Research in Economic History.

Front Cover -- Research in Economic History -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Household-level Deflation Inequality in Denmark during the Great Depression -- Introduction -- The Danish Expenditure and Saving Survey of 1931 -- Compilation Methods -- Descriptive Analysis -- Econometric Results -- Some Robustness Checks and Limitations of the Study -- Housing Consumption -- Final Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Business Week, the Great Depression, and the Coming of Keynesianism to America for the title. -- Introduction -- Business Week's Editorials: An Overview -- Against Liquidation, For Liquidity -- Against Deficit-cutting in Depressions -- Who Wrote Those Editorials and Who Read Them? -- How Unique Was Business Week? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Business Week's Editorials, 1929-1933: Complete List, Scored According to Keynesian Content -- Theory and Diagnostics for Selection Biases in Historical Height Samples -- Introduction -- Declining Heights and Rising Real Wages -- Modeling Military Heights -- Examples from Simulation -- The Role of Normality -- Departures from Normality as a Test of Selection -- Which Population? -- Implications for the RSMLE and QBE Estimators -- Diagnosing Selection in Heights Samples -- A Robust Selection Diagnostic -- An Example: The Union Army -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Populists at the Polls: Economic Factors in the US Presidential Election of 1896 -- Introduction -- Historical Narrative -- A Précis of the Election -- Data -- Voter Behavior in 1896 -- Counterfactuals -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- The Special Concerns of Tobacco and Cotton Farmers -- Other Measures of Railroad Intensity -- Interest Rate Regressions -- Banque de France's Shareholders (1800-1945): Passive Petit-Rentiers -- Introduction.

A Paradoxical Investment -- Disappointing Performances -- A Growing Number of Shareholders -- Reelected Directors -- The Stealthy Take-over of the Banque de France by the State (1806-1936) -- State Financing -- Direct Transfers of Assets -- A Rigged System? -- A Peculiar Governance System -- Conflicts of Interest? -- Toothless Watchdogs -- A Problem with the Shareholders? -- Democratization -- The Ascent of Financial Assets -- Passive Petit Rentiers -- Conclusion -- Mathematical Appendix -- Beta -- Voting Protocol -- Pareto Distribution and Gini Index -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Scattered Land, Scattered Risks? Harvest Variations on Open Fields and Enclosed Land in Southern Sweden C. 1750-1850 -- Introduction -- Sources and Methodology -- Background: The Studied Region -- the Land Reforms -- Harvest Variations -- Reformed versus Non-reformed Open Fields -- Open Fields versus Enclosed Land -- Open Fields versus Solitary Farms -- The Risk for a Severe Crop-failure -- Land Productivity -- The Trade-off between Risks and Productivity -- Final Discussion: The "Rationale" of the Open Fields? -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References.

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, looking across the political economy of the US, European history, and longstanding economic debates.

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