Research in Economic History

by Christopher Hanes, Susan Wolcott

Overview

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, health, and welfare 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789733044
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	08/26/2019
Series:	Research in Economic History , #35
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

Christopher Hanes has been Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University) since 2003, after teaching at the University of Mississippi and the University of Pennsylvania, and serving as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board. Most of his research has been in American macroeconomic history. His publications have appeared in journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Economic History, and Explorations in Economic History. He was graduated at Yale Universityand received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. 
Associate Professor Susan Wolcott of the Economics Department at Binghamton Universityprimarily works on issues related to the colonial development of India. Her publications include “Why Nations Fail,” from the Journal of Economic History, 1999, and “Strikes in Colonial India,” published in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review 2008.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Editor's Introduction ix

Social-Overhead Construction in Italy's Regions, 1861-1913 Carlo Ciccarelli Stefano Fenoaltea 1

Bilateral Trade Flows in Europe, 1857-1875: A New Dataset Markus Lampe 81

Gender, Health, and Welfare in England and Wales Since Industrialisation Bernard Harris 157

Taxation with (?) Representation: The Political Economy of Public Finance in Antebellum California Mark T. Kanazawa 205

An Anatomy of a Cartel: The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 and The Compliance Crisis of 1934 Jason E. Taylor Peter G. Klein 235

Governor Eugene Meyer and the Great Contraction James L. Butkiewicz 273

Editorial Reviews

The six essays in this volume address topics in economic history. They explore the effect of changes in relative prices on the distribution of real household income in Denmark during the Great Depression; the importance of expository editorials in Business Week in spreading awareness of and gaining acceptance for Keynesian policies among US business elites; how the decision to join the military under changing economic conditions may lead to biased height measurements; the relationship between county-level votes for William Jennings Bryan vs. William McKinley in the 1896 election and county-level data of economic and demographic factors; the relationship between the Banque de France's policies and the interests of its shareholders and the myth that the bank was controlled by its large shareholders; and whether open fields reduced the risk faced by farmers in Sweden due to issues like heavy rains and droughts between 1715 and 1860.

Annotation ©2019

The six essays in this volume address topics in economic history. They explore the effect of changes in relative prices on the distribution of real household income in Denmark during the Great Depression; the importance of expository editorials in Business Week in spreading awareness of and gaining acceptance for Keynesian policies among US business elites; how the decision to join the military under changing economic conditions may lead to biased height measurements; the relationship between county-level votes for William Jennings Bryan vs. William McKinley in the 1896 election and county-level data of economic and demographic factors; the relationship between the Banque de France's policies and the interests of its shareholders and the myth that the bank was controlled by its large shareholders; and whether open fields reduced the risk faced by farmers in Sweden due to issues like heavy rains and droughts between 1715 and 1860.

Annotation ©2019

Editors Hanes and Wolcott present readers with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles devoted to the economic history of Europe and North America. The contributions that make up the main body of the text are devoted to lessons learned from the Italian engineering industry prior to World War I; quantitative estimates of military spending by Spain between 1850 and 2009; competition, entry, and terms of credit in early American banking; as well as many other related subjects. Christopher Hanes and Susan Wolcott are faculty members of the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Annotation ©2016

Economists and other researchers from North America and Europe present five essays about specific aspects of the economic history of Europe, the US, and Asia. They examine the origins of the American Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, first-class passenger ship fares between Britain and New York City from the 1820s to the outbreak of World War I, the American savings and loan meltdown of 1986-1995, investor responses to monetary and fiscal reforms adopted in the wake of an Ottoman government default in 1875, and the behavior of inflation expectations in the early 1930s in the US.

Annotation ©2017

This volume brings together five articles on the economic history of Europe, North America, and South America, by economics and other researchers from Europe and the US. They discuss prices, wages, and the cost of living in São Paulo, Brazil, from 1891 to 1930; working-class saving in late 19th-century New Jersey; body heights across the last 2,000 years in England and associations with real wages, inequality, food supply, climate change, and expectation of life; the causes of the financial Panic of 1907 in the US; and regional inequality in Switzerland from 1860 to 2008.

Annotation ©2018

Economists and other researchers from North America and Europe present five essays about specific aspects of the economic history of Europe, the US, and Asia. They examine the origins of the American Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, first-class passenger ship fares between Britain and New York City from the 1820s to the outbreak of World War I, the American savings and loan meltdown of 1986-1995, investor responses to monetary and fiscal reforms adopted in the wake of an Ottoman government default in 1875, and the behavior of inflation expectations in the early 1930s in the US.

Annotation ©2017

This volume brings together five articles on the economic history of Europe, North America, and South America, by economics and other researchers from Europe and the US. They discuss prices, wages, and the cost of living in São Paulo, Brazil, from 1891 to 1930; working-class saving in late 19th-century New Jersey; body heights across the last 2,000 years in England and associations with real wages, inequality, food supply, climate change, and expectation of life; the causes of the financial Panic of 1907 in the US; and regional inequality in Switzerland from 1860 to 2008.

Annotation ©2018