The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 67, issue 4, 2007

An Economic Interpretation of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 Revisited pp. 829-848

Jac C. Heckelman and Keith L. Dougherty

The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots in American Cities: Evidence from Property Values pp. 849-883

William Collins and Robert Margo

Running Out of Steam: Federal Inspection and Locomotive Safety, 1912–1940 pp. 884-916

Mark Aldrich

Lost Decades: Postindependence Performance in Latin America and Africa pp. 917-943

Robert Bates, John H. Coatsworth and Jeffrey Williamson

Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush pp. 944-967

Douglas Allen

Learning by Dying: Combat Performance in the Age of Sail pp. 968-1000

Daniel Benjamin and Anca Tifrea

The Burden of Early Exposure to Malaria in the United States, 1850–1860: Malnutrition and Immune Disorders pp. 1001-1035

Sok Chul Hong

The Impact of Globalization in the Roman Empire, 200 bc—ad 100 pp. 1036-1061

Ryan M. Geraghty

Poverty in the Roman World. Edited by Margaret Atkins and Robin Osborne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 226. $90.00 pp. 1065-1066

Carolyn Osiek

Strategie politiche ed economia feudale ai confini della Repubblica di Genova (secoli XVI–XVIII). Un buon negotio con qualche contrarietà. By Andrea Zanini. Genoa: Atti della Società Ligure di Storia Patria, n.s., XLV/3, 2005. Pp. 269, paper pp. 1066-1067

Thomas A. Kirk

At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400–1800. Edited by Paola Lanaro. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2006. Pp. 412. $32.00, paper pp. 1068-1069

Yadira Gonzalez de Lara

Market Makers and Market Takers: A History of Natural Fibres Textiles in the Central Apennine Region (the Marche and Umbria). By Robert S. DuPlessis. Bari: Mario Adda Editore, 2005. Pp. 172 pp. 1069-1071

Vijaya Ramaswamy

The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America, vol. 1. “The Colonial Era and the Short Nineteenth Century.” Edited by V. Bulmer Thomas, J. H. Coatsworth, and R. Cortes Conde. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006 pp. 1071-1076

Alejandra Irigoin

The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel. Edited by Peter A. Coclanis. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xix, 377. $49.95 pp. 1076-1077

S. D. Smith

Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History. By Ian Baucom. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 387. $84.95, cloth; $23.95, paper pp. 1078-1079

Peter A. Coclanis

Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648–1834. By S. D. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 358. $99.00 pp. 1079-1081

Jennifer L. Anderson

Government and the American Economy: A New History. By Price Fishback, Robert Higgs, Gary D. Libecap, John Joseph Wallis, Stanley L. Engerman, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Sumner J. La Croix, Robert A. Margo, Robert A. McGuire, Richard Sylla, Lee J. Alston, Joseph P. Ferrie, Mark Guglielmo, E. C. PasourJr., Randal R. Rucker, and Werner Troesken. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xix, 613. $85, cloth; $35, paper pp. 1081-1083

William Collins

Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to the Present. Edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 503. $45 pp. 1083-1085

David R. Meyer

The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Great Britain since 1950. By Avner Offer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 454. $45.00, cloth; $25.00, paper pp. 1085-1086

Joy Parr

Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture. By Eric Jones. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 297. $29.95 pp. 1086-1088

George Grantham

Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children. By Julia Lynch. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 223. $75.00, cloth; $24.99, paper pp. 1088-1089

Michael Huberman

Volume 67, issue 3, 2007

Related Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico pp. 551-581

Noel Maurer and Stephen Haber

Tariff Incidence in America's Gilded Age pp. 582-607

Douglas Irwin

Sons of Something: Taxes, Lawsuits, and Local Political Control in Sixteenth-Century Castile pp. 608-642

Mauricio Drelichman

The Check is in the Mail: Correspondent Clearing and the Collapse of the Banking System, 1930 to 1933 pp. 643-671

Gary Richardson

Convergence or Decline on Europe's Southeastern Periphery? Agriculture, Population, and GNP in Bulgaria, 1892–1945 pp. 672-703

Martin Ivanov and Adam Tooze

The Highest Price Ever: The Great NYSE Seat Sale of 1928–1929 and Capacity Constraints pp. 705-739

Lance E. Davis, Larry Neal and Eugene White

American Military Interests and Economic Confidence in Spain under the Franco Dictatorship pp. 740-767

Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez

Not on My Farm! Resistance to Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication in the United States pp. 768-809

Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559–1684. By Thomas Allison Kirk. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 276. $49.95 pp. 813-814

Andrea Zanini

Notorious Murders, Black Lanterns, Moveable Goods: The Transformation of Edinburgh's Underworld in the Early Nineteenth Century. By Deborah A. Symonds. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 180. $39.95 pp. 814-816

R. A. Cage

Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich. By Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 2, 240. $25 pp. 816-817

Farley Grubb

A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis. By Alan Lawson. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 280. $45.00, cloth; 19.95, paper pp. 818-819

Michael V. Namorato

Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II. By Andrew Kersten. New York: New York University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 273. $42 pp. 819-821

Gerald Friedman

Networked Machinists: High Technology Industries in Antebellum America. By David R. Meyer. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 311. $49.95 pp. 821-822

Petra Moser

The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster. By Werner Troesken. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. x, 318. $29.95 pp. 823-824

Jessica Wolpaw Reyes

The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. By Deirdre N. McCloskey. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 616. $32.50 pp. 825-827

Sheldon Rothblatt

Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800–2000. By Giovanni Federico. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 388. $45 pp. 827-828

Louis Ferleger

Volume 67, issue 2, 2007

The Assignment of Property Rights on the Western Frontier: Lessons for Contemporary Environmental and Resource Policy pp. 257-291

Gary Libecap

Investment and Diversification in the American Whaling Industry pp. 292-314

Eric Hilt

Comparative Productivity in British and German Manufacturing Before World War II: Reconciling Direct Benchmark Estimates and Time Series Projections pp. 315-349

Stephen Broadberry and Carsten Burhop

British and German Manufacturing Productivity Compared: A New Benchmark for 1935/36 Based on Double Deflated Value Added pp. 350-378

Rainer Fremdling, Herman De Jong and Marcel Timmer

Marine Insurance in Britain and America, 1720–1844: A Comparative Institutional Analysis pp. 379-409

Christopher Kingston

The Geography of Wage Discrimination in the Pre–Civil Rights South pp. 410-444

William A. Sundstrom

The Athenian Trierarchy: Mechanism Design for the Private Provision of Public Goods pp. 445-480

Brooks Kaiser

Black Migration, White Flight: The Effect of Black Migration on Northern Cities and Labor Markets pp. 484-488

Leah Boustan

The Evolution of the Market for Corporate Executives across the Twentieth Century pp. 488-492

Carola Frydman

Security in an Uncertain World: Life Insurance and the Emergence of Modern America pp. 492-495

Sharon Ann Murphy

The Limits of Equality: An Economic Analysis of the Israeli Kibbutz pp. 495-499

Ran Abramitzky

Essays on Education and Social Divisions in Colonial India pp. 500-503

Latika Chaudhary

Law and Finance in Historical Perspective: Politics, Bankruptcy Law, and Corporate Governance in Brazil, 1850–2002 pp. 503-506

Aldo Musacchio

Comments on Boustan, Frydman, and Murphy pp. 506-510

Melissa Thomasson

Comments on Abramitzky, Chaudhary, and Musacchio pp. 511-515

Carol H. Shiue

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 516-529

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Abstracts of Posters Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 530-534

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The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Golden Age. By Maarten Prak. Translated by DianeWebb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 317. $24.99, paper pp. 540-541

Anne E. C. McCants

The Social Life of Money in the English Past. By Deborah Valenze. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 308. $65, cloth; $23.99, paper pp. 541-542

Gregory Clark

Hacienda and Market in Eighteenth-Century Mexico: The Rural Economy of the Guadalajara Region, 1675–1820. 2nd ed. By Eric Van Young. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. Pp. 440. $85.00, cloth; $34.95, paper pp. 542-543

Catalina Vizcarra

From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil: Bahia, 1835–1900. By Dale Torston Graden. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. Pp. xxviii, 297. $24.95, paper pp. 544-545

Aldo Musacchio

The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876–1929. By Stephen Haber, Armando Razo, and Noel Maurer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 382. $75.00, cloth; $29.00, paper; $24.00, e-book pp. 545-546

Alan Dye

American Taxation, American Slavery. By Robin L. Einhorn. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 337. $35 pp. 547-549

Robert A. McGuire

New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City. By J. Mark Souther. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 303. $34.95 pp. 549-550

Fred Bateman

Volume 67, issue 1, 2007

The Engine or the Caboose? Resource Industries and Twentieth-Century Canadian Economic Performance pp. 1-32

Ian Keay

Globalization, Immigration, and Lewisian Elastic Labor in Pre–World War II Southeast Asia pp. 33-68

Gregg Huff and Giovanni Caggiano

High Noon on the Western Range: A Property Rights Analysis of the Johnson County War pp. 69-92

Randy McFerrin and Douglas Wills

Productivity, Wages, and Labor Politics in Brazil, 1945–1962 pp. 93-127

Renato Colistete

Two Centuries of Productivity Growth in Computing pp. 128-159

William Nordhaus

Slave Purchasing Strategies and Shipboard Mortality: Day-to-Day Evidence from the Dutch African Trade, 1751–1797 pp. 160-190

Simon J. Hogerzeil and David Richardson

Emergence of Endogenous Legal Institutions: Property Rights and Community Governance in the Italian Alps pp. 191-226

Marco Casari

The Middle East under Rome. By Maurice Sartre. Translated by Catherine Porter and Elizabeth Rawlings with Jeannine Routier-Pucci. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 665. $39.95 pp. 236-237

Walter Scheidel

Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths: Economic Organization and International Trade in South Korea and Taiwan. By Robert C. Feenstra and Gary G. Hamilton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 462. $85 pp. 237-238

Kelly B. Olds

Korea under Siege, 1876–1945: Capital Formation and Economic Transformation. By Young-lob Chung. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 390. $74 pp. 239-240

Man-Lui Lau

Institutional and Technological Change in Japan's Economy: Past and Present. Edited by Janet Hunter and Cornelia Storz. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. ix, 209. £65 pp. 240-241

Mansel G. Blackford

The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. By Madeleine Zelin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. 416. $45 pp. 242-243

Dwight Perkins

The New Suburban History. Edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 289. $24, paper pp. 243-245

Leah Boustan

The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States. By Sanford M. Jacoby. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 216. $35 pp. 245-247

Mark Metzler

Slavery and American Economic Development. By Gavin Wright. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 162. $25 pp. 247-248

Stanley L. Engerman

The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on Economics, Economic History and Demography. By Richard A. Easterlin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 284. $75, cloth; $29.99, paper pp. 248-250

Tomas Cvrcek

Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century. By Peter Lindert. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 396. $25.99, paper pp. 250-254

Brad Delong

The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756–1833. By H. V. Bowen. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 304. $90 pp. 254-256

Timothy Alborn