Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2022

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Volume 15, issue 4, 1978

Predatory price cutting: The standard oil of New Jersey case revisited pp. 341-367

Randall Mariger

Economic growth in the seventeenth-century chesapeake pp. 368-387

Terry L. Anderson and Robert Paul Thomas

A new perspective on the spanish price revolution: The monetary approach to the balance of payments pp. 388-406

Dennis O. Flynn

Indirect price increases and real wages during world war II pp. 407-420

Hugh Rockoff

Yeomen farmers and economic democracy: A study of wealth and economic mobility in the western tobacco region, 1850 to 1860 pp. 421-437

Donald Schaefer

Volume 15, issue 3, 1978

The welfare effects of the antebellum tariff: A general equilibrium analysis pp. 231-256

John James

The Ames-Rosenberg hypothesis and the role of natural resources in the production technology pp. 257-268

V. Smith

Fecundity, infanticide, and food consumption in Japan pp. 269-289

Carl Mosk

The growth of population and labor force in the 17th-century Chesapeake pp. 290-312

Terry L. Anderson and Robert Paul Thomas

Profitability and timing of parliamentary land enclosures pp. 313-326

Jack J. Purdum

Slavery, freedom, and the elasticity of substitution pp. 327-337

Mark D. Schmitz and Donald F. Schaefer

Volume 15, issue 2, 1978

Money and the Great Depression: A critique of professor Temin's thesis pp. 127-145

Thomas Mayer

Sectoral shift in antebellum Massachusetts: A reconsideration pp. 146-171

Alexander Field

Enclosure and labor supply revisited pp. 172-183

Nicholas Crafts

Cost functions of postbellum national banks pp. 184-195

John James

Share contracting for California Gold pp. 196-210

William Hallagan

Relative earnings of native- and foreign-born women pp. 211-220

Martha Norby Fraundorf

An econometric examination of the English parliamentary enclosure movement pp. 221-228

Peter D. Linneman

Volume 15, issue 1, 1978

Introduction pp. 1-10

Kozo Yamamura

Freight rates and productivity in ocean transportation for Japan, 1875-1943 pp. 11-39

Yasukichi Yasuba

The supply of quality workers and the demand for quality in jobs in Japan's early industrialization pp. 40-68

Gary Saxonhouse

Productivity, subsistence, and by-employment in the mid-nineteenth century Chsh pp. 69-83

Shunsaku Nishikawa

The labor market in Tokugawa Japan: Wage differentials and the real wage level, 1727-1830 pp. 84-100

Osamu Saito

The Tokugawa monetary policy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries pp. 101-124

Takehiko Ohkura and Hiroshi Shimbo

Volume 14, issue 4, 1977

Export instability in historical perspective pp. 293-310

John Hanson

Inflation and the wage lag during the American Civil War pp. 311-336

Stephen DeCanio and Joel Mokyr

Returns to scale in antebellum United States manufacturing pp. 337-359

Jeremy Atack

Immigration and the colonial labor system an analysis of the length of indenture pp. 360-377

David Galenson

The role of breadstuffs in American trade, 1770-1790 pp. 378-387

Geoffrey Gilbert

Interrelations of population density, urbanization, literacy, and fertility pp. 388-401

Don R. Leet

Fenoaltea on open fields: A comment pp. 402-404

Deirdre McCloskey

Fenoaltea on open fields: A reply pp. 405-410

Stefano Fenoaltea

Volume 14, issue 3, 1977

The California gold rush: A study of emerging property rights pp. 197-226

John Umbeck

Determinants of the rate of parliamentary enclosure pp. 227-249

Nicholas Crafts

Racial discrimination and occupational attainment at the turn of the century pp. 250-276

Edward Meeker and James Kau

Who benefited from the prosperity of the twenties? pp. 277-289

Charles F. Holt

Volume 14, issue 2, 1977

The North Pacific Seal Hunt, 1886-1910: Rights and regulations pp. 97-119

D. G. Paterson

The cotton industry and southern urbanization, 1880-1930 pp. 120-140

Kenneth Weiher

National bias in the Austrian capital market before World War I pp. 141-166

David F. Good

Cotton, corn, and risk in the nineteenth century: Another view pp. 167-182

Robert McGuire and Robert Higgs

Cotton, corn, and risk in the nineteenth century: A reply pp. 183-195

Gavin Wright and Howard Kunreuther

Volume 14, issue 1, 1977

Relative downward industrial price flexibility, 1870-1921 pp. 1-19

Austin H. Spencer

The income effects of the sources of new money: A comparison of the United States and the United Kingdom, 1870-1913 pp. 20-43

Michael Bordo

Diversification and concentration of LDC exports: Victorian trends pp. 44-68

John Hanson

The interest rate and prices in Britain, 1873-1913: A study of the Gibson Paradox pp. 69-89

Knick Harley

Regional interest rates and bank failures, 1870-1914 pp. 90-95

Hugh Rockoff

Volume 13, issue 4, 1976

The transition from indentured to involuntary servitude in colonial Georgia pp. 353-370

Ralph Gray and Betty Wood

Growing-up and the industrial revolution in Europe pp. 371-396

Joel Mokyr

Economic change after the American Revolution: Pre- and post-war comparisons of maritime shipping and trade pp. 397-422

James F. Shepherd and Gary M. Walton

Cattlemen's associations and property rights in land in the American West pp. 423-436

R. Taylor Dennen

U. S. gold production prior to the California gold rush pp. 437-449

David A. Martin

Relative skill and income levels of native and foreign born workers: A reexamination pp. 451-461

Peter R. Shergold

Parliamentary enclosure and population change in England, 1750-1830 pp. 463-468

Michael Turner

Reply to parliamentary enclosure and population change in England, 1750-1830 pp. 469-471

Gordon Philpot

Volume 13, issue 3, 1976

French industrialization: A reconsideration pp. 233-281

Richard Roehl

Realized rates of return on U.K. Home and overseas portfolio investment in the age of high imperialism pp. 283-329

Michael Edelstein

English farming profits during the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815 pp. 331-345

Glenn Hueckel

European historical statistics and economic growth pp. 347-351

Herman van der Wee

Volume 13, issue 2, 1976

Risk, transaction costs, and the organization of medieval agriculture pp. 129-151

Stefano Fenoaltea

Participation of blacks and immigrants in the American Merchant class, 1890-1910: Some demographic relations pp. 153-164

Robert Higgs

On returns to scale and input substitutability in slave agriculture pp. 165-178

Thomas M. Zepp

Sources of capital and expenditures for internal improvements in a developing region: The case of Wisconsin Lake Ports, 1836-1910 pp. 179-201

Jerome K. Laurent

Regional differences in real wages: The United States, 1851-1880 pp. 203-230

Philip Coelho and James F. Shepherd

Volume 13, issue 1, 1976

Health, work, and leisure before the industrial revolution pp. 1-12

Herman Freudenberger and Gaylord Cummins

Mortality trends of southern blacks, 1850-1910: Some preliminary findings pp. 13-42

Edward Meeker

Economic change and the demise of the Roman Empire pp. 43-68

Gerald Gunderson

Antebellum southern rental contracts pp. 69-83

Joseph Reid

Railroads in Tsarist Russia: Direct gains and implications pp. 85-111

Jacob Metzer

The welfare costs of bilateralism: German-Hungarian trade, 1933-1938 pp. 113-125

Philip Friedman