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Research in Economic History, PDF eBook

Research in Economic History PDF

Edited by Alexander J. Field, Gregory Clark, William A. Sundstrom

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Volume 26 of "Research in Economic History" includes six papers, evenly divided between European and North American topics.

On the European side, Stefano Fenoaltea and Carlo Ciccarelli provide new regional estimates of social overhead investment in Italy.

Markus Lampe reports data on bilateral trade flows in Europe between 1857 and 1875. And Bernard Harris surveys the literature on gender, wealth, and health in England and Wales since industrialization.

Turning west, Mark Kanazawa studies conflicts between ranchers and miners over who should bear the burden of taxation in nineteenth century California.

Jason Taylor and Peter Klein examine Depression era cartel behavior under the National Industrial Recovery Act.

Finally, James Butkiewicz mines archival material to provide a new perspective on and some rehabilitation of Eugene Meyer's role as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board between 1930 and 1933.

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