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Credit Laws as Causes of Manias & Panics (in 100 pages)

Perelman, Mark - 2020

—have a profound impact on the role of government in society, but have questionable predictive power. The history of credit …

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Business History > Piketty

Wright, Robert E. - 2015

Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century has attracted more attention than it perhaps deserves given that its main empirical claim, that wealth inequality is bound to occur in "capitalist" economies because the rate of return r is greater than the rate of economic growth g (r g), is not rigorously...

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Translating a CBDC Dollar Into a Constitutional Dollar

Guzelian, Christopher P. - 2023

The constitutional Dollar was a silver coin. Federal and state paper moneys were unconstitutional, and gold and copper coins were not Dollars. Consequently, notable constitutional originalists claim any Dollar not constructed from silver – including the current widely circulating paper Federal...

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Historical Changes in the Demographics of Inventors in the United States

Andrews, Michael (contributor); … - 2017

Who invents? This is a central question to understanding possible barriers to entry in the innovation process. To address it, we match the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents from 1870 to 1940 to the corresponding U.S. Federal Population Censuses. This matching procedure provides a rich...

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American Exceptionalism and the Benefits of Statehood : An Analysis of the Growth Effects of Joining the United States of America

Maseland, Robbert - 2020

Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada had they not joined the USA. We show that the … growth paths of Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Philippines and Greenland in the scenario where they joined the USA at times in … institutional quality of the USA as a whole matches the quality predicted for New England most closely. This suggests that upon …

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Did the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic Kill the US Life Insurance Industry?

Cortes, Gustavo - 2020

We document two puzzling facts during the 1918–19 influenza outbreak. First, we find no significant differences among US life insurers' profitability before or after 1918. Second, there are fewer insurers in distress after the outbreak. We argue that an increase in insurance demand offset...

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Did the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic kill the U.S. Life Insurance Industry?

Cortes, Gustavo; Verdickt, Gertjan - 2021

No. We document two empirical facts for the U.S. life insurance sector during the 1918–19 Influenza pandemic. First, we find no significant differences among U.S. insurers’ profitability after 1918. Second, there were fewer insurers in distress after the pandemic outbreak. Using synthetic...

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Not What it Used to Be : The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volumes II and III

Field, Alexander J. - 2009

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Transcending Internalism : On the Historiography of Technology in the United States

Dunlavy, Colleen A. - 2019

For more than a decade now [i.e., ca. 1983], historians of technology in the United States have been engaged in a collective historiographic endeavor to generate a "conceptual framework" or set of "organizing themes" that would finally give some coherence to the history of technology as an...

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Rust Buckets : How the Jones Act Undermines U.S. Shipbuilding and National Security

Grabow, Colin - 2019

Since its inception, supporters of the Jones Act have claimed that the law is essential to U.S. national security. Although indefensible on economic grounds, Jones Act advocates argue that its restrictions promote the development of both a U.S. merchant marine and shipbuilding and repair...

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