2014

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• Industry and Revolution: Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico AI翻译
  作者：Boston University
• How the Bank of France Changed US Equity Expectations and Ended the Panic of 1907 AI翻译
  作者：State University of New York (SUNY) System; State University of New York (SUNY) - Oswego; University of Louisiana System; University of New Orleans
  摘要：Using an event study approach, we find the announcement by the Bank of France in 1907 to accelerate gold payments directly for U.S. crops is associated with the ultimate upturn in U.S. equity prices. Spillover to the French financial markets accompanied the Regents' decision to release sterilized reserves, thereby arresting the drainage of coin in French circulation. Counterfactual analysis shows that the facility alone would have been unlikely to end the crisis. Investors may have revised equ...
• Their Fair Share: Taxing the Rich in the Age of FDR AI翻译
  作者：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
• The Education of Nations: How the Political Organization of the Poor, Not Democracy Led Governments to Invest in Mass Education. AI翻译
  作者：Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
• Banking in Oklahoma Before Statehood. AI翻译
  作者：Colgate University
• From Neighborhoods to Nations: The Economics of Social Interactions. AI翻译
  作者：Santa Clara University
• The Black Man's Burden: The Cost of Colonization of French West Africa AI翻译
  作者：Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po)
  摘要：Was colonization costly for France? Did French taxpayers contribute to colonies' development? This article reveals that French West Africa's colonization took only 0.29 percent of French annual expenditures, including 0.24 percent for military and central administration and 0.05 percent for French West Africa's development. For West Africans, the contribution from French taxpayers was almost negligible: mainland France provided about 2 percent of French West Africa's revenue. In fact, coloniza...
• Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds AI翻译
  作者：University of Oxford
• Autarky and the Rise and Fall of Piracy in Ming China AI翻译
  作者：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Shandong University
  摘要：We examine the impact of rigorous trade suppression during 1550-1567 on the sharp rise of piracy in this period of Ming China. By analyzing a uniquely constructed historical data set, we find that the enforcement of a sea (trade) ban policy led to a rise in pirate attacks that was 1.3 times greater among the coastal prefectures more suitable for silk manufacturesour proxy for greater trade potential. Our study illuminates the conflicts in which China subsequently engaged with the Western power...
• Metals, Culture, and Capitalism: An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World AI翻译
  作者：Northwestern University