Journal of Economic History

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• The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History AI翻译
  作者：McGill University
• More Machines, Better Machines ... or Better Workers? AI翻译
  作者：Boston University
  摘要：How much of the rapid growth in output per man-hour in nineteenth-century cotton weaving arose from technical change and how much arose from price-driven substitution of capital for labor? Using an engineering production function, I find that factor price changes account for little of the growth in output per man-hour. However, much of the growth and most of the apparent labor-saving bias arose not from inventions, but from improved labor quality- better workers spent less time monitoring the ...
• Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform AI翻译
  作者：Vanderbilt University
• Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Place, Space, and Region AI翻译
  作者：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Malthus, Wages, and Preindustrial Growth AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Davis
  摘要：Gregory Clark argued in A Farewell to Alms that preindustrial societies, including England, were Malthusian. Day wages show incomes were trendless: as high in Europe in the medieval era as in 1800, even in England. The opposed view is that England and the Netherlands grew substantially from 1200 to 1800. Early day wages overestimate living standards. Here we show that preindustrial farm employment shares can be estimated from probate occupation reports. These imply only 60 percent employed in ...
• Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe AI翻译
  作者：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
• London Merchant Banks, the Central European Panic, and the Sterling Crisis of 1931 AI翻译
  作者：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
  摘要：The Central European panic of the spring 1931 is often presented as a cause of the sterling crisis of September. But what was the transmission channel? This article explores how the continent's financial troubles affected Britain's banking system. The freeze of Central European assets created a liquidity strain for London merchant banks because they had accepted (guaranteed) the commercial bills of German merchants. I use new balance sheet data to quantify this shock and explore how the liquid...
• Before the Great Divergence? Comparing the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century AI翻译
  作者：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Utrecht University
  摘要：This article tests recent ideas about the long-term economic development of China compared with Europe on the basis of a detailed comparison of structure and level of GDP in part of the Yangzi delta and the Netherlands in the 1820s. We find that Dutch GDP per capita was almost twice as high as in the Yangzi delta. Agricultural productivity there was at about the same level as in the Netherlands (and England), but large productivity gaps existed in industry and services. We attempt to explain t...
• Odd Couple: International Trade and Labor Standards in History AI翻译
  作者：University of Kansas; National Bureau of Economic Research
• The Large Landowning Class and the Peasantry in Egypt, 1837-1952 AI翻译
  作者：University of Southern California