I frequently write about new books for newspapers, magazines, and academic journals. Here is a selection of my reviews.
How the World Ran Out of Everything, The Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2024
American Flannel and Making It in America, The Wall Street Journal, March 16, 2024
Winner Sells All, The Wall Street Journal, August 16, 2023
How Big Things Get Done, The Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2023
Data Driven, The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2023
The Cloud Revolution, The Wall Street Journal, February 17, 2022
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, Washington Post, May 7, 2021
Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West, The Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2021
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, The Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2021
Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe, The Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2020
Does America Need More Innovators?, Business History Review, Spring 2020
Wanamaker’s Temple, by Nicole C. Kirk, The Wall Street Journal, October 29, 2018
Crashed, by Adam Tooze, The Wall Street Journal, August 7, 2018
J. C. Penney: The Man, The Store, and American Agriculture, by David Delbert Kruger, The Wall Street Journal, September 25, 2017
Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790-1860, by Gergely Baics, Business History Review, Summer 2017
Basic Income, by Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Venderborght, The Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2017
Ray & Joan, by Lisa Napoli, The Wall Street Journal, November 16, 2016
How the Post Office Created America, by Winifred Gallagher, The Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2016
How the Internet Became Commercial, by Shane Greenstein, The Wall Street Journal, November 24, 2015
The Innovators, by Walter Isaacson, Strategy+Business, Spring 2015
Citizen Coke, by Bartow J. Elmore, The Wall Street Journal, November 22, 2014
Mass Flourishing, by Edmund Phelps, Strategy+Business, Spring 2014
Stealth of Nations, by Robert Neuwirth, The Wall Street Journal, October 15, 2011
Uncommon Sense, by Gary S. Becker and Richard A. Posner, Journal of Economic Literature, March 2010