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• Warriors into traders: The power of the market in early Greece. AI翻译
  作者：Ball State University
• Coffee and power: Revolution and the rise of democracy in Central America. AI翻译
  作者：Columbia University
• Paths of innovation: Technological change in twentieth-century America. AI翻译
  作者：Northwestern University
• Viennese chairs: A case study for modern industrialization AI翻译
  作者：University of Chicago; Yale University
  摘要：We examine the Austro-Hungarian bentwood furniture industry as a case study for modern industrialization during the second half of the nineteenth century. We establish that, through the implementation of innovative production methods and aggressive and insightful marketing strategies, this industry constitutes an important example of the modern industrial enterprise. Furthermore, we find evidence of cooperative behavior in the industry, making it an interesting case study in the history of ind...
• Masters, slaves, and subjects: The culture of power in the South Carolina low country 1740-1790. AI翻译
  作者：Carleton College
• Politics and property rights: The closing of the open range in the postbellum South. AI翻译
  作者：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Property rights and transaction costs in marriage: Evidence from prenuptial contracts AI翻译
  作者：University of Toronto
  摘要：I examine prenuptial contracting behavior in early-nineteenth-century Quebec to explore property rights within families and the efficacy of marital property laws. Drawing on a transaction cost framework, I examine the decision to sign a contract and couples' property rights choices. I find, for example, that couples signing contracts tended to choose joint ownership of property when wives were particularly important to the household. These findings illustrate the potential effects of legal ins...
• A history of corporate finance. AI翻译
  作者：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Region, race, and cities: Interpreting the urban South. AI翻译
  作者：Stanford University
• Was economic growth likely in colonial British North America? AI翻译
  作者：University of Kansas; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：Conventional wisdom holds that output per capita in colonial British America increased between 0.3 and 0.6 percent per year. Our conjectural estimates challenge this view, suggesting instead that such growth was unlikely. We show that the most likely rate of economic growth was much lower, probably close to zero. We argue further that to understand the performance of the colonial economy it is necessary to include the economic activity of Native American Indians. When this is done, we estimate...