Journal of Economic History

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• The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• True Yankees: The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity AI翻译
  作者：University of Missouri System; Missouri University of Science & Technology
• Watersheds in Infant Mortality: The Role of Effective Water and Sewage Infrastructure, 1880-1915 AI翻译
  作者：Stanford University; Harvard University
• Measuring House Prices in the Long Run: Insights from Dublin, 1900-2015 AI翻译
  作者：Trinity College Dublin
• Mediterranean Labor Illarkets in the First Age of Globalization: An Economic History of Real Wages and Market Integration. AI翻译
  作者：Universite de Montreal
• Trader Selectivity and Measured Catch-Up Growth of American Slaves AI翻译
  作者：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Iowa
  摘要：Critics who doubt the sources and meaning of some four inches of catch-up growth claim that market-based distortions created by slave traders biased measured heights of children and adolescents. Here we analyze this possible bias using a new database of all slave manifests available at the National Archives. Employing procedures to match names of shippers with known or suspected professional traders, we find that biases in height by age due to trader selectivity were negligible relative to the...
• Crecimientos: Refinancing the Public Debt in Castile before 1600 AI翻译
  作者：Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Boston University
• De-compressing History? Pre-colonial Institutions and Local Government Finance in British Colonial Africa AI翻译
  作者：University of Groningen; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• Globalization in the Early Modern Era: New Evidence from the Dutch-Asiatic Trade, c. 1600-1800 AI翻译
  作者：Wageningen University & Research
  摘要：This article contributes to the ongoing debate on the origins of globalization. It examines the process of commodity price convergence, an indicator of globalization, between Europe and Asia on the basis of newly obtained price data from the Dutch East India Company (VOC) archives. Prices for many commodities in the Dutch-Asiatic trade converged already in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a result of the growth of trade and competition among traders and companies. The extent of conv...
• Corporate Ownership, Control, and Firm Performance in Victorian Britain AI翻译
  作者：University of Stirling; Queens University Belfast; Queens University Belfast; University of West England
  摘要：Scholars have long debated whether ownership matters for firm performance. The standard view regarding Victorian Britain is that family-controlled companies had a detrimental effect on performance. In this article, we examine this view using a hand-collected corporate ownership dataset. Our main finding is that it was not necessarily the broad structure of corporate ownership that mattered for performance, but whether family blockholders had a governance role. Large active blockholders tended ...