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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 59 Number 1, March ARTICLES JOHN R. HANSON II Culture Shock and Direct Investment in Poor Countries .... PETER C. MANCALL AND Was Economic Growth Likely in Colonial British North THOMAS WEISS AMOUR Dense e NG eels ee esti wake aah aleve miei ow ok JOYCE BURNETTE Labourers at the Oakes: Changes in the Demand for Female Day-Laborers at a Farm near Sheffield during the Agricultural Revolution GILLIAN HAMILTON Property Rights and Transaction Costs in Marriage: Evidence from Prenuptial Contracts MARISTELLA BOTTICINI A Loveless Economy? Intergenerational Altruism and the Marriage Market in a Tuscan Town, 1415-1436 KAREN B. CLAY Property Rights and Institutions: Congress and the California Land Act of 1851 EKATERINI K YRIAZIDOU Viennese Chairs: A Case Study for Modern Industrialization . . AND MARTIN PESENDORFER CHRISTINA D. ROMER Why Did Prices Rise in the 1930s? .................000. EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS Number 2, June ARTICLES GAVIN WRIGHT The Civil Rights Revolution as Economic History (Presidential Address) JUAN CARMONA AND The “Rabassa Morta” in Catalan Viticulture: The Rise and JAMES SIMPSON Decline of a Long-Term Sharecropping Contract, 1670s—1920s JOSE MORILLA CRITZ, “Horn of Plenty”: The Globalization of Mediterranean ALAN L. OLMSTEAD, Horticulture and the Economic Development of Southern AND PAUL W. RHODE Europe, 1880-1930 RUTH DUPRE “If It’s Yellow, It Must Be Butter”: Margarine Regulation in North America Since 1886 CARLOS D. RAMIREZ Did Glass-Steagall Increase the Cost of External Finance for Corporate Investment?: Evidence from Bank and Insurance Company Affiliations SUSAN WOLCOTT AND Why Nations Fail: Managerial Decisions and Performance in GREGORY CLARK Indian Cotton Textiles, 1890-1938 WERNER TROESKEN Patronage and Public-Sector Wages in 1896 NOTES AND DISCUSSION JOHN CHAPMAN Charities, Rents, and Enclosure: A Comment on Clark GREGORY CLARK In Defense of “Commons Sense”: Reply to Chapman SUMMARIES OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS MARISTELLA BOTTICINI Institutions, Information, and Markets in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany HAL EUGENE HANSEN Caps and Gowns: Historical Reflections on the Institutions That Shaped Learning for and at Work in Germany and the United States, 1800-1945 LISA A. MAROVICH Fueling the Fires of Genius: Women’s Inventive Activities in American War Eras i MARIA CONCEPCION The Risks and Returns of Not Being on the Gold Standard: GARCIA-IGLESIAS SOTO The Spanish Experience, 1880-1913 ................. WILLIAM J. COLLINS Labor Mobility in American and Indian Economic History . . A. GLENN CROTHERS “The Projecting Spirit”: Social, Economic and Cultural Change in Post-Revolutionary Northern Virginia ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS Number 3, September ARTICLES GERARDO DELLA PAOLERA Economic Recovery from the Argentine Great Depression: AND ALAN M. TAYLOR Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime . . ROBERT HIGGS From Central Planning to the Market Transition, 1945—1947 bisa J. PETER FERDERER AND To Raise the Golden Anchor? Financial Crises and DAVID A. ZALEWSKI Uncertainty During the Great Depression me ROBERT K. FLECK The Marginal Effect of New Deal Relief Work on County- Level Unemployment Statistics . TOM NICHOLAS Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations? Explaining Entrepreneurial Performance in Britain Since 1850 JOSHUA L. ROSENBLOOM _ The Sources of Regional Variation in the Severity of the AND WILLIAM A. Great Depression: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing, SUNDSTROM 1919-1937 KEVIN CAREY Investigating a Debt Channel for the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs: Evidence from the Sovereign Bond Market NOTES AND DISCUSSION METTE EJRNA:S AND KARL Grain Storage in Early Modern Europe .. . GUNNAR PERSSON SUMNER J. LA CROIX Economic Integration and Convergence: A Second Decomposition Method SUKKOO KIM Decomposing U.S. Regional Incomes: A Reply REVIEW ARTICLE GN.VON TUNZELMANN _ Big Business, Growth, and Decline EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS Number 4, December ARTICLES RICHARD SICOTTE Economic Crisis and Political Response: The Political Economy oft he Shipping Act of 1916 SIDDHARTH CHANDRA AND Change and Involution in Sugar Production in Cultivation- TIMOTHY J. VOGELSANG System Java, 1840-1870 HUI-WEN KOO AND Indexed Pricing: Sugarcane Price Guarantees in Colonial CHUN-CHIEH WANG Taiwan, 1930-1940 WERNER TROESKEN Typhoid Rates and the Public Acquisition of Private Waterworks, 1880-1920 DUDLEY BAINES AND Did They Jump or Were They Pushed? The Exit of Older PAUL JOHNSON Men from the London Labor Market, 1929-1931 HOWARD BODENHORN A Troublesome Caste: Height and Nutrition of Antebellum Virginia’s Rural Free Blacks sc ee JENNIFER L. FRANKL An Analysis of Japanese Corporate Structure, 1915-1937 .. KRIS JAMES MITCHENER U.S. Regional Growth And Convergence, 1880-1980 . AND IAN W. MCLEAN JAMES A. DUNLEVY AND _ The Impact of Immigration on American Import Trade in the WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries NOTES AND DISCUSSION ERIK D. CRAFT Private Weather Organizations and the Founding oft he United States Weather Bureau PETER SCOTT The Efficiency of Britain’s “Silly Little Bobtailed” Coal Wagons: A Comment on Van Vleck VA NEE L. VAN VLECK In Defense (Again) of “Silly Little Bobtailed” Coal Wagons: Reply to Peter Scott EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS