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Book SynopsisVolume 26 of "Research in Economic History" includes six papers, evenly divided between European and North American topics. On the European side, Stefano Fenoaltea and Carlo Ciccarelli provide new regional estimates of social overhead investment in Italy. Markus Lampe reports data on bilateral trade flows in Europe between 1857 and 1875. And Bernard Harris surveys the literature on gender, wealth, and health in England and Wales since industrialization. Turning west, Mark Kanazawa studies conflicts between ranchers and miners over who should bear the burden of taxation in nineteenth century California. Jason Taylor and Peter Klein examine Depression era cartel behavior under the National Industrial Recovery Act. Finally, James Butkiewicz mines archival material to provide a new perspective on and some rehabilitation of Eugene Meyer's role as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board between 1930 and 1933.
Table of ContentsSocial-overhead construction in Italy's regions, 1861–1913. Bilateral trade flows in Europe, 1857–1875: A new dataset. Gender, health, and welfare in England and Wales since industrialisation. Taxation with (?) representation: The political economy of public finance in antebellum California. An anatomy of a cartel: The national industrial recovery act of 1933 and the compliance crisis of 1934. Governor Eugene Meyer and the great contraction. Editor's introduction. List of Contributors. Research in economic history. Research in economic history. Copyright page.
