Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook

1960 - 2026

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Volume 67, issue 2, 2026

Quality of Life and Quality of Work in the Past: A Survey of Approaches pp. 353-391

Schneider Benjamin and Herman de Jong

State Capacity and Subjective Well-Being in Early Modern Spain pp. 393-425

Álvarez-Nogal Carlos and Prados de la Escosura Leandro

A Historical Balanced Human Development Index pp. 427-461

Nicola Amendola

Living Standards in the Premodern Period: A New Methodology for Rural Market and Subsistence Economies pp. 463-501

Concina Alberto and Maïka De Keyzer

New Answers for an Old Question: Comparable Estimates for Child Work in Post-War Europe pp. 503-541

Ferrittu Gianluca, Goulart Pedro and Sobreira Nuno

Job Control and Occupational Safety: New Perspectives on Labour Conditions in Medieval Florence pp. 543-583

Ridolfi Leonardo

African Economic History pp. 585-608

Gardner Leigh A.

Fertility Decline and Changing Household Budget Allocation in Imperial Germany: Evidence from an Almost Ideal Demand System pp. 609-664

Piro Katerina and Waidlein Nicole

Volume 67, issue 1, 2026

Introduction: The Economics of Lordship in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe pp. 1-21

Gibbs Spike and Skambraks Tanja

The Relative Weakness of Serfdom and Lordship in Later Medieval England: The Example of Bredfield (Suffolk) pp. 23-58

Bailey Mark

The Economic Impact of Jurisdictional Lordship in Communities under Lay Lords in Catalonia (Mid-14th to 15th Centuries) pp. 59-104

Sala Albert Reixach

Manorial Plunder: Serfdom and Material Culture in Fifteenth-Century England pp. 105-134

Johnson Tom

Whose was the Fifteenth-century Manor Court?: Seigneurial Jurisdictions, Peasant Economic Activity and “Middle-class Lordship” in Late Medieval East Anglia (England) pp. 135-171

Gibbs Spike

Bad Lordship and Peasant Resistance in the Flemish Seigneurie of Eksaarde (c. 1439 to 1482) pp. 173-205

Buylaert Frederik and Lambrecht Thijs

Economic Co-operation between Feudal Lords and Feudal Peasants in the Late Middle Ages: Swiss and Southern German Case Studies pp. 207-240

Sonderegger Stefan

Lordship, Land Markets and Rural Economic Development in the Eastern Low Countries c. 1460 to 1570 pp. 241-273

Klinkhamer Reinder

Indebted Abbots: The Impact of Lordly Demand on the Late Medieval Rural Economy in Northeast Scotland pp. 275-314

Weil Sebastian

Was Serfdom Good for the Economy?: Peasants, Lords, and Markets in Early Modern Bohemia pp. 315-351

Sheilagh Ogilvie

Volume 66, issue 2, 2025

Obituary for Eckart Schremmer pp. 311-314

Streb Jochen

Epidemics and Pandemics in Economic-historical Perspective – An Introduction pp. 315-340

Jopp Tobias A. and Markus Lampe

Cholera in the City of Poznań: Did the Death Toll of the 1866 Cholera Epidemic Reflect Social and Economic Differences? pp. 341-364

Liczbińska Grażyna and Vögele Jörg

The Mortality Impact of Cholera in Germany pp. 365-403

Kappner Kalle

When Diseases Return from the Epidemiological Honeymoon: The Reemergence of Smallpox in 19th Century Germany and its Lessons for Public Health Policies after COVID-19 pp. 405-436

Muehlhoff Katharina

On the Economic Costs of the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Germany: An attempt at Assessing GNP Lost for 1918 pp. 437-462

Jopp Tobias A.

Malaria in Catania/Sicily: Local Manifestations and International Scientific Cooperation During a Pandemic in the 1920s pp. 463-490

Faust Lene and Franke Christian

Geographical Aspects of Diphtheria in England and Wales: Immunisation and the Spatial Sequence of Retreat to Effective Elimination, 1921 to 1964 pp. 491-534

Smallman-Raynor Matthew, Jewitt Sarah and Cliff Andrew D.

Pandonomics: Why Economics was Unprepared for COVID-19-Policies pp. 535-549

G. van Bergeijk Peter A.

“Stupid” German Money? Bonus Interest Rate Payments on Savings Deposits During the Stagflation of 1967 to 1984 pp. 551-584

Knake Sebastian

Geography and Space in Recent Economic History pp. 585-607

Nikolaus Wolf

Volume 66, issue 1, 2025

Nachruf auf Wolfram Fischer pp. 1-3

Schröter Harm

Investment and Saving Opportunities for Different Socio-Economic Groups in Medieval and Early Modern Europe pp. 5-20

Nicolussi-Köhler Stephan, Conti Marco and Kirsten Wandschneider

Politics, Investments and Public Spending in Bologna (End of 13th – First Half of 14th Century) pp. 21-38

Conti Marco

Financing Poor Relief in the Small Lower Rhine Town of Kalkar in the Late Middle Ages pp. 39-92

Gussone Monika

Credit for the Poor, Investments for the Rich? Different Strategies for Investing and Saving Money in Medieval Tirol pp. 93-130

Nicolussi-Köhler Stephan

Financing the Commune: Government Spending and Private Capital in Siena (1200–1250) pp. 131-155

Severgnini Carlo Ludovico

Investing in a New Financial Instrument: The First Buyers of Urban Debt in Catalonia (Mid. 14th Century) pp. 157-203

Milian Laura Miquel, Sala Albert Reixach and Pijuan Pere Verdés

Set for Life: Old-Age Pensions Provided by Hospitals in Late-Medieval Amsterdam pp. 205-238

Jaco Zuijderduijn

Credit Investments in Northern Italian States (17th–18th Centuries) pp. 239-266

Lorenzini Marcella

Food Crises in Germany, 1500–1871 pp. 267-309

Albers Hakon and Ulrich Pfister

Volume 65, issue 1, 2024

Obituary for Knut Borchardt pp. 1-4

James Harold

Nachruf auf Lothar Baar (1932–2023) pp. 5-6

Nikolaus Wolf

Introduction: International Knowledge Transfer and Circulation within the Brewing Industry pp. 7-16

Weiß Jana and Bodden Nancy

The Globalization of Guinness: Marketing Taste, Transferring Technology pp. 17-35

Pilcher Jeffrey M.

The Formation of Industrial Brewing and the Transfer of Knowledge and Demand in Mandatory Palestine pp. 37-61

Gökatalay Semih

Chicas Modernas and Chinas Poblanas: International and National Influences in the Mexican Beer Industry and its Advertisements, 1910–1940 pp. 63-100

Pierce Gretchen

Malt Barley in Twentieth-Century Mexico: The Brewing Industry, Centralized Knowledge, and the Green Revolution pp. 101-132

Gauss Susan M.

The Legend of Pure Spring Water: The Development of Industrial Water Treatment and its Diffusion through Technology Transfer as the Basis for the Industrialization and Internationalization of Brewing pp. 133-154

Schuetz Thomas

Solidarity or National Prejudice? Migrating Brewery Workers and the Troubles with Transferring Internationalist Ideologies from the Czech Lands to the United States, 1890–1914 pp. 155-178

Orton Alison

Travelling for Knowledge: Educational Opportunities in 19th Century Bavarian Brewing Education pp. 179-207

Schneck Astrid R.

The Birth of the Scientific Brewer: International Networks and Knowledge Transfer in Central European Beer Brewing, 1794–1895 pp. 209-235

Šimková Pavla

Das Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung im Zweiten Weltkrieg pp. 237-272

Rainer Fremdling and Stäglin Reiner