Journal of Economic History

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• Money in Classical Antiquity AI翻译
  作者：University of British Columbia
• Has Latin America Always Been, Unequal? A Comparative Study of Asset and Income Inequality in the Long Twentieth Century AI翻译
  作者：Harvard University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
• The Politics of Fiscal Privilege in Provence, 1530s-1830s AI翻译
  作者：Emory University
• Political Transformations and Public Finances: Europe, 1650-1913 AI翻译
  作者：George Mason University
• The Preventive Check in Medieval and Preindustrial England AI翻译
  作者：University College Dublin
  摘要：England's post-Reformation demographic regime has been characterized as low pressure. Yet the evidence hitherto for the presence of a preventive check, defined as the short-run response of marriage and births to variations in living standards, is rather weak. New evidence in this article strengthens the case for the preventive check in both medieval and early modern England. We invoke manorial data to argue the case for a preventive check on marriages in the Middle Ages. Our analysis of the po...
• The Development of Property Rights on Frontiers: Endowments, Norms, and Politics AI翻译
  作者：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Monash University; Universidade de Brasilia
  摘要：How do property rights evolve when unoccupied areas attract economic use? Who are the first claimants on the frontier and how do they establish their property rights? When do governments provide de jure property rights? We present a conceptual framework that addresses these questions and apply it to the frontiers of Australia, the United States, and Brazil. Our framework stresses the crucial role of politics as frontiers develop by identifying situations where the competition for land by those...
• I Am Not Master of Events: The Speculations of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles AI翻译
  作者：Trinity College Dublin
• The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution: The European Economy in a Global Perspective, 1000-1800 AI翻译
  作者：George Mason University
• The Colonial Origins of the Divergence in the Americas: A Labor Market Approach AI翻译
  作者：University of Oxford; University of Oxford; Bocconi University; Bocconi University; University of Oxford
  摘要：This article introduces the Americas in the Great Divergence debate by measuring real wages in various North and South American cities between colonization and independence, and comparing them to Europe and Asia. We find that for much of the period, North America was the most prosperous region of the world, while Latin America was much poorer. We then discuss a series of hypotheses that can explain these results, including migration, the demography of the American Indian populations, and the v...
• Working-Class Household Consumption Smoothing in Interwar Britain AI翻译
  作者：University of Reading
  摘要：We examine the strategies interwar working-class British households used to smooth consumption over time and guard against negative contingencies such as illness, unemployment, and death. Newly discovered returns from the U.K. Ministry of Labour's 1937/38 Household Expenditure Survey are used to fully categorize expenditure smoothing via nineteen credit/savings vehicles. We find that households made extensive use of expenditure-smoothing devices. Families' reliance on expenditure-smoothing is ...