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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 51 Number 1, March ARTICLES KEVIN O'ROURKE Did the Great Irish Famine Matter? ....................02seeeeeeeeee JOHN VINCENT NYE The Myth of Free-Trade Britain and Fortress France: Tariffs and Trade in the Nineteenth Century JOHN J. BINDER AND Bank Rates of Return and Entry Restrictions, DAVID T. BROWN 1869-1914 LEE A. CRAIG The Value of Household Labor in Antebellum Northern Agriculture LEE J. ALSTON AND The Earnings Gap Between Agricultural and Manufacturing T. J. HATTON Laborers, 1925-1941 SALLY CLARKE New Deal Regulation and the Revolution in American Farm Productivity: A Case Study of the Diffusion of the Tractor in the Corn Belt, 1920-1940 YUZO MURAYAMA Information and Emigrants: Interprefectural Differences of Japanese Emigration to the Pacific Northwest, CHARLES P. KINDLEBERGER The Economic Crisis of 1619 to 1623 NOTES AND DISCUSSION JACK A. GOLDSTONE Monetary Versus Velocity Interpretations of the ‘*Price Revolution’’: A Comment PHILIP R. P. COELHO AND Regulatory Capture and the Monetary Contraction of 1932: G. J. SANTONI A Comment on Epstein and Ferguson GERALD EPSTEIN AND Answers to Stock Questions: Fed Targets, Stock Prices, and THOMAS FERGUSON the Gold Standard in the Great Depression EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS Number 2, June Papers Presented at the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association RICHARD SUTCH All Things Reconsidered: The Life-Cycle Perspective and the Third Task of Economic History ROBERT WHAPLES A Quantitative History of the Journal of Economic History and the Cliometric Revolution MICHAEL D. BORDO AND A Tale of Two Currencies: British and French Finance EUGENE N. WHITE During the Napoleonic Wars TIMOTHY F. BRESNAHAN Intra-Industry Heterogeneity and the Great Depression: AND DANIEL M. G. RAFF The American Motor Vehicles Industry, 1929-1935 ROBERT A. MARGO The Microeconomics of Depression Unemployment DONALD N. MCCLOSKEY The Prudent Peasant: New Findings on Open Fields KEVIN O'ROURKE Burn Everything British but Their Coal: The Anglo-Irish Economic War of the 1930s SUSAN WOLCOTT British Myopia and the Collapse of Indian Textile Demand .. NANCY VIRTS The Efficiency of Southern Tenant Plantations, 1900-1945 ... ELIZABETH HOFFMAN Institutional Choice and the Development of U.S. AND GARY D. LIBECAP Agricultural Policies in the 1920s TIMOTHY J. HATTON AND Integrated and Segmented Labor Markets: Thinking in Two JEFFREY G. WILLIAMSON Sectors JOSHUA L. ROSENBLOOM Occupational Differences in Labor Market Integration: The United States in 1890 RICARDO D. SALVATORE Modes of Labor Control in Cattle-Ranching Economies: California, Southern Brazil, and Argentina, 1820-1860 ..... CONTENTS OF VOLUME 51 Number 1, March ARTICLES KEVIN O'ROURKE Did the Great Irish Famine Matter? ....................02seeeeeeeeee JOHN VINCENT NYE The Myth of Free-Trade Britain and Fortress France: Tariffs and Trade in the Nineteenth Century JOHN J. BINDER AND Bank Rates of Return and Entry Restrictions, DAVID T. BROWN 1869-1914 LEE A. CRAIG The Value of Household Labor in Antebellum Northern Agriculture LEE J. ALSTON AND The Earnings Gap Between Agricultural and Manufacturing T. J. HATTON Laborers, 1925-1941 SALLY CLARKE New Deal Regulation and the Revolution in American Farm Productivity: A Case Study of the Diffusion of the Tractor in the Corn Belt, 1920-1940 YUZO MURAYAMA Information and Emigrants: Interprefectural Differences of Japanese Emigration to the Pacific Northwest, CHARLES P. KINDLEBERGER The Economic Crisis of 1619 to 1623 NOTES AND DISCUSSION JACK A. GOLDSTONE Monetary Versus Velocity Interpretations of the ‘*Price Revolution’’: A Comment PHILIP R. P. COELHO AND Regulatory Capture and the Monetary Contraction of 1932: G. J. SANTONI A Comment on Epstein and Ferguson GERALD EPSTEIN AND Answers to Stock Questions: Fed Targets, Stock Prices, and THOMAS FERGUSON the Gold Standard in the Great Depression EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS Number 2, June Papers Presented at the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association RICHARD SUTCH All Things Reconsidered: The Life-Cycle Perspective and the Third Task of Economic History ROBERT WHAPLES A Quantitative History of the Journal of Economic History and the Cliometric Revolution MICHAEL D. BORDO AND A Tale of Two Currencies: British and French Finance EUGENE N. WHITE During the Napoleonic Wars TIMOTHY F. BRESNAHAN Intra-Industry Heterogeneity and the Great Depression: AND DANIEL M. G. RAFF The American Motor Vehicles Industry, 1929-1935 ROBERT A. MARGO The Microeconomics of Depression Unemployment DONALD N. MCCLOSKEY The Prudent Peasant: New Findings on Open Fields KEVIN O'ROURKE Burn Everything British but Their Coal: The Anglo-Irish Economic War of the 1930s SUSAN WOLCOTT British Myopia and the Collapse of Indian Textile Demand .. NANCY VIRTS The Efficiency of Southern Tenant Plantations, 1900-1945 ... ELIZABETH HOFFMAN Institutional Choice and the Development of U.S. AND GARY D. LIBECAP Agricultural Policies in the 1920s TIMOTHY J. HATTON AND Integrated and Segmented Labor Markets: Thinking in Two JEFFREY G. WILLIAMSON Sectors JOSHUA L. ROSENBLOOM Occupational Differences in Labor Market Integration: The United States in 1890 RICARDO D. SALVATORE Modes of Labor Control in Cattle-Ranching Economies: California, Southern Brazil, and Argentina, 1820-1860 ..... NOTES AND DISCUSSION DOCTORAL CANDIDATES Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations of William M. Emmons III, Robert Whaples, Catharine Anne Wilson, Avner Greif, Terence McIntosh, and Kevin O'Rourke EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS Number 3, September ARTICLES NAOMI R. LAMOREAUX Bank Mergers in Late Nineteenth-Century New England: The Contingent Nature of Structural Change STEPHEN H. HABER Industrial Concentration and the Capital Markets: A Comparative Study of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, 1830-1930 DAVID W. GALENSON Economic Opportunity on the Urban Frontier: Nativity, Work, and Wealth in Early Chicago TIMOTHY J. HATTON AND Unemployment, Employment Contracts, and JEFFREY G. WILLIAMSON Compensating Wage Differentials: Michigan in the 1890s GEERT BEKAERT Caloric Consumption in Industrializing Belgium DONALD O. PARSONS Male Retirement Behavior in the United States, 1930-1950 .. J. BRADFORD DE LONG The Stock Market Bubble of 1929: Evidence from Closed- AND ANDRE! SHLEIFER end Mutual Funds NOTES AND DISCUSSION CAROL E. HEIM AND PHILIP MIROWSKI EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS Number 4, December ARTICLES PHILIP T. HOFFMAN Land Rents and Agricultural Productivity: The Paris Basin, 1450-1789 CHARLES CALOMIRIS AND The Panic of 1857: Origins, Transmission, and Containment ... LARRY SCHWEIKART DAVID WEIMAN Peopling the Land by Lottery? The Market in Public Lands and the Regional Differentiation of Territory on the Georgia Frontier SHAWN KANTOR Razorbacks, Ticky Cows, and the Closing of the Georgia Open Range: The Dynamics of Institutional Change Uncovered DANIEL JACOBY The Transformation of Industrial Apprenticeship in the EE IE bi vcnrécudccicdatierbiglinecianacihnytideiancmnsigmeamiis EDWARD H. LORENZ An Evolutionary Explanation for Competitive Decline: The British Shipbuilding Industry, 1890-1970 STEPHEN NICHOLAS AND Heights and Living Standards of English Workers During RICHARD H. STECKEL the Early Years of Industrialization, 1770-1815 REVIEW ARTICLE WILLIAM N. PARKER The Scale and Scope of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. ................. EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS