Historian Ranald Michie has published a review of Empire and Globalization: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c. 1850–1914 by Gary Magee and Andrew Thompson.
The review of this important book is positive and rightly so. I liked this passage:
There is a recent fashion developing in the writing of economic history. That is to refer to the Global Financial Crisis of 2007/8 and the need to re-examine the operation of impersonal markets. This has created opportunities for those who have long been skeptical of the idea that markets were the product of forces beyond the influence of mankind.
Instead, markets are seen as human constructs prone to irrationality and abuse.
The Past Speaks 