Research in Economic History
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In this new volume of Research in Economic History, editors Shawn Kantor and Carl T. Kitchens bring together a diverse range of expert contributors to vigorously interrogate and analyse historic economics questions. This includes examinations of inequality from North and South America, as well as Europe, in terms of health, land, and wealth. For researchers and students of economic history, this volume pulls together the latest research on a variety of unanswered questions from the 1860s until the present day.
Chapter 1. Provincial Health Inequalities in Spain since 1860; Gregori Galofré-Vilà and María Gómez León
- Chapter 2. The Geography of Infectious Disease and the European Marriage Pattern;Kirsten de Beurs, Kyle Harper, and Le Wang
- Chapter 3. Economic Bonanza and Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Tax Records for Lima, Peru ;Luis Felipe Zegarra
- Chapter 4. Can Land Inequality Negatively Affect Human Capital? The American Case, 1950-1970; Bárbara Tundidor
- Chapter 5. Federal Preemption of Local Government Telegraph Franchise Entry Barriers; Aaron M. Honsowetz
- Chapter 6. The Anatomy of a Policy Failure: Nixon’s Attempt to Control Inflation; Burton A. Abrams and James L. Butkiewicz
Shawn Kantor is the L. Charles Hilton Jr. Distinguished Professor of Economics, Florida State University. Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research.
Carl T. Kitchens is the Professor of Economics and Bernard Sliger Scholar, Florida State University. Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research.