Cole Prize Winners 1966-1997
The Arthur H. Cole Prize
For the Best Article Published in the Journal of Economic History
1997
Price Fishback & Shawn Kantor
University of Arizona
The Durable Experiment: State Insurance of Workers’ Compensation Risk in the Early Twentieth Century
1996
Paul Rhode
University of North Carolina
Learning, Capital Accumulation, and the Transformation of California Agriculture
1995
David Weir
University of Chicago
Family Income, Mortality, and Fertility on the Eve of the Demographic Transition: A Case Study of Rosny-sous-Bois
1994
Joseph Ferrie
Northwestern University
The Wealth Accumulation of Antebellum European Immigrants to the United States, 1840-1860
1993
Howard Bodenhorn
Lafayette College
Capital Mobility and Financial Integration in Antebellum America
1992
Philip Hoffman
California Institute of Technology
Land Rents and Agricultural Productivity: the Paris Basin, 1450-1789
1991
Jean Laurent Rosenthal
University of California at Los Angeles
The Development of Irrigation in Provence, 1700-1860: The French Revolution and Economic Growth
1990
Jane Humphries
University of Massachusetts and Cambridge University
Enclosures, Common rights, and Women: The Proletarianization of Families in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
1989
Kenneth Sokoloff
University of California at Los Angeles
Inventive Activity in Early Industrial America: Evidence from Patent Records, 1790-1846
1988
Robert Margo and Georgia Villaflor
Colgate University, San Diego State University
The Growth of Wages in Antebellum America
1987
Naomi Lamoreaux
Brown University
Banks, Kinship, and Economic Development: The New England Case
1986
Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch
University of California at Riverside University of California at Berkeley
The Labor of Older Americans: Retirement of Men On and Off the Job, 1870-1937
1985
Stefano Fenoaltea
Swarthmore College
Slavery and Supervision in Comparative Perspective: A Model
1984
David Weir
Yale University
Life Under Pressure: France and England, 1670-1870
1983
Bruce Campbell
Queen’s University, Belfast
Arable Productivity in Medieval England: Some Evidence from Norfolk
1982
C. Knick Harley
Western Ontario
British Industrialization Before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth During the Industrial Revolution
1981
Winifred Rothenberg
Brandeis University
The Market and Massachusetts Farmers, 1750-1855
1980
Robert Allen
University of British Columbia
International Competition in Iron and Steel, 1850-1913
1979
Charles McCurdy
University of Virginia
American Law and the Marketing Structure of the Large Corporation, 1875-1890
1979
Lars Sandberg
Ohio State University
The Case of the Impoverished Sophisticate: Human Capital and Swedish Economic Growth before World War I
1978
George Grantham
McGill University
The Diffusion of the New Husbandry in Northern France, 1815-1840
1977
Fredric Cheyette
Amherst College
The Origins of European Villages and the First European Expansion
1977
John James
University of Virginia
The Development of a National Money Market, 1893-1911
1976
Richard Rapp
SUNY, Stonybrook
The Unmaking of the Mediterranean Trade Hegemony: International Trade Rivalry and the Commercial Revolution
1975
Gavin Wright
University of Michigan
Cotton Competition and the Post-Bellum Recovery of the American South
1974
Kozo Yamamura
University of Washington
Toward a Reexamination of the Economic History of Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1867
1973
James Mak and Gary Walton
University of Hawaii Indiana University
Steamboats and the Great Productivity Surge in River Transportation
1972
Allen Kelley and Jeffrey Williamson
University of Wisconsin
Writing History Backwards: Meiji Japan Revisited
1971
Richard Edwards
Harvard University
Economic Sophistication in 19th Century Congressional Tariff Debates
1971
William McCormick & Charles Franks
University of Colorado
A Self-Generating Model of Long-Swings for the American Economy, 1860-1940
1970
Richard Sylla
North Carolina State University
Federal Policy, Banking Market Structure, and Capital Mobilization in the United States, 1863-1913
1967-69
If anyone has information about the years 1967, 68 and 69, we would appreciate hearing from you
1966
Lance Davis
Purdue University
The Investment Market, 1870-1914