Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2008

Edited by R. A. Margo

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1986

U.S. capital exports to Germany 1919-1923 compared to 1924-1929 pp. 1-32

Holtfrerich, Carl-Ludwig

Before the Glass-Steagall Act: An analysis of the investment banking activities of national banks pp. 33-55

Eugene White

The bank of France and the sterilization of gold, 1926-1932 pp. 56-84

Barry Eichengreen

Export shares in the European periphery and the Third World before World War I: Questionable data, facile analogies pp. 85-99

John Hanson

The labor market of southern textile mill villages: Some micro evidence pp. 103-123

William H. Phillips

Was there an energy crisis in Great Britain in the 17th century? pp. 124-152

Brinley Thomas

Wages and unemployment in interwar Britain pp. 153-172

Michael Beenstock and Peter Warburton

Birth weights and infant mortality among American slaves pp. 173-198

Richard H. Steckel

The failure of the bank of United States: A reappraisal: A reply pp. 199-204

Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz

The decline and resistance of ottoman cotton textiles 1820-1913 pp. 205-225

Sevket Pamuk

Property rights in economic history: Implications for research pp. 227-252

Gary D. Libecap

Private sector response to stabilization policy: A case study pp. 253-268

Andrew T. Allen

Workplace safety during the progressive era: Fatal accidents in bituminous coal mining, 1912-1923 pp. 269-298

Price Vanmeter Fishback

Poor law policy, unemployment, and pauperism pp. 299-336

Mary MacKinnon

Explorations in monetary history: A survey of the literature pp. 339-415

Michael David Bordo

British economic growth: The paradox of the 1880s and the timing of the climacteric pp. 416-444

David Greasley

1985

Crisis, bigger government, and ideological change: Two hypotheses on the ratchet phenomenon pp. 1-28

Robert Higgs

Industrial structure and the emergence of the modern industrial corporation pp. 29-52

Jeremy Atack

The horndal effect in early U.S. manufacturing pp. 53-96

William Lazonick and Thomas Brush

Labor force change in Germany since 1882: A life cycle perspective pp. 97-126

Wolfgang Kleber

An economic model of the English Poor Law circa 1780-1834 pp. 129-167

George R. Boyer

Chinese agriculture and the international economy, 1870-1930: A reassessment pp. 168-193

Loren Brandt

Reconstruction of a bimetallic price level pp. 194-219

Louis S. Drake

The Parker-Gallman sample and wealth distributions for the antebellum South: A comment pp. 220-226

Donald Schaefer and Mark Schmitz

The Parker-Gallman sample and wealth distributions for the antebellum south: A reply pp. 227-232

Donghyu Yang

Poor relief policy in antebellum New York state: The rise and decline of the poorhouse pp. 233-256

Joan Underhill Hannon

The British labor market in the 1920s: A test of the search-turnover approach pp. 257-270

Timothy James Hatton

The stability of the short-run money demand function, 1920-1939 pp. 271-295

Rik Hafer

Explaining differences in per capita income between countries: A hypothesis and test for 1950 and 1970 pp. 296-315

Daniel L. Landau

The incidence of servitude in trans-Atlantic migration, 1771-1804 pp. 316-339

Farley Grubb

Growth, equality, and history pp. 341-377

Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey Gale Williamson

On the unimportance of machinery pp. 378-401

Alexander J. Field

The failure of the bank of United States: A reappraisal pp. 402-416

Joseph L. Lucia

Regional employment multipliers, regional policy, and structural change in interwar Britain pp. 417-439

M. E. F. Jones

1984

The historical evolution of female earnings functions and occupations pp. 1-27

Claudia Goldin

Earnings in the post-bellum Southern cotton textile industry: A case study pp. 28-39

Cathy L. McHugh

Distributional effects of federal tax policy 1929-1939 pp. 40-63

Thomas M. Renaghan

Central bank cooperation under the interwar gold standard pp. 64-87

Barry Eichengreen

Notes on the wealth distribution of farm households in the united states, 1860: A new look at two manuscript: Census samples pp. 88-102

Donghyu Yang

Financial institutions and economic development: A comparison of Great Britain and France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries pp. 103-124

Charles P. Kindleberger

Additional evidence on money and prices: U.S. data 1870-1913 pp. 125-132

David A. Bessler

Economic change and contract labor in the British Caribbean: The end of slavery and the adjustment to emancipation pp. 133-150

Stanley L. Engerman

An economic theory of political change in premissionary Hawaii pp. 151-168

Sumner Jonathan La Croix and James Roumasset

Steel rails versus iron rails: Evidence from Canada pp. 169-175

Ann M. Carlos

Electricity, productivity, and labor saving: American manufacturing, 1900-1929 pp. 176-191

Arthur G. Woolf

Public debt management policy and nineteenth-century American economic growth pp. 192-217

John A. James

The case against productive whipping pp. 218-223

Mary MacKinnon and Paul Johnson

The productivity of corporal punishment: A reply to MacKinnon and Johnson pp. 224-228

Clark Nardinelli

The use of general equilibrium analysis in economic history pp. 231-253

John A. James

The eighteenth-century English diet and economic change pp. 254-269

Carole Shammas

Measurement of English farming technological change, 1523-1900 pp. 270-289

Richard J. Sullivan

Contractors, collusion, and competition: Japanese immigrant railroad laborers in the Pacific Northwest, 1898-1911 pp. 290-305

Yuzo Murayama

Teacher salaries in black and white: The south in 1910 pp. 306-326

Robert Andrew Margo

Self-help versus state help: Old age pensions and personal savings in Great Britain, 1906-1937 pp. 329-350

Paul Johnson

Was the transition from the artisanal shop to the nonmechanized factory associated with gains in efficiency?: Evidence from the U.S. Manufacturing censuses of 1820 and 1850 pp. 351-382

Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Market power in the London coal trade: The limitation of the vend, 1770-1845 pp. 383-405

William J. Hausman

The early stages of European industrialization: Economic organization under serfdom pp. 406-428

Robert Millward