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  title info:
    title: Research in economic history
    part number: Volume 34
  name:
    name part: Hanes, Christopher
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Walcott, Susan M.
    name part: 1949-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ix, 207 pages).
  abstract: Volume 34 contains articles on the economic history of Europe, North America and South America and brings new analysis, and newly created datasets to address issues of interest. Two of the papers present newly constructed datasets. In "Prices, Wages and the Cost of Living in Old Republic São Paulo: 1891-1930", Ball presents a newly constructed real wage index. São Paulo was the main destination for immigrants to Brazil in this period, but there has never before been sufficient data to analyse why. In "Multiple Core Regions: Regional Inequality in Switzerland, 1860 to 2008", Stohr uses the wealth of available Swiss data on agriculture and employment to create GDP measures for subregions in Switzerland. He uses these data to argue that aggregate inequality in Switzerland was low in the initial push to industrialization because there were multiple, similar centers industrializing simultaneously, thus mitigating inequality across regions. Two of the papers gather together existing data so that it can be analysed for the first time in a consistent manner. In "The forgotten half of finance: working-class saving in late nineteenth-century New Jersey", Bodenhorn uses previously unexplored consumer surveys to characterize the savings behavior of the working class. And in "Heights across the last 2000 years in England", Galofré-Vilà, Hinde, and Guntupalli gather all existing skeletal data for England for 2000 years to create a consistent longitudinal height series. They compare the series to height series of other regions as well as other measures of well being in England. And finally, in "Monetary Policy and the Copper Price Bust: A Reassessment of the Causes of the 1907 Panic", Rogers and Payne dig into the details of copper prices to discover the link between the Bank of Englands contractionary monetary policy and changes in real asset prices. Their findings have important implications for understanding the mechanisms of monetary policy.
  table of contents: Prelims -- Prices, wages, and the cost of living in Old Republic São Paulo: 18911930 -- The forgotten half of finance: working-class saving in late nineteenth-century New Jersey -- Heights across the last 2,000 years in England -- Monetary policy and the copper price bust: a reassessment of the causes of the 1907 panic -- Multiple core regions: regional inequality in Switzerland, 18602008 -- Index.
  note: edited by Christopher Hanes, Susan Wolcott.
  note: Includes index.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
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    geographic code: n-us-nj
    geographic code: e-sz---
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  subject:
    topic: Wages
  subject:
    topic: Cost and standard of living
    geographic: Brazil
    geographic: São Paulo
  subject:
    topic: Saving and investment
    geographic: New Jersey
  subject:
    topic: Gross domestic product
    geographic: Switzerland
  subject:
    topic: Business & Economics
    topic: Economic History
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  classification: HC21 .R47 2018
  classification: 330
  classification: 330.8
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Research in economic history ; v. 34
  identifier: 9781787565814 (e-book)
  identifier: https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0363-3268201834
  record info:
    record content source: UtOrBLW
    record creation date: 180815
    record change date: 20180815123753.0
    record identifier: 9781787565814
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng