Journal of Economic History

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• Conspicuous by their absence: French Canadians and the settlement of the Canadian west AI翻译
  作者：McGill University; Queens University - Canada; Trinity College Dublin
• Wealth inequality in eighteenth-century Amsterdam: A case study of the poor to middling citizenry AI翻译
  作者：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Sovereign debt restructurings and workouts: Lessons from the gold standard AI翻译
  作者：Santa Clara University; Claremont Colleges; Claremont Graduate University; Claremont McKenna College
• Western Europe's way to a market economy: The role of medieval craft guilds AI翻译
  作者：Universite de Lorraine
• Currency policies and the nature of litigation in colonial New England AI翻译
  作者：Northwestern University
• The great Banks Depression: Deposit withdrawals in the German crisis of 1931 AI翻译
  作者：University of Mannheim
• Important or impotent? Taking another look at the 1920 California Alien Land Law AI翻译
  作者：Suzuki, M
  摘要：Opposition to Japanese immigration led to Alien Land Laws that barred Japanese immigrants from buying or leasing farmland. Although there is general agreement that the 1913 California Alien Land Law had little impact, historians and social scientists have differed over the effectiveness of the 1920 initiative, which closed loopholes in the earlier law. Census data show a decline in Japanese American agriculture over the short and long run, which cannot be fully explained by the agricultural do...
• The divergent dynamics of economic growth. AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Davis
• Real shock, monetary aftershock: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the panic of 1907 AI翻译
  作者：Claremont Colleges; Scripps College; Claremont Colleges; Claremont Graduate University; Claremont McKenna College
  摘要：In April 1906 the San Francisco earthquake and fire caused damage equal to more than I percent of GNP. Although the real effect of this shock was localized, it had an international financial impact: large amounts of gold flowed into the country in autumn 1906 as foreign insurers paid claims on their San Francisco policies out of home funds. This outflow prompted the Bank of England to discriminate against American finance bills and, along with other European central banks, to raise interest ra...
• Wartime Socialization of Investment: A reassessment of US capital formation in the 1940s AI翻译
  作者：Higgs, R
  摘要：During World War II, the U.S. government displaced private investors. According to NIPA data for the period 1942-1945, net private investment was negative $6.2 billion, and net government investment was positive $99.4 billion. Although economists have credited this government investment with various contributions to wartime and postwar economic growth, the bulk of it had little or no value beyond its immediate contribution to winning the war. This episode dramatically exposes a fundamental but...