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• Agriculture and Economic Development in Europe Since 1870. AI翻译
  作者：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Lowell
• The Japanese Consumer: An Alternative History of Modern Japan. AI翻译
  作者：Harvard University
• Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s. AI翻译
  作者：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War. AI翻译
  作者：University of Arizona
• An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000-1500. AI翻译
  作者：University of Reading
• Argentine Railways: Seven Papers on Their Economics and History. AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Irvine
• The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why? AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Dartmouth College
  摘要：The Great Depression was marked by a severe outbreak of protectionist trade policies. But contrary to the presumption that all countries scrambled to raise trade barriers, there was substantial cross-country variation in the movement to protectionism. Specifically, countries that remained on the gold standard resorted to tariffs, import quotas, and exchange controls to a greater extent than countries that went off gold. Just as the gold standard constraint on monetary policy is critical to und...
• Making the Grade: The Economic Evolution of American School Districts. AI翻译
  作者：Go, Sun
• Productivity, Discrimination, and Lost Profits During Baseball's Integration AI翻译
  作者：Bryn Mawr College; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
  摘要：This article uses data from Major League Baseball's integration to identify the sources and magnitude of labor market discrimination. Returns to hiring black workers in this industry were high, and the industry's labor supply was uniquely suited for rapid integration, yet integration evolved slowly. Many explanations for this sluggishness are considered, including both taste-based and statistical discrimination. Ultimately, only owner and collective coworker discrimination can explain baseball...
• Hoover's Truce: Wage Rigidity in the Onset of the Great Depression AI翻译
  作者：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
  摘要：This article analyzes President Herbert Hoover's role in causing wage rigidity during the onset of the Great Depression, through two conferences in which he encouraged business leaders to maintain high wages. New data on the set of firms and trade associations attending these conferences provides evidence that Hoover's conferences delayed the cuts in hourly wages at a small number of large firms, although this result may have been due to characteristics of the particular industries the firms r...