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Arbitraging a Discriminatory Labor Market: Black Workers at the Ford Motor Company, 1918-1947 0 1 1 75 0 5 14 752
Arbritraging a Discriminatory Labor Market: Black Workers at the Ford Motor Company, 1918-1947 0 0 0 0 3 12 20 484
Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon 0 0 0 100 0 2 8 861
Early Twentieth Century Productivity Growth Dynamics: An Inquiry into the Economic History of Our Ignorance 0 0 1 207 4 9 26 889
Early Twentieth Century Productivity Growth Dynamics: An Inquiry into the Economic History of “Our Ignorance” 0 0 2 424 4 10 29 2,057
Exorcizing the Resource Curse: Minerals as a Knowledge Industry, Past and Present 1 3 8 512 4 11 37 1,219
General Purpose Technologies and Productivity Surges: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution 1 2 10 525 5 41 97 1,354
General Purpose Technologies and Surges in Productivity: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution 0 0 1 321 2 7 20 798
General Purpose Technologies and Surges in Productivity: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution 2 2 5 177 9 20 38 704
Historical Foundations of American Technology 0 0 0 148 1 2 9 161
Introduction and Overview to Volumes I and II, The Japanese Economy in Retrospect: Selected Papers by Gary R. Saxonhouse 0 0 0 28 0 0 2 116
Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA 0 0 1 7 1 5 17 48
Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA 0 0 1 29 0 3 22 110
Safety-First, Gambling, and the Subsistence Farmer 0 0 0 14 0 2 10 46
Slavery and American Agricultural History 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 429
The Economics of Civil Rights 0 0 0 1 0 1 8 455
The Japanese Economy in Retrospect: Selected Papers of Gary R. Saxonhouse (Description and Table of Contents) 0 0 1 54 0 1 6 211
The New Deal and the Modernization of the South 1 1 2 108 1 6 17 486
The Role of Nationhood in the Economic Development of the USA 0 0 0 142 1 1 11 548
The origins of American resource abundance 0 1 3 355 1 6 18 890
Voting Rights, Deindustrialization, and Republican Ascendancy in the South 0 1 2 26 1 11 19 56
Total Working Papers 5 11 38 3,253 37 155 428 12,674


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American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War. Edited byRobert E. Gallman and John Joseph Wallis · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1992. viii + 396 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00. ISBN 0226-27945-6 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 12
An Econometric Study of Cotton Production and Trade, 1830-1860 0 0 0 121 0 3 7 733
Arbitraging a Discriminatory Labor Market: Black Workers at the Ford Motor Company, 19181947 0 0 0 97 1 6 20 518
Black Migration in America: A Special Demographic History. By Daniel M. Johnson and Rex R. Campbell. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1981. Pp. viii, 190. $16.75 cloth, $8.95 paper 0 0 0 3 1 2 5 45
Cheap Labor and Southern Textiles before 1880 0 0 0 15 1 4 12 89
Cheap Labor and Southern Textiles, 1880–1930 0 0 3 57 0 7 25 318
Comment on Papers by Reid, Ransom and Sutch, and Higgs 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 32
Cotton Competition and the Post-Bellum Recovery of the American South 0 1 2 30 1 6 15 92
Cotton, Corn and Risk in the Nineteenth Century 0 0 0 1 0 2 6 32
Cotton, corn, and risk in the nineteenth century: A reply 0 0 0 8 0 2 7 77
Dissertation Comments 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 40
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Edited by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Pp. xxi, 1634. $59.95 0 0 1 12 1 3 10 115
Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy. Edited by Thavolia Glymph and John J. Kushma. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1985. x + 119 pp. $17.50.) 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 25
Freedom and the Southern economy 0 0 0 18 0 2 6 123
Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism. By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xxii, 469. $29.95 cloth, $10.95 paper 0 0 0 21 0 4 5 135
GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century. By Robert J. Steinfeld. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 329. $59.95, cloth; $22.95, paper 0 0 0 7 1 3 5 37
Increasing Returns and the Genesis of American Resource Abundance 0 0 0 2 1 7 26 1,014
International Competition and Strategic Response in the Textile Industries since 1870. Edited byMary B. Rose · London: Frank Cass, 1991. 194 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $32.00. ISBN 0-7146-3412-3 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 16
Introduction to the special issue honoring Paul David 0 0 0 0 0 5 6 6
John Majewski. Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiii + 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-8078-3251-6, $31.96 (cloth) 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 16
Legacies of the War on Poverty. Edited by Martha J. Bailey and Sheldon Danziger. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (The National Poverty Series on Poverty and Public Policy). 2013. Pp. xii, 309. $39.95, paper 0 0 1 2 0 0 8 28
Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA 0 0 4 29 1 7 40 149
Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s. By Pete Daniel. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 2000. Pp. xii, 378. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper 0 0 0 4 0 3 7 38
Nathan Rosenberg (22 November 1927–24 August 2015) 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 8
National Leadership and Competing Technological Paradigms: The Globalization of Cotton Spinning, 1878–1933 0 0 1 20 0 0 6 76
New Evidence on the Stubborn English Mule and the Cotton Industry, 1878-1920 0 0 1 10 0 1 10 44
New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp. Edited by Robert H. Abzug and Stephen E. Maizlish. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. Pp. ix, 206. $19.00 0 0 0 15 0 3 7 89
New and Old Views on the Economics of Slavery 0 0 0 19 0 1 3 49
Night work as a labor market phenomenon: Southern textiles in the interwar period 0 0 0 22 1 4 8 75
Order without law? Property rights during the California gold rush 1 1 1 73 1 6 22 430
Populist Vanguard: A History of the Southern Farmers' Alliance. By Robert C. McMathJr, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1975. Pp. 221. - The Improbable Era: The South Since World War II. By Charles P. Roland. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1975. Pp. 228. $11.95 0 0 0 12 2 2 4 70
Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina. By Anthony J. Badger. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Pp. xviii + 295. $20.00 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 9
Recovery and Redistribution Under the Nira. By Michael M. Weinstein. Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1980. Pp. xv + 171. $36.50 0 0 0 9 0 3 7 39
Reflections on One Kind of Freedom and the Southern Economy 0 0 0 30 2 3 6 114
Rethinking the Postbellum Southern Political Economy - Mill and Town in South Carolina 1880–1920. By David L. Carlton. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. xii + 313 pp. $32.50.) - Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930. By Ronald D. Eller. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982 xxvi + 272 pp. $23.50.) - Patronage and Poverty in the Tobacco South: Lousa County, Virginia, 1860–1900. By Crandall A. Shifflett. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982. xvii + 159 pp. $12.00.) - The Reshaping of Plantation Society: the Natchez District, 1860–1880. By Michael Wayne. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. xii + 226 pp. $22.50.) 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 15
Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920–1960. By Jack Temple Kirby. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Pp. xix, 390. $40.00 cloth, $16.95 paper 0 0 0 12 0 2 10 103
SESSION 5A: PRODUCTIVITY 0 0 0 5 0 1 5 38
Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation. By Edward B. Barbier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii, 748. $105.00, hardcover; $48.00, paper 0 0 0 22 0 2 7 89
Slavery and Anglo‐American capitalism revisited 1 2 4 33 6 14 33 161
Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy 1 2 7 24 5 30 58 196
Slavery and the cotton boom 0 0 0 124 1 5 12 1,244
Stubborn mules and vertical integration: the disappearing constraint? 0 0 0 2 0 1 9 28
The Century’s Giant: An Obituary of Economist Kenneth Arrow 0 0 0 4 0 2 18 35
The Civil Rights Revolution as Economic History 0 0 0 51 0 2 11 152
The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South. By Howard Bodenhorn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv, 320. $39.95, cloth 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 19
The Economic Revolution in the American South 0 0 0 147 1 1 13 716
The Effects of Pre-Civil War Territorial Expansion on the Price of Slaves 0 0 1 108 1 3 15 1,401
The Efficiency of Slavery: Another Interpretation 0 0 0 238 1 5 8 660
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925. By David Montgomery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 494. $27.95 0 0 0 11 0 1 6 53
The Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940 0 1 8 737 3 10 38 2,597
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Edited by Joel Mokyr, Editor in Chief. Five Volumes. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 2,800. $695 0 0 1 30 0 0 3 114
The Political Economy of New Deal Spending: An Econometric Analysis 0 0 4 755 1 2 18 2,150
The Race Between Education and Technology. By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. vi, 488. $39.95, cloth 0 0 0 45 0 1 5 151
The Reinterpretation of American Economic History. Edited by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Pp. 494 0 0 0 21 0 2 4 76
The Rise and Fall of American Technological Leadership: The Postwar Era in Historical Perspective 3 5 14 769 4 12 43 1,740
The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936–1980. By James C. Cobb. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 293. $16.95 0 0 0 11 0 2 6 54
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Ante-Bellum South. By John W. Blassingame. New York, Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. xv + 262. $7.95 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 20
Towards a More Historical Approach to Technological Change 0 0 0 62 0 3 8 155
Understanding the Gender Gap: A Review Article 0 0 0 99 3 5 7 241
Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700. By Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. xx + 398 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, references, appendixes, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-17049-7 0 0 0 5 0 0 4 28
United States and Canada - Region, Race, and Cities: Interpreting the Urban South. By David Goldfield. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. Pp. 309. $37.50, cloth; $16.95, paper 0 0 0 1 0 6 13 34
WHY ECONOMIES SLOW: The Myth of the Resource Curse 1 1 1 420 2 2 13 965
Whereby We Thrive: A History of American Farming, 1607–1972. By John T. Schlebecker. Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University Press, 1975. Pp. x + 342. $12.95 0 0 0 1 0 1 9 18
World Demand for Cotton during the Nineteenth Century: Reply 0 0 0 1 0 3 9 52
“Fear God and Walk Humbly”: The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843–1877. Edited by Grady McWhiney, Warner O. MooreJr., and Robert F. Pace. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 687. $49.95 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 34
Total Journal Articles 7 13 54 4,396 45 214 703 18,032


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Natural Resources: Neither Curse nor Destiny 0 0 0 22 1 4 20 201
Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South 0 0 0 0 2 8 28 349
Total Books 0 0 0 22 3 12 48 550


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Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon 0 0 1 46 1 2 14 142
The Antebellum US Economy 0 0 1 1 2 8 30 47
Total Chapters 0 0 2 47 3 10 44 189


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