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77: Human Development as Positive Freedom: Latin America in Historical Perspective

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

76: National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective

Mikołaj Malinowski and Jan Luiten van Zanden

75: Did Climate Change Influence English Agricultural Development? (1645-1740)

José L. Martínes-González

74: Agricultural Risk and the Spread of Religious Communities

Philipp Ager and Antonio Ciccone

73: Participative Political Institutions and City Development 800Ð1800

Fabian Wahl

72: UK Corporate Law and Corporate Governance before 1914: a Re-interpretation

James Foreman-Peck and Leslie Hannah

71: Contracts and cooperation: The relative failure of the Irish dairy industry in the late nineteenth century reconsidered

Ingrid Henriksen, Eoin McLaughlin and Paul Sharp

70: The Heavy Plough and the Agricultural Revolution in Medieval Europe

Thomas Andersen, Peter Jensen and Christian Skovsgaard

69: Origins of Political Change Ñ The Case of Late Medieval Guild Revolts

Fabian Wahl

68: Effects of Agricultural Productivity Shocks on Female Labor Supply: Evidence from the Boll Weevil Plague in the US South

Philipp Ager, Markus Brückner and Benedikt Herz

67: Accounting for the Size of Nations: Empirical Determinants of Secessions and the Soviet Breakup

Marvin Suesse

66: How the Danes Discovered Britain: The International Integration of the Danish Dairy Industry Before 1880

Markus Lampe and Paul Sharp

65: New crops, local soils and urbanization: Clover, potatoes and the growth of Danish market towns,1672-1901

Torben Schmidt, Peter Jensen and Amber Naz

64: Longevity and the Rise of the West: Lifespans of the European Elite, 800-1800

Neil Cummins

63: Creative Destruction: Chinese GDP per capita from the Han Dynasty to Modern Times

Kent Deng and Patrick Karl O’Brien

62: The Drivers of Long-run CO2 Emissions: A Global Perspective since 1800

Sofia Henriques and Karol Borowiecki

61: State dissolution, sovereign debt and default:Lessons from the UK and Ireland, 1920-1938

Nathan Foley-Fisher and Eoin McLaughlin

60: Mismeasuring Long Run Growth. The Bias from Spliced National Accounts

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

59: Paving the way to modernity: Prussian roads and grain market integration in Westphalia, 1821-1855

Martin Uebele and Daniel Gallardo-Albarrán

58: Fertility and early-life mortality: Evidence from smallpox vaccination in Sweden

Philipp Ager, Casper Hansen and Peter Jensen

57: Breaking the Unbreakable Union: Nationalism, Trade Disintegration and the Soviet Economic Collapse

Marvin Suesse

56: The Danish Agricultural Revolution in an Energy Perspective: A Case of Development with Few Domestic Energy Sources

Sofia Henriques and Paul Sharp

55: Just Add Milk: A Productivity Analysis of the Revolutionary Changes in Nineteenth Century Danish Dairying

Markus Lampe and Paul Sharp

54: Economic Freedom in the Long Run: Evidence from OECD Countries (1850-2007)

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

53: Debt Dilution in 1920s America: Lighting the Fuse of a Mortgage Crisis

Natacha Postel-Vinay

52: How did the capital market evaluate Germany’s prospects for winning World War I? Evidence from the Amsterdam market for government bonds

Tobias A. Jopp

51: Market potential estimates in history: a survey of methods and an application to Spain, 1867-1930

Julio Martinez-Galarraga

50: Bank Deregulation, Competition and Economic Growth: The US Free Banking Experience

Philipp Ager and Fabrizio Spargoli

49: Does Welfare Spending Crowd Out Charitable Activity? Evidence from Historical England under the Poor Laws

Nina Boberg-Fazlic and Paul Sharp

48: Understanding Spanish Financial crises, 1850-2000: What determined their severity?

Concha Betrán and María A. Pons

47: Agglomeration Economies in Classical Music

Karol Borowiecki

46: Where is the Backward Peasant? Regional Crop Yields on Common and Private Land in Russia 1883-1913

Michael Kopsidis, Katja Bruisch and Daniel Bromley

45: The Location of the UK Cotton Textiles Industry in 1838: a Quantitative Analysis

Nicholas Crafts and Nikolaus Wolf

44: Understanding Rating Addiction: US Courts and the Origins of Rating Agencies' Regulatory License (1900-1940)

Marc Flandreau and Joanna Kinga Sławatyniec

43: Greasing the Wheels of Rural Transformation? Margarine and the Competition for the British Butter Market

Markus Lampe and Paul Sharp

42: Locomotives of Local Growth: The Short- and Long-Term Impact of Railroads in Sweden

Thor Berger and Kerstin Enflo

41: Waterloo: a Godsend for French Public Finances?

Kim Oosterlinck, Loredana Ureche-Rangau and Jacques-Marie Vaslin

40: Siting the New Economic Science: The Cowles Commission’s Activity Analysis Conference of June 1949

Till Düppe and E. Roy Weintraub

39: Agricultural development during early industrialization in a low-wage economy: Saxony, c. 1790-1830

Michael Kopsidis and Ulrich Pfister

38: The Persistence of de Facto Power: Elites and Economic Development in the US South, 1840-1960

Philipp Ager

37: North and South: Social Mobility and Welfare Spending in Preindustrial England

Nina Boberg-Fazlic and Paul Sharp

36: Household Debt and Economic Recovery Evidence from the U.S. Great Depression

Katharina Gärtner

35: Predicting the Past: Understanding the Causes of Bank Distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s

Christopher Colvin, Abe de Jong and Philip Fliers

34: World Human Development: 1870-2007

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

33: Farmer Families at the Heart of the Educational Revolution: Which Occupational Group Inherited Human Capital in the Early Modern Era?

Franziska Tollnek and Joerg Baten

32: Monetary policy without interest rates. Evidence from France’s Golden Age (1948-1973) using a narrative approach

Eric Monnet

31: Rearmament to the Rescue? New Estimates of the Impact of ‘Keynesian’ Policies in 1930s’ Britain

Nicholas Crafts and Terence C. Mills

30: Housing Markets during the Rural-Urban Transition: Evidence from early 20th Century Spain

Juan Carmona, Markus Lampe and Joan Rosés

29: Coping with Regional Inequality in Sweden: Structural Change, Migrations and Policy, 1860-2000

Kerstin Enflo and Joan Rosés

28: Peasant Agriculture and Economic Growth: The Case of Southeast Europe c. 1870-1940 reinterpreted

Michael Kopsidis