This paper re-examines quations regarding consumer expenditure on clothing, and the nature of production and distribution in the clothing sector in the early nineteenth century using evidence from archives of a rural tailor, Robert Mansbridge of Basing.

This paper looks critically at the contention that Australian governments of the intewar period consistently promoted motor vehicle manufacture for defence and national development.

It was remarked at the outset of this paper that, in the 1920s,there existed a vigorous, diverse, and distinctly American literature dealing with monetary economics and the business cycle.

The prudent peasant mitigated the risk of crop failure by scattering his arable land Throughout his village, McCloskey argued, because formal insurance institutions did not exist. A Village of rational peasants facing idiosyncratic risks, Kimball replied, should have helped each other through...

In this paper I will provide a quick overview of the available quantitative source on mortality and what has been done with them. I will then turn biefly to what one quantative, impressionistic source has to say about mortality. I wil then offer an econometric analysis of the famines's toll. The...