Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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