30 nov 2012

Journal of economic history, 72 (1), march 2012


Articles

London Merchant Banks, the Central European Panic, and the Sterling Crisis of 1931 
Accominotti, Olivier

More Machines, Better Machines…or Better Workers? 
Bessen, James

The Political Economy of Saving Mothers and Babies: The Politics of State Participation in the Sheppard-Towner Program 
Moehling, Carolyn M. and Melissa A. Thomasson

The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective 
Ward, Marianne and John Devereux

Household Debt in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from Personal Inventories 
Ogilvie, Sheilagh; Markus Küpker and Janine Maegraith

Industrialization and Fertility in the Nineteenth Century: Evidence from South Carolina 
Wanamaker, Marianne H.

Law and Peace: Contracts and the Success of the Danish Dairy Cooperatives 
Henriksen, Ingrid; Morten Hviid and Paul Sharp

Pay Cuts for the Boss: Executive Compensation in the 1940s 
Frydman, Carola and Raven Molloy

Editors' Notes 

Reviews of books

Ancient to Modern Europe

Perfecting Parliament: Constitutional Reform, Liberalism, and the Rise of Western Democracy. By Roger Congleton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
John Wallis

United States and Canada

Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth. By Alexander J. Field. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011. Pp. ix, 387.
Jason E. Taylor

Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia). By Sharon Ann Murphy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. xii, 395.
Richard Sutch

Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats: How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression. By David George Surdam. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. Pp. xxv, 417.
Kenneth Winter

Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform. By David E. Bernstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. viii, 194.
James W. Ely

Hinterland Dreams: The Political Economy of a Midwestern City. By Eric J. Morser. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Pp. xvi, 266.
Michael Haupert


Latin America

Has Latin America Always Been Unequal? A Comparative Study of Asset and Income Inequality in the Long Twentieth Century., Global Economic History Series, Volume 3. By Ewout Frankema. Leiden and Boston: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2009. Pp. 291.
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Living Standards in Latin American History: Height, Welfare, and Development, 1750–2000. Edited by Ricardo D. Salvatore, John H. Coatsworth, Amílcar Challú. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 350.
Leticia Arroyo Abad

Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru. By Kathryn Burns. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. xv, 247.
Regina Grafe

General and Miscellaneous

Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines. By Vaclav Smil. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. 261.
Joel Mokyr

Reconceiving the Industrial Revolution. Edited by Jeff Horn, Leonard N. Rosenband, Merritt Roe Smith. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. vii, 356.
Ross Thomson


How Many Languages Do We Need? The Economics of Linguistic Diversity. By Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. 256.
Isabelle Sin


States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities. By David Stasavage. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Series. Pp. 224.
Mark Dincecco

How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500–1850. Edited by Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. Pp.xxxiv, 489.
Anand V. Swamy







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