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Robert Whaples' review is properly headed "Economic History in a 
*'Mainstream'* Reference Work." I bought the first edition several years 
ago, with the intent to add it to my course outline. I read (most of) it 
and dropped that idea. It represents the sort of 'mainstream' that equates 
economics with the neoclassical-cum-econometric paradigm: measurement 
without theory, theory without people, people without history. Most modern 
introductory textbooks take the same approach to the teaching of our 
discipline, so why prescribe a short-order cookbook for our students? 
 
Jesse Vorst 
 
 
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