Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2022

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Volume 18, issue 4, 1981

Land abundance and cheap horsepower in the mechanization of the antebellum United States economy pp. 309-329

Paul P. Christensen

Antebellum regional incomes: Another look pp. 330-346

Raymond L. Cohn

Mechanizing cotton production in the American south: The tractor, 1915-1960 pp. 347-375

Moses S. Musoke

Some evidence on relative labor scarcity in 19th-century American manufacturing pp. 376-388

John James

Age and economic achievement in an Irish Barony in 1821 pp. 389-398

Lee Soltow

The growth of population in the Chesapeake colonies: A comment pp. 399-410

Russell R. Menard

From the parts to the whole: Modeling Chesapeake population pp. 411-414

Terry L. Anderson

French industrialization: The roehl thesis reconsidered pp. 415-433

Robert R. Locke

French industrialization: A reply pp. 434-435

Richard Roehl

Volume 18, issue 3, 1981

Tenure choice in Southern agriculture, 1930-1960 pp. 211-232

Lee Alston

Economics and politics: Voting behavior in Kansas during the populist decade pp. 233-256

Jeffrey Williams

The effect of market failure on the British motor industry before 1939 pp. 257-289

James Foreman-Peck

The elasticity of substitution in 19th-century manufacturing pp. 290-303

Mark Schmitz

The slavery debate: A note from the sidelines pp. 304-308

Stefano Fenoaltea

Volume 18, issue 2, 1981

Money and prices in the 19th century: Was Thomas Tooke right? pp. 97-127

Michael Bordo and Anna Schwartz

Land allotment and the decline of American Indian farming pp. 128-154

Leonard Carlson

Shaping the British tariff structure in the 1930s pp. 155-173

Forrest Capie

The problem with neoclassical institutional economics: A critique with special reference to the North/Thomas model of pre-1500 Europe pp. 174-198

Alexander Field

The evolution of premodern demographic regimes: A research note pp. 199-208

Carl Mosk

Edward franklin meeker (1943-1980) pp. 209-210

Robert Higgs

Volume 18, issue 1, 1981

Labor rental in the manorial economy of European Russia at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th pp. 1-20

I. D. Koval'chenko and N. B. Selunskaia

The emergence of wage labor in early modern England pp. 21-39

R. Millward

Capital formation and economic growth in mid-19th century Japan pp. 40-59

Hiroya Akimoto

Technology, economics, and politics in the modernization of China's coal-mining industry, 1850-1895 pp. 60-83

Shannon R. Brown and Tim Wright

Capital formation in Canada 1870-1900 pp. 84-96

Richard Pomfret

Volume 17, issue 4, 1980

Determinants of working women's wages during the progressive era pp. 323-341

Mark Aldrich and Randy Albelda

A portfolio analysis of crop diversification and risk in the cotton south pp. 342-371

Robert A. McGuire

Efficient markets and great lakes timber: A conservation issue reexamined pp. 372-385

Ronald N. Johnson and Gary Libecap

Cultivation techniques as a response to risk in early Canadian prairie agriculture pp. 386-399

Kenneth H. Horrie

Structural change in the 18th-century British economy: A test using cubic splines pp. 400-410

William Hausman and James M. Watts

Small notes in the American colonies pp. 411-420

John Hanson

Discrimination in the Austrian capital market? pp. 421-427

John Komlos

Discrimination in the Austrian capital market?: A reply pp. 428-433

David F. Good

Volume 17, issue 3, 1980

Greasing the wheels of sputtering export engines: Widwestern grains and American growth pp. 189-217

Jeffrey Williamson

Transportation, the world wheat trade, and the Kuznets Cycle, 1850-1913 pp. 218-250

Knick Harley

The growth of the Canadian economy, 1896-1920: Export led and/or neoclassical growth pp. 251-274

Robert E. Ankli

Canadian wheat production and trade 1896-1930 pp. 275-302

Trevor J. O. Dick

Magnanimous albion: Free trade and British national income, 1841-1881 pp. 303-320

Deirdre McCloskey

Volume 17, issue 2, 1980

Women's labor force participation and the decline of the family economy in the United States pp. 95-117

Elyce J. Rotella

Earnings and savings in the early 19th century pp. 118-134

Donald Adams

Grain marketings and peasant consumption, Russia, 1885-1913 pp. 135-164

Paul R. Gregory

An index of aggregate economic activity in Canada, 1896-1939: A factor analytic approach pp. 165-175

P. J. George and E. H. Oksanen

National income estimates and the British standard of living debate: A reappraisal of 1801-1831 pp. 176-188

Nicholas Crafts

Volume 17, issue 1, 1980

Exports and economic growth pp. 1-5

Richard E. Caves, Douglass North and Jacob M. Price

The role of exports in American economic growth during the napoleonic wars, 1793 to 1807 pp. 6-25

Claudia Goldin and Frank Lewis

The impact of trade on agricultural development: Bombay presidency, 1855-1920 pp. 26-47

Michelle Burge McAlpin

Toward an export economy: British exports during the industrial revolution pp. 48-93

Francois Crouzet

Volume 16, issue 4, 1979

Slave height profiles from coastwise manifests pp. 363-380

Richard Steckel

Cycles and trends of mortality in 18 large American cities, 1871-1900 pp. 381-408

Robert Higgs

Fact in fiction? The relative costs of steam and water power: a simulation approach pp. 409-437

Jeremy Atack

Volume 16, issue 3, 1979

Foreword pp. i-i

Morris David Morris

Melvin Moses Knight pp. 240-245

Giulio Pontecorvo and Charles F. Stewart

A framework for analyzing the state in economic history pp. 249-259

Douglass North

De gustibus disputandum est: Changing consumer preferences in economic growth pp. 260-296

David Felix

Perspectives on the forty-sixth anniversary of the U.S. mixed economy pp. 297-330

Harold G. Vatter

The theory of small enterprise: Smith, mill, marshall, and marx pp. 331-340

Joseph D. Phillips

South Asian entrepreneurship and the rashomon effect, 1800-1947 pp. 341-361

Morris David Morris

Volume 16, issue 2, 1979

Household and market production of families in a late nineteenth century American city pp. 111-131

Claudia Goldin

Paddy, princes, and productivity: Irrigation and Thai Agricultural Development, 1900-1940 pp. 132-150

David Feeny

The distribution of mormon wealth and income in 1857 pp. 151-162

Lee Soltow and Dean L. May

Mobilizing slack resources for economic development: The summer-fall rearing technology of sericulture in Japan pp. 163-181

Le Thanh Nghiep and Yujiro Hayami

Accumulation and discrimination in the postbellum South pp. 182-206

Stephen DeCanio

Growth and welfare in the American South of the nineteenth century pp. 207-236

Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch

Volume 16, issue 1, 1979

Editor's introduction pp. 1-2

James F. Shepherd

Introductory remarks pp. 3-7

William N. Parker

N kinds of freedom: An introduction to the issues pp. 8-30

Claudia Goldin

White land, black labor, and agricultural stagnation: The causes and effects of sharecropping in the postbellum South pp. 31-55

Joseph Reid

Freedom and coercion: Notes on the analysis of debt peonage in One Kind of Freedom pp. 56-63

Peter Temin

Credit merchandising in the post-emancipation south: Structure, conduct, and performance pp. 64-89

Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch

Freedom and the Southern economy pp. 90-108

Gavin Wright