The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2026

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Volume 82, issue 4, 2022

Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu pp. 917-957

Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck and Emil Verner

Black and White Names: Evolution and Determinants pp. 959-1002

Hui Ren Tan

Intergenerational Mobility in a Mid-Atlantic Economy: Canada, 1871–1901 pp. 1003-1029

Luiza Antonie, Kris Inwood, Chris Minns and Fraser Summerfield

U.K. Investment Trust Valuation and Investor Behavior, 1880–1929 pp. 1031-1069

Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, Janette Rutterford and Daniele Tori

Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850 pp. 1071-1107

Ulrich Pfister

Residential Exodus from Dublin Circa 1900: Municipal Annexation and Preferences for Local Government pp. 1109-1141

Silvi K. Berger, Franco Mariuzzo and Peter L. Ormosi

Modernization in Progress: Part-Year Operation, Mechanization, and Labor Force Composition in Late Imperial Russia pp. 1143-1182

Amanda Gregg and Tamar Matiashvili

Railways, Growth, and Industrialization in a Developing German Economy, 1829–1910 pp. 1183-1221

Sebastian Braun and Richard Franke

Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the Present. By Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 354. $18.49, Kindle; $89.99 hardcover; $29.99, paper pp. 1229-1231

Jan Luiten van Zanden

Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance. By Didac Queralt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. xiii, 343. $120.00, cloth; $35.00, paper pp. 1231-1233

Leonardo Weller

Making Commercial Law Through Practice, 1830–1970. By Ross Cranston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 483. $112.28, hardcover; $32.50, ebook pp. 1233-1235

Jérôme Sgard

Volume 82, issue 3, 2022

The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911 pp. 625-661

Yu Hao, Zhengcheng Liu, Xi Weng and Li-An Zhou

“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing pp. 663-689

Jeremy Atack, Robert Margo and Paul Rhode

The Borchardt Hypothesis: A Cliometric Reassessment of Germany’s Debt and Crisis during 1930–1932 pp. 691-726

Tai-kuang Ho, Ya-chi Lin and Kuo-chun Yeh

Can Stimulating Demand Drive Costs Down? World War II as a Natural Experiment pp. 727-764

François Lafond, Diana Greenwald and J. Farmer

Why Join the Fed? pp. 765-800

Charles W. Calomiris and Matthew Jaremski

Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks as Shock Absorbers in the First Era of Globalization pp. 801-839

Guillaume Bazot, Eric Monnet and Matthias Morys

Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics pp. 841-873

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

Demographic Shocks and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India pp. 875-912

James Fenske, Bishnupriya Gupta and Song Yuan

Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success. By Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. New York: PublicAffairs, 2022. Pp. vii, 223. $29.00, hardcover pp. 913-914

Zachary Ward

Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity. By Claudia Goldin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp v, 325. $27.95, hardcover pp. 915-916

Laura Salisbury

Volume 82, issue 2, 2022

An Alternative Institutional Approach to Rules, Organizations, and Development pp. 335-367

John Joseph Wallis

The Labor-Intensive Path: Wages, Incomes, and the Work Year in Japan, 1610–1890 pp. 368-402

Yuzuru Kumon

How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa pp. 403-441

Warren Whatley

Asia’s Silver Absorption through the Triangular Settlement System, 1846–1870 pp. 442-479

Atsushi Kobayashi

Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited pp. 480-515

Nathan Sussman

Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession pp. 516-555

Ann Carlos, Donna Feir and Angela Redish

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 556-591

Anonymous

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting pp. 592-612

Anonymous

American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D. By Eric S. Hintz. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 368. $60.00, paper; $41.99, Kindle pp. 619-621

Michael Andrews

Making Social Spending Work. By Peter H. Lindert. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv, 422. $21.17, hardcover; $18.49, Kindle pp. 622-624

Michael Huberman

Volume 82, issue 1, 2022

La “Doña” è Mobile: The Role of Women in Social Mobility in a Pre-Modern Economy pp. 1-41

José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez, Salvador Gil-Guirado and Chris Vickers

Against the Grain: Spanish Trade Policy in the Interwar Years pp. 42-86

Concepción Betrán and Michael Huberman

Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850 pp. 87-125

Guido Alfani, Victoria Gierok and Felix Schaff

Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment pp. 126-174

Jaime Arellano-Bover

Interest Rates, Sanitation Infrastructure, and Mortality Decline in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales pp. 175-210

Jonathan Chapman

The Demographic Effects of Colonialism: Forced Labor and Mortality in Java, 1834–1879 pp. 211-249

Pim de Zwart, Daniel Gallardo-Albarrán and Auke Rijpma

The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Lawmaking pp. 250-283

Luna Bellani, Anselm Hager and Stephan Maurer

What Happened to the U.S. Economy during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? A View Through High-Frequency Data pp. 284-326

Francois Velde

World War II and Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation. By Gregg Huff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xxx, 523. $120.00, hardcover pp. 331-332

John Tang

Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages. By Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 536. $20.10, hardcover; $19.95, paper pp. 332-334

Gillian Brunet

Volume 81, issue 4, 2021

Private Benefits, Public Vices: Railways and Logrolling in the Nineteenth-Century British Parliament pp. 975-1014

Rui Esteves and Gabriel Geisler Mesevage

Did the Colonial mita Cause a Population Collapse? What Current Surnames Reveal in Peru pp. 1015-1051

Miguel Carpio and María Eugenia Guerrero

Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits pp. 1052-1097

Chicheng Ma

The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Seasonal Constraints and Contrasting Outcomes in French West Africa and British Uganda pp. 1098-1136

Michiel de Haas

Malthus Goes to China: The Effect of “Positive Checks” on Grain Market Development, 1736–1910 pp. 1137-1172

Yanfeng Gu and James Kai-sing Kung

Malaria, Race, and Inequality: Evidence from the Early 1900s U.S. South pp. 1173-1222

Emily Battaglia and Faizaan Kisat

G.I. Jane Goes to College? Female Educational Attainment, Earnings, and the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 pp. 1223-1253

Conor Lennon

Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy. By Colin P. Elliott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 222. $97.69, hardcover; $80.00, Kindle pp. 1263-1264

Peter Temin

Central Banking before 1800: A Rehabilitation. By Ulrich Bindseil. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiii + 322 pp. $80, hardcover pp. 1264-1267

Eric Monnet

Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. By Joshua R. Greenberg. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 245. $34.95, hardcover pp. 1267-1268

Matthew Jaremski

Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony. Edited by Pierre Pénet and Juan Flores Zendejas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 384. $115.00, hardcover pp. 1268-1270

Veronica Santarosa

Volume 81, issue 3, 2021

Farm Product Prices, Redistribution, and the Early U.S. Great Depression pp. 649-687

Joshua Hausman, Paul Rhode and Johannes Wieland

The French (Trade) Revolution of 1860: Intra-Industry Trade and Smooth Adjustment pp. 688-722

Stéphane Becuwe, Bertrand Blancheton and Christopher Meissner

Staple Products, Linkages, and Development: Evidence from Argentina pp. 723-762

Federico Droller and Martin Fiszbein

War, Coal, and Forced Labor: Assessing the Impact of Prisoner-of-War Employment on Coal Mine Productivity in World War I Germany pp. 763-791

Tobias A. Jopp

Closing Time: The Local Equilibrium Effects of Prohibition pp. 792-830

Greg Howard and Arianna Ornaghi

From Material to Non-Material Needs? The Evolution of Mate Preferences through the Twentieth Century in France pp. 831-871

Quentin Lippmann

The Efficiency of the Chinese Silver Standard, 1920–1933 pp. 872-908

Nuno Palma and Liuyan Zhao

Inheritance Institutions and Landholding Inequality in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Evidence from Hesse-Cassel Villages and Towns pp. 909-942

Simone A. Wegge

Volume 81, issue 2, 2021

Oh, How the Mighty Have Fallen: The Bank Failures and Near Failures That Started America’s Greatest Financial Panics pp. 331-358

Hugh Rockoff

Where Is the Middle Class? Evidence from 60 Million English Death and Probate Records, 1892–1992 pp. 359-404

Neil Cummins

Collective Action and Policy Implementation: Evidence from Salvador Allende’s Expropriations pp. 405-440

Felipe González and Felipe Vial

Fiscal Capacity and Dualism in Colonial States: The French Empire 1830–1962 pp. 441-480

Denis Cogneau, Yannick Dupraz and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps

More Power to the People: Electricity Adoption, Technological Change, and Labor Conflict pp. 481-512

Jakob Molinder, Tobias Karlsson and Kerstin Enflo

Small Farms, Large Transaction Costs: Haiti’s Missing Sugar pp. 513-548

Craig Palsson

Biological Living Standards of Korea during the Port-Opening Period, 1876–1910 pp. 549-576

Duol Kim and Heejin Park

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 577-614

Anonymous

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting pp. 615-634

Anonymous

Technology and the Environment in State-Socialist Hungary: An Economic History. By Viktor Pál. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xiv, 263. $151.53, cloth; $116.92, eBook pp. 641-642

Tamás Vonyó

Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War. By Jim Powell. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii, 231. $130.00, cloth pp. 642-643

David M. Higgins

Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism. By Mariana Mazzucato. London: Allen Lane, 2021, Pp. 272. $24.72, hardcover pp. 643-645

Alexander Whalley

Mexican Banks and Foreign Finance: From Internationalization to Financial Crisis, 1973–1982. By Sebastian Alvarez. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer Nature, 2019. Pp. xxxii, 231. $125.22, hardcover; $87.65, softcover pp. 645-647

Gustavo Del Angel

Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles. By William Quinn and John D. Turner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 3296. $24.95, hardcover pp. 647-648

Larry Neal

Volume 81, issue 1, 2021

Linguistic Distance and Market Integration in India pp. 1-39

James Fenske and Namrata Kala

Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866 to 1965 pp. 40-80

W Hanlon, Casper Hansen and Jake Kantor

Austerity and the Rise of the Nazi Party pp. 81-113

Gregori Galofré-Vilà, Christopher Meissner, Martin McKee and David Stuckler

Unpacking the Agricultural Black Box: The Rise and Fall of American Farm Productivity Growth pp. 114-155

Philip Pardey and Julian Alston

The Political Economy of Famine: The Ukrainian Famine of 1933 pp. 156-197

Natalya Naumenko

Biological Innovation without Intellectual Property Rights: Cottonseed Markets in the Antebellum American South pp. 198-238

Paul Rhode

Safety at Sea during the Industrial Revolution pp. 239-275

Morgan Kelly, Cormac Ó Gráda and Peter M. Solar

European Goods Market Integration in the Very Long Run: From the Black Death to the First World War pp. 276-308

Giovanni Federico, Max-Stephan Schulze and Oliver Volckart

Central Bank Independence and the Legacy of the German Past. By Simon Mee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 368. $65.59, Kindle; $78.57, hardcover pp. 316-318

Eric Monnet

Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400–1700. By Ron Harris. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii, 465. $39.95/£34.00, hardcover pp. 318-320

Taisu Zhang

Reconstructing the Past. Revised Estimates of Italy’s Product, 1861-1913. By Stefano Fenoaltea. Rome, Italy: Fondazione Luigi Einaudi onlus, 2020. Pp. xvi, 329 pp. 321-323

Vera Zamagni

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. By Anne Case and Angus Deaton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. x, 312. $27.97, hardcover pp. 323-325

Keith Meyers

Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899-1940. By César J. Ayala and Laird W. Bergad. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii, 307. $99.99, hardcover; $80.00, ebook pp. 325-327

Brian Marein

The New Silk Roads. By Peter Frankopan. London, England: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Pp. 320. $16.40, hardcover; $10.93, paper pp. 327-329

Mark Ranasinghe

Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy. By B. Zorina Khan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 478. $99.00, hardcover; $17.49, Kindle pp. 329-330

Sean Bottomley