: The Myth of Laissez-Faire in the Early Republic (Harper and Row, 1990)

· Curtis P. Nettels, The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815 (M.E. Sharpe).

· John Majewski, A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia, 1800-1860 (Cambridge UP, 2000)

· Kim M. Gruenwald, River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850 (Indiana UP, 2002)

· Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 (Oxford, 1991).

· Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974) Jenny Bourne Wahl, The Bondsman's Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery (Cambridge UP, 2002)

· Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (University of North Carolina Press, 1994)

· Richard Franklin Bensel, The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900 (New York: Cambridge UP, 2001)

· Samuel P. Hays, The Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914 (Chicago, 1957)

· Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten, Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893 (Greenwood Press, 1998)

· Lawrence Goodwyn, The Populist Movement: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America (Oxford, 1978).

· Robert McCloskey, American Conservatism in the Age of Enterprise (1951)

· Rendig Fels, American Business Cycles, 1865-1897 (1959)

· Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism (Free Press, 1963)

· Harold U. Faulkner, The Decline of Laissez-Faire, 1897-1917 (M.E. Sharpe)

· George Soule, The Prosperity Decade: From War to Depression, 1917-1929 (M.E. Sharpe)

· Lester V. Chandler, America's Greatest Depression, 1929-1941 (Harper & Row, 1970).

· Broadus Mitchell, The Depression Decade: From New Era Through New Deal, 1929-1941 (M.E. Sharpe)

· Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White, eds. The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century, (The University of Chicago Press, 1998).

· Jordan A. Schwarz, The Interregnum of Despair: Hoover, Congress, and the Depression (University of Illinois Press, 1970).

· William J. Barber, Designs within Disorder: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Economists, and the Shaping of American Economic Policy, 1933-1945 (Cambridge UP, 1996).

· Daniel Fusfeld, The Economic Thought of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Origins of the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 1956)

· Jordan Schwarz, Liberal: Adolph A. Berle and the Vision of an American Era (New York: Free Press, 1987)

· Dean L. May, From New Deal to New Economics: The American Liberal Response to the Recession of 1937 (Garland, 1991).

· Peter Fearon, War, Prosperity, and Depression: The U.S. Economy, 1917-1945 (Kansas, 1987)

· Robert Collins, More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America (Oxford UP, 2000)

· John F. Walker and Harold G. Vatter, eds., History of the U.S. Economy Since World War II (M.E. Sharpe, 1995).

· “The Rise and Fall of American Technological Leadership: The Postwar Era in Historical Perspective,” Journal of Economic Literature 30 (December, 1992)

· Allen J. Matusow, Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998)

· Michael Bernstein and David Adler, eds. Understanding American Economic Decline (Cambridge University Press, 1994).

· Graeme M. Holmes, Britain and America: A Comparative Economic History, 1850-1939 (London, 1976).

· Philip S. Bagwell and G.E. Mingray, Britain and America, 1850-1939: A Study of Economic Change (London, 1970)

The State and its Capacity

· J.P. Nettl, "The State as a Conceptual Variable," World Politics 20:4 (July, 1968), 559-592.

· James G. March, and Johan P. Olsen, "The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life," American Political Science Review 78:3 (September, 1984), pp. 734-749.

· James G. March and John P. Olsen, Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics (Free Press, 1989).

· Peter Evans, Theda Skocpol, and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge, 1985).

· Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Cambridge, 1979)

· Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., States and Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

· Charles Tilly, The Formation of National States in Western Europe (Princeton, 1975) and Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990-1992 (Blackwell, 1990).

· Eric Nordlinger, On the Autonomy of the Democratic State (1981)

· Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (originally 1852)

· Martin Carnoy, The State and Political Theory (Princeton, 1984)

· Nicos Poulantzas, "The Problem of the Capitalist State," New Left Review, 58:67-78

· Roger Benjamin and Stephen L. Elkin, eds., The Democratic State (Kansas, 1985).

· Ralph Miliband, The State and Capitalist Society (Quartet, 1969).

· Gianfranco Poggi, The Development of the Modern State: A Sociological Introduction (London, 1978).

· Fred Block, "The Ruling Class Does Not Rule," Socialist Revolution 7 (3):6-28.

· Alfred Stepan, The State and Society: Peru in Comparative Perspective (Princeton: 1978).

· Leo Panitch, The Canadian State: Political Economy and Political Power (Toronto, 1977).

· Douglas North, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Cambridge, 1990).

· Mark J. Roe, “Chaos and Evolution in Law and Economics,” Harvard Law Review 109:3 (January, 1996), pp. 641-668.

· The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization

The American State (see also the American Political Development Bibliography)

· Ballard C. Campbell, The Growth of American Government: Governance from the Cleveland Era to the Present (Indiana University Press, 1995).

· Stephen Skowronek, Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920 (Cambridge, 1982)

· Robert H. Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (NY: Hill and Wang, 1967)

· Barry D. Karl, The Uneasy State (Chicago, 1983)

· John R. Commons, The Legal Foundations of Capitalism (Macmillan, 1924)

· Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America (1955)

· Seymour Martin Lipset, The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective (Basic, 1963)

· David B. Robertson and Dennis R. Judd, The Development of American Public Policy: The Structure of Policy Restraint (Scott, Foresman, 1989)

· Harry N. Scheiber, "Federalism and the American Economic Order, 1789-1910," Law and Society Review 10:1 (Fall, 1975), 58-118

· E. Parmalee Prentice and John G. Egan, The Commerce Clause of the Federal Constitution (Chicago: Callaghan, 1898)