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Working Papers

1999

1. Consumption smoothing among working-class American families before social insurance
   Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
   Also in Working Papers, Houston - Department of Economics (1998) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Consumption smoothing among working-class American families before social insurance, Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press (2007) View citations (6) (2007)

1985

2. Shifts in the Nineteenth-Century Phillips Curve Relationship
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)

1984

3. The Resolution of the Labor Scarcity Paradox
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article The Resolution of the Labor-Scarcity Paradox, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (1985) View citations (45) (1985)

Journal Articles

2014

1. Money over Two Centuries: Selected Topics in British Monetary History. ByForrest Capie andGeoffrey Wood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. x + 367 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-965512-0
   Business History Review, 2014, 88, (1), 205-207

2013

2. Mobilizing Money: How the World's Richest Nations Financed Industrial Growth. By Caroline Fohlin. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. Xiv, 263. $99.00, hardcover
   The Journal of Economic History, 2013, 73, (1), 308-309
3. Wall Street and Main Street: the macroeconomic consequences of New York bank suspensions, 1866–1914
   Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, 2013, 7, (2), 99-130 View citations (15)

2012

4. Panics, payments disruptions and the Bank of England before 18261
   Financial History Review, 2012, 19, (3), 289-309 View citations (10)

2011

5. Early twentieth-century Japanese worker saving: precautionary behaviour before a social safety net
   Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, 2011, 5, (1), 1-25 View citations (6)
6. The National Banking Acts and the Transformation of New York City Banking During the Civil War Era
   The Journal of Economic History, 2011, 71, (2), 338-362 View citations (11)

2010

7. From Drafts to Checks: The Evolution of Correspondent Banking Networks and the Formation of the Modern U.S. Payments System, 1850-1914
   Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2010, 42, (2-3), 237-265 View citations (37)
   Also in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2010, 42, (2‐3), 237-265 (2010) View citations (6)

2007

8. Consumption smoothing among working-class American families before social insurance
   Oxford Economic Papers, 2007, 59, (4), 606-640 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper Consumption smoothing among working-class American families before social insurance, Finance and Economics Discussion Series (1999) (1999)
9. Romer revisited: long-term changes in the cyclical sensitivity of unemployment
   Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, 2007, 1, (1), 19-44
10. The Political Economy of the US Monetary Union: The Civil War Era as a Watershed
    American Economic Review, 2007, 97, (2), 271-275 View citations (6)

2003

11. A Golden Age? Unemployment and the American Labor Market, 1880–1910
    The Journal of Economic History, 2003, 63, (4), 959-994 View citations (3)
12. Wage Adjustment Under Low Inflation: Evidence from U.S. History
    American Economic Review, 2003, 93, (4), 1414-1424 View citations (23)

2001

13. The Origins and Economic Impact of the First Bank of the United States, 1791–1797. ByDavid Jack Cowen. New York: Garland Press, 2000. 323 pp. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0-815-33837-6
    Business History Review, 2001, 75, (3), 605-607

2000

14. Industrialization and Wage Inequality in Nineteenth-century Urban America
    Journal of Income Distribution, 2000, 09, (1), 4-4 View citations (1)

1999

15. Savings and early economic growth in the United States and Japan
    Japan and the World Economy, 1999, 11, (2), 161-183 View citations (4)

1998

16. Did the Fed's founding improve the efficiency of the U.S. payments system? - commentary
    Review, 1998, (May), 143-150
17. The Early History of Nominal Wage Rigidity in American Industrial Labor Markets
    Rivista di storia economica, 1998, (3), 243-274 View citations (1)

1996

18. International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820–1914. By Lance E. Davis and Robert J. Cull. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. vii, 166. $34.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1996, 56, (3), 737-738

1993

19. Changes in Economic Instability in 19th-Century America
    American Economic Review, 1993, 83, (4), 710-31 View citations (17)

1989

20. The stability of the 19th-century Phillips curve relationship
    Explorations in Economic History, 1989, 26, (2), 117-134 View citations (2)

1988

21. Personal wealth distribution in late eighteenth-century Britain
    Economic History Review, 1988, 41, (4), 543-565 View citations (2)

1986

22. The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895–1904. By Naomi R. Lamoreaux. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 208. $29.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1986, 46, (2), 561-563

1985

23. The Resolution of the Labor-Scarcity Paradox
    The Journal of Economic History, 1985, 45, (3), 513-540 View citations (45)
    See also Working Paper The Resolution of the Labor Scarcity Paradox, NBER Working Papers (1984) View citations (8) (1984)

1984

24. Discussion of Redish, Gandar, and Whatley
    The Journal of Economic History, 1984, 44, (2), 617-621
25. Public debt management policy and nineteenth-century American economic growth
    Explorations in Economic History, 1984, 21, (2), 192-217 View citations (2)
26. The use of general equilibrium analysis in economic history
    Explorations in Economic History, 1984, 21, (3), 231-253 View citations (2)

1983

27. Structural Change in American Manufacturing, 1850–1890
    The Journal of Economic History, 1983, 43, (2), 433-459 View citations (14)

1981

28. Some evidence on relative labor scarcity in 19th-century American manufacturing
    Explorations in Economic History, 1981, 18, (4), 376-388 View citations (2)
29. The Optimal Tariff in the Antebellum United States
    American Economic Review, 1981, 71, (4), 726-34 View citations (5)

1979

30. Finance and Enterprise in Early America: A Study of Stephen Girard's Bank, 1812–1831. By Donald R. AdamsJr., Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978. Pp. xi + 163. $12.50
    Business History Review, 1979, 53, (1), 135-136

1978

31. Cost functions of postbellum national banks
    Explorations in Economic History, 1978, 15, (2), 184-195
32. The welfare effects of the antebellum tariff: A general equilibrium analysis
    Explorations in Economic History, 1978, 15, (3), 231-256 View citations (7)

1977

33. Scottish Capital on the American Credit Frontier. By W. G. Kerr. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1976. Pp. xvi, 246. $13.00
    The Journal of Economic History, 1977, 37, (2), 535-536

1976

34. A Note on Interest Paid on New York Bankers' Balances in the Postbellum Period
    Business History Review, 1976, 50, (2), 198-202 View citations (3)
35. Banking Market Structure, Risk, and the Pattern of Local Interest Rates in the United States, 1893-1911
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1976, 58, (4), 453-62 View citations (12)
36. Portfolio Selection with an Imperfectly Competitive Asset Market
    Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1976, 11, (5), 831-846 View citations (1)
37. The Conundrum of the Low Issue of National Bank Notes
    Journal of Political Economy, 1976, 84, (2), 359-67 View citations (12)
38. The Development of the National Money Market, 1893-1911
    The Journal of Economic History, 1976, 36, (4), 878-897 View citations (23)
39. The Evolution of the National Money Market, 1888–1911
    The Journal of Economic History, 1976, 36, (1), 271-275 View citations (5)

Edited books

1994

1. Capitalism in Context
   University of Chicago Press Economics Books, University of Chicago Press

Chapters

2024

1. Payment Systems
   Springer
   Also in Springer (2016)

2014

2. Political economic limits to the fed’s goal of a common national bank money: The par clearing controversy revisited
   A chapter in Research in Economic History, 2014, vol. 30, pp 91-134

2012

3. English Banking and Payments Before 1826
   A chapter in Research in Economic History, 2012, pp 117-149

2006

4. Have American Workers Always Been Low Savers? Patterns of Accumulation Among Working Households, 1885–1910
   A chapter in Research in Economic History, 2006, pp 127-175