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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism. By Mariana Mazzucato. London: Allen Lane, 2021, Pp. 272. $24.72, hardcover.38
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.29
Adoption, Inheritance, and Wealth Inequality in Pre-industrial Japan and Western Europe24
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.21
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.20
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Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting16
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We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years14
China’s GDP: Some Corrections and the Way Forward13
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s12
Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages11
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting9
Editors’ Notes9
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The Efficiency of Occupational Licensing during the Gilded and Progressive Eras: Evidence from Judicial Review8
The Labor-Intensive Path: Wages, Incomes, and the Work Year in Japan, 1610–18908
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations7
The French (Trade) Revolution of 1860: Intra-Industry Trade and Smooth Adjustment7
The Efficiency of the Chinese Silver Standard, 1920–19337
War, Coal, and Forced Labor: Assessing the Impact of Prisoner-of-War Employment on Coal Mine Productivity in World War I Germany7
From Material to Non-Material Needs? The Evolution of Mate Preferences through the Twentieth Century in France7
Private Benefits, Public Vices: Railways and Logrolling in the Nineteenth-Century British Parliament7
State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China7
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. By J. Bradford DeLong. New York: Basic Books, 2022. Pp. 624. $23.96, hardcover.7
Closing Time: The Local Equilibrium Effects of Prohibition7
Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits6
Churches as Social Insurance: Oil Risk and Religion in the U.S. South6
Small Farms, Large Transaction Costs: Haiti’s Missing Sugar6
Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act6
Using Digitized Newspapers to Address Measurement Error in Historical Data6
Institutions, Trade, and Growth: The Ancient Greek Case of Proxenia5
Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851–19115
Modernization in Progress: Part-Year Operation, Mechanization, and Labor Force Composition in Late Imperial Russia5
Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence5
The Great Depression as a Savings Glut5
Editors’ Report for 20234
The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Seasonal Constraints and Contrasting Outcomes in French West Africa and British Uganda4
The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage, and Political Participation4
Editors’ Notes4
Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West. By Daniel Waldenström. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2024. Pp. xiii, 253. $29.95, hardcover.4
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.4
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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. 4
Can Stimulating Demand Drive Costs Down? World War II as a Natural Experiment4
Institutional Change and Property Rights before the Industrial Revolution: The Case of the English Court of Wards and Liveries, 1540–16604
Where Is the Middle Class? Evidence from 60 Million English Death and Probate Records, 1892–19924
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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.4
The Price and Welfare Consequences of the British Sugar Act of 18464
Oh, How the Mighty Have Fallen: The Bank Failures and Near Failures That Started America’s Greatest Financial Panics3
Black Americans’ Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation: Evidence from the Census of Agriculture and Linked Records3
Financial Failure and Depositor Quality: Evidence from Building and Loan Associations in California3
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data3
More Power to the People: Electricity Adoption, Technological Change, and Labor Conflict3
The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Lawmaking3
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$350.3
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.3
Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1690s–1880s3
The Transportation Revolution and the English Coal Industry, 1695–1842: A Geographical Approach2
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Reform, Rails, and Rice: Political Railroads and Local Development in Thailand2
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Staple Products, Linkages, and Development: Evidence from Argentina2
Opening Heaven’s Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act2
Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911)2
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.2
Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850–19402
U.K. Investment Trust Valuation and Investor Behavior, 1880–19292
Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria2
“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing2
Editors’ Notes1
Labor in the Age of Finance. By Sanford Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 368. $39.95, hardcover.1
An Alternative Institutional Approach to Rules, Organizations, and Development1
The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–19111
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.1
Consumption Smoothing in the Working-Class Households of Interwar Japan1
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.1
Residential Exodus from Dublin Circa 1900: Municipal Annexation and Preferences for Local Government1
The Historical Gender Gap Index: A Longitudinal and Spatial Assessment of Sweden, 1870–19901
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Against the Grain: Spanish Trade Policy in the Interwar Years1
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Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 19071
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.1
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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.1
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The Demographic Effects of Colonialism: Forced Labor and Mortality in Java, 1834–18790
The Debt Crisis of the 1980s: Law and Political Economy. By Jérôme Sgard. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. Pp. 354. $165.00, hardcover.0
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Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital0
Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier. By Bogdan G. Popescu. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xiii + 300. $87.56, hardcover.0
The Rise and Fall of the Italian Economy. By Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xii, 175. £22.99, paper; £70.00, cloth.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
Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy – CORRIGENDUM0
Demographic Shocks and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India0
State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–19490
Drafting the Great Army: The Political Economy of Conscription in Napoleonic France0
G.I. Jane Goes to College? Female Educational Attainment, Earnings, and the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 19440
Malthus Goes to China: The Effect of “Positive Checks” on Grain Market Development, 1736–19100
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Revealing the Diversity and Complexity behind Long-Term Income Inequality in Latin America: 1920–20110
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations0
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
What Happened to the U.S. Economy during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? A View Through High-Frequency Data0
Railways, Growth, and Industrialization in a Developing German Economy, 1829–19100
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The Country They Built: Dynamic and Complex Indigenous Economies in North America before 14920
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Trade, Slavery, and State Coercion of Labor: Egypt during the First Globalization Era0
Editors’ Notes0
Measuring the Partisan Behavior of U.S. Newspapers, 1880 to 19800
Ora et Guberna. The Economic Impact of the Rule of St Benedict in Medieval England0
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Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting0
The Irish in England0
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Inventors among the “Impoverished Sophisticate”0
Asia’s Silver Absorption through the Triangular Settlement System, 1846–18700
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
Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks as Shock Absorbers in the First Era of Globalization0
The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe0
Black and White Names: Evolution and Determinants0
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy0
Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities0
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How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa0
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations0
Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics0
The Borchardt Hypothesis: A Cliometric Reassessment of Germany’s Debt and Crisis during 1930–19320
Railways, Development, and Literacy in India0
Interbank Networks and the Interregional Transmission of Financial Crises: Evidence from the Panic of 19070
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
Farm Product Prices, Redistribution, and the Early U.S. Great Depression0
Collective Action and Policy Implementation: Evidence from Salvador Allende’s Expropriations0
Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy0
Editors’ Notes0
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Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession0
Intergenerational Mobility in a Mid-Atlantic Economy: Canada, 1871–19010
The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England0
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
Black Economic Progress in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools0
Enfranchisement, Political Participation, and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial and Independent India0
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China, Europe, and the Great Divergence: A Restatement0
Impacts of the Relocation Program on Native American Migration and Fertility0
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Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas0
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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 Belle-Epoque of Portfolios? How Returns, Risk, and Diversification Correlated with the Wealth Distribution in Paris in 19120
Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–18500
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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
Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century0
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Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution0
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
Landholding Inequality and the Consolidation of Democracy: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century France0
The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency. By Oliver Volckart. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 384. $39.99, hardcover.0
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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
Malaria, Race, and Inequality: Evidence from the Early 1900s U.S. South0
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance0
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Careworn: The Economic History of Caring Labor0
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
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State0
Editors’ Report for 20220
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
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Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations0
Social Networks and Elite Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Evidence from the Industrialization of Antioquia0
Art and Markets in the Greco-Roman World0
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting0
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
Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited0
Did the Colonial mita Cause a Population Collapse? What Current Surnames Reveal in Peru0
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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
Why Join the Fed?0
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Inheritance Institutions and Landholding Inequality in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Evidence from Hesse-Cassel Villages and Towns0
Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation0
Was Marshall Right? Managerial Failure and Corporate Ownership in Edwardian Britain0
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
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu0
Sovereign Collateral0
Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity. By Claudia Goldin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp v, 325. $27.95, hardcover.0
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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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The Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament0
Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–19710
Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany0
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
The Impact of Business Cycle Conditions on Firm Dynamics and Composition0
Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–18500
Fiscal Capacity and Dualism in Colonial States: The French Empire 1830–19620
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Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–17480
The Distribution of Land in Luxembourg (1766–1872): Family-Level Wealth Persistence in the Midst of Institutional Change0
Making Commercial Law Through Practice, 1830–1970. By Ross Cranston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 483. $112.28, hardcover; $32.50, ebook.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
La “Doña” è Mobile: The Role of Women in Social Mobility in a Pre-Modern Economy0
Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office0
Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment0
Interest Rates, Sanitation Infrastructure, and Mortality Decline in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales0
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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
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