Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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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

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

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

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

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