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June 2009, Volume 69, Issue 2
- 388-408 The Transformation of Hunger: The Demand for Calories Past and Present
by Logan, Trevon D. - 409-445 Charting the “Rise of the West”: Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, A Long-Term Perspective from the Sixth through Eighteenth Centuries
by Buringh, Eltjo & Van Zanden, Jan Luiten - 446-465 Intensified Regulatory Scrutiny and Bank Distress in New York City During the Great Depression
by Richardson, Gary & Van Horn, Patrick - 466-499 The Opportunity of a Disaster: The Economic Impact of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake
by Pereira, Alvaro S. - 500-527 Cartels, Managerial Incentives, and Productive Efficiency in German Coal Mining, 1881–1913
by Burhop, Carsten & Lübbers, Thorsten - 569-586 Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting
by Anonymous - 587-592 Abstracts of Posters Presented at the Annual Meeting
by Anonymous - 598-599 Peasants and Production in the Medieval Northeast: The Evidence from Tithes, 1270–1536. By Ben Dodds. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2007. Pp. 204. $85.00, cloth
by Grantham, George - 599-601 Growth and Business Cycles: Swedish Manufacturing Industry, 1952–2001. (Lund Studies in Economic History 37). By Camilla Josephson. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2005. $89.50, paper
by Bergman, Michael - 601-602 A Revolution in Commerce: The Parisian Merchant Court and the Rise of Commercial Society in Eighteenth-Century France. By Amalia D. Kessler. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 389. $55.00, cloth
by Klerman, Daniel - 603-604 Technology, Innovation, and Southern Industrialization: From the Antebellum Era to the Computer Age. Edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 215. $24.95, paper
by Coclanis, Peter A. - 604-606 The Race Between Education and Technology. By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. vi, 488. $39.95, cloth
by Wright, Gavin - 606-608 One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe. By Robert E. Wright. New York: McGraw Hill, 2008. Pp. vii, 419. $28, cloth
by Rousseau, Peter L. - 608-609 A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture Since 1929. By Paul K. Conkin. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. Pp. xiv, 223. $29.95
by Olmstead, Alan L. - 609-611 Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War. By Thomas G. Andrews. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. x, 386. $29.95
by Boal, William M. - 611-613 Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt. By Sean Safford. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. 212. $29.95, cloth
by Meyer, David R. - 613-614 A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States. By John H. Wood. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. index, 439
by Toniolo, Gianni
March 2009, Volume 69, Issue 1
- 1-47 Time Spent in Home Production in the Twentieth-Century United States: New Estimates from Old Data
by Ramey, Valerie A. - 48-103 Fiscal Centralization, Limited Government, and Public Revenues in Europe, 1650–1913
by Dincecco, Mark - 104-137 Coercion, Culture, and Contracts: Labor and Debt on Henequen Haciendas in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1915
by Alston, Lee J. & Mattiace, Shannan & Nonnenmacher, Tomas - 138-171 Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan
by Mitchener, Kris James & Ohnuki, Mari - 172-201 Why did Education Become Publicly Funded? Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century Growth of Public Primary Schooling in the United States
by Stoddard, Christiana - 202-237 Nationalizations and the Development of Transport Systems: Cross-Country Evidence from Railroad Networks, 1860–1912
by Bogart, Dan - 238-268 Economic Opportunity or Hardship? The Causes of Geographic Mobility on the Agricultural Frontier, 1860–1880
by Stewart, James I. - 269-302 Determinants of Primary Schooling in British India
by Chaudhary, Latika - 312-316 The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. By Adam Tooze. London and New York: Allen Lane for Penguin, 2006. Pp. xvii, 800. $30
by Gordon, Robert J. - 317-318 The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve: A History. By Robert L. Hetzel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 390. $50
by Romer, Christina D. - 319-320 Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860. By Paul F. Paskoff. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 324. $48.00, cloth
by Atack, Jeremy - 320-322 Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. By Janet L. Abu-Loghod. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 344. $35.00, cloth
by Myers, Daniel J. - 322-323 Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective. By Istvan Hont. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 541. $50
by Kohn, Meir - 324-325 Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. By Thomas K. McCraw. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 719. $35
by Rhode, Paul W. - 325-326 Commercial Banking and Economic Development: The Lebanese Experience, 1856–1974. By Ali Abou Zeinab. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 2006. Pp. xii, 190. SEK262
by Owen, Roger
December 2008, Volume 68, Issue 4
- 951-996 Ordinary Economic Voting Behavior in the Extraordinary Election of Adolf Hitler
by King, Gary & Rosen, Ori & Tanner, Martin & Wagner, Alexander F. - 997-1027 Migrating to Riches? Evidence from the California Gold Rush
by Clay, Karen & Jones, Randall - 1028-1058 Steers Afloat: The North Atlantic Meat Trade, Liner Predominance, and Freight Rates, 1870–1913
by Harley, C. Knick - 1059-1097 Corruption, Quasi-Rents, and the Regulation of Electric Utilities
by Neufeld, John L. - 1098-1122 “Una fiera senza luogo”: Was Bisenzone an International Capital Market in Sixteenth-Century Italy?
by Pezzolo, Luciano & Tattara, Giuseppe - 1123-1171 Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy
by Olmstead, Alan L. & Rhode, Paul W. - 1172-1176 Did Corliss Steam Engines Fuel Urban Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century? Less Sanguine Results
by Abrams, Burton A. & Li, Jing & Mulligan, James G. - 1177-1179 Editors' Notes
by Anonymous - 1180-1181 A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. By Gregory Clark. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 420. $29.95, cloth
by Vries, Jan De - 1182-1183 Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History. By Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $29.00, cloth
by Eloranta, Jari - 1183-1185 Natural Resources: Neither Curse nor Destiny. Edited by Daniel Lederman and William F. Maloney. Washington, DC: The World Bank and Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 369. $75.00, cloth; $29.95, paper
by Keay, Ian - 1185-1186 Artisan Workers in the Upper South, Petersburg, 1820–1865. By L. Diane Barnes. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. Pp. ix, 230. $37.50, cloth
by Ferrari, Mary - 1187-1188 Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island. By Robert Eric Barde. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008. Pp. xi, 283. $45.95, cloth
by Lee, Erika - 1188-1189 The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented America. By Maury Klein. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 520. $29.99, cloth
by Hausman, William J.
September 2008, Volume 68, Issue 3
- 645-685 When did Ownership Separate from Control? Corporate Governance in the Early Nineteenth Century
by Hilt, Eric - 686-721 What T. R. Took: The Economic Impact of the Panama Canal, 1903–1937
by Maurer, Noel & Yu, Carlos - 722-757 The Crisis of 1873: Perspectives from Multiple Asset Classes
by Mixon, Scott - 758-811 Mexican Exceptionalism: Globalization and De-Industrialization, 1750–1877
by González, Rafael Dobado & Galvarriato, Aurora Gómez & Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 812-831 The Effect of Geography and Vitamin D on African American Stature in the Nineteenth Century: Evidence from Prison Records
by Carson, Scott Alan - 832-861 Apprenticeship and Training in Premodern England
by Wallis, Patrick - 862-899 Health, Information, and Migration: Geographic Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1860–1880
by Lee, Chulhee - 900-929 Russian Living Standards under the Tsars: Anthropometric Evidence from the Volga
by Mironov, Boris & A'Hearn, Brian - 930-934 Resolving the Anglo-German Industrial Productivity Puzzle, 1895–1935: A Response to Professor Ritschl
by Broadberry, Stephen & Burhop, Carsten - 935-936 Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian. By Peter Sarris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 258. £80, cloth
by Coelho, Philip R. P. - 936-938 War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689–1900. By John V. C. Nye. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 174. $29.95, cloth
by Liebowitz, Jonathan J. - 938-940 The Economics of the Great Depression: A Twenty-First Century Look Back at the Economics of the Interwar Era. By Randall E. Parker. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2007. Pp. xi, 257. £69.95, cloth; £29.95, paper
by Collins, William J. - 940-941 Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: From Protectionism to Globalization. By Nitsan Chorev. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 242. $42.50
by Frieden, Jeffry - 941-943 For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America Since 1865. By Robert H. Zieger. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 276. $37.50
by Kersten, Andrew E. - 943-945 Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. By S. Max Edelson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 383. $45
by Mancall, Peter C. - 945-946 Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking. By Wilson J. Warren. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 317. $39.95
by Mayda, Chris - 946-948 Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia. By Andrew M. Schocket. De Kalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 274. $42.00
by Rousseau, Peter L. - 948-949 From Rights to Economics: The Ongoing Struggle for Black Equality in the U.S. South. By Timothy J. Minchin. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. Pp. xii, 212. $39.95
by Sundstrom, William A.
June 2008, Volume 68, Issue 2
- 339-354 Toward a More Useful Economic History
by Hohenberg, Paul M. - 355-392 Economic Growth in the Lower Yangzi Region of China in 1911–1937: A Quantitative and Historical Analysis
by Ma, Debin - 393-437 India and the Great Divergence: Assessing the Efficiency of Grain Markets in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century India
by Studer, Roman - 438-461 Banks, Credit Markets, and Early American Development: A Case Study of Entry and Competition
by Wang, Ta-Chen - 462-500 The Baring Crisis and the Great Latin American Meltdown of the 1890s
by Mitchener, Kris James & Weidenmier, Marc D. - 501-534 Advances in Communication Technology and Growth of the American Over-the-Counter Markets, 1876–1929
by Ferderer, J. Peter - 535-565 The Anglo-German Industrial Productivity Puzzle, 1895–1935: A Restatement and a Possible Resolution
by Ritschl, Albrecht - 603-617 Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting
by Anonymous - 618-620 Abstracts of Posters Presented at the Annual Meeting
by Anonymous - 626-627 London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Youssef Cassis and Éric Bussiere . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 367. £50
by Battilossi, Stefano - 628-629 The Re-Emergence of Global Finance. By Gary Burn. London: Palgrave, 2006. Pp. xii, 231
by Capie, Forrest - 629-632 The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America: Volume II: The Long Twentieth Century. Edited by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, John H. Coatsworth and Roberto Cortés Conde . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 755. $150
by Lewis, Colin M. - 632-635 The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy. By Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 181. $32.50
by Murphy, R. Taggart - 635-637 Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700–1860. By Laura Croghan Kamoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. Pp. x, 222. $35
by Adams, Sean Patrick - 637-638 The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry. By Lawrence E. Mitchell. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2007. Pp. ix, 395. $35
by Frydman, Carola - 639-640 The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865. By Mark R. Wilson. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 306. $45
by Majewski, John - 640-642 A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. By Stephen Mihm. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 457. $29.95
by Redenius, Scott A. - 642-644 Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor. By Edward S. Miller. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 323. $23
by Mitchener, Kris James
March 2008, Volume 68, Issue 1
- 1-45 How Much Can a Victor Force the Vanquished to Pay? France under the Nazi Boot
by Occhino, Filippo & Oosterlinck, Kim & White, Eugene N. - 46-79 Logistics, Market Size, and Giant Plants in the Early Twentieth Century: A Global View
by Hannah, Leslie - 80-108 Can Civil Law Countries Get Good Institutions? Lessons from the History of Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil
by Musacchio, Aldo - 109-150 The Contribution of Economists to Military Intelligence During World War II
by Guglielmo, Mark - 151-181 The Stability of the Interwar Gold Exchange Standard: Did Politics Matter?
by Wandschneider, Kirsten - 182-210 The Nitrogen Hypothesis and the English Agricultural Revolution: A Biological Analysis
by Allen, Robert C. - 211-243 Welfare State and Labor Mobility: The Impact of Bismarck's Social Legislation on German Emigration before World War I
by Khoudour-Castéras, David - 244-282 Korean Expansion and Decline from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century: A View Suggested by Adam Smith
by Ho, Jun Seong & Lewis, James B. & Han-Rog, Kang - 283-291 The Continental Dollar: How Much Was Really Issued?
by Grubb, Farley - 292-299 Editors' Notes
by Atack, Jeremy - 300-301 Economy and Economics of Ancient Greece. By Takeshi Amemiya. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xxiv, 184. $125
by Tandy, David - 302-303 A History of Scottish Economic Thought. Edited by A. Dow and S. Dow. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. vii, 261. $135
by Kragh, Martin - 303-305 The British Whaling Trade: Research in Maritime History Number 29. By Gordon Jackson. St. John's, NL: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2005. Pp. xvi, 293. Free to members of the association; $15.00 for nonmembers, paper
by Keay, Ian - 305-307 The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850–1914: Social Policies Compared. By E. P. Hennock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 381. $99, cloth; $35.99, paper
by Boyer, George R. - 307-308 The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany. By Jonathan R. Zatlin. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 377. $75
by Harrison, Mark - 309-310 Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung, Sozialstruktur und biologischer Lebensstandard in München und dem südlichen Bayern im 19. Jahrhundert. By Klaus Schuster. Studien zur Wirtschafts- -und Sozialgeschichte, Bd. 25. Pp. 287, illustration, tables, bibliography. St. Scripta Mercaturae Verlag St. Katharinen 2005. Euro 29
by Stegl, Mojgan - 310-311 Scott Lithgow: Déjà Vu All Over Again! The Rise and Fall of a Shipbuilding Company. By Lewis Johnman and Hugh Murphy. St. John's, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2005. Pp. xi, 364. $15.00, softback
by Arnold, Tony - 312-313 Owens Valley Revisited: A Reassessment of the West's First Great Water Transfer. By Gary D. Libecap. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 209. $24.95, paper
by Kahn, Matthew E. - 313-315 Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds. By John. E. Murray. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 313. $40
by Fishback, Price V. - 315-316 Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States. By Susan Porter Benson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 233. $45
by Cvrcek, Tomas - 317-318 The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public. By Sarah E. Igo. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 1, 398. $35
by Smith, Mark C. - 318-320 The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century. By Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 242. $50
by Troesken, Werner - 320-322 The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920. By Maury Klein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 224. $22.99, paper
by Kim, Sukkoo - 322-324 An American Planter: Steven Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York. By Mary Jane Brazy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2006. Pp. xiii, 232. $45
by Anderson, Aaron - 324-325 U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below. By Kim Moody. New York: Verso, 2007. Pp. xiii, 289. $29.95, paper
by Brueggemann, John - 325-328 The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. By Amity Shlaes. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007. Pp. x, 464. $26.95
by Fishback, Price V. - 328-329 Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation. By Peter Fearon. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 316. $44.95
by Rosenbloom, Joshua L. - 330-331 Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Capital Markets. By Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 11, 263. $27.95
by Sylla, Richard - 331-333 Emerging Markets and Financial Globalization: Sovereign Bond Spreads in 1870–1913 and Today. By Paolo Mauro, Nathan Sussman, and Yishay Yafeh. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 193. £20
by Musacchio, Aldo - 333-334 Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods: The Construction of an International Monetary Order. By Filippo Cesarano. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 248. GBP 51.00
by Wandschneider, Kirsten - 334-337 Market Services and the Productivity Race 1850–2000; British Performance in International Perspective. By Stephen Broadberry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 409. $101
by Foreman-Peck, James - 337-338 The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550–1624. Edited by Peter C. Mancall. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. vi, 596, $65, cloth; $27.50, paper
by Menard, Russell R.
December 2007, Volume 67, Issue 4
- 829-848 An Economic Interpretation of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 Revisited
by Heckelman, Jac C. & Dougherty, Keith L. - 849-883 The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots in American Cities: Evidence from Property Values
by Collins, William J. & Margo, Robert A. - 884-916 Running Out of Steam: Federal Inspection and Locomotive Safety, 1912–1940
by Aldrich, Mark - 917-943 Lost Decades: Postindependence Performance in Latin America and Africa
by Bates, Robert H. & Coatsworth, John H. & Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 944-967 Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush
by Allen, Douglas W. - 968-1000 Learning by Dying: Combat Performance in the Age of Sail
by Benjamin, Daniel K. & Tifrea, Anca - 1001-1035 The Burden of Early Exposure to Malaria in the United States, 1850–1860: Malnutrition and Immune Disorders
by Hong, Sok Chul - 1036-1061 The Impact of Globalization in the Roman Empire, 200 bc—ad 100
by Geraghty, Ryan M. - 1065-1066 Poverty in the Roman World. Edited by Margaret Atkins and Robin Osborne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 226. $90.00
by Osiek, Carolyn - 1066-1067 Strategie politiche ed economia feudale ai confini della Repubblica di Genova (secoli XVI–XVIII). Un buon negotio con qualche contrarietà. By Andrea Zanini. Genoa: Atti della Società Ligure di Storia Patria, n.s., XLV/3, 2005. Pp. 269, paper
by Kirk, Thomas A. - 1068-1069 At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400–1800. Edited by Paola Lanaro. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2006. Pp. 412. $32.00, paper
by de Lara, Yadira Gonzalez - 1069-1071 Market Makers and Market Takers: A History of Natural Fibres Textiles in the Central Apennine Region (the Marche and Umbria). By Robert S. DuPlessis. Bari: Mario Adda Editore, 2005. Pp. 172
by Ramaswamy, Vijaya - 1071-1076 The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America, vol. 1. “The Colonial Era and the Short Nineteenth Century.” Edited by V. Bulmer Thomas, J. H. Coatsworth, and R. Cortes Conde. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006
by Irigoin, Alejandra - 1076-1077 The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel. Edited by Peter A. Coclanis. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xix, 377. $49.95
by Smith, S. D. - 1078-1079 Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History. By Ian Baucom. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 387. $84.95, cloth; $23.95, paper
by Coclanis, Peter A. - 1079-1081 Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648–1834. By S. D. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 358. $99.00
by Anderson, Jennifer L. - 1081-1083 Government and the American Economy: A New History. By Price Fishback, Robert Higgs, Gary D. Libecap, John Joseph Wallis, Stanley L. Engerman, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Sumner J. La Croix, Robert A. Margo, Robert A. McGuire, Richard Sylla, Lee J. Alston, Joseph P. Ferrie, Mark Guglielmo, E. C. PasourJr., Randal R. Rucker, and Werner Troesken. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xix, 613. $85, cloth; $35, paper
by Collins, William J. - 1083-1085 Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to the Present. Edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 503. $45
by Meyer, David R. - 1085-1086 The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Great Britain since 1950. By Avner Offer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 454. $45.00, cloth; $25.00, paper
by Parr, Joy - 1086-1088 Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture. By Eric Jones. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 297. $29.95
by Grantham, George - 1088-1089 Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children. By Julia Lynch. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 223. $75.00, cloth; $24.99, paper
by Huberman, Michael
September 2007, Volume 67, Issue 3
- 551-581 Related Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico
by Maurer, Noel & Haber, Stephen - 582-607 Tariff Incidence in America's Gilded Age
by Irwin, Douglas A. - 608-642 Sons of Something: Taxes, Lawsuits, and Local Political Control in Sixteenth-Century Castile
by Drelichman, Mauricio - 643-671 The Check is in the Mail: Correspondent Clearing and the Collapse of the Banking System, 1930 to 1933
by Richardson, Gary - 672-703 Convergence or Decline on Europe's Southeastern Periphery? Agriculture, Population, and GNP in Bulgaria, 1892–1945
by Ivanov, Martin & Tooze, Adam - 705-739 The Highest Price Ever: The Great NYSE Seat Sale of 1928–1929 and Capacity Constraints
by Davis, Lance E. & Neal, Larry & White, Eugene - 740-767 American Military Interests and Economic Confidence in Spain under the Franco Dictatorship
by Calvo-Gonzalez, Oscar - 768-809 Not on My Farm! Resistance to Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication in the United States
by Olmstead, Alan L. & Rhode, Paul W. - 813-814 Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559–1684. By Thomas Allison Kirk. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 276. $49.95
by Zanini, Andrea - 814-816 Notorious Murders, Black Lanterns, Moveable Goods: The Transformation of Edinburgh's Underworld in the Early Nineteenth Century. By Deborah A. Symonds. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 180. $39.95
by Cage, R. A. - 816-817 Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich. By Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 2, 240. $25
by Grubb, Farley - 818-819 A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis. By Alan Lawson. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 280. $45.00, cloth; 19.95, paper
by Namorato, Michael V. - 819-821 Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II. By Andrew Kersten. New York: New York University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 273. $42
by Friedman, Gerald - 821-822 Networked Machinists: High Technology Industries in Antebellum America. By David R. Meyer. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 311. $49.95
by Moser, Petra - 823-824 The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster. By Werner Troesken. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. x, 318. $29.95
by Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw - 825-827 The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. By Deirdre N. McCloskey. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 616. $32.50
by Rothblatt, Sheldon - 827-828 Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800–2000. By Giovanni Federico. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 388. $45
by Ferleger, Louis
June 2007, Volume 67, Issue 2
- 257-291 The Assignment of Property Rights on the Western Frontier: Lessons for Contemporary Environmental and Resource Policy
by Libecap, Gary D. - 292-314 Investment and Diversification in the American Whaling Industry
by Hilt, Eric - 315-349 Comparative Productivity in British and German Manufacturing Before World War II: Reconciling Direct Benchmark Estimates and Time Series Projections
by Broadberry, Stephen & Burhop, Carsten - 350-378 British and German Manufacturing Productivity Compared: A New Benchmark for 1935/36 Based on Double Deflated Value Added
by Fremdling, Rainer & De Jong, Herman & Timmer, Marcel P. - 379-409 Marine Insurance in Britain and America, 1720–1844: A Comparative Institutional Analysis
by Kingston, Christopher - 410-444 The Geography of Wage Discrimination in the Pre–Civil Rights South
by Sundstrom, William A. - 445-480 The Athenian Trierarchy: Mechanism Design for the Private Provision of Public Goods
by Kaiser, Brooks A. - 484-488 Black Migration, White Flight: The Effect of Black Migration on Northern Cities and Labor Markets
by Boustan, Leah Platt - 488-492 The Evolution of the Market for Corporate Executives across the Twentieth Century
by Frydman, Carola - 492-495 Security in an Uncertain World: Life Insurance and the Emergence of Modern America
by Murphy, Sharon Ann - 495-499 The Limits of Equality: An Economic Analysis of the Israeli Kibbutz
by Abramitzky, Ran - 500-503 Essays on Education and Social Divisions in Colonial India
by Chaudhary, Latika - 503-506 Law and Finance in Historical Perspective: Politics, Bankruptcy Law, and Corporate Governance in Brazil, 1850–2002
by Musacchio, Aldo - 506-510 Comments on Boustan, Frydman, and Murphy
by Thomasson, Melissa - 511-515 Comments on Abramitzky, Chaudhary, and Musacchio
by Shiue, Carol H. - 516-529 Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting
by , - 530-534 Abstracts of Posters Presented at the Annual Meeting
by , - 540-541 The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Golden Age. By Maarten Prak. Translated by DianeWebb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 317. $24.99, paper
by McCants, Anne E. C. - 541-542 The Social Life of Money in the English Past. By Deborah Valenze. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 308. $65, cloth; $23.99, paper
by Clark, Gregory - 542-543 Hacienda and Market in Eighteenth-Century Mexico: The Rural Economy of the Guadalajara Region, 1675–1820. 2nd ed. By Eric Van Young. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. Pp. 440. $85.00, cloth; $34.95, paper
by Vizcarra, Catalina - 544-545 From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil: Bahia, 1835–1900. By Dale Torston Graden. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. Pp. xxviii, 297. $24.95, paper
by Musacchio, Aldo - 545-546 The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876–1929. By Stephen Haber, Armando Razo, and Noel Maurer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 382. $75.00, cloth; $29.00, paper; $24.00, e-book
by Dye, Alan - 547-549 American Taxation, American Slavery. By Robin L. Einhorn. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 337. $35
by McGuire, Robert A. - 549-550 New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City. By J. Mark Souther. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 303. $34.95
by Bateman, Fred
March 2007, Volume 67, Issue 1
- 1-32 The Engine or the Caboose? Resource Industries and Twentieth-Century Canadian Economic Performance
by Keay, Ian - 33-68 Globalization, Immigration, and Lewisian Elastic Labor in Pre–World War II Southeast Asia
by Huff, Gregg & Caggiano, Giovanni - 69-92 High Noon on the Western Range: A Property Rights Analysis of the Johnson County War
by McFerrin, Randy & Wills, Douglas - 93-127 Productivity, Wages, and Labor Politics in Brazil, 1945–1962
by Colistete, Renato P. - 128-159 Two Centuries of Productivity Growth in Computing
by Nordhaus, William D. - 160-190 Slave Purchasing Strategies and Shipboard Mortality: Day-to-Day Evidence from the Dutch African Trade, 1751–1797
by Hogerzeil, Simon J. & Richardson, David - 191-226 Emergence of Endogenous Legal Institutions: Property Rights and Community Governance in the Italian Alps
by Casari, Marco - 236-237 The Middle East under Rome. By Maurice Sartre. Translated by Catherine Porter and Elizabeth Rawlings with Jeannine Routier-Pucci. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 665. $39.95
by Scheidel, Walter - 237-238 Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths: Economic Organization and International Trade in South Korea and Taiwan. By Robert C. Feenstra and Gary G. Hamilton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 462. $85
by Olds, Kelly B. - 239-240 Korea under Siege, 1876–1945: Capital Formation and Economic Transformation. By Young-lob Chung. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 390. $74
by Lau, Man-Lui - 240-241 Institutional and Technological Change in Japan's Economy: Past and Present. Edited by Janet Hunter and Cornelia Storz. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. ix, 209. £65
by Blackford, Mansel G. - 242-243 The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. By Madeleine Zelin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. 416. $45
by Perkins, Dwight H. - 243-245 The New Suburban History. Edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 289. $24, paper
by Boustan, Leah Platt - 245-247 The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States. By Sanford M. Jacoby. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 216. $35
by Metzler, Mark - 247-248 Slavery and American Economic Development. By Gavin Wright. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 162. $25
by Engerman, Stanley L. - 248-250 The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on Economics, Economic History and Demography. By Richard A. Easterlin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 284. $75, cloth; $29.99, paper
by Cvrcek, Tomas - 250-254 Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century. By Peter Lindert. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 396. $25.99, paper
by Delong, Brad - 254-256 The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756–1833. By H. V. Bowen. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 304. $90
by Alborn, Timothy
December 2006, Volume 66, Issue 4
- 853-881 Railroad Impact in Backward Economies: Spain, 1850–1913
by Herranz-Loncán, Alfonso - 882-905 Migration and Human Capital: Self-Selection of Indentured Servants to the Americas
by Abramitzky, Ran & Braggion, Fabio - 906-935 Institutional Reforms, Financial Development and Sovereign Debt: Britain 1690–1790
by Sussman, Nathan & Yafeh, Yishay - 936-962 Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen
by Costa, Dora L. & Kahn, Matthew E.