Robert M. Whaples (editor) - The Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History

ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF MODERN ECONOMIC HISTORY

The Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History aims to introduce readers to important approaches and findings of economic historians who study the modern world. Its short chapters reflect the most up-to-date research and are written by well-known economic historians who are authorities on their subjects.

Modern economic history blends two approaches cliometrics (which focuses on measuring economic variables and explicitly testing theories about the historical performance and development of the economy) and the New Institutional Economics (which focuses on how social, cultural, legal, and organizational norms and rules shape economic outcomes and their evolution). of the Handbook introduces these approaches and other important methodological issues for economic history.

The most fundamental shift in the economic history of the world began about two and a half centuries ago when eons of slow economic change and faltering economic growth gave way to sustained, rapid economic expansion. examines this theme and the primary forces economic historians have linked to economic growth, stagnation, and fluctuations including technological change, entrepreneurship, competition, the biological environment, war, financial panics, and business cycles.

focuses on the work force and human outcomes including inequality, labor markets, unions, education, immigration, slavery, urbanization, and the evolving economic roles of women and African-Americans.

The text will be of great value to those taking economic history courses as well as a reference book useful to professional practitioners, policy makers and the public.

Robert Whaples is Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University, USA.

Randall E. Parker is Professor of Economics at East Carolina University, USA.

ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF MODERN ECONOMIC HISTORY

Edited by

Robert Whaples and Randall E. Parker

First published 2013

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Routledge handbook of modern economic history / edited by Robert Whaples and Randall E. Parker.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Economic history1918- 2. Economic history1750-1918. 3. Economics. I. Whaples, Robert. II. Parker, Randall E., 1960- III. Title: Handbook of modern economic history.

HC51.R68 2012

330.9dc23

2012025168

ISBN: 978-0-415-67704-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-07561-6 (ebk)

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Dan Bogart is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California Irvine. His research on the economic history of transportation has been published in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Explorations in Economic History, Economic History Review, Journal of Economic History, and Journal of Urban Economics.

Jenny Bourne is Professor of Economics at Carleton College. She is the author of The Bondsmans Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 1998). Her research has been published in the Journal of Economic History, National Tax Journal, and Social Science Quarterly.

Joyce Burnette is Professor of Economics at Wabash College. Her book Gender, Work, and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2008) won the Economic History Societys First Monograph Prize. Her research has been published in the Agricultural History Review, Economic History Review, Explorations in Economic History, and Journal of Economic History.

Louis P. Cain is Professor of Economics at Loyola University Chicago and Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University. He is the author (with the late Jonathan Hughes) of American Economic History (Prentice Hall, 8th edition, 2011) and (with Donald Patterson) The Children of Eve: Population and Well-Being in History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

Scott Alan Carson is Professor of Economics at the University of Texas Permian Basin. His research on anthropometric history has been published in numerous journals including Economics and Human Biology, Explorations in Economic History, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Population Economics, and Social Science History.

Nathaniel Cline is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Redlands (California). He completed his dissertation, Growth and Stagnation in the nineteenth-century United States: Three Essays in Applied International Economics at the University of Utah in 2012.

Philip R.P. Coelho is Professor of Economics at Ball State University. He is the author (with Robert McGuire) of Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress: Diseases and Economic Development (MIT Press, 2011) and has published his research in the American Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic History, and other scholarly journals.

Raymond L. Cohn is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Illinois State University. He is the author of Mass Migration under Sail: European Immigration to the Antebellum United States (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and articles on immigration in Explorations in Economic History, Journal of Economic History, and Social Science History.

Lee A. Craig is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics at North Carolina State University and served as Executive Director of the Cliometric Society (20008). He is the author of five monographs and has published in Agricultural History, Cliometrica, Explorations in Economic History, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and Journal of Macroeconomics.

Jari Eloranta is Associate Professor of Comparative Economic and Business History at Appalachian State University. He is the author of numerous studies on the economic history of war and defense in journals including Cliometrica, Economic History Review, and European Review of Economic History.