| Part 1: Agrarian Economics and The Industrial Revolution |
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Overview |
Temin, Peter. "Evolutionary History." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 28 (Winter 1998): 405-15.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies. New York: Norton, 1997. ISBN: 0393317552.
Mokyr, Joel. The Lever of Riches. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990, chapter 9, pp. 209-238. ISBN: 0195061136. |
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European Expansion |
Greif, Avner, Paul Milgrom, and Barry R. Weingast. "Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild." Journal of Political Economy 102 (August 1994): 745-76.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies. New York: Norton, 1997, chapter 18, pp. 354-75. ISBN: 0393317552.
Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson. "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation." American Economic Review 91 (December 2001): 1369-1401. |
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English Institutions |
North, Douglass C., and Barry R. Weingast. "Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England." Journal of Economic History 49 (December 1989): 803-832.
Neal, Larry, and Stephen Quinn. "Networks of Information, Markets, and Institutions in the Rise of London as a Financial Centre, 1660-1720." Financial History Review 8 (April 2001): 7-26.
Allen, Robert C. "The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices from the Middle Ages to the First World War." Explorations in Economic History 38 (October 2001): 411-47. |
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Malthusian Demography |
Laslett, Peter. The World We Have Lost: Further Explored. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, chapters 4 and 5, pp. 81-121. ISBN: 0684180790.
Lee, Ronald. "An Historical Perspective on Economic Aspects of the Population Explosion." In Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries. Edited by Richard Easterlin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980, pp. 517-557. ISBN: 0226180263.
Chiang, Chin Long. "The Life Table and its Construction." Chapter 9 in Introduction to Stochastic Processes in Biostatistics. New York: John Wiley, 1968, pp. 189-217. ISBN: 0882752006. |
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The Demographic Transition |
Boyer, George. "Malthus Was Right After All: Poor Relief and Birth Rates in Southeastern England." Journal of Political Economy 97 (February 1989): 93-114.
Crafts, N. F. R. "Some Dimensions of the 'Quality of Life' During the British Industrial Revolution." Economic History Review 50 (November 1997): 617-39.
Fogel, Robert W., and Dora L. Costa. "A Theory of Technophysio Evolution, with Some Implications for Forecasting Population, Health Care Costs, and Pension Costs." Demography 34 (February 1997): 49-66. |
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The Industrial Revolution: Description |
Ashton, T. S. The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830. London: Oxford University Press, 1948. ISBN: 0195002520. |
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The Industrial Revolution: Analysis |
Temin, Peter. "Two Views of The British Industrial Revolution." Journal of Economic History 57 (March 1997): 63-82.
———. "A Response to Harley and Crafts." Journal of Economic History 60 (September 2000): 842-46.
Voth, Hans-Joachim. "Time and Work in Eighteenth-Century London." Journal of Economic History 58 (March 1998): 29-58.
Eltis, David, and Stanley L. Engerman. "The Importance of the Slave Trade to Industrializing Britain." Journal of Economic History 60 (March 2000): 123-44. |
| Part 2: The Spread of Industrialization |
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The United States |
Temin, Peter. "Free Land and Federalism: A Synoptic View of American Economic History." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 21 (Winter 1991): 371-389. Jstor (Online)
Irwin, Douglas A., and Peter Temin. "The Ante-Bellum Cotton Tariff Reconsidered." Journal of Economic History 61 (September 2001): 777-798.
Harley, C. Knick. "The Antebellum Tariff: Different Products or Competing Sources? A Comment on Irwin and Temin." Journal of Economic History 61 (September 2001): 799-805. |
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Northern Europe |
Gerschenkron, Alexander. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962, chapter 1, pp. 5-30. ASIN: 0674226003.
O'Rourke, Kevin H. "The European Grain Invasion, 1870-1913." Journal of Economic History 57 (December 1997): 775-801. |
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Southern Europe |
Berger, Helge, and Mark Spoerer. "Economic Crises and the European Revolutions of 1848." Journal of Economic History 61 (June 2001): 293-326.
Putnam, Robert D. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993, chapter 5, pp. 121-62. ISBN: 0691037388.
Galassi, Francesco L. "Measuring Social Capital: Culture as an Explanation of Italy's Economic Dualism." European Review of Economic History 5 (April 2001): 29-59. |
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Latin America |
Engerman, Stanley L., and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. "Factor Endowments, Institutions, and Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies: A View from Economic Historians of the United States." In How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic History of Brazil and Mexico, 1800-1914. Edited by Stephen Haber. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, pp. 260-304. ISBN: 0804727384.
Frank, Zephyr L. "Exports and Inequality: Evidence from the Brazilian Frontier, 1870-1937." Journal of Economic History 61 (March 2001): 37-58.
Paolera, Gerardo della, and Alan M. Taylor. Straining at the Anchor: The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880-1935. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, chapter 3, pp. 67-79. ISBN: 0226645568. |
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Russia |
Gregory, Paul R. Before Command: An Economic History of Russia from Emancipation to the First Five-Year Plan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, chapters 2 and 3, pp. 14-54. ISBN: 0691042659.
ohnson, Simon, and Peter Temin. "The Macroeconomics of NEP." Economic History Review 46 (November 1993): 750-767. |
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Japan and China |
Flath, David. The Japanese Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, chapter 2, pp. 21-42. ISBN: 0198775032.
Hanley, Susan B. Everyday Things in Premodern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, chapter 8, pp. 176-98. ISBN: 0520218124.
Richardson, Philip. Economic Change in China c. 1800-1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, chapters 2, 4 and 7, pp. 16-24, 40-53 and 84-97. ISBN: 0521635713. |
| Part 3: The United States |
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Labor and Capital in the North |
Goldin, Claudia, and Kenneth Sokoloff. "Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic: Evidence from the Manufacturing Census." Journal of Economic History 42 (December 1982): 741-74.
Sylla, Richard. "U.S. Securities Markets and the Banking System, 1790-1840." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review 80, no. 3 (May-June 1998): 83-98.
Calomiris, Charles W. "Is Deposit Insurance Necessary?" Journal of Economic History 50 (June 1990): 283-95. |
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The South and Slavery |
Fogel, Robert W. Without Consent or Contract. New York: Norton, 1989, chapter 3, pp. 60-80. ISBN: 0393027910.
Steckel, Richard H. "A Peculiar Population: The Nutrition, Health, and Mortality of American Slaves from Childhood to Maturity." Journal of Economic History 46 (1986): 721-41. |
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The Aftermath of Slavery |
Alston, Lee J., and Joseph P. Ferrie. "Paternalism in Agricultural Labor Contracts in the U.S. South: Implications for the Growth of the Welfare States." American Economic Review, 83 (September 1993): 852-76.
Margo, Robert A. Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990, chapter 3, pp. 33-51. ISBN: 0226505103.
Heckman, James J. "The Central Role of the South in Accounting for the Economic Progress of Black Americans." American Economic Review 80 (May 1990): 242-246. |
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Labor Participation |
Goldin, Claudia. Understanding the Gender Gap. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990, chapters 4, 5. pp. 83-158. ISBN: 0195050770.
Costa, Dora. "Pensions and Retirement: Evidence from Union Army Veterans." Quarterly Journal of Economics 110 (May 1995): 297-320. |
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The Modern Corporation |
Chandler, Alfred D. Jr. Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990, Chapter 2, pp. 14-46. ISBN: 0674789946.
Granitz, Elizabeth, and Benjamin Klein. "Monopolization by "Raising Rivals' Costs": The Standard Oil Case." Journal of Law and Economics 32 (April 1996): 1-47. |
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The Gold Standard |
Eichengreen, Barry. Globalizing Capital. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996, chapter 2, pp. 7-44. ISBN: 0691002452.
Calomiris, Charles W., and R. Glenn Hubbard. "International Adjustment under the Classical Gold Standard: Evidence for the United States and Britain, 1879-1914." In Modern Perspectives on the Gold Standard. Edited by Tamim Bayoumi, Barry Eichengreen, and Mark P. Taylor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 189-217. ISBN: 0521571693. |
| Part 4: The Twentieth Century |
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The Great Depression |
Temin, Peter. Lessons from the Great Depression. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989, chapter 1 and 2, pp. 1-87. ISBN: 0262200732.
Bernanke, Ben. "The Macroeconomics of the Great Depression: A Comparative Approach." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 27 (1995): 1-28.
Calomiris, Charles W., and Joesph R. Mason. "Consequences of Bank Distreess During the Great Depression." American Economic Review 93 (June 2003): 937-47. |
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Recovery |
Temin, Peter. Lessons from the Great Depression. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989, chapter 3, pp. 89-137. ISBN: 0262200732.
Romer, Christina. "Why Did Prices Rise in the 1930s?" Journal of Economic History 59 (March 1999): 167-199.
Field, Alexander J. "The Most Technologically Progressive Decade of the Century." American Economic Review 93 (September 2003). |
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The Interwar Period in Context |
Williamson, Jeffrey G. "Land, Labor, and Globalization in the Third World, 1870-1914." Journal of Economic History 62 (March 2002): 55-85.
Obstfeld, Maurice, and Alan M. Taylor. "Globalization and Capital Markets." NBER Working Paper No. 8846 (March 2002). |
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Assessing US Growth |
Romer, Christina. "New Estimates of Prewar Gross National Product and Unemployment." Journal of Economic History 46, no. 2 (1986): 341-352.
Costa, Dora L. "Estimating Real Income in the United States from 1888 to 1994: Correcting CPI Bias Using Engel Curves." Journal of Political Economy 109 (December 2001): 1288-1310. |
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Inequality in the Long Run |
Goldin, Claudia, and Robert A. Margo. "The Great Compression: The Wage Structure in the United States at Mid-Century." Quarterly Journal of Economics 107 (February 1992): 1-34.
Goldin, Claudia, and Lawrence F. Katz. "The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century." NBER Working Paper 7126 (May 1999).
Costa, Dora L. "The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991." Journal of Labor Economics 18 (January 2000): 156-181. |
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Overview |
Fogel, Robert W. "Catching Up with the Economy." American Economic Review 89, no. 1 (March 1999): 1-21.
Easterlin, Richard. Growth Triumphant. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1996, chapter 11, pp. 145-154. ISBN: 0472085530. |
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Final Exam |
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