Journal of Economic History

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• Invisible Women: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Family Firms in Nineteenth-Century France AI翻译
  作者：Bowdoin College; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：The French economy has been criticized for a lack of integration of women in business and for the prevalence of inefficient family firms. A sample drawn from patent and exhibition records is used to examine the role of women in enterprise and invention in France. Middle-class women were extensively engaged in entrepreneurship and innovation, and the empirical analysis indicates that their commercial efforts were significantly enhanced by association with family firms. Such formerly invisible a...
• Henry Ford's Plan for theAmerican Suburb: Dearborn and Detroit. AI翻译
  作者：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
• Patronage Politics and the Development of the Welfare State: Confederate Pensions in the American South AI翻译
  作者：University of Toronto; York University - Canada
  摘要：Beginning in the 1880s, southern states introduced pensions for Confederate veterans and widows. They expanded these programs through the 1920s, while states outside the region were introducing cash transfer programs for workers, poor mothers, and the elderly. Using pension application records and county-level electoral data, we argue that political considerations guided the distribution of these pensions. We show that Confederate pension programs were funded during years in which Democratic g...
• Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery AI翻译
  作者：Walsh, Lorena S.
• If You're So Smart: John Maynard Keynes and Currency Speculation in the Interwar Years AI翻译
  作者：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; European Central Bank; Bank of France; University of Cambridge
  摘要：This article explores the risks and returns to currency speculation during the 1920s and 1930s. We study the performance of two well-known technical trading strategies (carry and momentum) and compare them with that of a fundamentals-based trader: John Maynard Keynes. Technical strategies were highly profitable during the 1920s and even outperformed Keynes. In the 1930s, however, both technical strategies and Keynes performed relatively poorly. While our results reveal the existence of profita...
• Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia's Great Reforms AI翻译
  作者：New Economic School; George Washington University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Williams College
• Little Business on the Prairie: Entrepreneurship, Prosperity, and Challenge in South Dakota AI翻译
  作者：University of South Dakota
• The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats AI翻译
  作者：University of Arizona
• Staying Afloat: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760-1820. AI翻译
  作者：Columbia University
• Railroad Failures and the Panic of 1873 AI翻译
  作者：Vanderbilt University