Journal of Economic History

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Economic History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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Austerity and the Rise of the Nazi Party35
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu33
European Goods Market Integration in the Very Long Run: From the Black Death to the First World War28
The Political Economy of Famine: The Ukrainian Famine of 193324
Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–185023
What Happened to the U.S. Economy during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? A View Through High-Frequency Data19
Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–185018
Fiscal Capacity and Dualism in Colonial States: The French Empire 1830–196218
Unpacking the Agricultural Black Box: The Rise and Fall of American Farm Productivity Growth17
Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits14
Where Is the Middle Class? Evidence from 60 Million English Death and Probate Records, 1892–199213
Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession12
“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing11
Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited11
Safety at Sea during the Industrial Revolution10
Railways, Growth, and Industrialization in a Developing German Economy, 1829–19109
Inheritance Institutions and Landholding Inequality in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Evidence from Hesse-Cassel Villages and Towns9
Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866 to 19659
The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Lawmaking9
More Power to the People: Electricity Adoption, Technological Change, and Labor Conflict8
China, Europe, and the Great Divergence: A Restatement8
Linguistic Distance and Market Integration in India8
Biological Innovation without Intellectual Property Rights: Cottonseed Markets in the Antebellum American South8
Collective Action and Policy Implementation: Evidence from Salvador Allende’s Expropriations7
Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment7
From Material to Non-Material Needs? The Evolution of Mate Preferences through the Twentieth Century in France7
Interest Rates, Sanitation Infrastructure, and Mortality Decline in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales7
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy7
Demographic Shocks and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India7
Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks as Shock Absorbers in the First Era of Globalization7
Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence7
China’s GDP: Some Corrections and the Way Forward6
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data6
The Efficiency of the Chinese Silver Standard, 1920–19336
Modernization in Progress: Part-Year Operation, Mechanization, and Labor Force Composition in Late Imperial Russia6
The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–19115
Small Farms, Large Transaction Costs: Haiti’s Missing Sugar5
Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics5
Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation5
The Labor-Intensive Path: Wages, Incomes, and the Work Year in Japan, 1610–18905
Can Stimulating Demand Drive Costs Down? World War II as a Natural Experiment4
The French (Trade) Revolution of 1860: Intra-Industry Trade and Smooth Adjustment4
Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital4
The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Seasonal Constraints and Contrasting Outcomes in French West Africa and British Uganda4
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s4
Explaining Anomalous Wage Inflation in the 1930s United States4
Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany4
Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century4
Oh, How the Mighty Have Fallen: The Bank Failures and Near Failures That Started America’s Greatest Financial Panics4
Biological Living Standards of Korea during the Port-Opening Period, 1876–19104
Malthus Goes to China: The Effect of “Positive Checks” on Grain Market Development, 1736–19104
Intergenerational Mobility in a Mid-Atlantic Economy: Canada, 1871–19014
The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England3
How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa3
The Demographic Effects of Colonialism: Forced Labor and Mortality in Java, 1834–18793
Churches as Social Insurance: Oil Risk and Religion in the U.S. South3
Canals and Orchards: The Impact of Transport Network Access on Agricultural Productivity in Nineteenth-Century Bangkok3
Landholding Inequality and the Consolidation of Democracy: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century France3
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State3
U.K. Investment Trust Valuation and Investor Behavior, 1880–19293
Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution3
Farm Product Prices, Redistribution, and the Early U.S. Great Depression3
State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–19493
Private Benefits, Public Vices: Railways and Logrolling in the Nineteenth-Century British Parliament3
The Impact of Business Cycle Conditions on Firm Dynamics and Composition2
G.I. Jane Goes to College? Female Educational Attainment, Earnings, and the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 19442
Did the Colonial mita Cause a Population Collapse? What Current Surnames Reveal in Peru2
Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911)2
Institutions, Trade, and Growth: The Ancient Greek Case of Proxenia2
La “Doña” è Mobile: The Role of Women in Social Mobility in a Pre-Modern Economy2
The Historical Gender Gap Index: A Longitudinal and Spatial Assessment of Sweden, 1870–19902
Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 19072
Staple Products, Linkages, and Development: Evidence from Argentina2
Railways, Development, and Literacy in India2
Why Join the Fed?2
The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe2
Against the Grain: Spanish Trade Policy in the Interwar Years2
War, Coal, and Forced Labor: Assessing the Impact of Prisoner-of-War Employment on Coal Mine Productivity in World War I Germany2
Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities1
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–17481
The Country They Built: Dynamic and Complex Indigenous Economies in North America before 14921
An Alternative Institutional Approach to Rules, Organizations, and Development1
Closing Time: The Local Equilibrium Effects of Prohibition1
Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act1
Measuring the Partisan Behavior of U.S. Newspapers, 1880 to 19801
The Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament1
Careworn: The Economic History of Caring Labor1
Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity. By Claudia Goldin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp v, 325. $27.95, hardcover.1
The Transportation Revolution and the English Coal Industry, 1695–1842: A Geographical Approach1
Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages1
The Borchardt Hypothesis: A Cliometric Reassessment of Germany’s Debt and Crisis during 1930–19321
Malaria, Race, and Inequality: Evidence from the Early 1900s U.S. South1
Was Marshall Right? Managerial Failure and Corporate Ownership in Edwardian Britain1
Opening Heaven’s Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act1
We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years1
Technology and the Environment in State-Socialist Hungary: An Economic History. By Viktor Pál. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xiv, 263. $151.53, cloth; $116.92, eBook.0
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Ibicaba (1817–1927): Entendendo, Vivendo e Construindo Futuros. Bruno Gabriel Witzel and Leonardo Antonio Santin Gardenal (Orgs.). Campinas, SP: Pontes, 2021. Pp. 471; $17.50.0
An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992. By Alain Naef. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xx, 246. £85.00, hardcover.0
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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. By J. Bradford DeLong. New York: Basic Books, 2022. Pp. 624. $23.96, hardcover.0
Technology in the Industrial Revolution. By Barbara Hahn. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii+225. $24.95, paperback.0
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Financial Failure and Depositor Quality: Evidence from Building and Loan Associations in California0
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology. By Chris Miller. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2022. Pp. 464. $32.00, hardcover.0
The Efficiency of Occupational Licensing during the Gilded and Progressive Eras: Evidence from Judicial Review0
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Mexican Banks and Foreign Finance: From Internationalization to Financial Crisis, 1973–1982. By Sebastian Alvarez. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer Nature, 2019. Pp. xxxii, 231. 0
Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income. By Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas. Chicago, IL, and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 258. $32.50, cloth. ISBN-13: 9780
Schooling under Control. The Origins of Public Education in Imperial Austria 1769–1869. By Tomas Cvrcek. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. Pp. xi + 301. $83.00, hardcover.0
How the World Became Rich. The Historical Origins of Economic Growth. By Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin. Medford: Polity Press, 2022. Pp. viii, 259. $24.95, paper.0
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The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France. By Jerome Greenfield. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. ix, 300. £75.00, hardcover.0
Labor in the Age of Finance. By Sanford Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 368. $39.95, hardcover.0
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Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order. By J. C. Sharman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xii, 196. $27.95, paperback.0
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Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy0
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. By Anne Case and Angus Deaton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. x, 312. $27.97, hardcover.0
Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order. By J.C. Sharman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xii, 196. $27.95, cloth; $17.95, pa0
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The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War. By Alexander J. Field. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022. Pp. v, 453. $45.00, hardcover.0
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Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1690s–1880s0
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State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China0
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Making Social Spending Work. By Peter H. Lindert. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv, 422. $21.17, hardcover; $18.49, Kindle.0
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Art and Markets in the Greco-Roman World0
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Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851–19110
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Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance. By Didac Queralt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. xiii, 343. $120.00, cloth; $35.00, paper.0
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Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony. Edited by Pierre Pénet and Juan Flores Zendejas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 384. $115.00, hardc0
Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850–19400
Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–19710
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Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas0
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Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success. By Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. New York: PublicAffairs, 2022. Pp. vii, 223. $29.00, hardcover.0
Social Networks and Elite Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Evidence from the Industrialization of Antioquia0
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism. By Mariana Mazzucato. London: Allen Lane, 2021, Pp. 272. $24.72, hardcover.0
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American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D. By Eric S. Hintz. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 368. $60.00, paper; $41.99, Kindle.0
Black and White Names: Evolution and Determinants0
To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth. Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300–1870. By Martti Koskenniemi. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xviii, 1107. $195.00, hardcover; $99.0
Reconstructing the Past. Revised Estimates of Italy’s Product, 1861-1913. By Stefano Fenoaltea. Rome, Italy: Fondazione Luigi Einaudi onlus, 2020. Pp. xvi, 329.0
Asia’s Silver Absorption through the Triangular Settlement System, 1846–18700
Drafting the Great Army: The Political Economy of Conscription in Napoleonic France0
Revealing the Diversity and Complexity behind Long-Term Income Inequality in Latin America: 1920–20110
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Trade, Slavery, and State Coercion of Labor: Egypt during the First Globalization Era0
Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the Present. By Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 354. $18.49, Kindle; $89.99 hardcover; $29.99, paper.0
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Institutional Change and Property Rights before the Industrial Revolution: The Case of the English Court of Wards and Liveries, 1540–16600
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Consumption Smoothing in the Working-Class Households of Interwar Japan0
Central Bank Independence and the Legacy of the German Past. By Simon Mee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 368. $65.59, Kindle; $78.57, hardcover.0
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Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899-1940. By César J. Ayala and Laird W. Bergad. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii, 307. $99.99, hardcover; $80.0
Using Digitized Newspapers to Address Measurement Error in Historical Data0
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Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy. By B. Zorina Khan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 478. $99.00, hardcover; $17.49, Kindle.0
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Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria0
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Navigating Nationalism in Global Enterprise: A Century of Indo-German Business Relations. By Christina Lubinski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 300. £75.00, hardcover. ISBN 978-1-3160
Reform, Rails, and Rice: Political Railroads and Local Development in Thailand0
The Belle-Epoque of Portfolios? How Returns, Risk, and Diversification Correlated with the Wealth Distribution in Paris in 19120
World War II and Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation. By Gregg Huff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xxx, 523. $120.00, hardcover.0
Impacts of the Relocation Program on Native American Migration and Fertility0
Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War. By Jim Powell. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii, 231. $130.00, cloth.0
El Nacimiento de la Banca en América Latina: Finanzas y Política en el Siglo XIX. By Carlos Marichal. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2022. Pp. 508, MX$350.0
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The New Silk Roads. By Peter Frankopan. London, England: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Pp. 320. $16.40, hardcover; $10.93, paper.0
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages. By Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 536. $20.10, hardcover; $19.95, paper.0
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Making Commercial Law Through Practice, 1830–1970. By Ross Cranston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 483. $112.28, hardcover; $32.50, ebook.0
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Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance0
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Ora et Guberna. The Economic Impact of the Rule of St Benedict in Medieval England0
Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office0
The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis. By Youssef Cassis and Jean-Jacques van Helten, eds. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. 236. $39.89, paper.0
Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy. By Colin P. Elliott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 222. $97.69, hardcover; $80.00, Kindle.0
Financial Innovation and Resilience: A Comparative Perspective on the Public Banks of Naples (1462–1808). Edited by Lilia Costabile and Larry Neal. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xix, 372. €155.90
Residential Exodus from Dublin Circa 1900: Municipal Annexation and Preferences for Local Government0
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Central Banking before 1800: A Rehabilitation. By Ulrich Bindseil. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiii + 322 pp. $80, hardcover.0
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Black Americans’ Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation: Evidence from the Census of Agriculture and Linked Records0
El Pan Nuestro: A History of the Corn Tortilla. By Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato Freer. Mexico City: Colegio de Mexico, 2024. Pp. 610, il. $25.0
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The Great Depression as a Savings Glut0
Shadow of a Taxman: Who Funded the Irish Revolution? By R. J. C. Adams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi, 320. £65.00, hardcover.0
Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. By Joshua R. Greenberg. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 245. $34.95, hardcover.0
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Guerres et richesses d’une nation. Les Florentins à Pise au XIVe siècle. By Cédric Quertier. Rome, Italy: École française de Rome, 2022. Pp. xiv, 600. 35€.0
Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles. By William Quinn and John D. Turner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 3296. $24.95, hardcover.0
Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400–1700. By Ron Harris. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii, 465. $39.95/£34.00, hardcover.0
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