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Volume 79, month 08, 2026

Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies: What we know, what we don't (but should) know pp. 871-899

Guido Alfani

Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics pp. 900-921

Harold James

Spanish stock returns, growth, and inflation, 1900–2020 pp. 922-956

Stefano Battilossi, Stefan O. Houpt and Miguel Artola Blanco

Religious politics and the limits of redistribution: The rise and fall of family allowances in Spain, 1926–58 pp. 957-986

Guillem Verd‐Llabrés

Social inequality in mortality in rural Spain (1860–2010): The role of education and human capital pp. 987-1023

Víctor A. Luque de Haro and Francisco J. Marco‐Gracia

Felons’ chattels and English living standards in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries pp. 1024-1051

Chris Briggs, Ben Jervis, Alice Forward, Tomasz Gromelski and Matthew Tompkins

Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704 pp. 1052-1081

Jose Rowell Corpuz

Between famine and freedom: Food prices during the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945–9 pp. 1082-1107

Ingrid de Zwarte, Helmi Moret and Pim de Zwart

Managed decline: Muddling through with the Sterling (dis)Agreements, 1968–74 pp. 1108-1135

Alan de Bromhead, David Jordan, Francis Kennedy and Jack Seddon

Italy's long‐term economic performance: GDP estimates from 1300 to 1861 pp. 1136-1174

Giovanni Federico, Alessandro Nuvolari, Leonardo Ridolfi and Michelangelo Vasta

Irish regional GDP since independence pp. 1175-1209

Alan de Bromhead and Seán Kenny

70 years of Scottish National Accounts: 1948–2018 pp. 1210-1234

Graeme Roy, Niall G. MacKenzie and Sandy Stewart

The slow emergence of the rational investor: Grain markets and grain storage of rural estates in western Germany, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries pp. 1235-1264

Matthias Hartermann, Ulrich Pfister and Friederike Scholten‐Buschhoff

Two paths to prosperity: Culture and institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000 Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr, and Guido Tabellini, (Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 533. ISBN 9780691265940. Hbk £35) pp. 1265-1267

Graham Brownlow

An economic history of Europe: Knowledge, institutions and welfare, prehistory to the present Karl Gunnar Persson, Paul Sharp, and Markus Lampe, (3rd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 314. ISBN 9781009613989. Sbk £35) pp. 1268-1269

Christopher L. Colvin

Economic warfare and sanctions since 1688 Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison, Eds., (Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 298. ISBN 9781009474863. PbK £28) pp. 1270-1272

Eric Golson

Volume 79, month 05, 2026

Segmentation and gender wage disparities in the early industrial workforce: Insights from Arkwright's Lumford Mill, 1786–1811 pp. 471-495

Alexander Tertzakian

China inside out: Explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c. 1820s‒70s pp. 496-526

Alejandra Irigoin, Atsushi Kobayashi and David Chilosi

Public health reforms and the mortality decline in nineteenth‐century Italy pp. 527-554

Francesco Maria Salvatore Fiore Melacrinis and Mauro Rota

The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900 pp. 555-574

Mathias Mølbak Ingholt, Maarten van Wijhe, Lone Simonsen and Daniel Weinberger

The War of the Pacific and Chilean public revenues: Reallocation of the tax burden and institutional change pp. 575-599

Oriol Sabaté and José Peres‐Cajías

Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia pp. 600-633

Leonard Kukić and Yasin Arslantas

Income taxes and redistribution in the early twentieth century pp. 634-660

Sara Torregrosa‐Hetland and Oriol Sabaté

Macroeconomic policymaking in interwar Britain: A reappraisal pp. 661-683

David Ronicle

The cost of the consumer revolution: Prices, material living standards, and real inequality in Amsterdam (1630‒1805) pp. 684-716

Bas Spliet and Anne E. C. McCants

The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales pp. 717-756

David Green, Gabriel Mesevage, Graham Mooney and Simon Szreter

Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy: The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement pp. 757-780

Fabrizio Antonio Ansani

Telegraph and capital market integration: Evidence from late imperial China pp. 781-810

Yu Hao and Yuxiang Wang

Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800) pp. 811-849

Guido Alfani, Matteo Di Tullio and Mattia Fochesato

Book Review Essay: Explaining Soviet Economic Outcomes From the Outside In: Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism Mark Harrison, Stanford University Press, 2023. Pp. 372. $65 (Hbk). ISBN: 9781503628892 Economic Knowledge in Crisis: Economists and the State in the Late Soviet Union Olessia Kirtchik, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Pp. 319. £119 (HbK). ISBN: 9783031721410 Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin Jeronim Perovic, Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 268. £25 (PbK). ISBN: 9781009449090 pp. 850-854

Isaac McKean Scarborough

Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid. Sheilagh Ogilvie, (Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp.544. ISBN 9780691255569. HbK £38) pp. 855-856

Patrick Wallis

Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power. Victoria Bateman, (Headline Publishing Group, 2025. Pp. 432. ISBN 9781035415779. HbK £25) pp. 857-858

Judy Stephenson

The Triumph of Textiles: Industrial Dundee c. 1700–1918.Christopher A. Whatley and Jim Tomlinson, (Edinburgh University Press, 2024. Pp.291. ISBN: 9781399537827. PbK £19) pp. 859-861

Carlo Morelli

Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education. Agustina Paglayan, (Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 384. ISBN 9780691261270 Pbk £28.) pp. 862-864

Gabriele Cappelli

Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World. Susan Carruthers, (Cambridge University press, 2025. Pp. 400. ISBN 9781009464284. HbK £25) pp. 865-866

Jim Tomlinson

The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry Michael Aldous and John Turner, (Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 296. ISBN 9781009489522. Hbk £25) pp. 867-868

Tehreem Husain

Volume 79, month 02, 2026

By‐employment in the Yangtze Valley in the long twentieth century: Specialization, structural change, and the land systems pp. 3-30

Ying Dai

The golden layer: the origins, concentration, and transmission of top wealth in Zurich, 1880–1952 pp. 31-56

Geoffroy Legentilhomme and Matthieu Leimgruber

Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England pp. 57-88

Carolyn Sissoko and Mina Ishizu

Goodbye connections, hello Bagehot: democratization, lender of last resort independence and bank failures in Spain in 1931 pp. 89-132

Enrique Jorge‐Sotelo

Who counts? Information capacity and the origins of education inequality in Morocco pp. 133-162

Gabriel Koehler‐Derrick

Child labour and industrialization: Evidence from factory records and the 1851 British census pp. 163-188

Xuesheng You and Alexander Tertzakian

Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine pp. 189-220

Matthias Blum, Christopher L. Colvin and Eoin McLaughlin

Colonial origins of agglomeration: Evidence from Malayan rail stations pp. 221-246

Yit Wey Liew, Muhammad Habibur Rahman and Audrey Kim Lan Siah

Limits to the power of economic elites?: Wealth, authority, and inequality in eastern English villages, c. 1350–c. 1550 pp. 247-280

Spike Gibbs

A century of art dealing in New York. The rise of American art pp. 281-311

Federico Etro and Elena Stepanova

Riding the monsoon: Geography and Iron Age trade in the Indian Ocean pp. 312-341

Conrad Copeland

Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics pp. 342-376

Theocharis N. Grigoriadis and Alise Vitola

Peasantry in the Cheb City‐State in the Late Middle Ages: Socioeconomic Mobility and Migration. Tomáš Klír, (Karolinum Press, 2025. Pp. 450. ISBN 9788024657066. Sbk $45) pp. 377-379

Anna Molnár

The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship & Economic Growth in Early Modern England. Patrick Wallis, (Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 480. ISBN: 9780691265315. Hbk $45.00/£38.00) pp. 380-382

Jane Humphries

An economic historiography of Germany, 1918–1931: How inflation and foreign capital inflows allowed the Weimar Republic to survive. Giovanni B. Pittaluga and Elena Seghezza (Eds.), (Springer. 2024. Pp. 261. ISBN 9783031703461. Hbk £109.99) pp. 383-385

David Hollanders

There will be the devil to pay: Central Bankers, uncertainty and sensemaking in the European financial crisis of 1931. Per H. Hansen, (Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 522. ISBN 9781009505314. Hbk £125) pp. 386-388

Nathan Marcus

Toward a free economy: Swatantra and opposition politics in democratic India. Aditya Balasubramanian, (Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 352. ISBN: 9780691205243. Hbk £38) pp. 389-391

Tirthankar Roy

The brew deal: How beer helped battle the Great Depression. Jason E. Taylor, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Pp. 274. ISBN 9783031731327. Sbk £24.99) pp. 392-393

Malcolm F. Purinton

Ruins to riches: The economic resurgence of Germany and Japan after 1945. Raymond Stokes, (Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 345. ISBN 9781316514528. Hbk £30) pp. 394-396

David Paulson

Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931. A. G. Hopkins, (Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 576. ISBN 9780691258843. Hbk £42.00) pp. 397-398

Stephanie Decker

The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars. Cormac Ó Gráda, (Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 520. ISBN 9780691258751. Hbk £40) pp. 399-401

Mikhail Nakonechnyi

Capitalism and its critics: A history from the Industrial Revolution to AI. John Cassidy, (Allen Lane, 2025. Pp. 624. ISBN 9780241457009. Hbk £25) pp. 402-404

Sebastián Royo

The real economy: History and theory. Jonathan Levy, (Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780691252551. Hbk £35.00) pp. 405-407

Avner Offer

Review of periodical literature for 2024: 400–1100 pp. 408-414

James Chetwood

Review of periodical literature for 2024: 1100–1500 pp. 415-423

Stephanie Emma Brown

Review of periodical literature for 2024: 1500–1700 pp. 424-435

Hillary Taylor

Review of periodical literature for 2024: 1700–1850 pp. 436-446

Juan José Rivas Moreno

Review of periodical literature for 2024: 1850–1945 pp. 447-454

Tehreem Husain

Review of periodical literature published in 2024: 1945–present pp. 455-466

Meredith M. Paker