EH.T: FW: Older cliometrics paper

Here is a request from the tch-econ list ________________________________ From: James Barbour [mailto:barbour@elon.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 3:46 PM To: tch-econ@elon.edu Subject: Older cliometrics paper I seem to recall some time back (30 years back ...) work done by a cliometrician looking at the sugar-rum-slaves triangle trade. The topic is well dealt with, but I am looking for one of the original papers. The thrust of the research was to look at the origin and destination of harbor-master records and run a simple regression on the relationship. It turned out that the destination and the origin of most ships in port over a fairly long time were the same, indicating that the Ed Asner character in the mini-series Roots (now I'm really showing my age!), was a myth. The ships were not going in triangles but simply plying the waters back and forth. I want to use the article as an illustration of a clever use of regression to answer an inherently non-numerical question. Does anyone have the citation to this mystery article before I spend the next two days trying to find it? Thanks, ~ jim Jim Barbour, Department of Economics Elon University, Elon NC 27244 +1 336 278 5945 voice || +1 336 278 5952 fax >