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More than five hundred alphabetically arranged entries cover issues of importance to economic life in the United States.
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Northrup (history, U. of Texas at Arlington) covers four centuries of U.S. economic history in her encyclopedia. The first volume contains 500 short entries describing concepts and terms, important figures and events, and relevant legislation and organizations. A second volume contains 31 longer essays focusing on broader topics such as the development and regulation of banking, economic theories, the role of the law, science and technology, urbanization, war, communications, and monetary policy. Also included in the second volume are reproductions of 19 primary source documents from the 1787 Ordinance of the Northwest Territory encouraging settlers and investors interested in the territory to Ronald Reagan's comments regarding the Air Traffic Controller's strike of 1981. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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