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The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 85, issue 2, 2025

Trade Policy, Exchange Rates, and the Globalization Surge of the 1990s pp. 303-335 Downloads
Douglas A. Irwin
Dissecting the Sinews of Power: International Trade and the Rise of Britain’s Fiscal-Military State, 1689–1823 pp. 336-369 Downloads
Ernesto Dal Bó, Karolina Hutková, Lukas Leucht and Noam Yuchtman
Social Mobility in the Long Run: An Analysis of Tongcheng, China, 1300 to 1900 pp. 370-410 Downloads
Carol H. Shiue
What Happened to the Incomes of the Rich during the Great Levelling? Evidence from Swedish Individual-Level Data, 1909–1950 pp. 411-441 Downloads
Erik Bengtsson and Jakob Molinder
Bank Lending and Deposit Crunches during the Great Depression pp. 442-474 Downloads
Kris James Mitchener and Gary Richardson
Who Wins and Loses in a Bubble? Evidence from the British Bicycle Mania pp. 475-504 Downloads
William Quinn and John D. Turner
Growing, Shrinking, and Long-Run Economic Performance: Historical Perspectives on Economic Development pp. 505-540 Downloads
Stephen Broadberry and John Joseph Wallis
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 541-574 Downloads
Anonymous
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting pp. 575-597 Downloads
Anonymous
Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy. By Carola Binder. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 352. $35.00, cloth pp. 607-608 Downloads
Andrew Jalil
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Savings Bank. By Justene Hill Edwards. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2024. Pp. i.x, 320. $29.99, hardcover pp. 608-610 Downloads
Vellore Arthi
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America. By Kathleen DuVal. New York: Random House, 2024. Pp. 752. $23.86, hardcover pp. 611-612 Downloads
Donn Feir
Tropical Despotisms: Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean. By David Allen Harvey. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. Pp. 306. $64.95, hardcover pp. 612-614 Downloads
Craig Palsson
One from the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850. By Christopher M. Meissner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. xv, 330. £64.00, cloth; £22.99, paper pp. 614-616 Downloads
Markus Lampe

Volume 85, issue 1, 2025

The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage, and Political Participation pp. 1-32 Downloads
Tianyi Wang
Enfranchisement, Political Participation, and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial and Independent India pp. 33-71 Downloads
Guilhem Cassan, Lakshmi Iyer and Rinchan Ali Mirza
Black Economic Progress in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools pp. 72-109 Downloads
A. R. Shariq Mohammed and Paul Mohnen
The Model T pp. 110-151 Downloads
Shari Eli, Joshua K. Hausman and Paul W. Rhode
Interbank Networks and the Interregional Transmission of Financial Crises: Evidence from the Panic of 1907 pp. 152-179 Downloads
Matthew Jaremski and David Wheelock
The Irish in England pp. 180-214 Downloads
Neil J. Cummins and Cormac Ó Gráda
The Price and Welfare Consequences of the British Sugar Act of 1846 pp. 215-249 Downloads
Christopher David Absell
Adoption, Inheritance, and Wealth Inequality in Pre-industrial Japan and Western Europe pp. 250-286 Downloads
Yuzuru Kumon
Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West. By Daniel Waldenström. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2024. Pp. xiii, 253. $29.95, hardcover pp. 296-297 Downloads
Javier Mejia
A Millennial View of Spain’s Development. Essays in Economic History. By Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cham: Springer and Fundación Rafael del Pino, 2024. Pp. Xxxii, 375. Open Access pp. 297-299 Downloads
David González Agudo
The Debt Crisis of the 1980s: Law and Political Economy. By Jérôme Sgard. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. Pp. 354. $165.00, hardcover pp. 299-302 Downloads
Ugo Panizza

Volume 84, issue 4, 2024

Black Americans’ Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation: Evidence from the Census of Agriculture and Linked Records pp. 963-996 Downloads
William J. Collins, Nicholas Holtkamp and Marianne H. Wanamaker
Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1690s–1880s pp. 997-1028 Downloads
Stephen Broadberry and Elena Korchmina
Revealing the Diversity and Complexity behind Long-Term Income Inequality in Latin America: 1920–2011 pp. 1029-1065 Downloads
Pablo Astorga
Social Networks and Elite Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Evidence from the Industrialization of Antioquia pp. 1067-1106 Downloads
Javier Mejia
Trade, Slavery, and State Coercion of Labor: Egypt during the First Globalization Era pp. 1107-1141 Downloads
Mohamed Saleh
Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851–1911 pp. 1143-1173 Downloads
Ziming Zhu
Inventors among the “Impoverished Sophisticate” pp. 1175-1207 Downloads
Thor Berger and Erik Prawitz
The Distribution of Land in Luxembourg (1766–1872): Family-Level Wealth Persistence in the Midst of Institutional Change pp. 1209-1239 Downloads
Sonia Schifano and Antoine Paccoud
Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier. By Bogdan G. Popescu. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xiii + 300. $87.56, hardcover pp. 1244-1246 Downloads
Coşkun Tunçer
The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency. By Oliver Volckart. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 384. $39.99, hardcover pp. 1247-1249 Downloads
Michael Schiltz
The Rise and Fall of the Italian Economy. By Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xii, 175. £22.99, paper; £70.00, cloth pp. 1249-1250 Downloads
Stefano Ugolini

Volume 84, issue 3, 2024

Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance pp. 655-689 Downloads
Avner Greif and Jared Rubin
State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China pp. 690-726 Downloads
Joy Chen
Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850–1940 pp. 727-766 Downloads
Ariell Zimran
The Belle-Epoque of Portfolios? How Returns, Risk, and Diversification Correlated with the Wealth Distribution in Paris in 1912 pp. 767-806 Downloads
Thomas Pastore
Reform, Rails, and Rice: Political Railroads and Local Development in Thailand pp. 807-837 Downloads
Christopher Paik and Jessica Vechbanyongratana
Ora et Guberna. The Economic Impact of the Rule of St Benedict in Medieval England pp. 838-873 Downloads
Domenico Rossignoli and Federico Trombetta
The Great Depression as a Savings Glut pp. 874-916 Downloads
Victor Degorce and Eric Monnet
Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–1971 pp. 917-952 Downloads
Maylis Avaro
Labor in the Age of Finance. By Sanford Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 368. $39.95, hardcover pp. 953-954 Downloads
Suresh Naidu
El Pan Nuestro: A History of the Corn Tortilla. By Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato Freer. Mexico City: Colegio de Mexico, 2024. Pp. 610, il. $25 pp. 954-956 Downloads
Aldo Musacchio
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology. By Chris Miller. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2022. Pp. 464. $32.00, hardcover pp. 956-959 Downloads
Kenneth Flamm

Volume 84, issue 2, 2024

Careworn: The Economic History of Caring Labor pp. 319-351 Downloads
Jane Humphries
Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office pp. 352-394 Downloads
Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan and Dylan Shane Connor
Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages pp. 395-431 Downloads
Chicheng Ma
Art and Markets in the Greco-Roman World pp. 432-478 Downloads
Federico Etro
The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe pp. 479-516 Downloads
Desiree Desierto and Mark Koyama
Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities pp. 517-553 Downloads
Felix Schaff
Measuring the Partisan Behavior of U.S. Newspapers, 1880 to 1980 pp. 554-592 Downloads
Shigeo Hirano and James M. Snyder
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 593-627 Downloads
Anonymous
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting pp. 628-645 Downloads
Anonymous
Guerres et richesses d’une nation. Les Florentins à Pise au XIVe siècle. By Cédric Quertier. Rome, Italy: École française de Rome, 2022. Pp. xiv, 600. 35€ pp. 652-653 Downloads
Juliette Françoise
The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis. By Youssef Cassis and Jean-Jacques van Helten, eds. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. 236. $39.89, paper pp. 653-654 Downloads
Christopher Colvin

Volume 84, issue 1, 2024

Institutions, Trade, and Growth: The Ancient Greek Case of Proxenia pp. 1-39 Downloads
Pier Paolo Creanza
Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas pp. 40-73 Downloads
Sandra García-Uribe, Hannes Mueller and Carlos Sanz
Impacts of the Relocation Program on Native American Migration and Fertility pp. 74-110 Downloads
Mary Kopriva
Consumption Smoothing in the Working-Class Households of Interwar Japan pp. 111-148 Downloads
Kota Ogasawara
Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911) pp. 149-190 Downloads
Monica Bozzano, Gabriele Cappelli and Michelangelo Vasta
Sovereign Collateral pp. 191-231 Downloads
Marc Flandreau, Stefano Pietrosanti and Carlotta E. Schuster
Opening Heaven’s Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act pp. 232-270 Downloads
Giovanni Facchini, Timothy Hatton and Max Steinhardt
Using Digitized Newspapers to Address Measurement Error in Historical Data pp. 271-306 Downloads
Andreas Ferrara, Joung Yeob Ha and Randall Walsh
Financial Innovation and Resilience: A Comparative Perspective on the Public Banks of Naples (1462–1808). Edited by Lilia Costabile and Larry Neal. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xix, 372. €155.99, hardcover; €93.08, eBook pp. 315-317 Downloads
Maria Stella Chiaruttini
Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income. By Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas. Chicago, IL, and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 258. $32.50, cloth. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82368-3 pp. 317-318 Downloads
Alberto Tena Camporesi
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