Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Historical returns and security market development, 1872-1925 pp. 381-420: Kenneth Snowden
Free bank failures in New York and Wisconsin: A portfolio analysis pp. 421-441: Andrew J. Economopoulos
Measurement of trend growth in European industrial output before 1914: Methodological issues and new estimates pp. 442-467: Nicholas Crafts, Stephen Leybourne and T. C. Mills
The link between money and prices under different policy regimes: The postwar Hungarian experience pp. 468-482: Pierre Siklos
The end of one big deflation pp. 483-502: Peter Temin and Barrie A. Wigmore

Free banking during the French Revolution pp. 251-276: Eugene White
A note on the Gibson Paradox during the gold standard pp. 277-286: Terence C. Mills
A note on Chinese rice prices: Interior markets, 1928-1931 pp. 287-298: David Bessler
The contribution of services to British economic growth, 1856-1913 pp. 299-321: Norman Gemmell and Peter Wardley
Demand for consumer durable goods in 20th century America pp. 322-349: Martha Olney
Enclosure, land improvement, and the price of capital: A Comment pp. 350-355: E. L. Jones
Enclosure, land improvement, and the price of capital: A Reply to Jones pp. 356-362: Gregory Clark
Chinese immigration: A comment on cloud and galenson pp. 363-378: Charles McClain

The impact of the Corn Laws just prior to repeal pp. 123-156: Jeffrey Williamson
Evidence on English/African terms of trade in the eighteenth century pp. 157-177: H. A. Gemery, Jan Hogendorn and Marion Johnson
Rural indebtedness in the Punjab 1878: Results of a household survey pp. 178-196: Martin Ravallion
The credit needs of the African trade and the development of the credit economy in England pp. 197-231: Joseph E. Inikori
Structural change in interdependent bureaucracies: Was Rome's failure economic or military? pp. 232-248: Leonard Dudley

Rates of interest in 18th century England pp. 1-28: Kenneth J. Weiller and Philip Mirowski
Agricultural land transactions in Palestine, 1900-1914: A quantitative analysis pp. 29-45: Yossi Katz and Shoshana Neuman
Relief not insurance: Canadian unemployment relief in the 1930s pp. 46-83: Mary MacKinnon
Mortality on immigrant voyages to Australia in the 19th century pp. 84-113: John McDonald and Ralph Shlomowitz
Hard times in 19th-century Sweden: A reply pp. 114-121: Lars G. Sandberg and Richard Steckel

Was Spain different? Spanish historical backwardness revisited pp. 385-402: Cesar Molinas and Leandro Prados de la Escosura
Firm-specific evidence on racial wage differentials and workforce segregation in Hawaii's sugar industry pp. 403-423: Sumner La Croix and Price Fishback
England's Age of invention: The acceleration of patents and patentable invention during the industrial revolution pp. 424-452: Richard Sullivan
The strategy, effectiveness, and consistency of Federal Reserve monetary policy 1924-1933 pp. 453-476: David Wheelock
Hard times in 19th-century Sweden: A comment pp. 477-491: Johan Soderberg
Accounting for profits in the British trade in slaves: Reply to William Darity pp. 492-499: David Richardson

The efficiency of the mesta: A parable pp. 261-284: Jeffrey Nugent and Nicolas Sanchez
Public finance in Korea under Japanese rule: Deficit in the colonial account and colonial taxation pp. 285-310: Mitsuhiko Kimura
Coal exports and British shipping, 1850-1913 pp. 311-338: Knick Harley
Agricultural decision-making under uncertainty: The case of the Shanxi farmers, 1931-1936 pp. 339-359: Barbara N. Sands
The poor at birth: Birth weights and infant mortality at Philadelphia's almshouse hospital, 1848-1873 pp. 360-379: Claudia Goldin and Robert Margo
Profitability of the British trade in slaves once again pp. 380-384: William Darity

The stability of the 19th-century Phillips curve relationship pp. 117-134: John James
Canadian banks, gold, and the crisis of 1907 pp. 135-160: Georg Rich
Bookkeeping barter, money, credit, and Singapore's international rice trade, 1870-1939 pp. 161-189: Gregg Huff
Household migration and rural settlement in the United States, 1850-1860 pp. 190-218: Richard Steckel
Debt peonage in postbellum Georgia pp. 219-236: Price Fishback
Wages and the paradox of the 1880s pp. 237-247: Charles H. Feinstein
British wages and income, 1856-1913: A revision pp. 248-259: David Greasley

Arbitrage in the foreign exchange markets of London and Amsterdam during the 18th century pp. 1-20: Eric S. Schubert
Population size, knowledge stock, and other determinants of agricultural publication and patenting: England, 1541-1850 pp. 21-44: Julian L. Simon and Richard Sullivan
Employment in the Great Depression: New data and hypotheses pp. 45-72: John Joseph Wallis
The ICC, freight rates, and the Great Depression pp. 73-98: Anthony O'Brien
The policy effectiveness of open market operations in the 1920s pp. 99-116: Mark Toma

New demographic history of the late 19th-century United States pp. 341-365: Michael Haines and Barbara A. Anderson
The industrial retardation of southern cities, 1860-1880 pp. 366-386: David R. Meyer
Deflation and the petty coinage problem in the late-medieval economy: The case of Flanders, 1334-1484 pp. 387-423: John Munro
Internal labor markets before World War I: On-the-job training and employee promotion pp. 424-445: William A. Sundstrom

Height and income: A new method for the estimation of historical national income series pp. 227-264: Henk Jan Brinkman, J. W. Drukker and Brigitte Slot
The cost of capital and medieval agricultural technique pp. 265-294: Gregory Clark
Exploring the affinity of wheat and slavery in the Virginia Piedmont pp. 295-322: James Irwin
Third world incomes before World War I: Some comparisons pp. 323-336: John Hanson
The determinants of individual immigrant mortality on sailing ships, 1836-1853 pp. 337-338: Raymond L. Cohn

The growth of labor productivity in early modern English agriculture pp. 117-146: Robert Allen
Tariffs and growth: The dales hypothesis pp. 147-163: Stephen Easton, William A. Gibson and Clyde G. Reed
Old-age security motives, labor markets, and farm family fertility in antebellum American pp. 164-197: William A. Sundstrom and Paul David
Economic development with high wages: An historical perspective pp. 198-224: Morris Altman

Overpopulation and malnutrition rediscovered: Hard times in 19th-century Sweden pp. 1-19: Lars G. Sandberg and Richard Steckel
Urban growth and decline, budgetary incrementalism, and municipal finances: Milwaukee, 1870-1977 pp. 20-41: Douglas E. Booth
The consumer durables revolution in England 1932-1938; A regional analysis pp. 42-59: Sue Bowden
Factory fatalities and regulation in Britain, 1878-1913 pp. 60-74: P. W. J. Bartrip and Paul Fenn
Currency depreciation in early modern England and France pp. 75-97: Debra Glassman and Angela Redish
A model of English demographic changes: 1573-1873 pp. 98-116: Robert Stavins