Quantitative Economic History.

Abstract

Unemployment in inter-war Britain - dole or doldrums?, Barry Eichengreen intercounty labour mobility during the industrial revolution - evidence from Australian transportation records, Stephen Nicholas and Peter R.Shergold did English factor markets fail during the industrial revolution?, Jeffrey G.Williamson sliding scales and conciliation boards - risk-sharin in the late 19th-century British coal industry, John G.Treble natural monopoly and railway policy in the 19th century, J.S.Foreman-Peck the costs of public and private gas enterprises in late 19th-century Britain, Robert Millward and Robert Ward technology, productivity and profits - British-American whaling competition in the North Atlantic 1816-1842, L.E.Davis et al female labour force participation in inter-war Britain, T.J.Hatton and R.E.Bailey price and exchange rate determination during the Greenback susension, Charles W.Calomiris banking panics and business cycles, Gary Gorton.