"Economics and history both strive to understand causation: economics using instrumental variables econometrics and history by weighing the plausibility of alternative narratives. Instrumental variables can lose value with repeated use because of an econometric tragedy of the commons bias: each...

Front Cover -- Research in Economic History -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- A Century of Environmental Legislation -- Introduction -- Theory and Model -- Model -- Historical Evolution of Localized Values Reflected in National Decisions -- Data and Issues...

In this new volume of Research in Economic History, editors Christopher Hanes and Susan Wolcott bring together a cast of expert contributors to vigorously interrogate and analyze historic economics questions, looking across the political economy of the US, European history, and longstanding...

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 --...