The Economic History Review
Women in economic and social history
- Introduction
Macroeconomic policy in Britain between the wars
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- Monetary & Exchange Rate Policy
The origins of dear money, 1919-20
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An indicator of the effective exchange rate of the pound in the nineteen-thirties
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- II. Monetary and exchange rate policy
The sterling overvaluation in 1925: a multilateral approach
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Was sterling overvalued in 1925?
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Was sterling overvalued in 1925? A comment
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Was sterling overvalued in 1925? A reply and further evidence
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- III. Fiscal policy and the Keynesian solution
The constant employment budget balance and British budgetary policy, 1929-39
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Unemployment in Interwar Britain: A Case for Re‐learning the Lessons of the 1930s?
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Rearmament and economic recovery in the late 1930s
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Fiscal policy in Britain during the 1930s
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The measurement of fiscal influence in Britain in the 1930s
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Wealth effects and fiscal policy in the 1930s
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Keynesian policy and British unemployment in the 1930s
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Building Counterfactual Pyramids
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- IV. Tariff policy
The British tariff and industrial protection in the 1930s
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The British tariff and industrial protection in the 1930s: an alternative model
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Tariffs, Elasticities and Prices in Britain in the 1930s
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Effective protection and economic recovery in the United Kingdom during the 1930s
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Effective protection and economic recovery in Britain, 1932‐1937
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Editorial: Women in economic and social history: twenty‐fifth anniversary of the Women’s Committee of the Economic History Society
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The first women economic historians
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Social capital and trade associations in America, c. 1860-1914: a microhistory approach
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Evidences of Industrial Growth on Some Fifteenth-Century Manors
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The London Silkwomen of the Fifteenth Century
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Labour at Thornborough: An Eighteenth-Century Estate
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The emergence of a private clientele for banks in the early eighteenth century: Hoare’s Bank and some women customers
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The Financial Organization of the Manor
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Medieval England. Curia Regis Rolls. Vol. VII, 1213-15.; Curia Regis Rolls. Vol. VIII, 1219-20.; Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III, 1268-72
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Continuity and Change: Women’s History and Economic History in Britain
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The Sales of Royalist Land during the Interregnum
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Evidences of Industrial Growth on Some Fifteenth-Century Manors
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Spinning their wheels: a reply to Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider
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Mites and merchants: the crisis of English wool and textile trade revisited, c. 1275–1330†
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Infant and child mortality by socio‐economic status in early nineteenth‐century England †
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Living standards and the life cycle: reconstructing household income and consumption in the early twentieth‐century Netherlands†
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Officer retention and military spending: the rise of the military‐industrial complex during the Second World War
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The real urban wage in an agricultural economy without landless farmers: Serbia, 1862–1910†
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Taxation, fiscal capacity, and credible commitment in eighteenth‐century China: the effects of the formalization and centralization of informal surtaxes†
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The pox in Boswell’s London: an estimate of the extent of syphilis infection in the metropolis in the 1770s†
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Losing the thread: a response to Robert Allen†
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House prices in the Ottoman Empire: evidence from eighteenth‐century Edirne†
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The growth pattern of British children, 1850–1975†
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Flight‐to‐safety and the credit crunch: a new history of the banking crises in France during the Great Depression†
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Unequal access to food during the nutritional transition: evidence from Mediterranean Spain†
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The rise of coffee in the Brazilian south‐east: tariffs and foreign market potential, 1827–40†
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Patents and invention in Jamaica and the British Atlantic before 1857 †
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Land distribution and inequality in a black settler colony: the case of Sierra Leone, 1792–1831†
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Land, ladies, and the law: a case study on women’s land rights and welfare in Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century†
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Reconsidering peasant communes in the Levant, c. 1850s–1940s†
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Speedier delivery: coastal shipping times and speeds during the Age of Sail †
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Overcoming the Egyptian cotton crisis in the interwar period: the role of irrigation, drainage, new seeds, and access to credit†
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Baumol, Engel, and beyond: accounting for a century of structural transformation in Japan, 1885–1985†
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Italy and the little divergence in wages and prices: evidence from stable employment in rural areas†
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The German bank–growth nexus revisited: savings banks and economic growth in Prussia†
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Independent women: investing in British railways, 1870–1922†
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Historical social stratification and mobility in Costa Rica, 1840–2006†
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Scarlet fever and nineteenth‐century mortality trends: a reply to Romola Davenport
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Inequality, living standards, and growth: two centuries of economic development in Mexico
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Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion: Victorian railway networks, 1860–1900
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Growth before birth: the relationship between placental weights and infant and maternal health in early twentieth‐century Barcelona
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The anatomy of Britain’s interwar super‐rich: reconstructing the 1928/9 ‘millionaire’ population
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‘Paesani’ versus ‘paisanos’: the relative failure of Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires during the age of mass migration
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Taxation and the stagnation of cotton exports in Brazil, 1800–60
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Two worlds of female labour: gender wage inequality in western Europe, 1300–1800
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Skills and human capital in eighteenth‐century Spain: wages and working lives in the construction of the Royal Palace of Madrid (1737–1805)
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Eric Williams and William Forbes: copper, colonial markets, and commercial capitalism
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Understanding productivity growth in the industrial revolution (from ‘Survey and Speculation’)
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War and trade in the peaceful century: the impact of interstate wars on bilateral trade flows during the first wave of globalization, 1830–1913
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Ending Bretton Woods: evidence from the Nixon tapes
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The origination and distribution of money market instruments: sterling bills of exchange during the first globalization
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Female teachers and the rise of primary education in Italy and Spain, 1861–1921: evidence from a new dataset
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‘Your flexible friend’: the bill of exchange in theory and practice in the fifteenth century
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Augmented human development in the age of globalization
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Water theft as social insurance: south‐eastern Spain, 1851–1948
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Disentangling the effects of technological and organizational changes during the rise of the factory: the case of the Japanese weaving industry, 1905−14
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Unions and compensating wage differentials for workplace accident risk: the English and Welsh railway industry, 1902–12
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Plagues, wars, political change, and fiscal capacity: late medieval and Renaissance Siena, 1337–1556
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Underpricing in a developing capital market: Australian equity issuances, 1920–39
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Perceptions of plague in eighteenth‐century Europe
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How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain?
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Making the municipal capital market in nineteenth‐century England
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Mercantilist inequality: wealth and poverty in Stockholm, 1650–1750
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Contesting the preferred creditor status of the League of Nations, 1931–3
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After the great inventions: technological change in UK cotton spinning, 1780–1835
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Rethinking age heaping: a cautionary tale from nineteenth-century Italy
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The private mint in economics: evidence from the American gold rushes
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Workplace accidents and workers’ solidarity: mutual health insurance in early twentieth-century Sweden
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Revising growth history: new estimates of GDP for Norway, 1816–2019
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Inequality in early life: Social class differences in childhood mortality in southern Sweden, 1815–1967
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The Irish economy during the century after partition
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Colonizer identity and trade in Africa: Were the British more favourable to free trade?
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Income inequality and famine mortality: Evidence from the Finnish famine of the 1860s
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Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective
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Credit risk in colonial India
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Beyond the male breadwinner: Life-cycle living standards of intact and disrupted English working families, 1260–1850
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Introduction to the symposium on money
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Nineteenth-century mortality trends: A reply to Szreter and Mooney
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Becoming a central bank: The development of the Bank of England’s private sector lending policies during the Restriction
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Human capital transfer of German-speaking migrants in eastern Europe, 1780s–1820s
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The politics of last resort lending and the Overend & Gurney crisis of 1866
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Peer pressure: The puzzle of aristocrats’ tax compliance in early nineteenth-century Moscow
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Early inventory management practices in the foreign exchange market: Insights from sixteenth-century Lyon
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Between unfreedoms: The role of caste in decisions to repatriate among indentured workers
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Business representation in an autocratic regime: Tariff policy and exchange committees in late Tsarist Russia
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Wiring China: The impact of telegraph construction on grain market integration in late imperial China, 1870–1911
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History as heresy: Unlearning the lessons of economic orthodoxy
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Analysing the actions of the rebels in the English Revolt of 1381: The case of Cambridgeshire
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Large-scale Victorian manufacturers: Reconstructing the lost 1881 UK employer census
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English farmers’ wheat storage and sales in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
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Persistence of natural disasters on children’s health: Evidence from the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923
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Fringe banking and financialization: Pawnbroking in pre-famine and famine Ireland
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Cyberpunk Victoria: The credibility of computers and the first digital revolution, 1848–83
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The hidden wealth of English dynasties, 1892–2016
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Wealth inequality in pre-industrial Europe: What role did associational organizations have?
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Rethinking age heaping again for understanding its possibilities and limitations
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Property and inequality: Housing dynamics in a nineteenth-century city
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Indian cotton textiles and British industrialization: Evidence of comparative learning in the British cotton industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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Wool smuggling from England’s eastern seaboard, c. 1337–45: An illicit economy in the late middle ages
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Age heaping and its discontents: A response to Baten, Benati, and Ferber
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Imperial preference before the Ottawa Agreements: Evidence from New Zealand’s Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act of 1903
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Financing the rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666
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New evidence on wine in French international trade (1848–1913): Import discrimination as export quality promotion
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Short- and medium-run health and literacy impacts of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic in Brazil
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Wealth inequality in pre-industrial England: A long-term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries)
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A new estimate of Chinese male occupational structure during 1734–1898 by sector, sub-sector pattern, and region
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Evolving gaps: Occupational structure in southern and northern Italy, 1400–1861
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The role of sentiment in the US economy: 1920 to 1934
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Poverty, pollution, and mortality: The 1918 influenza pandemic in a developing German economy
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The effect of settler farming on indigenous agriculture: Evidence from Italian Libya
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Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Numeracy levels in the Guarani Jesuit missions
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Demographic trends in late-slavery Jamaica, 1817–32
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Inflation and globalisation: The Tawney Lecture 2022
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Industrialisation in a small grain economy during the First Globalisation: Bulgaria c . 1870–1910
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Evaluating early modern lockdowns: Household quarantine in Bristol, 1565–1604
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Women’s work and wages in the sixteenth century and Sweden’s position in the ‘little divergence’
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Sterling’s farewell symphony: The end of the Sterling Area revisited
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Fuelling the urban economy: A comparative study of energy in the Low Countries, 1600–1850
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Did it pay to be a pioneer? Wealth accumulation in a newly settled frontier society
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The settlers’ fortunes: Comparing tax censuses in the Cape Colony and early American republic
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Serbia on the path to modern economic growth
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Consumer revolution in north-western Germany: Material culture, global goods, and proto-industry in rural households in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries
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Not an ordinary bank but a great engine of state: The Bank of England and the British economy, 1694–1844
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Assessing female accountability in the long eighteenth century through debt imprisonment
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An annual index of Irish industrial production, 1800–1913
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Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880–1913
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New perspectives on the contribution of sanitary investments to mortality decline in English cities, 1845–1909
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Factor prices and induced technical change in the industrial revolution
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Individual investors and social ownership structures in the UK before the 1930s: Joint holdings and trustee investment
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Seeing credit and property rights from below: The experience of Catalan smallholders in the eighteenth century
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Ethnic-specific infant care practices and infant mortality in late Imperial Russia
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Urban mortality in Greece: Hermoupolis (1859–1940)
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One country, two currencies: The adoption of the Hong Kong currency board, 1983
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‘Los von London’: A comparative, empirical analysis of German and British global foreign banking and trade development, 1881–1913
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The great margin call: The role of leverage in the 1929 Wall Street crash
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Measuring inflation expectations in interwar Britain
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British exports and foreign tariffs: Insights from the Board of Trade’s foreign tariff compilation for 1902
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Reputational recovery under political instability: Public debt in Portugal, 1641–83
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Exploring modern bank penetration: Evidence from early twentieth-century Netherlands
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The evolution of wages in early modern Normandy (1600–1850)
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Updated estimates of UK GDP from the income side, 1841–1920
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From boom to gloom: Brazilian labour productivity in manufacturing relative to the United States, 1912–2019
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Designing wartime economic controls: Productivity and firm dynamics in the Japanese cotton spinning industry, 1937–9
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What about the race between education and technology in the Global South? Comparing skill premiums in colonial Africa and Asia
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Household consumption patterns and the consumer price index, England, 1260–1869
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The decline of US manufacturing productivity between 1941 and 1948
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Power politics and the expansion of US exports, 1879–1938
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The Middle-Eastern marriage pattern? Malthusian dynamics in nineteenth-century Egypt
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Dating business cycles in the United Kingdom, 1700–2010
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Status and mortality: Is there a Whitehall effect in the United States?
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Supervision without regulation: Discount limits at the Austro–Hungarian Bank, 1909–13
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The price of poverty: The association between childhood poverty and adult income and education in Sweden, 1947–2015
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Autarky in Franco’s Spain: The costs of a closed economy
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Regional inequalities and the West–East divide in Turkey since 1913
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Social inequalities in famine mortality in the manorial system of the tsarist Russian province of Livland in the mid-1840s
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Height and the disease environment of children: The association between mortality and height in the Netherlands 1850–1940
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Stocks and flows: Material culture and consumption behaviour in early modern Venice (c. 1650–1800)
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Female relatives and domestic service in nineteenth-century England and Wales: Female kin servants revisited
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Hot money inflows and bank risk-taking: Germany from the 1920s to the Great Depression
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Numeracy selectivity of Spanish migrants in colonial America (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries)
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International entrepreneurship without investor protection: Evidence from initial public offerings in Belgium before the First World War
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From a common empire to colonial rule: Commodity market disintegration in the Near East
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The legacy of voluntarism: Charitable funding in the early NHS
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Goodbye, Mr. Portugal: Fiscal crisis, constitutional revolution, and the independence of Brazil (1808–22)
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Technical change and the postwar slowdown in Soviet economic growth in a long run perspective, 1885–2019
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Credibility building in the sovereign debt market: Evidence from prewar China
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Communism and patricide: Collectivization and domestic violence in 1960s China
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From circular to permanent: The economic assimilation of migrants during Spain’s rural exodus, 1955–73
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Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) in prewar China: Communal finance and the roots of economic development
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Was there a ‘consumer revolution’ in the Ottoman Empire?
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Driven by crises: Price integration on the grain market in late medieval Flanders
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The making of paper money in early modern Japan
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The demand for extraterritoriality: Religious minorities in nineteenth-century Egypt
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Should history change the way we think about populism?
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‘A new way by her invented’: Women inventors and technological innovation in Britain, 1800–1930
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Aesthetics for a polite society: Language and the marketing of second-hand goods in eighteenth-century London
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Income inequality and export-oriented commercialization in colonial Africa: Evidence from six countries
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Shipping in the London coal trade, 1700‒1860
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‘The same contract that is suitable for your Excellency’: Immigration and emulation in the adoption of sharecropping-cum-debt arrangements in Brazil (1835‒80)
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Rent–wage inequality in Mexico City, 1770–1930
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The last free traders? Interwar trade policy in the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies
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The 1929 crash of the New York stock exchange as a liquidity crisis
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The rise and fall of paper money in Yuan China, 1260–1368
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The Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East: A survey and speculation article for the Economic History Review
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Gender and justice: The status of women in Ottoman courts
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Neo-Confucianism and the rise of science and technology in Medieval China
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Three centuries of corporate governance in the United Kingdom
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Putting women back into the early modern economy: Work, occupations, and economic development
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What happened to the workshop of West Africa? Resilience and decline of handicraft textiles in colonial northern Nigeria, 1911–52
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Swedish income inequality in 1613
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Art in times of crisis
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Bonds for the long run? The rate of return on corporate bonds in Belgium, 1838–1939
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Competition, over-branching and bank failures during the Great Depression: New evidence from Italy
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Corporate taxes, leverage, and investment: Evidence from Nazi-occupied Netherlands
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The growth contribution of colonial Indian railways in comparative perspective
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Firm profitability and forced wage labour in Portuguese Africa: Evidence from the Sena Sugar Estates, 1920–74
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Firm survival and the rise of the factory
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How not to measure the standard of living: Male wages, non-market production and household income in nineteenth-century Europe
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Modifying the success story of Sweden: Revised output and labour productivity figures for manufacturing, 1869–1950
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Anglo–Dutch financial connections and contrasts in the late eighteenth century: The Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 credit crisis
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Nominal wage patterns, monopsony, and labour market power in early modern England
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Spatial inequality in prices and wages within a late-developing economy: Serbia, 1863–1910
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Finance capitalism in industrializing autocracies: Evidence from corporate balance sheets in imperial Germany and Russia
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The London Silkwomen of the Fifteenth Century
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