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90: Spanish Land Reform in the 1930s: Economic Necessity or Political Opportunism?

Juan Carmona, Joan Rosés and James Simpson

89: Risen from Chaos: What drove the spread of Mass Education in the early 20th century China

Pei Gao

88: A city of trades: Spanish and Italian Immigrants in Late Nineteenth Century Buenos Aires. Argentina

Leticia Arroyo Abad and Blanca Sánschez-Alonso

87: A closer look at the long-term patterns of regional income inequality in Spain: the poor stay poor (and stay together)

Daniel Tirado-Fabregat, Alfonso Díez-Minguela and Julio Martinez-Galarraga

86: Did monetary forces cause the Hungarian crises of 1931?

Flora Macher

85: Did closures do any good? Labour productivity, mine dynamics, and rationalization in interwar Ruhr coal-mining

Tobias Jopp

84: Any lessons for today? Exchange-rate stabilisation in Greece and South-East Europe between economic and political objectives and fiscal reality, 1841-1939

Matthias Morys

83: Size and structure of disaster relief when state capacity is limited: China’s 1823 flood

Ni Yuping and Martin Uebele

82: Was Gerschenkron right? Bulgarian agricultural growth during the Interwar period in light of modern development economics

Michael Kopsidis and Martin Ivanov

81: A Note on Danish Living Standards through Historical Wage Series, 1731-1913

Ekaterina Khaustova and Paul Sharp

80: Agriculture in Europe's Little Divergence: The Case of Spain

Carlos Álvarez-Nogal, Leandro Prados de la Escosura and Carlos Santiago-Caballero

79: Equity short-term finance under Philip II, with an option to long-term funded debt

Carlos Álvarez-Nogal and Christophe Chamley

78: Inequality and poverty in a developing economy: Evidence from regional data (Spain, 1860-1930)

Francisco Beltrán Tapia and Julio Martinez-Galarrage

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