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Working Papers

2016

1. Railroad Infrastructure Investments and Economic Development in the Antebellum United States
   Working Papers, Department of Economics, College of William and Mary

2010

2. Donor Policies, Industry Structure, and the Global Allocation of Electrification Aid, 1970-2001
   Working Papers, Department of Economics, College of William and Mary

Journal Articles

2014

1. Multilateral and bilateral aid policies and trends in the allocation of electrification aid, 1970–2001
   Utilities Policy, 2014, 29, (C), 54-62 View citations (3)

2011

2. How politics, economics, and institutions shaped electric utility regulation in the United States: 1879--2009
   Business History, 2011, 53, (5), 723-746 View citations (8)
3. When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America. By David E. Nye. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010. x + 292 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-262-01374-1
   Business History Review, 2011, 85, (2), 455-457

2010

4. Electricity and Energy Policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945. By Martin Chick. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2007. x + 205 pp. Bibliography, appendix, index. Cloth, $100.00. ISBN: 978-1-845-42111-3
   Business History Review, 2010, 84, (4), 834-836
5. Engineering invention: Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. electrical industry
   Business History, 2010, 52, (5), 867-869

2008

6. The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented America. By Maury Klein. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 520. $29.99, cloth
   The Journal of Economic History, 2008, 68, (4), 1188-1189

2007

7. Global Electrification. Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1880s-1914
   Revue économique, 2007, 58, (1), 173-190 View citations (12)
8. Jason Scott Smith. Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 283 pp. ISBN 0-521-82805-8, $75.00 (cloth)
   Enterprise & Society, 2007, 8, (2), 459-461

2005

9. Federal Taxation in America: A Short History. Second Edition. By W. Elliot Brownlee. Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 288. $55, cloth; $20, paper
   The Journal of Economic History, 2005, 65, (2), 588-589

2004

10. J. Samuel Walker. Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xi + 303 pp. ISBN 0-520-23940-7, $24.95 (cloth)
    Enterprise & Society, 2004, 5, (4), 735-737

2002

11. Editor's Introduction
    Enterprise & Society, 2002, 3, (4), 579-580
12. The Market for Capital and the Origins of State Regulation of Electric Utilities in the United States
    The Journal of Economic History, 2002, 62, (4), 1050-1073 View citations (7)

2001

13. Ties that Bind: Economic and Political Dilemmas of Urban Utility Networks, 1800–1990. ByCharles David Jacobson. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. 202 pp. Photos, illustrations, notes, index, bibliography. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-822-94133-3
    Business History Review, 2001, 75, (4), 827-830

1999

14. Falling Water: The Origins of Direct Federal Participation in the US Electric Utility Industry, 1902–1933
    Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 1999, 70, (1), 49-74 View citations (3)

1997

15. The rise and fall of the American & foreign power company: a lesson from the past?
    The Electricity Journal, 1997, 10, (1), 46-53

1996

16. Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America. ByMark H. Rose · University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. xviii + 229 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliographic essay, and index. $34.50. ISBN 0-271-01349-4
    Business History Review, 1996, 70, (1), 116-118

1994

17. PUBLIC VERSUS PRIVATE ELECTRIC UTILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES
    Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 1994, 65, (4), 599-623

1993

18. Freight rates and shipping costs in the English coastal coal trade: a reply
    Economic History Review, 1993, 46, (3), 610-612 View citations (3)
19. Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric, 1870–1900. By W. Bernard Carlson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xxii, 377. $44.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1993, 53, (2), 442-443

1992

20. The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930. ByHarold L. Platt · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xviii + 381 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-226-67075-9
    Business History Review, 1992, 66, (4), 793-794

1991

21. Property Rights versus Public Spirit: Ownership and Efficiency of U.S. Electric Utilities Prior to Rate-of-Return Regulation
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1991, 73, (3), 414-23 View citations (18)

1987

22. The English coastal coal trade, 1691-1910: how rapid was productivity growth?
    Economic History Review, 1987, 40, (4), 588-596 View citations (9)
23. The History of the British Coal Industry. Vol. 5: 1946–1982: The Nationalized Industry. By William Ashworth, with the assistance of Mark Pegg. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. xix, 710. $98.00
    The Journal of Economic History, 1987, 47, (4), 1008-1009

1986

24. Coal in Queensland: The Late Nineteenth Century, 1875-1900. By R. L. Whitmore. (New York: University of Queensland Press, 1985. xxi + 338 pp. $27.50.)
    Business History Review, 1986, 60, (3), 536-537

1985

25. British Coal
    The Journal of Economic History, 1985, 45, (3), 712-715 View citations (1)
26. Strikes in Post-War Britain: A Study of Stoppages of Work Due to Industrial Disputes, 1946–73. By J.W. Durcan, W.E.J. McCarthy, and G.P. Redman. (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1983. 448 pp. $37.50.)
    Business History Review, 1985, 59, (1), 146-148
27. Undermining Capitalism: State Ownership and the Dialectic of Control in the British Coal Industry. By Joel Krieger. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. xii + 321 pp. $27.50.)
    Business History Review, 1985, 59, (3), 524-525

1984

28. Cheap Coals or Limitation of the Vend? The London Coal Trade, 1770–1845
    The Journal of Economic History, 1984, 44, (2), 321-328 View citations (5)
29. Market power in the London coal trade: The limitation of the vend, 1770-1845
    Explorations in Economic History, 1984, 21, (4), 383-405 View citations (2)
30. Profitability of English Colliers in the Eighteenth Century: Reply to a Reappraisal
    Business History Review, 1984, 58, (1), 121-125

1983

31. The Wasting of the British Economy: British Economic Policy 1945 to the Present. By Sidney Pollard. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. 197 pp. $27.50.)
    Business History Review, 1983, 57, (4), 611-613

1982

32. The Economic History of Britain Since 1700. Volume 1: 1700–1860. Volume 2: 1860 to the 1970s. Edited by Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xv + 323; xvii + 485. $45.00; $59.50
    Business History Review, 1982, 56, (4), 619-624

1981

33. Coal and Tobacco: The Lowthers and the Economic Development of West Cumberland, 1660–1760. By J. V. Beckett. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xiii, 279. $47.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1981, 41, (3), 672-673
34. Dutch Shipbuilding Before 1800. By Richard W. Unger. Assen/Amsterdam, Van Gorcum, 1978. Pp. xi + 216. Dfl. 33, 75
    Business History Review, 1981, 55, (4), 606-607
35. Modern Europe - A Study of the Business Fortunes of William Cotesworth, c. 1668–1726. By Joyce M. Ellis. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1981. Pp. 233. $20.00 cloth
    The Journal of Economic History, 1981, 41, (4), 912-913

1980

36. A Model of the London Coal Trade in the Eighteenth Century
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1980, 94, (1), 1-14 View citations (1)
37. Geographical Change and Industrial Revolution: Coalmining in South West Lancashire 1590–1799. By John Langton. Cambridge Geographical Studies, no. 11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xiii, 322. $44.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1980, 40, (3), 620-621
38. Structural change in the 18th-century British economy: A test using cubic splines
    Explorations in Economic History, 1980, 17, (4), 400-410 View citations (3)

1979

39. Merchants in Crisis: Genoese and Venetian Men of Affairs and the Fourteenth Century Depression. By Benjamin Z. Kedar. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 260. $17.50. - Philadelphia and the China Trade, 1682–1846: Commercial, Cultural, and Attitudinal Effects. By Jonathan Goldstein. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978. Pp. xii + 121. $9.50. - Sir Alfred Jones: Shipping Entrepreneur Par Excellence. By P. N. Davies. London, Europa Publications, 1978. Pp. lxi + 162. $12.95
    Business History Review, 1979, 53, (3), 426-430
40. Naval Administration, 1715–1750. Edited by Daniel A. Baugh. Liverpool: The Navy Records Society, 1978. Pp. xv, 523. £9.00
    The Journal of Economic History, 1979, 39, (3), 775-776

1978

41. The Economic and Business History of the South Wales Steam Coal Industry, 1840–1914. By R. H. Walters. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. xvi, 375. $35.00
    The Journal of Economic History, 1978, 38, (4), 1058-1059

1977

42. Public Policy and the Supply of Coal to London, 1700–1770: A Summary
    The Journal of Economic History, 1977, 37, (1), 252-254 View citations (1)
43. Size and Profitability of English Colliers in the Eighteenth Century*
    Business History Review, 1977, 51, (4), 460-473 View citations (3)

1976

44. The Tobacco Lords: A Study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow and Their Trading Activities c. 1740–90. By T. M. Devine. Edinburgh, John Donald Publishers, Ltd., 1975. Pp. xi + 209. £8.00
    Business History Review, 1976, 50, (3), 415-416

Edited books

2014

1. Regulation between Legal Norms and Economic Reality, vol 8
   Rechtsordnung und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen