Quantitative economic history
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Quantitative economic history
Clarendon, 1991
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Collection of articles previously published in Oxford economic papers in Dec. 1987 and Dec. 1988
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This set of papersis one in the series of special issues of Oxford Economic Papers. The series covers a range of topics in economic history, but have a common theme in that they use quantative techniques, such as time series analysis, to yield results from the analysis of historical data sets. In this volume, eight of the papers examine 19th-century data and the remaining two relate to the inter-war period. Subjects examined include the socio-economic records available on convicts transported to Australia between 1817 and 1839, determination of wages in the 19th-century British coal industry, competition between British and American whaling fleets in the early 19th century and unemployment in inter-war Britain.
Table of Contents
- Unemployment in inter-war Britain - dole or doldrums?, Barry Eichengreen
- intercounty labour mobility during the industrial revolution - evidence from Australian transportation records, Stephen Nicholas and Peter R.Shergold
- did English factor markets fail during the industrial revolution?, Jeffrey G.Williamson
- sliding scales and conciliation boards - risk-sharin in the late 19th-century British coal industry, John G.Treble
- natural monopoly and railway policy in the 19th century, J.S.Foreman-Peck
- the costs of public and private gas enterprises in late 19th-century Britain, Robert Millward and Robert Ward
- technology, productivity and profits - British-American whaling competition in the North Atlantic 1816-1842, L.E.Davis et al
- female labour force participation in inter-war Britain, T.J.Hatton and R.E.Bailey
- price and exchange rate determination during the Greenback susension, Charles W.Calomiris
- banking panics and business cycles, Gary Gorton.
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