The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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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

Volume 80, issue 4, 2020

Italy and the Little Divergence in Wages and Prices: New Data, New Results pp. 931-960

Mauro Rota and Jacob Weisdorf

El Sueño Americano? The Generational Progress of Mexican Americans Prior to World War II pp. 961-995

Edward Kosack and Zachary Ward

Canals and Orchards: The Impact of Transport Network Access on Agricultural Productivity in Nineteenth-Century Bangkok pp. 996-1030

Thanyaporn Chankrajang and Jessica Vechbanyongratana

Explaining Anomalous Wage Inflation in the 1930s United States pp. 1031-1070

Christopher Hanes

Discrimination against Foreigners: The Wuerttemberg Patent Law in Administrative Practice pp. 1071-1100

Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer and Jochen Streb

The Return to Education in the Mid-Twentieth Century: Evidence from Twins pp. 1101-1142

James Feigenbaum and Hui Ren Tan

The Political Economy of the Prussian Three-Class Franchise pp. 1143-1188

Sascha Becker and Erik Hornung

How Africans Shaped British Colonial Institutions: Evidence from Local Taxation pp. 1189-1223

Jutta Bolt and Leigh Gardner

Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order. By J.C. Sharman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xii, 196. $27.95, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 1229-1232

Anne E.C. McCants

Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order. By J. C. Sharman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xii, 196. $27.95, paperback pp. 1233-1234

John Tang

Schooling under Control. The Origins of Public Education in Imperial Austria 1769–1869. By Tomas Cvrcek. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. Pp. xi + 301. $83.00, hardcover pp. 1234-1236

David F. Mitch

Technology in the Industrial Revolution. By Barbara Hahn. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii+225. $24.95, paperback pp. 1237-1238

Joel Mokyr

Volume 80, issue 3, 2020

The Effect of War Risk on Managerial and Investor Behavior: Evidence from the Brussels Stock Exchange in the Pre-1914 Era pp. 629-669

Gertjan Verdickt

Transportation and Health in the Antebellum United States, 1820–1847 pp. 670-709

Ariell Zimran

Weber Revisited: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism pp. 710-745

Felix Kersting, Iris Wohnsiedler and Nikolaus Wolf

Financial Asset Ownership and Political Partisanship: Liberty Bonds and Republican Electoral Success in the 1920s pp. 746-781

Eric Hilt and Wendy Rahn

Balancing the Books: Convergence and Diversity of Accounting in Massachusetts, 1875–1895 pp. 782-812

Caitlin Rosenthal

Economic Growth and the Development of Real Wages: Swedish Construction Workers’ Wages in Comparative Perspective, 1831–1900 pp. 813-852

Johan Ericsson and Jakob Molinder

Collateral Damage: The Impact of Foreclosures on New Home Mortgage Lending in the 1930s pp. 853-885

Price Fishback, Sebastian Fleitas, Jonathan Rose and Ken Snowden

Representation of the People: Franchise Extension and the “Sinn Féin Election” in Ireland, 1918 pp. 886-925

Alan de Bromhead, Alan Fernihough and Enda Hargaden

Institutional and Organizational Analysis: Concepts and Applications. By Eric Alston, Lee Alston, Bernardo Mueller, and Tomas Nonnenmacher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 406. $78.91, hardcover pp. 926-927

Eric Edwards

Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change, vol. 64. By Lee J. Alston, Marcus A. Melo, Bernardo Mueller, and Carlos Pereira. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 259. $20.99, hardcover pp. 928-929

Aldo Musacchio

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations – ADDENDUM pp. 930-930

Anonymous

Volume 80, issue 2, 2020

Social Insurance and Public Assistance in the Twentieth-Century United States pp. 311-350

Price Fishback

The Gender Wage Gap in Early Modern Toledo, 1550–1650 pp. 351-385

Mauricio Drelichman and David González Agudo

The Political and Economic Geography of Southern Secession pp. 386-416

Mario L. Chacón and Jeffrey L. Jensen

The Privatization Origins of Political Corporations: Evidence from the Pinochet Regime pp. 417-456

Felipe González, Mounu Prem and Francisco Urzúa I.

The Samurai Bond: Credit Supply, Market Access, and Structural Transformation in Pre-War Japan pp. 457-500

Sergi Basco and John Tang

From Complementary to Competitive: The London and U.K. Provincial Stock Markets pp. 501-530

Meeghan Rogers, Gareth Campbell and John Turner

Labor Earnings Inequality in Manufacturing during the Great Depression pp. 531-563

Felipe Benguria, Chris Vickers and Nicolas Ziebarth

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 564-592

Anonymous

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting pp. 593-614

Anonymous

Empire in Retreat: The Past, Present, and Future of the United States. By Victor Bulmer-Thomas. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. xx, 459. $18.85, hardcover pp. 622-623

Marcelo Bucheli

Market Rules: Bankers, Presidents, and the Origins of the Great Recession. By Mark H. Rose. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. vii+253, $39.95, £34.00, hardcover pp. 623-625

Andrew Smith

Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed: Sources of Monetary Disorder 1922–1938. By Thomas M. Humphrey and Richard H. Timberlake. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2019. Pp. xix, 201. $21.21, hardcover pp. 625-626

David Wheelock

Hawai’i: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change. By Sumner La Croix. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 376. $60, cloth pp. 626-627

John J. Wallis

Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution. By Tyson Reeder. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 368. $45.00, hardcover pp. 627-628

Hannah Farber

Volume 80, issue 1, 2020

Do Black Politicians Matter? Evidence from Reconstruction pp. 1-37

Trevon Logan

The Comfortable, the Rich, and the Super-Rich. What Really Happened to Top British Incomes during the First Half of the Twentieth Century? pp. 38-68

Peter Scott and James T. Walker

The Founding of the Federal Reserve, the Great Depression, and the Evolution of the U.S. Interbank Network pp. 69-99

Matthew Jaremski and David Wheelock

A Western Reversal Since the Neolithic? The Long-Run Impact of Early Agriculture pp. 100-135

Ola Olsson and Christopher Paik

Long-Run Impacts of Agricultural Shocks on Educational Attainment: Evidence from the Boll Weevil pp. 136-174

Richard B. Baker, John Blanchette and Katherine Eriksson

Understanding the Gender Gap Further: The Case of Turn-of-the-Century Swedish Compositors pp. 175-206

Joyce Burnette and Maria Stanfors

Who Benefited from Industrialization? The Local Effects of Hydropower Technology Adoption in Norway pp. 207-245

Stefan Leknes and Jørgen Modalsli

The Effects of World War I on the Chinese Textile Industry: Was the World’s Trouble China’s Opportunity? pp. 246-285

Cong Liu

Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management. By Caitlin Rosenthal. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 320. $35.00, hardcover pp. 293-294

Paul Rhode

The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis. By Sheilagh Ogilvie. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xvi, 672. $39.95, cloth pp. 294-296

Anne EC McCants

The Bank of England and the Government Debt: Operations in the Gilt-Edged Market, 1928–1972. By William A. Allen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 274. $42.00, hardcover pp. 296-298

Seán Kenny

Europe’s Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland. By Marcin Piatkowski. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxi, 370. $93.00, hardcover; $35.00, paper pp. 298-300

Mikołaj Malinowski

Controlling Credit: Central Banking and the Planned Economy in Postwar France, 1948–1973. By Eric Monnet. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xxii + 327. $45.00, hardcover pp. 300-302

Juan Flores Zendejas

The Panic of 1819: The First Great Depression. By Andrew H. Browning. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2019. Pp. x, 439. $45.00 pp. 302-304

Clyde A. Haulman

VC: An American History. By Tom Nicholas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 382. $35, cloth pp. 304-305

B. Zorina Khan

American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation. By Sarah L. Quinn. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 293. $35.00 pp. 306-307

Jonathan D. Rose

Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776–1848. By Lindsay Schakenbach Regele. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. xi, 263. $59.95, cloth pp. 307-308

Thomas Weiss

Persecution & Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom. By Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 370. $84.74, hardcover; $20.06, paper pp. 309-310

Eric Chaney