Guides to Economic History
Guides to Economic History
Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. _Introductory Econometrics : a Modern Approach_. Sixth edition. Boston, MA, USA: Cengage Learning, 2016.
Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. _Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data_. 2nd ed. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2010.
Greene, William H. _Econometric Analysis_. Eighth edition. New York, NY: Pearson, 2018.
https://stats.oarc.ucla.edu/stata/webbooks/reg/chapter1/regressionwith-statachapter-1-simple-and-multiple-regression/
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Abramitzky, Ran. “Economics and the modern economic historian”. Journal of Economic History 75 (2015), pp. 1240-51.
Fogel, Robert. “The new economic history: Its findings and methods”. Economic History Review 19 (1966), pp. 642-656.
Hatcher, John and Bailey, Mark. Modelling the Middle Ages. OUP Catalogue. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Brandt, Loren, Ma, Debin, and Rawski, Thomas G. "From Divergence to Convergence:
Reevaluating the History Behind China's Economic Boom." Journal of Economic Literature 52, no. 1 (2014): 45-123.
Hayami, A., Saito, O. and Toby, R. P. (Eds.) (1999). The Economic History of Japan: 1600-1990, vol.
Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Persson, Karl Gunnar. Economic History of Europe. New Approaches to Economic and Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Pomeranz, K. (2000). The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy, Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press.
Roy, Tirthankar, and Riello, Giorgio. Global Economic History. London, Bloomsbury 2019.
De Zwart, Pim, and J. L. van Zanden. The Origins of Globalization : World Trade in the Making of the Global
Economy, 1500-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Von Glahn, R., 2016, The Economic History of China, Cambridge University PressAbramitzky, Ran. “Economics and the modern economic historian”. Journal of Economic History 75 (2015), pp. 1240-51. .
Wrigley, E. A. "British Population During the 'Long' Eighteenth-Century, 1680-1840." In The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: 1. Industrialisation, 1700-1860, edited by Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson, 57-95. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Lee, James, and Wang Feng. "Malthusian Models and Chinese Realities: The Chinese Demographic System 1700-2000." Population and development review 25, no. 1 (1999): 33-65.
Campbell, Cameron, James Z. Lee, and Tommy Bengtsson. "Economic Stress and Mortality." In Life under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900, edited by Tommy Bengtsson, Cameron Campbell and James Z. Lee, 61-84. Cambridge MA.: MIT Press, 2004.
Hajnal, John. "Two Kinds of Preindustrial Household Formation System." Population and Development Review 8, no. 3 (1982): 449-94.
Voth, Hans-Joachim, and Nico Voigtlander. "Malthusian Dynamism and the Rise of Europe: Make War, Not Love." American Economic Review. Papers and Proceedings 99, no. 2 (2009): 248-
Golas, P. J. (1980). Rural China in the Song. Journal of Asian Studies 39, 291-325.
Kaoru Sugihara, “The State and the Industrious Revolution in Tokugawa Japan” Working Paper. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/22490/
Elvin, M. (1973). The Pattern of the Chinese Past, London: Eyre Methuen, Ch. 9, pp. 114 ff.
White, Lynn Townsend. Medieval technology and social change. (London : Oxford University Press, 1962) Chapter 2, “The Agricultural Revolution of the Early Middle Ages, pp.39-78.
Epstein, S. R., and Maarten Prak. "Introduction: Guilds, Innovation, and the European Economy, 1400–1800." In Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400–1800, edited by Maarten Prak and S. R.Epstein, 1-24. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Pomeranz, K. (2013). Skills, 'Guilds', and Development: Asking Epstein's Questions to East Asian Institutions. In Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy in the East and West, edited by Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten Van Zanden.
Ogilvie, Sheilagh. 2014. "The Economics of Guilds." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 28(4): 169-92.
Huang, P. C. (1990). The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350-1988 Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, ch. 5.
Ogilvie, S., State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Württemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797, (Cambridge University Press, 1997), chapter 2.
Howell, David L. "Proto-Industrial Origins of Japanese Capitalism." The Journal of Asian Studies 51, no. 2 (1992): 269-86.
Brenner, R., and C. Isett. "England's Divergence from China's Yangzi Delta: Property Relations, Microeconomics, and Patterns of Development." Journal of Asian Studies 61, no. 2 (2002):
609-62 (you need pp. 628-639)
Stephan R. Epstein, “Transferring Technical Knowledge and Innovating in Europe, c.1200-c.1800” in Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden, eds. Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy in the East and the West. (Turnout: Brill, 2013): 25-67.
Dagmar Schäfer and Marcus Popplov, “Technology and innovation within expanding webs of knowledge,” in Benjamin Z. Kedar and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, eds. The Cambridge World
History: Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500CE-1500CE, Volume 5, 2015
Alka Raman, “Indian Cotton Textiles and British Industrialisation: Evidence of Comparative Learning in the British Cotton Industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries” The Economic History Review, Volume 75, Number 2 (2022): 447-474
Peter Maw, Peter Solar, Aiden Kane and John Lyons, “After the Great Inventions: Technological Change in UK Cotton Spinning” Economic History Review, Volume 75, Number 1 (2022): 22-55
Berg, M., “In Pursuit of Luxury: Global History and British Consumer Goods in the Eighteenth Century”, Past and Present, 182 (2004): 85-142
De Vries, J., ‘The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution’ Journal of Economic History (1994), pp. 249-70.
Trentmann, F. Empire of Things (London: 2016)
Allen, R. C. and Weisdorf, J. L. 'Was There an -Industrious Revolution- before the Industrial Revolution? An Empirical Exercise for England, C. 1300-1830', Economic History Review 64, no. 3 (2011), pp. 715-729.
Brook, T., Confusions of pleasure: commerce and culture in Ming China (1998)
Clark, G., Van Der Werf, Y., ‘Work in Progress? The Industrious Revolution’, Journal of Economic History, Vol. 58 No. 3 (1998), pp. 830–843.
De Vries, J. The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behaviour and the Household Economy, (Cambridge University Press,2008), chapters 1-4.
Koyama, M. “The Transformation of Labor Supply in the Pre-Industrial World”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 81, issue 2, pp. 505-523, 2012. 13.
Ogilvie, S., ‘Consumption, Social Capital, and the “Industrious Revolution” in Early Modern Germany’, Journal of Economic History 70:2, 287-325
McKendrick, N., Brewer, J. and Plumb, J. H., The Birth of a Consumer Society: the Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England, (London, 1982), Ch.2, and ‘The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century’. pp.9-34.
Shammas, C., The Pre-Industrial Consumer in England and America, (Oxford, 1990).
Hanley, S. 1997. Everyday Things in Premodern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Will, P-E & Wong, R. B. 1991. Nourish the People: the State Civilian Granary System in China, 1650–1850. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies.
Saito, O. “An industrious revolution in an East Asian market Economy? Tokugawa Japan and implications for the Great Divergence”, Australian Economic History Review, 50/3 (2010): 240-261.
Vries, P. Public finance in China and Britain in the long eighteenth century. LSE Economic History Department Working Papers. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/45563/1/WP167.pdf.
Rosenthal, JL. & Roy Bin Wong. (2011). Before and beyond divergence the politics of economic change in China and Europe. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press
Noel D. Johnson, Mark Koyama, “States and economic growth: Capacity and constraints”, Explorations in Economic History, Volume 64, 2017, Pages 1-20
Morgan, Mary. ‘Case studies: one observation or many? Justification or discovery?’ Philosophy of science 79 (2012), pp. 667-677.
Acharya, Avidit, Matthew Blackwell Maya Sen, 2019. Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Bowen, H.V. 2005. ‘Chapter 2, Relationships: City, State, and the Empire’, The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 29-52.
Gee, Joshua. 1729, Preface, The Trade and Navigation of Great-Britain Considered: Shewing, that the Surest Way for a Nation to Increase in Riches, Is to Prevent the Importation of Such Foreign Commodities as May Be Raised at Home (London: Sam Buckley), pp. ix-xxxix.
Grafe, R. and Irigoin, A., M. 2012. ‘A Stakeholder Empire: The Political Economy of Spanish Imperial Rule in America’, Economic History Review, 65 (2), pp. 609-651.
Bolt, Jutta and van Zanden, Jan Luiten. “The Maddison Project: collaborative research on historical national accounts”. Economic History Review 67, 3 (2014), pp. 627-651.
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro, ‘World Human Development: 1870-2007’, The Review of Income and Wealth, 61, no. 2 (2015), pp. 220-47.
Steckel, Richard. “Stature and the standard of living”. Journal of Economic Literature 33 (1995), pp. 1903-40.
Boyer, George R., ‘Malthus was right after all: Poor relief and birth rates in southeastern England’, Journal of Political Economy, 97, no. 1 (1989), pp. 93-114.
Deaton, Angus. The great escape: health, wealth and the origins of inequality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013)
David, Paul. “Clio and the economics of QWERTY”. American Economic Review 75 (1985), pp. 171-195.
Lydon, Ghislaine. On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), chapter 5 (“The organization of the caravan trade”)
Olson, Mancur. Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships (New York: Basic Books, 2000), ch. 1.
Hoffman, Philip. “What do states do? Politics and economic history”. Journal of Economic History 75, 2 (2015), 303-332.
Karaman, K. Kivanc and Pamuk, Sevket. “Different paths to the modern state in Europe: the interaction between warfare, economic structure, and political regime”. American Political Science Review 107, 3 (2013), pp. 603-626.
Johnson, Noel D and Koyama, Mark. “States and economic growth: capacity and constraints”, Explorations in Economic History 64 (2017), pp. 1-20.
Goldin, Claudia, ‘The quiet revolution that transformed women’s employment, education and family’, American Economic Review 96 (2006), pp. 1-21.
Candido, Mariana P., and Eugénia Rodrigues. 2015. “African Women's Access and Rights to Property in the Portuguese Empire.” African Economic History 43: 1–18.
Wu, Alice H. 2017, "Gender Stereotyping in Academia: Evidence from Economics Job Market Rumors Form," Working Paper
Barber, Brad M. and Odean, Terrance. 2001. “Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence and Common Stock Investment,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116, no.1: 261-292.
Berg, Maxine. 1996. A Woman in History: Eileen Power, 1889-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Carlos, Ann M. Karen Maguire & Larry Neal (2006) Financial acumen, women speculators, and the Royal African company during the South Sea bubble, Accounting, Business & Financial History, 16:2, 219-243
Goldin, Claudia. 2014. “A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter,” American Economic Review. 104 (4) :1091-1119.
Alfani, Guido. 2015. ‘Economic inequality in northwestern Italy: a long-term view (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries)’, Journal of Economic History, 75 (4), 1058–1096
Saito, Osamu. 2015. Growth and inequality in the great and little divergence debate: a Japanese perspective. Economic History Review, 68(2), 399–419.
Milanovic, Branko. 2018. ‘Towards an explanation of inequality in premodern societies: the role of colonies, urbanization and high population density’, Economic History Review, 71 (4),1029- 1047.
Van Zanden, Jan Luiten 1995. ‘Tracing the beginning of the Kuznets Curve: Western Europe during the Early Modern Period’, Economic History Review, 48 (4), 643-664.
Aslanian, Sebouh David, Chaplin, Joyce E., McGrath, Ann and Mann, Kristin. ‘AHR Conversation. How Size Matters: The Question of Scale in History’, American Historical Review 118 (2013), pp. 1431-1472.
Morgan, Mary. ‘Case studies: one observation or many? Justification or discovery?’ Philosophy of science 79 (2012), pp. 667-677.
Acharya, Avidit, Matthew Blackwell Maya Sen, 2019. Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.