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Working Papers

2009

1. Introduction and Overview to Volumes I and II, The Japanese Economy in Retrospect: Selected Papers by Gary R. Saxonhouse
   Working Papers, Research Seminar in International Economics, University of Michigan

2008

2. Historical Foundations of American Technology
   Economics Program Working Papers, The Conference Board, Economics Program

2005

3. Early Twentieth Century Productivity Growth Dynamics: An Inquiry into the Economic History of “Our Ignorance”
   Macroeconomics, EconWPA View citations
   Also in Oxford University Economic and Social History Series, Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford (1999) View citations
4. General Purpose Technologies and Productivity Surges: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution
   Economic History, EconWPA View citations

2002

5. Exorcizing the Resource Curse: Minerals as a Knowledge Industry, Past and Present
   Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations

2001

6. Arbitraging a Discriminatory Labor Market: Black Workers at the Ford Motor Company, 1918-1947
   Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics
   Also in Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research (1998)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Labor Economics (2003)

2000

7. The Role of Nationhood in the Economic Development of the USA
   Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics

1999

8. General Purpose Technologies and Surges in Productivity: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution
   Oxford University Economic and Social History Series, Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford View citations
   Also in Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations

1997

9. Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon
   Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations
   See also Chapter (1999)

1995

10. The origins of American resource abundance
    Research Memoranda, Maastricht : MERIT, Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology View citations

Undated

11. Slavery and American Agricultural History
    Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations
12. The Economics of Civil Rights
    Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics

Journal Articles

2009

1. The Race Between Education and Technology. By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. vi, 488. $39.95, cloth
   The Journal of Economic History, 2009, 69, (02), 604-606

2005

2. Order without law? Property rights during the California gold rush
   Explorations in Economic History, 2005, 42, (2), 155-183 View citations

2004

3. Editors' Notes
   The Journal of Economic History, 2004, 64, (01), 240-246
4. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Edited by Joel Mokyr, Editor in Chief. Five Volumes. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 2,800. $695
   The Journal of Economic History, 2004, 64, (04), 1157-1159
5. WHY ECONOMIES SLOW: The Myth of the Resource Curse
   Challenge, 2004, 47, (2), 6-38

2003

6. Arbitraging a Discriminatory Labor Market: Black Workers at the Ford Motor Company, 19181947
   Journal of Labor Economics, 2003, 21, (3), 493-532
   See also Working Paper (2001)

2001

7. GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century. By Robert J. Steinfeld. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 329. $59.95, cloth; $22.95, paper
   The Journal of Economic History, 2001, 61, (03), 865-866
8. IN MEMORIAM MOSES ABRAMOVITZ 1912 2000
   The Journal of Economic History, 2001, 61, (01), 190-196
9. Reflections on One Kind of Freedom and the Southern Economy
   Explorations in Economic History, 2001, 38, (1), 40-47
10. SESSION 5A: PRODUCTIVITY
    The Journal of Economic History, 2001, 61, (02), 523-523

2000

11. Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s. By Pete Daniel. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 2000. Pp. xii, 378. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 2000, 60, (04), 1166-1167

1999

12. The Civil Rights Revolution as Economic History
    The Journal of Economic History, 1999, 59, (02), 267-289 View citations
13. United States and Canada Region, Race, and Cities: Interpreting the Urban South. By David Goldfield. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. Pp. 309. $37.50, cloth; $16.95, paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 1999, 59, (01), 229-230

1998

14. ?Fear God and Walk Humbly?: The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843?1877. Edited by Grady McWhiney, Warner O. Moore Jr., and Robert F. Pace. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 687. $49.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1998, 58, (01), 282-283

1997

15. Increasing Returns and the Genesis of American Resource Abundance
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 1997, 6, (2), 203-45 View citations
16. Towards a More Historical Approach to Technological Change
    Economic Journal, 1997, 107, (444), 1560-66

1992

17. The Rise and Fall of American Technological Leadership: The Postwar Era in Historical Perspective
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1992, 30, (4), 1931-64 View citations

1991

18. Understanding the Gender Gap: A Review Article
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1991, 29, (3), 1153-63

1990

19. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Edited by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Pp. xxi, 1634. $59.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1990, 50, (01), 215-217
20. The Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940
    American Economic Review, 1990, 80, (4), 651-68 View citations

1988

21. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865?1925. By David Montgomery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 494. $27.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1988, 48, (02), 501-503

1987

22. Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920?1960. By Jack Temple Kirby. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Pp. xix, 390. $40.00 cloth, $16.95 paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 1987, 47, (03), 851-852
23. The Economic Revolution in the American South
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1987, 1, (1), 161-78 View citations

1986

24. New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp. Edited by Robert H. Abzug and Stephen E. Maizlish. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. Pp. ix, 206. $19.00
    The Journal of Economic History, 1986, 46, (04), 1064-1065

1984

25. Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism. By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xxii, 469. $29.95 cloth, $10.95 paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 1984, 44, (02), 631-632

1983

26. Night work as a labor market phenomenon: Southern textiles in the interwar period
    Explorations in Economic History, 1983, 20, (4), 331-350

1982

27. The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936?1980. By James C. Cobb. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 293. $16.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1982, 42, (04), 969-970

1981

28. Black Migration in America: A Special Demographic History. By Daniel M. Johnson and Rex R. Campbell. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1981. Pp. viii, 190. $16.75 cloth, $8.95 paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 1981, 41, (04), 927-928
29. Cheap Labor and Southern Textiles, 1880-1930
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1981, 96, (4), 605-29 View citations

1979

30. Freedom and the Southern economy
    Explorations in Economic History, 1979, 16, (1), 90-108
31. The Efficiency of Slavery: Another Interpretation
    American Economic Review, 1979, 69, (1), 219-26 View citations

1977

32. Cotton, corn, and risk in the nineteenth century: A reply
    Explorations in Economic History, 1977, 14, (2), 183-195 View citations

1975

33. Slavery and the cotton boom
    Explorations in Economic History, 1975, 12, (4), 439-451 View citations

1974

34. The Political Economy of New Deal Spending: An Econometric Analysis
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1974, 56, (1), 30-38 View citations

1972

35. The Effects of Pre-Civil War Territorial Expansion on the Price of Slaves
    Journal of Political Economy, 1972, 80, (6), 1188-1202 View citations

1971

36. An Econometric Study of Cotton Production and Trade, 1830-1860
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1971, 53, (2), 111-20 View citations

Chapters

1999

1. Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon
   A chapter in Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries, 1999, pp 295-332 View citations
   See also Working Paper (1997)