Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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