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• A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• Natural Resources: Neither Curse nor Destiny AI翻译
  作者：Queens University - Canada
• Did Corliss Steam Engines Fuel Urban Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century? Less Sanguine Results AI翻译
  作者：University of Delaware; University of Delaware
  摘要：There is general agreement that the steam engine's rise in importance Occurred at the same time as growing urbanization, but considerable disagreement concerning the steam engine's role as an independent force fueling urban growth, In particular, Nathan Rosenberg and Manuel Trajtenberg (hereafter, RT) hypothesize that the Corliss steam engine, served as a catalyst for the industry's massive relocation into large urban centers, thus fueling agglomeration economies and further population growth....
• Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History AI翻译
  作者：University of North Carolina; Appalachian State University
• Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island AI翻译
  作者：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Davis; University of Arizona; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：The cliometrics literature oil slave efficiency has generally focused on static questions. We take a decidedly more dynamic approach. Drawing on the records of 1421 plantations with 509 crops years, we show that the average daily cotton-picking rate increased about fourfold between 1801 and 1862. We argue that the development and diffusion of new cotton varieties were the primary sources of the increased efficiency. These findings have broad implications for understanding the South's preeminen...
• Artisan Workers in the Upper South, Petersburg, 1820-1865 AI翻译
  作者：Radford University
• Corruption, Quasi-Rents, and the Regulation of Electric Utilities AI翻译
  作者：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Greensboro
  摘要：Was the adoption of state utility regulation the result of a negative-sum competition among special interest groups vying for the monopoly rents created by regulation or a positive-sum elimination of corruption arising from appropriable quasi-rents? Previous empirical studies of the adoption of regulation have assumed the former. Using discrete hazard analysis, this study considers the latter and finds the data more consistent with the positive-sum protection of quasi-rents than the negative-s...
• Migrating to Riches? Evidence from the California Gold Rush AI翻译
  作者：Carnegie Mellon University
  摘要：Gold discoveries in 1848 set off a large and extremely rapid migration to California. This article uses newly collected data from the 1850 and 1852 Censuses of Population together with the public use sample of the 1850 Census Of Population to examine who went to California and how they did economically. We find that the propensity to migrate was affected by the individual's age and literacy, distance of the state from California, and average state latitude. Consistent with the historical liter...
• Steers Afloat: The North Atlantic Meat Trade, Liner Predominance, and Freight Rates, 1870-1913 AI翻译
  作者：University of Oxford; University of Oxford
  摘要：Meat transformed North Atlantic shipping, leading to dominance of liners and changed the economics of freight rates. Management coordination of meat shipment led to concentration in shipping. Only liner companies could provide specialized ships with the regularity needed and they dominated North Atlantic shipping. The cargo capacity of cattle ships, beyond that used for animals, lowered freight rates on grain below levels that would otherwise have prevailed. The berth rate on wheat from New Yo...