Journal of Economic History

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  作者：Vanderbilt University
• Natchez merchants: Enterprise and exploitation in the postbellum South AI翻译
  作者：University of Southern Mississippi
• Does patenting help to diffuse knowledge spillovers? Evidence from the geography of nineteenth-century innovations AI翻译
  作者：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• Guano, credible commitments, and state finances in nineteenth-century Peru AI翻译
  作者：University of Vermont
• Korean expansion and decline from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century: A view suggested by Adam Smith AI翻译
  作者：Academy of Korean Studies; University of Oxford; University of Oxford
  摘要：The first price runs for Korean rice help us develop a Smithian physiocratic model to explain the low, stable prices of the eighteenth century and the rising, volatile prices of the nineteenth. Ownership rights provided incentives, and productivity after 1600 exceeded subsistence to achieve rural commercialization. Infrastructure investment from the late seventeenth century promoted development and prosperity, but declining investment, dysfunctional institutions, bad weather, and a population ...
• 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...
• Does regulation matter? An analysis of corporation charters in a laissez-faire environment AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
• A nation of counterfeiters: Capitalists, con men, and the making of the United States AI翻译
  作者：Bryn Mawr College
• Health, information, and migration: Geographic mobility of Union Army veterans, 1860-1880 AI翻译
  作者：Seoul National University (SNU)
  摘要：This article explores how injuries, sickness, and the geographic mobility of Union Army veterans while in service affected their postservice migrations. Wartime wounds and illnesses significantly diminished the geographic mobility of veterans after the war. Geographic moves while carrying out military missions had strong positive effects on their postservice geographic mobility. Geographic moves while in service also influenced the choice of destination among the migrants. I discuss some impli...
• Demographic effects of household electrification in the United States, 1925 to AI翻译
  作者：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Vanderbilt University; National Bureau of Economic Research