TY - BOOK ID - 30476952 TI - Research in economic history. AU - Field, Alexander J. AU - Clark, Gregory AU - Sundstrom, William Andrew. PY - 2008 SN - 128111247X 9786611112479 1849504598 0080556507 9781849504591 0762313706 9780080556505 PB - Oxford : JAI Press, DB - UniCat KW - Economic history. KW - Economic conditions KW - History, Economic KW - Economics KW - Economic history KW - Economics. KW - Research. KW - Economic theory KW - Political economy KW - Social sciences KW - Economic man UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30476952 AB - The volume includes six papers in quantitative economic history. Peter Mancall, Josh Rosenbloom, and Tom Weiss consider growth in colonial North America, while Gary Richardson examines the role of bank failures in propagating the Great Depression. John Komlos examines the heights of rich and poor youth in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Klas Fregert and Roger Gustafson provide a synoptic view of public finances in Sweden from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Drew Keeling studies the economics of the steamship industry that facilitated migration between Europe and the United States between 1900 and 1914. Finally, Gregg Huff and Giovanni Caggiano examine the integration of labor markets in Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It includes original articles written by experts on the subjects and articles supported by quantitative data. ER -