Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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American stock market development and performance, 1871-1929 pp. 327-353: Kenneth Snowden
Trade and stabilization: Another look at British India's controversial foodgrain exports pp. 354-370: Martin Ravallion
The determinants of individual immigrant mortality on sailing ships, 1836-1853 pp. 371-391: Raymond L. Cohn
Powerloom profitability and steam power costs: Britain in the 1830s pp. 392-408: John Lyons
The German inflation and foreign business cycles, 1920-1922 pp. 409-433: Steven B. Webb

British economic growth, 1700-1850; some difficulties of interpretation pp. 245-268: Nicholas Crafts
Debating the British industrial revolution pp. 269-292: Jeffrey Williamson
Has the industrial revolution been crowded out? Some reflections on Crafts and Williamson pp. 293-319: Joel Mokyr

What do markets do?: Efficiency tests of the 18th-century London stock market pp. 107-129: Philip Mirowski
A model of migration and wealth accumulation: Farmers at the antebellum southern frontier pp. 130-157: Donald F. Schaefer
Human capital and the pre-Famine Irish emigration to England pp. 158-177: Stephen Nicholas and Peter R. Shergold
The costs of survival: The transport of slaves in the middle passage and the profitability of the 18th-century British slave trade pp. 178-196: David Richardson
Factor substitution and induced innovation in north American kraft pulping: 1914-1940 pp. 197-217: Avi Cohen
Money in the trans-Mississippi confederacy and the confederate currency reform act of 1864 pp. 218-243: Gary M. Pecquet

The growth and decay of custom: The role of the new institutional economics in economic history pp. 1-21: Kaushik Basu, Eric Jones and Ekkehart Schlicht
Chinese immigration and contract labor in the late nineteenth century pp. 22-42: Patricia Cloud and David Galenson
The causes of the depression in Australia pp. 43-62: T. J. Valentine
Colonial immigrant literacy: An economic analysis of Pennsylvania-German evidence, 1727-1775 pp. 63-76: Farley Grubb
American homesteaders and the Canadian prairies, 1899 and 1909 pp. 77-100: Michael B. Percy and Tamara Woroby
Colonial labor markets and the length of indenture: Further evidence pp. 101-106: Farley Grubb

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