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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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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.62
The Efficiency of Occupational Licensing during the Gilded and Progressive Eras: Evidence from Judicial Review40
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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.22
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting21
Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851–191120
State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China16
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The Price and Welfare Consequences of the British Sugar Act of 184615
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.14
Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911)14
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Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850–194013
Economic History of the European Energy Industry: Lighting up Western Europe, 19th to 21st Centuries. Edited by Alberte Martínez-López, Jesús Mirás-Araujo, and Nuria Rodríguez-Martín. London and New Y13
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data13
Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria13
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Crises and Educational Attainment12
Dissecting the Sinews of Power: International Trade and the Rise of Britain’s Fiscal-Military State, 1689–182312
An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992. By Alain Naef. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xx, 246. £85.00, hardcover.11
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The Political Economy of Commodity Cartel Formation: The Case of Coffee, 1930–1940 —ADDENDUM9
Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities9
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy9
Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas9
Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation9
The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England8
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–17488
Railways, Development, and Literacy in India7
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Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to COVID-19. By Sheilagh C. Ogilvie. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 544. $45.00, hardcover.7
Institutions, Local Agency, and Allegiance: Healthcare Provision in Colonial India7
Tropical Despotisms: Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean. By David Allen Harvey . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. Pp. 306. $64.95, hardcover.7
Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks as Shock Absorbers in the First Era of Globalization7
We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years6
Napoleonic Administrative Reforms and Development in the Italian Mezzogiorno6
Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages6
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s6
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
Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–19716
Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act6
The Great Depression as a Savings Glut5
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Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1690s–1880s5
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Droughts, Conflicts, and the Importance of Democratic Legitimacy: Evidence from Pre-Industrial Europe5
“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing5
Reconstructing History: Using Language to Estimate Religious Spread5
Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives’ Marriage, and Fertility5
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations5
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance4
An Alternative Institutional Approach to Rules, Organizations, and Development4
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State4
Railroad Bailouts in the Great Depression4
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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.3
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Drafting the Great Army: The Political Economy of Conscription in Napoleonic France3
Creating American Farmland: Governance Institutions and Investment in Agricultural Drainage3
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Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century3
Interbank Networks and the Interregional Transmission of Financial Crises: Evidence from the Panic of 19073
Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin. By Jeronim Perović. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. x, 250. £80.00, hardcover.3
Institutional Innovation and the Adoption of New Technologies: The Case of Steam3
Gender and Racial Differences in Migration Behavior: Evidence from the Farm Exodus within and out of the U.S. South, 1900–19403
Why Join the Fed?3
Trade, Slavery, and State Coercion of Labor: Egypt during the First Globalization Era3
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
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: 9783
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations3
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.2
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Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting2
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The Model T2
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations2
The Country They Built: Dynamic and Complex Indigenous Economies in North America before 14921
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
Large Fires and the Rise of Fire Insurance in Early Twentieth-Century Japan1
Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 19071
Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany1
Winners and Losers: The Asymmetric Impact of Tariff Protection on Late-Nineteenth-Century Swedish Manufacturing Firms1
Revealing the Diversity and Complexity behind Long-Term Income Inequality in Latin America: 1920–20111
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Intergenerational Mobility in a Mid-Atlantic Economy: Canada, 1871–19011
An Economic History of India: Growth, Income and Inequalities from the Mughals to the 21st Century. By Bishnupriya Gupta. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 234. $110.00, hardcover; $35.1
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Labor in the Age of Finance. By Sanford Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 368. $39.95, hardcover.1
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.1
Churches as Social Insurance: Oil Risk and Religion in the U.S. South1
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The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–19111
Modernization in Progress: Part-Year Operation, Mechanization, and Labor Force Composition in Late Imperial Russia0
The Irish in England0
Trade Policy, Exchange Rates, and the Globalization Surge of the 1990s0
Residential Exodus from Dublin Circa 1900: Municipal Annexation and Preferences for Local Government0
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The Historical Gender Gap Index: A Longitudinal and Spatial Assessment of Sweden, 1870–19900
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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Can Stimulating Demand Drive Costs Down? World War II as a Natural Experiment0
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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
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America. By Kathleen DuVal. New York: Random House, 2024. Pp. 752. $23.86, hardcover.0
The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage, and Political Participation0
The Distribution of Land in Luxembourg (1766–1872): Family-Level Wealth Persistence in the Midst of Institutional Change0
The Transportation Revolution and the English Coal Industry, 1695–1842: A Geographical Approach0
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Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office0
Inventors among the “Impoverished Sophisticate”0
Sovereign Collateral0
The Impact of Business Cycle Conditions on Firm Dynamics and Composition0
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
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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
Lottery-Based Elections, Power Monopolization, and Urban Development: The Case of Swiss City-States, 1666–17940
Cross-Cultural Trade and the Slave Ship the Bonne Société: Baskets of Goods, Diverse Sellers, and Time Pressure on the African Coast0
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Using Digitized Newspapers to Address Measurement Error in Historical Data0
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Measuring the Partisan Behavior of U.S. Newspapers, 1880 to 19800
Railways, Growth, and Industrialization in a Developing German Economy, 1829–19100
Demographic Shocks and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India0
Landholding Inequality and the Consolidation of Democracy: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century France0
Art and Markets in the Greco-Roman World0
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How Extractive Was Russian Serfdom? Income Inequality in Moscow Province in the Early Nineteenth Century0
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
The Belle-Epoque of Portfolios? How Returns, Risk, and Diversification Correlated with the Wealth Distribution in Paris in 19120
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Voting Rights and Media Sentiment: Evidence from Early Suffrage States0
Opening Heaven’s Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act0
Careworn: The Economic History of Caring Labor0
Adoption, Inheritance, and Wealth Inequality in Pre-industrial Japan and Western Europe0
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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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
The Cross of Gold: Brazilian Treasure and the Decline of Portugal0
Reform, Rails, and Rice: Political Railroads and Local Development in Thailand0
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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
Chicago Before the Fire: An Economic History. By Louis P. Cain. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2025. Pp. 304. $125.00, cloth; $29.95, paper; $14.95, eBook.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
Ora et Guberna. The Economic Impact of the Rule of St Benedict in Medieval England0
International Migration Responses to Modern Europe’s Most Destructive Earthquake: Messina and Reggio Calabria, 19080
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
Consumption Smoothing in the Working-Class Households of Interwar Japan0
Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital0
The Borchardt Hypothesis: A Cliometric Reassessment of Germany’s Debt and Crisis during 1930–19320
Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy0
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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
Winners and Losers from the Protestant Reformation: An Analysis of the Network of European Universities0
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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 Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament0
Firm Networks in the Great Depression0
Social Networks and Elite Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Evidence from the Industrialization of Antioquia0
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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
Making Commercial Law Through Practice, 1830–1970. By Ross Cranston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 483. $112.28, hardcover; $32.50, ebook.0
The Political Economy of Commodity Cartel Formation: The Case of Coffee, 1930–19400
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
Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States. By Michelle Craig McDonald. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. Pp. 271. $45.00, hardcover; $45.00, eBook.0
Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution0
The Her in Inheritance: How Marriage Matching Has Always Mattered, Quebec 1800–19700
Impacts of the Relocation Program on Native American Migration and Fertility0
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
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
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu0
The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe0
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The Rise and Fall of King Coal: American Energy Transitions in an Age of Markets, 1800–1940. By Mark Aldrich. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025. Pp. 352. $64.95, hardcover.0
Institutions, Trade, and Growth: The Ancient Greek Case of Proxenia0
Black Americans’ Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation: Evidence from the Census of Agriculture and Linked Records0
Financial Failure and Depositor Quality: Evidence from Building and Loan Associations in California0
Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–18500
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
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Black and White Names: Evolution and Determinants0
Exposure to World War II and Its Labor Market Consequences over the Life Cycle0
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
Institutional Change and Property Rights before the Industrial Revolution: The Case of the English Court of Wards and Liveries, 1540–16600
Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy – CORRIGENDUM0
Who Wins and Loses in a Bubble? Evidence from the British Bicycle Mania0
Enfranchisement, Political Participation, and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial and Independent India0
Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy. By Carola Binder. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 352. $35.00, cloth.0
Growing, Shrinking, and Long-Run Economic Performance: Historical Perspectives on Economic Development0
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State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–19490
Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics0
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Black Economic Progress in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools0
Editors’ Report for 20220
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Devaluation, Exports, and Recovery from the Great Depression0
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
U.K. Investment Trust Valuation and Investor Behavior, 1880–19290
Social Mobility in the Long Run: An Analysis of Tongcheng, China, 1300 to 19000
Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence0
Bank Lending and Deposit Crunches during the Great Depression0
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Financing Late Industrialization: Evidence from the State Bank of the Russian Empire0
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
Was Marshall Right? Managerial Failure and Corporate Ownership in Edwardian Britain0
The Aftermath of Sovereign Debt Crises: A Narrative Approach0
How Britain Unified Germany: Trade Routes and the Formation of the Zollverein0
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What Happened to the Incomes of the Rich during the Great Levelling? Evidence from Swedish Individual-Level Data, 1909–19500
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
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
It Takes Money to Make MPs: Evidence from 160 Years of British Campaign Spending0
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