Journal of Economic History

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• Paths Toward the Modern Fiscal State AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Irvine
• Technology and the Era of the Mass Army AI翻译
  作者：IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca; Stanford University; New York University
  摘要：We investigate how technology has influenced the size of armies. During the nineteenth century, the development of the railroad made it possible to field and support mass armies, significantly increasing the observed size of military forces. During the late twentieth century, further advances in technology made it possible to deliver explosive force from a distance and with precision, making mass armies less desirable. We find support for our technological account using a new data set covering...
• Imachi Nkwu: Trade and the Commons AI翻译
  作者：University of Oxford
  摘要：The conventional view is that an increase in the value of a natural resource can lead to private property over it. Many Igbo groups in Nigeria, however, curtailed private rights over palm trees in response to the palm produce trade of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I use the Ostrom (2007, 2009) framework for analyzing social-ecological systems to guide the construction of a model of this transition. An increase in the resource price leads the owner to prefer communal harvesting,...
• Comparative Responses to Globalization: Experiences of British and Japanese Enterprises. AI翻译
  作者：University of Tokyo
• Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership. AI翻译
  作者：Wellesley College
• National Banking's Role in US Industrialization, 1850-1900 AI翻译
  作者：Colgate University
  摘要：The passage of the National Banking Acts stabilized the existing financial system and encouraged the entry of 729 banks between 1863 and 1866. These new banks concentrated in the area that would eventually become the Manufacturing Belt. Using a new bank census, the article shows that these changes to the financial system were a major determinant of the geographic distribution of manufacturing and the nation's sudden capital deepening. The entry not only resulted in more manufacturing capital a...
• Untiltled AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Davis
• The Political Stock Market in the German Kaiserreich - Do Markets Punish the Extension of the Suffrage to the Benefit of the Working Class? Evidence from Saxony AI翻译
  作者：University Hohenheim; University Hohenheim
  摘要：We approach the issue of the economic effects of democracy by examining which expectations investors held about the effect of democratization in the Kingdom of Saxony in 1896 and 1909. We do this by linking their investment behavior on the Berlin Stock Exchange to political events in Saxony. Here the electoral law was changed twice: In 1896 a very restrictive franchise was introduced, which was abolished in 1909 and replaced by a more democratic electoral law. Our study reveals that the Berlin...
• Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth? AI翻译
  作者：California Institute of Technology; University of Cambridge
  摘要：This article scrutinizes the recently postulated link between the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and economic success. Multivariate analysis of 4,705 demographic observations, covering women's marriage age, female lifetime celibacy, and household complexity in 39 European countries, shows that the most extreme manifestations of the EMP were associated with economic stagnation rather than growth. There is no evidence that the EMP improved economic performance by empowering women, increasing hu...
• Diamonds in the Rough: A History of Alabama's Cahaba Coal Field. AI翻译
  作者：University of Arizona