Journal of Economic History

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Economic History is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Millennial View of Spain’s Development. Essays in Economic History. By Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cham: Springer and Fundación Rafael del Pino, 2024. Pp. Xxxii, 375. Open Access.54
JEH volume 81 issue 4 Cover and Back matter42
The Efficiency of Occupational Licensing during the Gilded and Progressive Eras: Evidence from Judicial Review37
JEH volume 85 issue 3 Cover and Back matter24
The Brew Deal: How Beer Helped Battle the Great Depression. By Jason E. Taylor. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Pp. v, 274. $29.35, paper.23
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting19
Editors’ Notes15
Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851–191115
The Price and Welfare Consequences of the British Sugar Act of 184615
State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China15
Editors’ Report for 202314
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.12
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data12
Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850–194012
Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911)11
Dissecting the Sinews of Power: International Trade and the Rise of Britain’s Fiscal-Military State, 1689–182311
Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria11
An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992. By Alain Naef. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xx, 246. £85.00, hardcover.10
La “Doña” è Mobile: The Role of Women in Social Mobility in a Pre-Modern Economy10
JEH volume 85 issue 2 Cover and Front matter10
JEH volume 82 issue 3 Cover and Front matter10
Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas10
Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks as Shock Absorbers in the First Era of Globalization9
The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England9
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–17489
Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities9
Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation9
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy8
Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited8
JEH volume 81 issue 4 Cover and Front matter8
Tropical Despotisms: Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean. By David Allen Harvey . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. Pp. 306. $64.95, hardcover.8
JEH volume 85 issue 1 Cover and Back matter8
Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–19717
Railways, Development, and Literacy in India7
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.6
Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act6
We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years6
The Great Depression as a Savings Glut5
Droughts, Conflicts, and the Importance of Democratic Legitimacy: Evidence from Pre-Industrial Europe5
JEH volume 84 issue 1 Cover and Back matter5
Reconstructing History: Using Language to Estimate Religious Spread5
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s5
Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages5
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State5
“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing5
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations5
Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1690s–1880s5
The Demographic Effects of Colonialism: Forced Labor and Mortality in Java, 1834–18795
Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives’ Marriage, and Fertility4
JEH volume 82 issue 2 Cover and Front matter4
Trade, Slavery, and State Coercion of Labor: Egypt during the First Globalization Era4
An Alternative Institutional Approach to Rules, Organizations, and Development4
JEH volume 84 issue 2 Cover and Back matter4
Why Join the Fed?4
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance4
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.4
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