Adopting a new approach to historical data, Peter H Lindert and Jeffrey G Williamson have
charted the history of American incomes‐and income inequality‐since colonial times. Here …

Studies of early US growth traditionally emphasize real-sector explanations for an
acceleration that is evident by the period 1815–1840. Interestingly, establishment of the …

In this paper a new set of current price estimates of per capita income, adjusted for each
currency's purchasing power, is presented for a sample of mainly OECD countries during …

The contributions included in this issue celebrate the 22d-year anniversary of the fall 1982
issue of Social Science History (vol. 6, no. 4) devoted to “Trends in Nutrition, Labor Welfare …

As a remedy for the notorious deficiency of pre-Civil War US macroeconomic data, this study
introduces an annual index of American industrial production consistently defined from 1790 …

How did the Eastern United States of the antebellum era make the successful transformation
from an agricultural to an industrial economy? Previous studies have identified declining soil …

This article estimates agricultural production and output per worker in Italy, from about the
year 1000 to the present. The millennium may be divided neatly into three periods. Output …

We draw wide‐ranging implications about slave productivity change by making use of newly
collected data on the prices paid for nearly 230,000 slaves as they arrived in the Americas …

Building social tables in the tradition of Gregory King, we develop new estimates suggesting
that between 1774 and 1800 American incomes fell in real per capita terms. The colonial …

We develop a random-matching model to study the price dynamics of monies produced
privately according to a time-consuming mining technology. For our leading example, there …