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Working Papers

2019

1. The Industrial Revolution in General Equilibrium
   Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics
   Also in CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) (2019)

2013

2. British and European Industrialization
   Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics View citations (2)
3. Slavery, the British Atlantic Economy and the Industrial Revolution
   Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics View citations (2)

2010

4. Prices and Profits in Cotton Textiles During the Industrial Revolution
   Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics View citations (7)

2003

5. Growth Theory and Industrial Revolutions in Britain and America
   Discussion Papers, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics View citations (6)
   See also Journal Article Growth theory and industrial revolutions in Britain and America, Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, John Wiley & Sons (2003) View citations (3) (2003)

2002

6. Precocious British Industrialization: A General Equilibrium Perspective
   University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (10)
   Also in Economic History Working Papers, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History (2002) View citations (8)

2001

7. Twentieth Century Monetary Regimes in Canadian Perspective
   University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics
   See also Journal Article Twentieth Century Monetary Regimes in Canadian Perspective, Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, De Gruyter (2002) (2002)

1998

8. Productivity Growth during the First Industrial Revolution: Inferences from the Pattern of British External Trade
   University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (2)
   Also in Economic History Working Papers, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History (1998) View citations (3)

1994

9. COTTON TEXTILES AND INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT GROWTH DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
   Economic Research Papers, University of Warwick - Department of Economics
   Also in The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS), University of Warwick, Department of Economics (1994) View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Cotton textiles and industrial output growth during the industrial revolution, Economic History Review, Economic History Society (1995) View citations (2) (1995)
10. Cotton Textile Prices and the Industrial Revolution
    University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article Cotton Textile Prices and the Industrial Revolution, Economic History Review, Economic History Society (1998) View citations (28) (1998)

1991

11. The Antebellum American Tariff: Food Exports and Manufacturing
    University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article The antebellum American tariff: Food exports and manufacturing, Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier (1992) View citations (14) (1992)

1990

12. The State of the British Industrial Revolution: A Survey of Recent Macroeconomic Reassessment
    University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics

1988

13. COAL EXPORTS AND BRITISH SHIPPING, 1850-1913
    University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Coal exports and British shipping, 1850-1913, Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier (1989) View citations (9) (1989)
14. OCEAN FREIGHT RATES AND PRODUCTIVITY, 1740-1913: THE PRIMACY OF MECHANICAL INVENTION REAFFIRMED
    University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (69)
    See also Journal Article Ocean Freight Rates and Productivity, 1740–1913: The Primacy of Mechanical Invention Reaffirmed, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (1988) View citations (86) (1988)

1981

15. British Industrialization before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth during the Industrial Revolution
    University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article British Industrialization Before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth During the Industrial Revolution, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (1982) View citations (51) (1982)
16. Oligopoly Strategy and the Timing of American Railroad Construction: Or Why Were All the Railroads in Kansas Built in 1887?
    University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics

1979

17. World Demand and Transportation Costs: Determinants of Prices and Output of Wheat in Exporting and Importing Regions, 1850-1913
    University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics

1967

18. Empirical literature on the U.S. balance of trade
    Staff Studies, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Journal Articles

2020

1. Gelina Harlaftis, Creating global shipping: Aristotle Onassis, the Vagliano Brothers, and the business of shipping, c. 1820–1970 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. viii + 375. 46 figs. 5 maps. 46 tabs. ISBN 9781108475396 Hbk. £90)
   Economic History Review, 2020, 73, (4), 1214-1215

2016

2. Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling, and John V. C. Nye, eds., Institutions, innovation and industrialization: essays in economic history and development ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. viii + 430. ISBN 9780691157344 Hbk. £34.95)
   Economic History Review, 2016, 69, (1), 386-387

2015

3. Gareth Austin and Kaoru Sugihara, eds., Labour-intensive industrialization in global history ( London and New York: Routledge, 2013. Pp. xiv + 310. 15 figs. 1 map. 23 tabs. ISBN 9780415455527 Hbk. £80/$150)
   Economic History Review, 2015, 68, (1), 385-386
4. Prometheus Shackled: Goldsmith Banks and England's Financial Revolution After 1700. By Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2013. ix+ 214 pp. Hbk £25.99
   Economica, 2015, 82, (326), 394-395

2012

5. The long road to the industrial revolution: the European economy in a global perspective, 1000–1800 – By Jan Luiten van Zanden
   Economic History Review, 2012, 65, (2), 794-795
6. Was technological change in the early Industrial Revolution Schumpeterian? Evidence of cotton textile profitability
   Explorations in Economic History, 2012, 49, (4), 516-527 View citations (6)

2010

7. Violence and social orders: a conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history – By Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast
   Economic History Review, 2010, 63, (4), 1199-1201

2009

8. Economic History and Economics over a Generation
   Rivista di storia economica, 2009, (3), 331-368
9. Power and plenty: trade, war and the world economy in the second millennium – By Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O'Rourke
   Economic History Review, 2009, 62, (2), 521-522

2008

10. Farewell to alms: a brief economic history of the world – By Gregory Clark
    Economic History Review, 2008, 61, (2), 537-539 View citations (2)
11. Steers Afloat: The North Atlantic Meat Trade, Liner Predominance, and Freight Rates, 1870–1913
    The Journal of Economic History, 2008, 68, (4), 1028-1058 View citations (5)

2007

12. COMMENTS ON FACTOR PRICES AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN LESS INDUSTRIALISED ECONOMIES, 1870–1939: REFOCUSING ON THE FRONTIER
    Australian Economic History Review, 2007, 47, (3), 238-248 View citations (3)

2003

13. Growth theory and industrial revolutions in Britain and America
    Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2003, 36, (4), 809-831 View citations (3)
    Also in Canadian Journal of Economics, 2003, 36, (4), 809-831 (2003) View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Growth Theory and Industrial Revolutions in Britain and America, Discussion Papers (2003) View citations (6) (2003)

2002

14. Computational general equilibrium models in economic history and an analysis of British capitalist agriculture
    European Review of Economic History, 2002, 6, (2), 165-191
15. Twentieth Century Monetary Regimes in Canadian Perspective
    Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2002, 43, (1), 157-170
    See also Working Paper Twentieth Century Monetary Regimes in Canadian Perspective, University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series (2001) (2001)

2000

16. A Review of O'Rourke and Williamson's Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth Century Atlantic Economy
    Journal of Economic Literature, 2000, 38, (4), 926-935 View citations (3)
17. Simulating the Two Views of the British Industrial Revolution
    The Journal of Economic History, 2000, 60, (3), 819-841 View citations (53)

1999

18. Cotton textile prices revisited: a response to Cuenca Esteban
    Economic History Review, 1999, 52, (4), 756-765 View citations (8)

1998

19. Cotton Textile Prices and the Industrial Revolution
    Economic History Review, 1998, 51, (1), 49-83 View citations (28)
    See also Working Paper Cotton Textile Prices and the Industrial Revolution, University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series (1994) (1994)
20. The Man who Found the Money: John Stewart Kennedy and the Financing of the Western Railroads. By Saul Engelbourg and Leonard Bushkoff. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 257. $34.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1998, 58, (3), 908-910

1995

21. Cotton textiles and industrial output growth during the industrial revolution
    Economic History Review, 1995, 48, (1), 134-144 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper COTTON TEXTILES AND INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT GROWTH DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, Economic Research Papers (1994) (1994)

1993

22. Una nueva evaluacion macroeconomica de la Revolucion Industrial*
    Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 1993, 11, (2), 259-303

1992

23. International Competitiveness of the Antebellum American Cotton Textile Industry
    The Journal of Economic History, 1992, 52, (3), 559-584 View citations (19)
24. Output growth and the British industrial revolution: a restatement of the Crafts-Harley view
    Economic History Review, 1992, 45, (4), 703-730 View citations (236)
25. The First Industrial Revolution. Edited by Peter Mathias and John A. Davis. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. viii, 175. $48.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1992, 52, (4), 948-949
26. The antebellum American tariff: Food exports and manufacturing
    Explorations in Economic History, 1992, 29, (4), 375-400 View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper The Antebellum American Tariff: Food Exports and Manufacturing, University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series (1991) (1991)

1990

27. Innovation in Shipping and Trade. Edited by Stephen Fisher. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1989. Pp. vi, 177. £7.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1990, 50, (3), 784-784

1989

28. Coal exports and British shipping, 1850-1913
    Explorations in Economic History, 1989, 26, (3), 311-338 View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper COAL EXPORTS AND BRITISH SHIPPING, 1850-1913, University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series (1988) View citations (1) (1988)

1988

29. Ocean Freight Rates and Productivity, 1740–1913: The Primacy of Mechanical Invention Reaffirmed
    The Journal of Economic History, 1988, 48, (4), 851-876 View citations (86)
    See also Working Paper OCEAN FREIGHT RATES AND PRODUCTIVITY, 1740-1913: THE PRIMACY OF MECHANICAL INVENTION REAFFIRMED, University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series (1988) View citations (69) (1988)

1987

30. A History of the World Economy: International Relations since 1850. By James Foreman-Peck. Totowa: Barnes & Noble Books, 1983. Pp. xiv, 394. $28.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1987, 47, (4), 995-996

1986

31. Business History of Shipping: Strategy and Structure. Edited by Tsunehiko Yui and Keiichiro Nakagawa. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1985. Pp. xxix, 330
    The Journal of Economic History, 1986, 46, (4), 1057-1058

1983

32. Steel rails and American railroads 1867-1880: Cost minimizing choice: A comment on the analysis of Atack and Brueckner
    Explorations in Economic History, 1983, 20, (3), 248-257

1982

33. British Industrialization Before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth During the Industrial Revolution
    The Journal of Economic History, 1982, 42, (2), 267-289 View citations (51)
    See also Working Paper British Industrialization before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth during the Industrial Revolution, University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series (1981) (1981)
34. Oligopoly Agreement and the Timing of American Railroad Construction
    The Journal of Economic History, 1982, 42, (4), 797-823 View citations (7)
35. U.S. Maritime Policy: History and Prospects. By H. David Bess and Martin T. Farris. New York: Praeger, 1981. Pp. xvi, 219
    The Journal of Economic History, 1982, 42, (1), 259-259

1980

36. America's Maritime Legacy: A History of the U.S. Merchant Marine and Shipbuilding Industry since Colonial Times. Edited by Robert A- Kilmarx. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1979. Pp. xvi, 264. $23.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1980, 40, (3), 653-654
37. Transportation, the world wheat trade, and the Kuznets Cycle, 1850-1913
    Explorations in Economic History, 1980, 17, (3), 218-250 View citations (20)

1979

38. The British Shipbuilding Industry, 1870–1914. By Sidney Pollard and Paul Robertson. Harvard Studies in Business History, 30. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. xii, 312. $18.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1979, 39, (4), 1035-1036

1978

39. Comment by Harley
    The Journal of Economic History, 1978, 38, (1), 297-300
40. Western Settlement and the Price of Wheat, 1872–1913
    The Journal of Economic History, 1978, 38, (4), 865-878 View citations (10)

1977

41. Competition and the Corporate Society: British Conservatives, the State, and Industry, 1945–1964. By Nigel Harris. London: Methuen & Co., 1972. Pp. 384. No price listed. - British Nationalization, 1945–1973. By R. Kelf-Cohen. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1974. Pp. xii, 288. No price listed
    The Journal of Economic History, 1977, 37, (2), 518-519
42. The interest rate and prices in Britain, 1873-1913: A study of the Gibson Paradox
    Explorations in Economic History, 1977, 14, (1), 69-89 View citations (4)

1974

43. Skilled labour and the choice of technique in Edwardian industry
    Explorations in Economic History, 1974, 11, (4), 391-414 View citations (9)

1973

44. On the Persistence of Old Techniques: The Case of North American Wooden Shipbuilding
    The Journal of Economic History, 1973, 33, (2), 372-398 View citations (12)

1970

45. British Shipbuilding and Merchant Shipping: 1850–1890
    The Journal of Economic History, 1970, 30, (1), 262-266 View citations (1)

Edited books

1996

1. The Integration of the World Economy, 1850–1914, vol Two volume set
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (1)

Chapters

2012

1. Shipping and Staple Economies in the Periphery
   Palgrave Macmillan

1995

2. The Classical Gold Standard’s Adjustment to Shocks: American Railroads and British Investment in the 1880s
   Palgrave Macmillan