Free to read for a limited time, the Virtual Issue from The Economic History Review: 'Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr: selections from The Economic History Review'. Compiled in honour of the 2025 Nobel award. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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Now on Early View: 'The role of structural transformation in regional convergence in Japan: 1874–2008'. By Kyoji Fukao & Saumik Paul. @manchester.ac.uk @iza.org #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Japan's regional convergence of productivity levels throughout the twentieth century can be best described as a cumulative process of ‘catching up, forging ahead, and falling behind’. Using a novel d...
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Now on Early View: 'Trade disruptions and early US industrialization'. By Joseph H. Davis & Douglas A. Irwin. @douglasirwin.bsky.social @nber.org #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Between 1807 and 1815, US imports of manufactured goods were slashed dramatically by a trade embargo, non-importation measures, and the War of 1812. These disruptions are commonly believed to have pr...
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Now on Early View: 'The big impact of small change: Fresh estimates of English wheat market integration, 1693–1893'. By Liam Brunt & Edmund Cannon. @nhhnor.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Using existing and new price data sets, we provide the first estimates of market integration across England over the entire 200 years of the industrial revolution. We document a significant, though n...
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Now on Early View: 'Private money and money market integration: The role of payments infrastructure in nineteenth-century Switzerland. By Daniel Kaufmann & Rebecca Stuart. @kaufmanndani.bsky.social @rebstuart.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @cepr.org #EHS100
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Using newly collected discount rate data for six Swiss cities from 1846 to 1893, we find no evidence of increasing integration during a 30-year period of lightly regulated free banking. We attribute ...
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Now on Early View: 'Elite persistence in family: The role of adoption in prewar Japan'. By Hiroshi Kumanomido & Yutaro Takayasu. @econmunich.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Why do elite families often maintain their social and economic status across generations? This paper examines the role of adoption in sustaining elite persistence in prewar Japan. Under the Japanese ....
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Now on Early View: 'The profits of pepper. Indian Ocean trade and the economy of Kerala, 800–1600'. By Chris Wickham. @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... ehs.org.uk/journal/ #EHS100
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This study analyses the records in the Cairo geniza, the distribution of Chinese ceramics, the reports of travellers (this is the best-known, but least important, dataset), and the discussions of the...
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Now on Early View: 'Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815'. By John Broad. @camunicampop.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815
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Now on Early View: 'The Golden Age of Al-Andalus? Living standards in Muslim Iberia (950–1200)'. By António Henriques. #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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This article provides the first systematic estimates of living standards in Al-Andalus (the Muslim-ruled Iberian Peninsula) in 950, 1000, and 1200. Drawing on prices and wages from legal documents an...
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Now on Early View: 'The bread of Toledo: Prices and political economy, 1535–1800'. By Mauricio Drelichman & David González Agudo. @mdrelichman.bsky.social @ubcvse.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social @ub.edu #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266-year-long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread-for-wheat contracts of large ...
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Now on Early View: 'The depth and breadth of capitalism at the Cape'. By Edward Kerby & Lloyd Melusi Maphosa. @cephie.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ehs.org.uk/journal/earl...
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Limited liability company legislation was introduced to the Cape Colony in 1861. An amendment in 1892 led to wider adoption, expanding and diversifying the capital market. Using novel data from the C...
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Now on Early View: 'Networks paving the way: Apprenticeship, guilds, and access to mastership in early modern Genoa'. By Alessandro Brioschi. @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @cephie.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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This paper investigates how kinship and professional networks shaped labour market outcomes in the guild-based labour market of early modern Genoa. Using a newly constructed dataset of more than 8,00....
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Now on Early View: 'Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late-medieval Low Countries'. By Jaco Zuijderduijn. @jacozuijderduijn.bsky.social @lund-university.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to sig....
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Now on Early View: 'Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies: What we know, what we don't (but should) know'. By Guido Alfani. @guidoalfani.bsky.social @dondenacentre.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social @cuny.edu #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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In recent years economic inequality has become a major research topic in economic history. However, much remains to be done to complete our knowledge of long-term distributive dynamics. This article ...
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Now on Early View: 'The many prices of war and occupation: Black markets and the cost-of-living index in France, 1938–1949'. By Patrice Baubeau & Matéo Teixeira. @uparisnanterre.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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When studying French prices between 1938 and 1949, economists and historians face a paradox: whilst a vast black market shaped daily life, official indices recorded only state-controlled prices. This...
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Now on Early View: 'Remote investing in Latin America, 1869–1929'. By Gareth Campbell, Áine Gallagher & Richard S. Grossman. @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Substantial amounts of British capital flowed to Latin America during the first era of globalization. Companies financed by this capital were typically headquartered in the United Kingdom, but opera...
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Now on Early View: ‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working-class households in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. By Sara Horrell and Jane Humphries. @lseechist.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge....
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Now on Early View: 'Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913'. By David Higgins & Steven Toms. @newcastleuni.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and planta...
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Now on Early View: 'Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth-century Glasgow'. By Graeme Acheson, Gill Newton & Linda Perriton. @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @stir.ac.uk #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to un...
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Now on Early View: 'Declining female participation: Mechanisms at play in the Viennese private annuity market, c. 1360–1450'. By Anna Molnár. @uor-research.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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During the high and late Middle Ages, the European economy witnessed the emergence and substantial growth of capital markets, a phenomenon connected to urbanization and pestilence, both of which brou...
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Now on Early View: 'Benefitting from brutality? Profits of north-western Europe's slave trade at the eve of the industrial revolution'. By Klas Rönnbäck, Guillaume Daudin, Gerhard de Kok, David Richardson & Miguel Geraldes Rodrigues. #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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One of the most contentious issues in the study of the Atlantic slave trade is the profitability of the trade. In this paper, we contribute by pooling all available data on transatlantic slave ship v...
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Now on Early View: 'Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers'. By Felix Meier zu Selhausen & Jacob Weisdorf. @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @cagewarwick.bsky.social @cepr.org #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Now on Early View: 'Persistence in a changing world: Gold backing and monetary policy autonomy under Bretton Woods'. By Eric Monnet. @pse.bsky.social @ehess.fr @cepr.org @cepii-paris.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Bretton Woods system is often described as freeing national monetary policies from the gold-reserve constraints of the gold standard. Breaking the ‘gold fetters’ was essential to the embedded lib...
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Now on Early View: 'Sick leave in the United Kingdom Post Office, 1850–1908'. By Harry Smith, David R. Green, Laura Newman, Joe Chick, Kathleen McIlvenna, Holly Marley, Natasha Preger, Douglas Brown & Nicola Shelton. #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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This paper uses a large individual-record-level dataset on sick leave to examine adult morbidity in the United Kingdom between 1850 and 1908. From 1859 onwards postal workers were eligible to receive...
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Now on Early View: 'Belgian financial elites and destructive entrepreneurship in King Leopold's Congo free state'. By Marc Deloof. @uantwerpen.be #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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This study investigates the role of financial elites in the Congo Free State (CFS). An analysis of director interlocks between firms operating in the CFS and Belgian banks listed on the Brussels Stoc....
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Success and failure in England's patent system: New evidence from patent applications, 1783–1834. By Stephen D. Billington & Joe Lane. @ulsteruni.bsky.social @uor-research.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Our understanding of the relationship between the English patent system and technical change during the industrial revolution is based entirely on the study of successful patents. We address this fea....
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Now on Early View: 'Extreme weather and economic crisis in the 1430s in England, and the implications for tenurial change'. By Mark Bailey. @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The 1430s were characterized by extreme weather conditions, food and fodder shortages, and high mortalities among animals and humans, although the severity of events and their consequences in England...
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