RESEARCH IN ECONOMIC HISTORY

In this new volume of Research in Economic History, editors Christopher Hanes and Susan Wolcott bring together a cast of expert contributors to vigorously interrogate and analyze historic economics questions.
The volume looks across a range of issues. Two papers address the political economy of the US: one explores how editorials in Business Week encouraged the acceptance of Keynesian policies among US business elites; and one quantifies the role of economics in the political support of William Jennings Bryan. Two papers bring new insight into longstanding debates, looking at the “antebellum puzzle” and why medieval peasants had scattered fields. Finally, two papers explore topics in European history, including the effect of deflation on the distribution of income in Denmark, 1930-1935, and the influence of shareholders on policy at the Banque de France.

For researchers and students of economic history, this volume pulls together the latest research on a variety of unanswered questions

Contents


1. Household-level Deflation Inequality in Denmark During the Great Depression; Kim Abildgren
2. Business Week, The Great Depression, and the Coming of Keynesianism to America; Ranjit S. Dighe

3. Theory and Diagnostics for Selection Biases in Historical Height Samples; Howard Bodenhorn, Timothy W. Guinnane, and Thomas A. Mroz

4. Populists at the Polls: Economic Factors in the U.S. Presidential Election of 1896; Barry Eichengreen, Michael Haines, Matthew Jaremski, and David Leblang

5. Banque de France's Shareholders (1800-1945); Arnaud Manas

6. Scattered Land, Scattered Risks? An empirical approach to the question of the open field system as a strategy for mitigating risk: the case of Scania, Sweden, c. 1750-1850; Lars Nyström

Reseña del Editor