Journal of Economic History

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• Lost decades: Postindependence performance in Latin America and Africa AI翻译
  作者：Harvard University; Columbia University; Harvard University
  摘要：Africa and Latin America secured independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America by the 1820s and most of Africa by 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities. In each case independence was followed by political instability, violent conflict, and economic stagnation lasting for about a half-century. The parallels suggest that Africa might be exiting from a period of postimperial collapse and entering one of relative ...
• Political strategy and feudal economy in the Republic of Genoa (XVI-XVIII century). A good negotiation with some opposition AI翻译
  作者：Kirk, Thomas A.
• Cleansing under the quota: The defense and survival of sugar mills in 1930s Cuba AI翻译
  作者：Columbia University; University of Vermont
• Corporate ownership and governances in the early nineteenth century AI翻译
  作者：Wellesley College
• Wait a cotton pickin minute! A new view of slave productivity AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Davis; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• Globalization, immigration, and Lewisian elastic labor in pre-World War II Southeast Asia AI翻译
  作者：University of Glasgow
  摘要：Between 1880 and 1939 Burma, Malaya, and Thailand received inflows of migrants from India and China comparable in size to European immigration in the New World. This article examines the forces that lay behind migration to Southeast Asia and asks if experience there bears out Lewis's unlimited labor supply hypothesis. We find that it does and, furthermore, that immigration created a highly integrated labor market stretching from South India to Southeastern China. Emigration from India and Chin...
• Learning by dying: Combat performance in the age of sail AI翻译
  作者：Clemson University
  摘要：Between 1660 and 1815 the combat fatality rate among British navy captains fell by 98 percent, even as the combat success of the British Navy rose dramatically. Both developments can be explained as a result of learning by doing among British commanders. This learning was importantly driven by the extensive wartime experience accumulated over this period, combined with the unparalleled financial incentives for combat success offered to British commanders.
• The challenge of affluence: Self-control and well-being in the United States and Great Britain since 1950 AI翻译
  作者：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
• The significance of the frontier[s] in American [economic] history AI翻译
  作者：Northwestern University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• Accomplishment and abandonment: The freemen's bureau and black literacy rates AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Irvine