Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives
than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists …

One of the central questions of comparative po liti cal economy is why there is so much more
poverty in the United States than in any other developed country. In any way that we can …

We develop a general equilibrium model in which stock prices of innovative firms exhibit
“bubbles” during technological revolutions. In the model, the average productivity of a new …

The definitive history of life in rural America. Throughout most of its history, America has
been a rural nation, largely made up of farmers. David B. Danbom's Born in the Country was …

Agriculture is a highly sensitive industry. Throughout their history, national governments
have intervened in and protected their agricultural sectors. The problems of competition in …

The linearity of the US hog—corn cycle has been questioned by Chavas and Holt (1991).
Even so, attempts have not been made to model the potential nonlinear dynamics in the hog …

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers,
loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was …

We offer county-level estimates of the effect of water and rail access on the value of
antebellum farms. Employing a hedonic model, we find that in 1850 average farm values in …

A historian's new look at how Union blockades brought about the defeat of a hungry
Confederacy In April 1861, Lincoln ordered a blockade of Southern ports used by the …

We apply non‐parametric methods to a consideration of price transmission processes within
US egg markets at the turn of the nineteenth century. Gordon (National Bureau of Economic …