Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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