Journal of economic history Vol. 67, No. 2 june 2007

ARTICLES


Gary D. Libecap
The Assignment of Property Rights on the Western Frontier: Lessons for Contemporary Environmental and Resource Policy

Eric Hilt
Investment and Diversification in the American Whaling Industry

Stephen Broadberry and Carsten Burhop
Comparative Productivity in British and German Manufacturing Before World War II: Reconciling Direct Benchmark Estimates and Time Series Projections

Rainer Fremdling, Herman De Jong and Marcel P. Timmer
British and German Manufacturing Productivity Compared: A New Benchmark for 1935/36 Based on Double Deflated Value Added

Christopher Kingston
Marine Insurance in Britain and America, 1720–1844: A Comparative Institutional Analysis

William A. Sundstrom
The Geography of Wage Discrimination in the Pre–Civil Rights South

Brooks A. Kaiser
The Athenian Trierarchy: Mechanism Design for the Private Provision of Public Goods


NOTES AND DISCUSSION


Patrick O'Brien
In Memoriam: Stephan (Larry) Epstein


SUMMARIES OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS

Leah Platt Boustan
Black Migration, White Flight: The Effect of Black Migration on Northern Cities and Labor Markets

Carola Frydman
The Evolution of the Market for Corporate Executives across the Twentieth Century

Sharon Ann Murphy
Security in an Uncertain World: Life Insurance and the Emergence of Modern America

Ran Abramitzky
The Limits of Equality: An Economic Analysis of the Israeli Kibbutz

Latika Chaudhary
Essays on Education and Social Divisions in Colonial India

Aldo Musacchio
Law and Finance in Historical Perspective: Politics, Bankruptcy Law, and Corporate Governance in Brazil, 1850–2002

Melissa Thomasson
Comments on Boustan, Frydman, and Murphy

Carol H. Shiue
Comments on Abramitzky, Chaudhary, and Musacchio