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A Wolfram in Sheep's Clothing : U.S. Economic Warfare in Spain, 1940-1944

Caruana, Leonard - 2001

One of the most sustained uses of economic warfare by the United States occurred in Spain during WWII. We provide an … battles: (1) an oil embargo against Spain in the summer of 1940, (2) pre-emptive buying of wolfram (tungsten ore) during the … when Germany was going from victory to victory, was successful in helping keep Spain neutral because it forced the Franco …

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Slave Prices in the Lower South, 1722-1815

Mancall, Peter C. - 2000

Using data from samples of probate inventories we construct a series of slave prices for Low Country South Carolina and Georgia covering the period 1722-1815. Using these data we examine variations in slave prices by age and sex, as well as geographic variations between and within the two...

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The Challenges of Economic Maturity : New England, 1880 - 1940

Rosenbloom, Joshua L. - 1999

This paper provides an account of the complex changes taking place within New England in the years from 1880 to 1940. After 1880, technological changes and market shifts undermined the sources of comparative advantage that had promoted the concentration of textile and footwear production within...

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Labor Market Integration Before the Civil War

Margo, Robert A. - 1998

This paper uses newly collected archival evidence to examine various aspects of the geographic performance of American labor markets before the Civil War. Much of the paper addresses the evolution of regional differences in real wages, of interest to economic historians because they speak to the...

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The American Business Elite in Historical Perspective

Temin, Peter - 1997

This paper replicates a classic study of the American business elite. The older study done a half-century ago, reported the composition of business leaders a century ago. I have" drawn a sample of business leaders today to discover how much the composition of the" American business elite has...

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Myth of the Industrial Scrap Heap : A Revisionist View of Turn-of-the- Century American Retirement

Carter, Susan B. - 1995

Using the census survival method to calculate net flows across employment states between 1900 and 1910, we find that approximately one-fifth of all men who reached the age of 55 eventually retired before their death. Many of these retirees appear to have planned their withdrawal from paid...

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Cliometrics and the Nobel

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1994

In October 1993, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to Robert William Fogel and Douglass Cecil North `for having renewed research in economic history.' The Academy noted that `they were pioneers in the branch of economic history that has been called the...

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The Great Depression

Temin, Peter - 1994

This history of the Great Depression was prepared for The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. It describes real and imagined causes of the Depression, bank failures and deflation, the Fed and the gold standard, the start of recovery, the first New Deal, and the second New Deal. I...

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The Labor Force in the Nineteenth Century

Margo, Robert A. - 1992

This paper surveys recent research on the labor force in the nineteenth century. I examine trends in the aggregate size, demographic, occupational and industrial composition of the labor force; short-run and long-run movements in nominal and real wages; hours of work; the development of the...

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Toward a New Synthesis on the Role of Economic Issues in the Political Realignment of the 1850s

Fogel, Robert William - 1992

After sketching various ways in which economic issues influenced the political realignment of the 1850s, the paper concentrates on five questions: (1) the timing of the economic issues and the disjunctions in economic developments across regions and classes; (2) the size of the nonagricultural...

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