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_115: The High wage Economy and the Industrial Revolution: A Restatement

Robert Allen

_114: Labour and Health in Colonial Nigeria

James Fenske and Vellore Arthi

_113: Slavery, the British Atlantic Economy and the Industrial Revolution

Knick Harley

_112: 'The curse of the Caribbean'? Agency's impact on the efficiency of sugar estates in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1814-1829

S.D.Smith and Martin Forster

_111: British and European Industrialization

Knick Harley

_110: War, Blockades, and Hunger: Nutritional Deprivation of German Children 1914-1924

Mary Elisabeth Cox

_109: Financing Japan's World War II Occupation of Southeast Asia

Gregg Huff and Shinobu Majima

_108: "Rubber will not keep in this country": Failed Development in Benin, 1897-1921

James Fenske

_107: The Battle for Rubber in Benin

James Fenske

_106: From Empire to Europe: Britain in the World Economy

Kevin O'Rourke

_105: Social Capital in Decline: Friendly Societies in Australia, 1850-1914

Arthur Downing

_104: The Evolution of British Monetarism: 1968-1979

Aled Davies

_103: The Economy of Obligation: Incomplete Contracts and the Cost of the Welfare State

Avner Offer

_102: A Warrant for Pain: Caveat Emptor vs. the Duty of Care in American Medicine, c. 1970-2010

Avner Offer

_101: Self-interest, Sympathy and the Invisible Hand: From Adam Smith to Market Liberalism

Avner Offer

_099: Real Wages and the Family: Adjusting Real Wages to Changing Demography in Pre-Modern England

Eric Schneider

_098: From Slums to Slums in Three Generations; Housing Policy and the Political Economy of the Welfare State, 1945-2005

Harold Carter

_097: Prices and Production: Agricultural Supply Response in Fourteenth-Century England

Eric Schneider

_096: Gateway Cities and Urbanisation in Southeast Asia Before World War II

Gregg Huff

_095: Right Wing Political Extremism in the Great Depression

Kevin O'Rourke, Alan de Bromhead and Barry Eichengreen

_094: Italy and the First Age of Globalization, 1861-1940

Kevin O'Rourke and Harold James

_093: Bank on Steel? Joint-Stock Banks and the Rationalisation of the British Interwar Steel Industry

Florian Ploeckl and Simon C. Holmes

_092: Coping with Shocks and Shifts: The Multilateral Trading System in Historical Perspective

Kevin O'Rourke and Douglas Irwin

_091: The Lure of Aggregates and the Pitfalls of the Patriarchal Perspective: A Critique of the High Wage Economy Interpretation of the British Industrial Revolution

Jane Humphries

_090: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Yield-Raising Strategies in Medieval England: An Econometric Approach

Eric Schneider

_089: The Political Economy of Global Financial Liberalisation in Historical Perspective

Rui Esteves

_088: The determinants of Italy's regional imbalances over the long run: exploring the contributions of human and social capital

Emanuele Felice

_087: The Importance of Ideology: the Shift to Factory Production and its Effect on Women's Employment Opportunities in the English Textile Industries

Paul Minoletti

_086: 'The Paradox of Success': The Effect of Growth, Competition and Managerial Self-Interest on Building Society Risk-Taking and Market Structure, c.1880-1939

Luke Samy

_085: Medics, Monarchs and Mortality, 1600-1800: Origins of the Knowledge-Driven Health Transition in Europe

S. Ryan Johansson

_084: The Zollverein and the Formation of a Customs Union

Florian Ploeckl

_083: The Demography of an Early Mortality Transition: Life Expectancy, Survival and Mortality Rates for Britain's Royals, 1500-1799

Paul David, S. Ryan Johansson and Andrea Pozzi

_082: Obesity under affluence varies by welfare regimes: The effect of fast food, insecurity, and inequality

Avner Offer, Rachel Pechey and Stanley Ulijaszek

_081: Prices and Profits in Cotton Textiles During the Industrial Revolution

Knick Harley

_080: Mean Reversion in Long-Horizon Real Exchange Rates: Evidence from Latin America

Pablo Astorga

_079: Risk, Asset Markets and Inequality: Evidence from Medieval England

Cliff T. Bekar and Clyde Reed

_078: The Price of Time and Labour Supply: From the Black Death to the Industrious Revolution

Mark Koyama

_077: Medical Liability Litigation: An Historical Look at the Causes for Its Growth in the United Kingdom

David Chacko

_076: The Name of the Rose: Classifying 1930s Exchange-Rate Regimes

Scott Andrew Urban

_075: A Century of Economic Growth in Latin America

Pablo Astorga

_074: British Manual Workers: From Producers to Consumers, c. 1950-2000

Avner Offer

_073: To Take or to Make? Contracting for Legitimacy in the Emerging States of Twelfth-Century Britain

Leigh A. Gardner

_072: The Building Society Promise: Building Societies and Home Ownership, c.1880-1913

Luke Samy

_071: When Smaller Families Look Contagious: A Spatial Look at the French Fertility Decline Using an Agent-Based Simulation Model

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon and Tommy Murphy

_070: Charles Feinstein (1932-2005), and British Historical National Accounts

Avner Offer

_069: Domestic Trade and Market Size in Late Eighteenth-Century France

Guillaume Daudin

_068: India and the Great Divergence: Assessing the Efficiency of Grain Markets in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century India

Roman Studer

_067: From Preventive to Permissive Checks: The Changing Nature of the Malthusian Relationship Between Nuptiality and the Price of Provisions in the Nineteenth Century

Paul Sharp and Jacob Weisdorf

_066: Cities, Market Integration and Going to Sea: Stunting and the Standard of Living in Early Nineteenth-Century England and Wales

Jane Humphries and Tim Leunig

_065: Bargaining for Absolutism: A Spanish Path to Nation State and Empire Building

Regina Grafe and Alejandra Irigoin