Research in economic history. Volume 34 /

• Other Authors: Hanes, Christopher (Editor), Walcott, Susan M., 1949- (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
• Series: Research in economic history ; v. 34.
• Subjects: Economic history.; Wages.; Cost and standard of living > Brazil > São Paulo.; Saving and investment > New Jersey.; Gross domestic product > Switzerland.; Business & Economics > Economic History.

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 P...

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.