Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2022

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Volume 12, issue 4, 1975

Editorial introduction pp. 333-334

Gary M. Walton

The treatment received by American slaves: A critical review of the evidence presented in Time on the Cross pp. 335-438

Richard Sutch

Slavery and the cotton boom pp. 439-451

Gavin Wright

The slave exploitation (expropriation) rate pp. 453-457

Richard K. Vedder

Volume 12, issue 3, 1975

Profitability in southern manufacturing: Estimates for 1860 pp. 211-231

Fred Bateman, James Foust and Thomas Weiss

The old poor law revisited pp. 233-252

G. S. L. Tucker

Introduction of the symposium pp. 253-261

Morris David Morris

Railways and the expansion of markets in India, 1861-1921 pp. 263-288

John Hurd

The effects of expansion of markets on rural income distribution in nineteenth century India pp. 289-302

Michelle Burge McAlpin

The peasant farm in North India, 1848-1968 pp. 303-331

Tom G. Kessinger

Volume 12, issue 2, 1975

The gold crisis of 1869: Stabilizing or destabilizing speculation under floating exchange rates? pp. 105-122

Larry T. Wimmer

Rational management, modern business practices, and economies of scale in the ante-bellum southern plantations pp. 123-150

Jacob Metzer

Wealth estimates for the New England Colonies, 1650-1709 pp. 151-176

Terry L. Anderson

Industrial prices and inflation in southern England, 1401-1640 pp. 177-192

Robert A. Doughty

Institutional Change and American Economic Growth: A critique of Davis and North pp. 193-210

Alan Olmstead and Victor P. Goldberg

Volume 12, issue 1, 1975

The impact of the Civil War and of emancipation on Southern agriculture pp. 1-28

Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch

Enclosure and population growth in eighteenth-century England pp. 29-46

Gordon Philpot

Relative skill and income levels of native and foreign born workers in the United States pp. 47-60

Peter J. Hill

Educational slowdown and public intervention in 19th-century England: A study in the economics of bureaucracy pp. 61-87

E. G. West

Southern ante-bellum income reconsidered pp. 89-99

Robert E. Gallman

Southern income reconsidered: A reply pp. 101-102

Gerald Gunderson

Volume 11, issue 4, 1974

Introduction pp. 317-324

Deirdre McCloskey

The United Kingdom and the world market in wheat and other primary products, 1885-1914 pp. 325-355

Mancur Olson

Migration to the new world: Long term influences and impact pp. 357-389

Jeffrey Williamson

Skilled labour and the choice of technique in Edwardian industry pp. 391-414

Knick Harley

Foreign investment, trade and growth in the United Kingdom, 1870-1913 pp. 415-444

W. P. Kennedy

Volume 11, issue 3, 1974

The emergence of a futures market for foreign exchange in the United States pp. 193-211

Edwin J. Perkins

The distribution of the immigrant population in the United States: an economic analysis pp. 213-226

Lowell E. Gallaway, Richard K. Vedder and Vishwa Shukla

Metallism, small notes, and Jackson's War with the B.U.S pp. 227-247

David A. Martin

United States railroad inventions' investment since 1870 pp. 249-270

Trevor J. O. Dick

The upper turning point of 1920: A reappraisal pp. 271-298

John D. Pilgrim

A note on European migration to the United States: A cross spectral analysis pp. 299-310

Barry W. Poulson and James Holyfield

The Ames-Rosenberg hypothesis revisited pp. 311-314

David Klingaman, Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway

The Ames-Rosenberg hypothesis revisited: A rejoinder pp. 315-316

Paul Uselding

Volume 11, issue 2, 1974

Tariff policy and income distribution: The case of the United States 1830-1860 pp. 103-121

Bennett D Baack and Edward J Ray

Long range trends of wealth distribution in eighteenth century New England pp. 123-135

Bruce C Daniels

The impact of the rural market on the growth of the urban workforce: United States, 1870-1900 pp. 137-153

John Ermisch and Thomas Weiss

The Union Pacific Railroad and the railroad land grant controversy pp. 155-172

Heywood Fleisig

Postwar optimism and the rural financial crisis of the 1920's pp. 173-192

H. Thomas Johnson

Volume 11, issue 1, 1974

Tariff policy and comparative advantage in the iron and steel industry: 1870-1929 pp. 3-23

Bennett D. Baack and Edward John Ray

The decline of steamboating on the ante-bellum western rivers: Some new evidence and an alternative hypothesis pp. 25-36

Erik F. Haites and James Mak

The management of reserves by ante-bellum banks in eastern financial centers pp. 37-53

Roger H. Hinderliter and Hugh Rockoff

Biased technical progress in American manufacturing, 1839-1899 pp. 55-72

Paul Uselding and Bruce Juba

Saturation in the automobile market in the late twenties: Some further results pp. 73-85

P. J. George and E. H. Oksanen

Estimates of national income and product, 1919-1941: The best of all possible worlds pp. 87-88

Robert R. Keller

Wage rates in the iron industry: A comment pp. 89-94

Donald Adams

More on wage rates in the iron industry: A reply pp. 95-99

Jeffrey F. Zabler

Volume 10, issue 4, 1973

Papers from the Second Anglo-American Conference on New Economic History pp. 321-321

Peter Lindert, Morton Rothstein and Jeffrey Williamson

Introduction pp. 323-325

Roderick Floud

Eighteenth-century economic growth revisited pp. 327-348

W. A. Cole

The role of capital in the industrial revolution pp. 349-364

Phyllis Deane

War and the British economy, 1793-1815 a general equilibrium analysis pp. 365-396

Glenn Hueckel

The adoption of coke-smelting by the British iron industry, 1709-1790 pp. 397-418

Charles K. Hyde

New perspectives on the old poor law pp. 419-436

Deirdre McCloskey

Dimensions of illiteracy, 1750-1850 pp. 437-454

R. S. Schofield

Volume 10, issue 3, 1973

Skilled labor and nineteenth century Anglo-American managerial behavior pp. 235-251

Dagobert Brito and Jeffrey Williamson

The profitability of imperialism: The British experience in the West indies 1768-1772 pp. 253-280

Philip Coelho

The adoption of the hot blast by the British iron industry: A reinterpretation pp. 281-293

Charles K. Hyde

Housing surplus in the 1920s? Another evaluation pp. 295-303

Lloyd J. Mercer and W. Douglas Morgan

American banking and growth in the nineteenth century: Epistemological reflections pp. 305-314

Fritz Redlich

Economic history von unten nach oben and von oben nach unten: A reply to Fritz Redlich pp. 315-318

Richard Sylla

Volume 10, issue 2, 1973

The Horndal effect in lowell, 1834-1856: A short-run learning curve for integrated cotton textile mills pp. 131-150

Paul David

Southern ante-bellum income reconsidered pp. 151-176

Gerald Gunderson

Mortality in rural America, 1870-1920: Estimates and conjectures pp. 177-195

Robert Higgs

Full-employment surplus analysis and structural change: The 1930s pp. 197-210

Larry C. Peppers

Railroads, irrigation, and economic growth: The San Joaquin Valley of California pp. 211-227

John A. Shaw

Migration and urban development: A reappraisal of British and American long cycles: Brinley Thomas, (London: Methuen and Co., 1972), xvi, 259 pages, $6.75 paper, $13.50 cloth pp. 229-232

Jeffrey Williamson

Volume 10, issue 1, 1972

Factors affecting the diffusion of technology pp. 3-33

Nathan Rosenberg

Scale economies, inventive activity, and the economics of American population growth pp. 35-52

Allen C. Kelley

Estimates of national product and income for the United States economy, 1919-1941 pp. 53-73

Joseph Swanson and S. H. Williamson

A scale analysis of nineteenth-century industrialization pp. 75-107

Jurg K. Siegenthaler

Further evidence on American wage differentials, 1800-1830 pp. 109-117

Jeffrey F. Zabler

The reinterpretation of American Economic History: Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, eds. (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), xiv, 494 pages, $12.95 pp. 119-127

J. R. T. Hughes

American economic growth, an economist's history of the United States: Lance E. Davis, Richard A. Easterlin, William N. Parker, Dorothy S. Brady, Albert Fishlow, Robert E. Gallman, Stanley Lebergott, Robert E. Lipsey, Douglass C. North, Nathan Rosenberg, Eugene Smolenksy, and Peter Temin, (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), xvi, 683 pages, $13.95 pp. 119-127

J. R. T. Hughes