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• The History Manifesto. AI翻译
  作者：George Mason University
• Contraband. Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground. AI翻译
  作者：York University - Canada
• Was the Classical Gold Standard Credible on the Periphery? Evidence from Currency Risk AI翻译
  作者：Santa Clara University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); Claremont Colleges; Claremont McKenna College; Claremont Graduate University
  摘要：We use a standard metric from international finance, the currency risk premium, to assess the credibility of fixed exchange rates during the classical gold standard em. Theory suggests that a completely credible and permanent commitment to join the gold standard would have zero currency risk or no expectation of devaluation. We find that, even five years after a typical emerging-market country joined the gold standard, the currency risk premium averaged at least 220 basis points. Fixed-effects...
• What Do States Do? Politics and Economic History AI翻译
  作者：California Institute of Technology; California Institute of Technology
  摘要：Although politics has a huge effect on economic outcomes, we still know too little about what public goods states furnish or what determines the laws, regulations, and policies that states adopt. Worse yet, we do not really understand how states arise in the first place and how they gain the ability to tax. There are numerous unanswered questions here that economic historians can profitably work on, and their research will be particularly valuable if they model the politics, gather data on tax...
• The Transformation of Hunger Revisited: Reply AI翻译
  作者：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：The higher calorie levels reported in Gazeley, Newell, Bezabith (2015) are a function of a conversion of food quantities to calories that is weighted towards contemporary, calorie-rich foods. Their conversion uses the full distribution of contemporary foods and should not be applied to historical populations. Since Gazeley, Newell, Bezabith assume that industrial workers in the past had access to contemporary foods, the revised calorie levels reflect contemporary diets rather than historical d...
• Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c. 1585-1800. AI翻译
  作者：Yale University
• The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt. AI翻译
  作者：Regis University
• Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II. AI翻译
  作者：Universidad de Valladolid