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| Author | Title |
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| Aaronson, Susan Ariel | From GATT to WTO: The Evolution of an Obscure Agency to One Perceived as Obstructing Democracy |
| Adams, Sean Patrick | The US Coal Industry in the Nineteenth Century |
| Adams, Sean Patrick | The US Coal Industry in the Nineteenth Century |
| Aldrich, Mark | History of Workplace Safety in the United States, 1880-1970 |
| Alexander, Barbara | The National Recovery Administration |
| Alexander, Barbara | The National Recovery Administration |
| Allen, Sarah | Urban Decline (and Success) in the United States |
| Amaral, Luciano | Economic History of Portugal |
| Attard, Barnard | The Economic History of Australia from 1788: An Introduction |
| Baack, Ben | The Economics of the American Revolutionary War |
| Baack, Ben | The Economics of the American Revolutionary War |
| Bakker, Gerben | The Economic History of the International Film Industry |
| Baranoff, Dalit | Fire Insurance in the United States |
| Bértola, Luis | An Overview of the Economic History of Uruguay since the 1870s |
| Bierman, Harold Jr. | The 1929 Stock Market Crash |
| Boal, William M. | Monopsony in American Labor Markets |
| Bodenhorn, Howard | Antebellum Banking in the United States |
| Bodenhorn, Howard | Antebellum Banking in the United States |
| Bourne, Jenny | Slavery in the United States |
| Boyd, Lawrence W. | The Company Town |
| Boyer, George | English Poor Laws |
| Brown, Stephen A. | A History of the Bar Code |
| Bugos, Glenn E. | The History of the Aerospace Industry |
| Burnette, Joyce | Women Workers in the British Industrial Revolution |
| Burnette, Joyce | Women Workers in the British Industrial Revolution |
| Butkiewicz, James | Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
| Cain, Lou | Cliometrics |
| Carlos, Ann M. | The Economic History of the Fur Trade: 1670 to 1870 |
| Castaneda, Christopher | Manufactured and Natural Gas Industry |
| Chandra, Siddharth | Economic Histories of the Opium Trade |
| Chapra, M. Umer | Islamic Economics: What It Is and How It Developed |
| Cohen, Benjamin J. | Monetary Unions |
| Cohn, Raymond L. | Immigration to the United States |
| Collins, William J. | Fair Housing Laws |
| Couch, Jim | The Works Progress Administration |
| Cowen, David | The First Bank of the United States |
| Craft, Erik D. | An Economic History of Weather Forecasting |
| Craig, Lee A. | Public Sector Pensions in the United States |
| Crowley, Terry | Oscar Douglas Skelton and Canada’s Economic History |
| Cuff, Timothy | Historical Anthropometrics |
| Cunfer, Geoff | The Dust Bowl |
| Daniel, Jacoby | Apprenticeship in the United States |
| Deng, Kent | Economic History of Premodern China (from 221 BC to c. 1800 AD) |
| Di Matteo, Livio | The Use of Quantitative Micro-data in Canadian Economic History: A Brief Survey |
| Doti, Lynne Pierson | Banking in the Western U.S. |
| Drabble, John H. | Economic History of Malaysia |
| Eloranta, Jari | Military Spending Patterns in History |
| Emery, Herb | Fraternal Sickness Insurance |
| Engen, Darel Tai | The Economy of Ancient Greece |
| Fishback, Price V. | Workers’ Compensation |
| Fisher, Glenn W. | History of Property Taxes in the United States |
| Flynn, David T. | Credit in the Colonial American Economy |
| Frank, Zephyr | The International Natural Rubber Market, 1870-1930 |
| Frey, Donald | The Protestant Ethic Thesis |
| Friedman, Gerald | Labor Unions in the United States |
| Gardner, Bruce | U.S. Agriculture in the Twentieth Century |
| Grossman, Richard | US Banking History, Civil War to World War II |
| Grytten, Ola Honningdal | The Economic History of Norway |
| Gupta, Bishnupriya | The History of the International Tea Market, 1850-1945 |
| Hackelman, Jac C. | Historical Political Business Cycles in the United States |
| Haines, Michael | Fertility and Mortality in the United States |
| Halevi, Nadav | A Brief Economic History of Modern Israel |
| Hansen, Bradley | Bankruptcy Law in the United States |
| Harreld, Donald J. | The Dutch Economy in the Golden Age (16th – 17th Centuries) |
| Henriksen, Ingrid | An Economic History of Denmark |
| Herren, Robert Stanley | Council of Economic Advisers |
| Hjerppe, Riitta | An Economic History of Finland |
| Holley, Donald | Mechanical Cotton Picker |
| Jones, Norman | Usury |
| Kaplan, Edward S. | The Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922 |
| Khan, B. Zorina | An Economic History of Copyright in Europe and the United States |
| Khan, B. Zorina | An Economic History of Patent Institutions |
| Klein, Daniel B. | Turnpikes and Toll Roads in Nineteenth-Century America |
| La Croix, Sumner | Economic History of Hawai’i |
| Law, Marc T. | History of Food and Drug Regulation in the United States |
| Lawrence H. Officer | Purchasing Power Parity |
| Lewis, Frank D. | The Economic History of the Fur Trade: 1670 to 1870 |
| Lyons, John | Cliometrics |
| Majewski, John | Turnpikes and Toll Roads in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Malone, Laurence J. | Rural Electrification Administration |
| Maloney, Thomas N. | African Americans in the Twentieth Century |
| Mason, David | Savings and Loan Industry (U.S.) |
| McDonald, John | Economy of England at the Time of the Norman Conquest |
| McGuire, Robert A. | Economic Interests and the Adoption of the United States Constitution |
| Meyer, David R. | The Roots of American Industrialization, 1790-1860 |
| Michener, Ron | Money in the American Colonies |
| Miron, Jeffrey A. | Alcohol Prohibition |
| Mitch, David | Education and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective |
| Moen, Jon | The Panic of 1907 |
| Mosk, Carl | Japanese Industrialization and Economic Growth |
| Murphy, Sharon Ann | Life Insurance in the United States through World War I |
| Murray, John E. | Industrial Sickness Funds |
| Mushin, Jerry | The Euro and Its Antecedents |
| Mushin, Jerry | The Sterling Area |
| Mushinski, David | Morris Plan Banks |
| Myung Soo Cha | The Economic History of Korea |
| Neill, Robin | Harold Adams Innis |
| Nelson, Jon P. | Advertising Bans in the United States |
| Noll, Franklin | The United States Public Debt, 1861 to 1975 |
| Nonnenmacher, Tomas | History of the U.S. Telegraph Industry |
| Ó Gráda, Cormac | Ireland’s Great Famine |
| O'Brien, Anthony | Smoot-Hawley Tariff |
| Officer, Lawrence H. | Gold Standard |
| Olds, Kelly | The Economic History of Taiwan |
| Owen, Laura | History of Labor Turnover in the U.S. |
| Parker, Randall | An Overview of the Great Depression |
| Patton, Randall L. | A History of the U.S. Carpet Industry |
| Persson, Karl Gunnar | The Law of One Price |
| Phillips, Ronnie J. | Morris Plan Banks |
| Phillips, William H. | Cotton Gin |
| Puffert, Douglas | Path Dependence |
| Quinn, Stephen | The Glorious Revolution of 1688 |
| Ransom, Michael R. | Monopsony in American Labor Markets |
| Ransom, Roger L. | The Economics of the Civil War |
| Redish, Angela | Bimetallism |
| Richardson, Gary | Medieval Guilds |
| Ritschl, Albrecht | The Marshall Plan, 1948-1951 |
| Rockoff, Hugh | U.S. Economy in World War I |
| Rosenbloom, Joshua | Indentured Servitude in the Colonial U.S. |
| Rosenbloom, Joshua | The History of American Labor Market Institutions and Outcomes |
| Routt, David | The Economic Impact of the Black Death |
| Salvucci, Richard | The Economic History of Mexico |
| Santos, Joseph | A History of Futures Trading in the United States |
| Schenk, Catherine R. | Economic History of Hong Kong |
| Schön, Lennart | Sweden – Economic Growth and Structural Change, 1800-2000 |
| Schrag, Zachary M. | Urban Mass Transit In The United States |
| Scott, Carole E. | The History of the Radio Industry in the United States to 1940 |
| Selgin, George | Gresham’s Law |
| Short, Joanna | Economic History of Retirement in the United States |
| Sicotte, Richard | International Shipping Cartels |
| Siklos, Pierre L. | Deflation |
| Singleton, John | An Economic History of New Zealand in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |
| Smiley, Gene | The U.S. Economy in the 1920s |
| Smith, Fred | Urban Decline (and Success) in the United States |
| Stack, Martin H. | A Concise History of America’s Brewing Industry |
| Stead, David R. | Agricultural Tenures and Tithes |
| Stead, David R. | Common Agricultural Policy |
| Stead, David R. | Thomas Robert Malthus |
| Stead, David R. | William Marshall |
| Stead, David R. | David Ricardo |
| Stead, David R. | Arthur Young |
| Steckel, Richard H. | A History of the Standard of Living in the United States |
| Steindl, Frank G. | Economic Recovery in the Great Depression |
| Stewart, James I. | The Economics of American Farm Unrest, 1865-1900 |
| Tassava, Christopher J. | The American Economy during World War II |
| Thomasson, Melissa | Health Insurance in the United States |
| Toma, Mark | Federal Reserve System |
| Touwen, Jeroen | The Economic History of Indonesia |
| Troost, William | The Freedmen’s Bureau |
| Tuttle, Carolyn | Child Labor during the British Industrial Revolution |
| Walsh, Margaret | The Bus Industry in the United States |
| Weidenmier, Marc | Money and Finance in the Confederate States of America |
| Whaples, Robert | Carnegie, Andrew |
| Whaples, Robert | Child Labor in the United States |
| Whaples, Robert | California Gold Rush |
| Whaples, Robert | Hours of Work in U.S. History |
| White, William J | Economic History of Tractors in the United States |
| Whitten, David O. | The Depression of 1893 |
| Wicker, Elmus | Banking Panics in the US: 1873-1933 |
| Williamson, Sam | Cliometrics |
| Wright, Robert | Origins of Commercial Banking in the United States, 1781-1830 |