Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Explorations in monetary history: A survey of the literature pp. 339-415: Michael Bordo
British economic growth: The paradox of the 1880s and the timing of the climacteric pp. 416-444: David Greasley

Property rights in economic history: Implications for research pp. 227-252: Gary Libecap
Private sector response to stabilization policy: A case study pp. 253-268: Andrew T. Allen
Workplace safety during the progressive era: Fatal accidents in bituminous coal mining, 1912-1923 pp. 269-298: Price Fishback
Poor law policy, unemployment, and pauperism pp. 299-336: Mary MacKinnon

The labor market of southern textile mill villages: Some micro evidence pp. 103-123: William H. Phillips
Was there an energy crisis in Great Britain in the 17th century? pp. 124-152: Brinley Thomas
Wages and unemployment in interwar Britain pp. 153-172: Michael Beenstock and Peter Warburton
Birth weights and infant mortality among American slaves pp. 173-198: Richard Steckel
The failure of the bank of United States: A reappraisal: A reply pp. 199-204: Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz
The decline and resistance of ottoman cotton textiles 1820-1913 pp. 205-225: Sevket Pamuk

U.S. capital exports to Germany 1919-1923 compared to 1924-1929 pp. 1-32: Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich
Before the Glass-Steagall Act: An analysis of the investment banking activities of national banks pp. 33-55: Eugene White
The bank of France and the sterilization of gold, 1926-1932 pp. 56-84: Barry Eichengreen
Export shares in the European periphery and the Third World before World War I: Questionable data, facile analogies pp. 85-99: John Hanson

Growth, equality, and history pp. 341-377: Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson
On the unimportance of machinery pp. 378-401: Alexander Field
The failure of the bank of United States: A reappraisal pp. 402-416: Joseph L. Lucia
Regional employment multipliers, regional policy, and structural change in interwar Britain pp. 417-439: M. E. F. Jones

Poor relief policy in antebellum New York state: The rise and decline of the poorhouse pp. 233-256: Joan Underhill Hannon
The British labor market in the 1920s: A test of the search-turnover approach pp. 257-270: Timothy Hatton
The stability of the short-run money demand function, 1920-1939 pp. 271-295: Rik Hafer
Explaining differences in per capita income between countries: A hypothesis and test for 1950 and 1970 pp. 296-315: Daniel Landau
The incidence of servitude in trans-Atlantic migration, 1771-1804 pp. 316-339: Farley Grubb

An economic model of the English Poor Law circa 1780-1834 pp. 129-167: George R. Boyer
Chinese agriculture and the international economy, 1870-1930: A reassessment pp. 168-193: Loren Brandt
Reconstruction of a bimetallic price level pp. 194-219: Louis S. Drake
The Parker-Gallman sample and wealth distributions for the antebellum South: A comment pp. 220-226: Donald Schaefer and Mark Schmitz
The Parker-Gallman sample and wealth distributions for the antebellum south: A reply pp. 227-232: Donghyu Yang

Crisis, bigger government, and ideological change: Two hypotheses on the ratchet phenomenon pp. 1-28: Robert Higgs
Industrial structure and the emergence of the modern industrial corporation pp. 29-52: Jeremy Atack
The horndal effect in early U.S. manufacturing pp. 53-96: William Lazonick and Thomas Brush
Labor force change in Germany since 1882: A life cycle perspective pp. 97-126: Wolfgang Kleber

Self-help versus state help: Old age pensions and personal savings in Great Britain, 1906-1937 pp. 329-350: Paul Johnson
Was the transition from the artisanal shop to the nonmechanized factory associated with gains in efficiency?: Evidence from the U.S. Manufacturing censuses of 1820 and 1850 pp. 351-382: Kenneth Sokoloff
Market power in the London coal trade: The limitation of the vend, 1770-1845 pp. 383-405: William Hausman
The early stages of European industrialization: Economic organization under serfdom pp. 406-428: Robert Millward

The use of general equilibrium analysis in economic history pp. 231-253: John James
The eighteenth-century English diet and economic change pp. 254-269: Carole Shammas
Measurement of English farming technological change, 1523-1900 pp. 270-289: Richard Sullivan
Contractors, collusion, and competition: Japanese immigrant railroad laborers in the Pacific Northwest, 1898-1911 pp. 290-305: Yuzo Murayama
Teacher salaries in black and white: The south in 1910 pp. 306-326: Robert Margo

Financial institutions and economic development: A comparison of Great Britain and France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries pp. 103-124: Charles P. Kindleberger
Additional evidence on money and prices: U.S. data 1870-1913 pp. 125-132: David Bessler
Economic change and contract labor in the British Caribbean: The end of slavery and the adjustment to emancipation pp. 133-150: Stanley L. Engerman
An economic theory of political change in premissionary Hawaii pp. 151-168: Sumner La Croix and James Roumasset
Steel rails versus iron rails: Evidence from Canada pp. 169-175: Ann Carlos
Electricity, productivity, and labor saving: American manufacturing, 1900-1929 pp. 176-191: Arthur G. Woolf
Public debt management policy and nineteenth-century American economic growth pp. 192-217: John James
The case against productive whipping pp. 218-223: Mary MacKinnon and Paul Johnson
The productivity of corporal punishment: A reply to MacKinnon and Johnson pp. 224-228: Clark Nardinelli

The historical evolution of female earnings functions and occupations pp. 1-27: Claudia Goldin
Earnings in the post-bellum Southern cotton textile industry: A case study pp. 28-39: Cathy L. McHugh
Distributional effects of federal tax policy 1929-1939 pp. 40-63: Thomas M. Renaghan
Central bank cooperation under the interwar gold standard pp. 64-87: Barry Eichengreen
Notes on the wealth distribution of farm households in the united states, 1860: A new look at two manuscript: Census samples pp. 88-102: Donghyu Yang