Journal of Economic History

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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
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The Efficiency of Occupational Licensing during the Gilded and Progressive Eras: Evidence from Judicial Review	37
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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 Meeting	19
Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851–1911	15
The Price and Welfare Consequences of the British Sugar Act of 1846	15
State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China	15
Editors’ Notes	15
Editors’ Report for 2023	14
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data	12
Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850–1940	12
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
Dissecting the Sinews of Power: International Trade and the Rise of Britain’s Fiscal-Military State, 1689–1823	11
Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria	11
Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911)	11
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Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas	10
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 Economy	10
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Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation	9
Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks as Shock Absorbers in the First Era of Globalization	9
The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England	9

Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–1748	9
Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities	9
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Tropical Despotisms: Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean. By David Allen Harvey . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. Pp. 306. $64.95, hardcover.	8
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Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy	8
Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited	8
Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–1971	7
Railways, Development, and Literacy in India	7
Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act	6
We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years	6
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
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s	5
Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages	5
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State	5
“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing	5
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	5
Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1690s–1880s	5
The Demographic Effects of Colonialism: Forced Labor and Mortality in Java, 1834–1879	5
The Great Depression as a Savings Glut	5
Droughts, Conflicts, and the Importance of Democratic Legitimacy: Evidence from Pre-Industrial Europe	5
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Reconstructing History: Using Language to Estimate Religious Spread	5
Why Join the Fed?	4
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance	4
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
Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives’ Marriage, and Fertility	4
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Trade, Slavery, and State Coercion of Labor: Egypt during the First Globalization Era	4
An Alternative Institutional Approach to Rules, Organizations, and Development	4
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Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850	3
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€.	3
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.	3
Institutional Innovation and the Adoption of New Technologies: The Case of Steam	3
Interbank Networks and the Interregional Transmission of Financial Crises: Evidence from the Panic of 1907	3
Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century	3
Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment	3
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: 978	3
The Model T	3
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	3
Drafting the Great Army: The Political Economy of Conscription in Napoleonic France	3
Creating American Farmland: Governance Institutions and Investment in Agricultural Drainage	3
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.	3
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	2
Churches as Social Insurance: Oil Risk and Religion in the U.S. South	2
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Savings Bank. By Justene Hill Edwards. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2024. Pp. i.x, 320. $29.99, hardcover.	2
Did the Colonial mita Cause a Population Collapse? What Current Surnames Reveal in Peru	2
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting	2
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Editors’ Notes	2
Revealing the Diversity and Complexity behind Long-Term Income Inequality in Latin America: 1920–2011	2
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting	2
Editors’ Report for 2021	2
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.	2
Labor in the Age of Finance. By Sanford Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 368. $39.95, hardcover.	2
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Large Fires and the Rise of Fire Insurance in Early Twentieth-Century Japan	1
The Country They Built: Dynamic and Complex Indigenous Economies in North America before 1492	1
Editors’ Notes	1
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.	1
Against the Grain: Spanish Trade Policy in the Interwar Years	1
The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911	1
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.	1
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.	1
Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany	1
Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907	1
Intergenerational Mobility in a Mid-Atlantic Economy: Canada, 1871–1901	1
Art and Markets in the Greco-Roman World	1
Central Banking before 1800: A Rehabilitation. By Ulrich Bindseil. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiii + 322 pp. $80, hardcover.	1
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
It Takes Money to Make MPs: Evidence from 160 Years of British Campaign Spending	0
Lottery-Based Elections, Power Monopolization, and Urban Development: The Case of Swiss City-States, 1666–1794	0
How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa	0
Interest Rates, Sanitation Infrastructure, and Mortality Decline in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales	0
What Happened to the Incomes of the Rich during the Great Levelling? Evidence from Swedish Individual-Level Data, 1909–1950	0
The Political Economy of Commodity Cartel Formation: The Case of Coffee, 1930–1940	0
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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
Social Networks and Elite Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Evidence from the Industrialization of Antioquia	0
Modernization in Progress: Part-Year Operation, Mechanization, and Labor Force Composition in Late Imperial Russia	0
Using Digitized Newspapers to Address Measurement Error in Historical Data	0
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Editors’ Notes	0
Financial Failure and Depositor Quality: Evidence from Building and Loan Associations in California	0
Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution	0
Bank Lending and Deposit Crunches during the Great Depression	0
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
Making Commercial Law Through Practice, 1830–1970. By Ross Cranston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 483. $112.28, hardcover; $32.50, ebook.	0
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, hardc	0
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.	0
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What Happened to the U.S. Economy during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? A View Through High-Frequency Data	0
U.K. Investment Trust Valuation and Investor Behavior, 1880–1929	0
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
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
Editors’ Report for 2024	0
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Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy. By Carola Binder. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 352. $35.00, cloth.	0
Voting Rights and Media Sentiment: Evidence from Early Suffrage States	0
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International Migration Responses to Modern Europe’s Most Destructive Earthquake: Messina and Reggio Calabria, 1908	0
Growing, Shrinking, and Long-Run Economic Performance: Historical Perspectives on Economic Development	0
Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity. By Claudia Goldin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp v, 325. $27.95, hardcover.	0
The Impact of Business Cycle Conditions on Firm Dynamics and Composition	0
The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe	0
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Was Marshall Right? Managerial Failure and Corporate Ownership in Edwardian Britain	0
The Borchardt Hypothesis: A Cliometric Reassessment of Germany’s Debt and Crisis during 1930–1932	0
Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession	0
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Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu	0
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Black Economic Progress in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools	0
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
The Belle-Epoque of Portfolios? How Returns, Risk, and Diversification Correlated with the Wealth Distribution in Paris in 1912	0
Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence	0
The Young Fed: The Banking Crises of the 1920s and the Making of a Lender of Last Resort. By Mark Carlson. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025. Pp. 240. $40.00, cloth.	0
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
Opening Heaven’s Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act	0
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Impacts of the Relocation Program on Native American Migration and Fertility	0
Institutions, Trade, and Growth: The Ancient Greek Case of Proxenia	0
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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage, and Political Participation	0
Railways, Growth, and Industrialization in a Developing German Economy, 1829–1910	0
Enfranchisement, Political Participation, and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial and Independent India	0

Institutional Change and Property Rights before the Industrial Revolution: The Case of the English Court of Wards and Liveries, 1540–1660	0
Editors’ Notes	0
Careworn: The Economic History of Caring Labor	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
The Transportation Revolution and the English Coal Industry, 1695–1842: A Geographical Approach	0
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
Black and White Names: Evolution and Determinants	0
Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850	0
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
The Distribution of Land in Luxembourg (1766–1872): Family-Level Wealth Persistence in the Midst of Institutional Change	0
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
The Cross of Gold: Brazilian Treasure and the Decline of Portugal	0
Inventors among the “Impoverished Sophisticate”	0
Who Wins and Loses in a Bubble? Evidence from the British Bicycle Mania	0
Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy – CORRIGENDUM	0
Editors’ Report for 2022	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
Ora et Guberna. The Economic Impact of the Rule of St Benedict in Medieval England	0
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Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy	0
Sovereign Collateral	0
Consumption Smoothing in the Working-Class Households of Interwar Japan	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
State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–1949	0
Social Mobility in the Long Run: An Analysis of Tongcheng, China, 1300 to 1900	0
Demographic Shocks and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India	0
The Labor-Intensive Path: Wages, Incomes, and the Work Year in Japan, 1610–1890	0
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
Measuring the Partisan Behavior of U.S. Newspapers, 1880 to 1980	0
The Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament	0
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Firm Networks in the Great Depression	0
Cross-Cultural Trade and the Slave Ship the Bonne Société: Baskets of Goods, Diverse Sellers, and Time Pressure on the African Coast	0
Adoption, Inheritance, and Wealth Inequality in Pre-industrial Japan and Western Europe	0
Can Stimulating Demand Drive Costs Down? World War II as a Natural Experiment	0
Editors’ Notes	0
Landholding Inequality and the Consolidation of Democracy: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century France	0
Trade Policy, Exchange Rates, and the Globalization Surge of the 1990s	0
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting	0
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One from the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850. By Christopher M. Meissner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. xv, 330. £64.00, cloth; £22.99, paper.	0
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The Irish in England	0
Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office	0
The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Lawmaking	0
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Residential Exodus from Dublin Circa 1900: Municipal Annexation and Preferences for Local Government	0
Reform, Rails, and Rice: Political Railroads and Local Development in Thailand	0
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The Historical Gender Gap Index: A Longitudinal and Spatial Assessment of Sweden, 1870–1990	0
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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Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital	0
Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics	0
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America. By Kathleen DuVal. New York: Random House, 2024. Pp. 752. $23.86, hardcover.	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. €155.9	0
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	0
Asia’s Silver Absorption through the Triangular Settlement System, 1846–1870	0
Black Americans’ Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation: Evidence from the Census of Agriculture and Linked Records	0
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 978-1-316	0
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The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise. By Richard N. Langlois. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. xv + 816. $45.00 cloth.	0