Markets and Governments in Economic History

A series edited by Price Fishback

Also in the series:

Selling Power: Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940 by John L. Neufeld

Law and the Economy in Colonial India by Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy

Golden Rules: The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush by Mark Kanazawa

The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection by Werner Troesken

Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership by Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose, and Kenneth Snowden

The Charleston Orphan House: Children’s Lives in the First Public Orphanage in America by John Murray

The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World by Douglas W. Allen

Long-Term Factors in Economic Development

A National Bureau of Economic Research Series

Edited by Claudia Goldin

Also in the series:

Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women (Oxford University Press, 1990)

Claudia Goldin

Height, Health and History: Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750–1980 (Cambridge University Press, 1990)

Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter, and Annabel Gregory

Race and Schooling in the South, 1880–1950: An Economic History (University of Chicago Press, 1990)

Robert A. Margo

Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 1991)

Samuel H. Preston and Michael R. Haines

Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919–1939 (Oxford University Press, 1992)

Barry Eichengreen

The Federal Civil Service System and the Problem of Bureaucracy: The Economics and Politics of Institutional Change (University of Chicago Press, 1994)

Ronald N. Johnson and Gary D. Libecap

Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England (Cambridge University Press, 1994)

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816–1906 (University of Chicago Press, 1997)

Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, and Karin Gleiter

The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880–1990 (University of Chicago Press, 1998)

Dora L. Costa

Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum U.S., 1840–1860 (Oxford University Press, 1999)

Joseph P. Ferrie

Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820–1860 (University of Chicago Press, 2000)

Robert A. Margo

A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers’ Compensation (University of Chicago Press, 2000)

Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor

Straining at the Anchor: The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880–1935 (University of Chicago Press, 2001)

Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor

Water, Race, and Disease (MIT Press, 2004)

Werner Troesken

The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790–1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

B. Zorina Khan

Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War (Princeton University Press, 2008)

Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn

The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Bernard Harris, and Sok Chul Hong

Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

Robert William Fogel, Enid M. Fogel, Mark Guglielmo, and Nathaniel Grotte

Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose, and Kenneth Snowden

The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South (Oxford University Press, 2015)

Howard Bodenhorn

Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (Princeton University Press, 2017)

Leah Platt Boustan