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Working Papers

2016

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

2010

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