Research in Economic History

Cover -- RESEARCH IN ECONOMIC HISTORY -- RESEARCH IN ECONOMICHISTORY: VOLUME 36 -- RESEARCH IN ECONOMIC HISTORY -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 - Specializations in Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century: Evolution of Trade Patterns and Growth Model -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Specialization in Switzerland: an Historical and Institutional Overview -- 2.1 Geographical Context: Openness to the World -- 2.2 On the Importance of Human Capital -- 2.3 Traditional Protectionism vs Protection of Infant Industries -- 3. Data and Methodology -- 4. Nature and Dynamics of Export Specializations -- 4.1 Nature of Specialization -- 4.2 Export Concentration -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2 - Trends and Institutional Sources of Financing Russia's Human Capital Formation (Late Nineteenth-Early Twenty-first Centuries) -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Financial Data on Basic Fields of Human Capital Formation -- 2.1 General Considerations -- 2.2 Education -- 2.3 Scientific Research and Development -- 2.4 Health Care -- 3. Contributions of the Institutional Sectors of the National Economy to Its Human Capital Formation -- 3.1 The Government Budget Composition and Its Role in the National Economy -- 3.2 Education -- 3.3 Scientific Research and Development -- 3.4 Health care -- 4. Human Development Financing and Catch-up Growth -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- 3 - The Past's Long Shadow: A Systematic Review and Network Analysis of Economic History -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data Extraction Procedure -- 3. Network Analysis in Economic History -- 4. Geography of Knowledge -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4 - Improving Deflators for Estimating Canadian Economic Growth, 1870-1900 -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction.