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Comments on several articles concerning economic history. Difference in the view of economist James Soltow regarding business history.

Comments on articles about the economic history of the United States. Economic development of the country; Application of eminent domain on expropriate private property for public purposes; Stability of property rights in the country's legal order.

Comments on several research dealing with economic history. Suggestions for improving the articles of author John McCusker; Inaccuracy of the data presented by authors James Shepherd and Gary Walton; Recommendations for the research of author Alice Hanson Jones.

Comments on the economic and historical issues raised in the articles published in the March 1971 issue of the `Journal of Economic History,' which focused on demographic themes. Discussion on the papers by Hill and Uselding concerning the effects of immigration into the United States in the 19th century.

Comments on articles about the economic history of Europe. Factors relevant to the economy; Theoretical basis of economic history analysis.

Comments on two articles about the economic history of Europe. Correlation between nation-state, military technology and innovations in art and practice of public finance; Changes on the level of governmental organization and administration between 1400 and 1600.

Comments on several articles about economic history, published in the December 1965 issue of the `Journal of Economic History.' Principal tasks of Robert Zevin's analysis of the industrialization of New England; Opinion of the paper by Peter McClelland which examined regional economic retardation in New Brunswick; Comments on David Mishkin's paper about the role of commodity trade motive in the colonization of the United States.

Comments on the articles about economic history, which appeared in the December 1965 issue of the `Journal of Economic History.' Information lacking in an essay about the new economic history by Edward Ames; Description of a paper by Herbert Ellison regarding the problem of economic development; Comments on an article by Yasukichi Yasuba et al, on the issues of the theory and policy of economic development.

Comments on several studies related to economic history. Relation between agricultural income and interregional migration; Methodologies used in the studies.

Comments on the knowledge and trends in the economic history of the third world. Characteristics of the third world economic history; Contribution of the third world economic history to general economic history.

Comments on several studies regarding economic history during the 19th century. Guidelines for selecting historical topics; Contribution of a study on real wages in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to research on national income before 1840.

Evaluates the profitability of the techniques being applied to economic history. Debate over the validity of the counterfactual conditional in history.

Comments on several articles about economic history. Correlation between technological change and economic development; Comparison between the concept and structure of the articles.

Examines the development of industrial structure in southern New England. Information on the manufacturing growth of New England; Details on the manufacturing industries of New England; Reason for the superior national economic performance of Connecticut.

Comments on economic history articles written by Arthur Spiethoff. Reason of Spiethoff for refusing to give permission to include his article entitled `Die Allgemeine Volkswirtschaftslehre als goeschichtliche Theorie: Die Wirtschaftsstile' in the book `Enterprise and Secular Change'; Information on the articles.

Provides information on a study which focused on the economic history and estimate of industrial product in Austria in 1841. Onset of modern economic growth; Percentage of the population who engage in agriculture; Population growth.

Comments on several articles on economic history. Industrial classification of the work force for the census years from 1911-1961; Issue over the factors affecting cost reduction in the pig iron industry; Statistics on shipbuilding earnings before 1810.

Analyzes the various approaches to economic history. Broader and narrower application of the phrase new economic history; Basis of the approaches.

Focuses on several issues which may have affected the economic development of South America in the post-war period. Impact of the political and economic relations between South America and North America on the southern economic development; South America's recovery of the foreign cotton market.

Examines the extent to which the antebellum South of the United States was able to supply its food needs from its own production. Indicators of the degree of mutual economic dependence among the regions of the antebellum; Approaches used to measure comprehensive trade flows.

Comments on the strategic role of the theoretical framework in studying economic history. How to be an economist-historian; Critical issues for the economist-historian.

Illustrates some future areas of quantitative historical research, focusing on aggregate economic systems. Propositions about the relations between economic theory and historiography; Discussion on research problems which draw on formal statements of theoretical contracts.

Talks about the suggestions of central tendency found in the dissertation papers on economic history. Use of economic theory; Bias toward inputs rather than outputs and toward the income rather than the product side of national economic accounts; Characteristic of the United States economic history.

Reports on the post-bellum economy in the Southern States. Regional division by the Bureau of the Census; Disaggregation of the region into functional units; Cause of poverty in the region.

Deals with the new economic history in the United States. Contributions of the new economic history.

Provides information on the economic history of New England. Details of labor force; Discussion on wages and work compensation; Economic growth status of the country.

Presents an autobiographical reflection of economic history between 1920 to 1970. Economic aspects of political history; Features of economic history of the years immediately following Word War I; Role of cultural values in economic behavior.

Discusses how capitalism or the money economy was formed and developed in Japan during the Tokugawa period, 1600 to 1868. Feudalism in the Tokugawa period; Development of commercial practices and a business philosophy; Role of the modern features of the Tokugawa period in the modernization of Japan in the Meiji era.

Examines the economic growth of England before the industrial revolution. Type of economy and economic system which existed in England between Norman conquest and the industrial revolution; Details of the economic changes that occurred in England.

Provides information on the economic history of the United States. Effect of migratory movements on the economy; Contributions of the minority population; Discussion on social development.

Focuses on the agricultural production and output per worker in Hungary for the period 1870-1913. Agricultural aspects of the economic history of pre-Trianon Hungary; Development of Hungarian industry from the turn of the century to the end of World War II; Impact of the signing of the Compromise of 1867 on the economy of Hungary.

Presents the essay `The Specification Problem in Economic History.'

Explores the circumstances that led to the emergence of business history as a special field and the effect that the separation has had on the relationship between business history and economic history in the United States. Definition of business history; Events that slowed down the emergence of business history; Role of the Economic History Association.

Examines the economic changes that occurred on the iron and steel industry in China and its effect on economic development. History of the Chinese economy; Monetary policy of the country; Production output of manufacturing industries; Export and import trade of the industry.

Describes the economic and social structure of the 18th-century Chesapeake Bay Region in Maryland and Virginia. Information on an obituary of Richard Bennett published in the October 18, 1749 issue of the `Maryland Gazette'; Element of high visibility in the 18th-century Chesapeake.

Discusses the economic development in Liberia. Kinds of analytical treatment of economic development; Description of underdevelopment in Liberia.

Evaluates the developments in the 25 years of the Economic History Association. Organization of university tutorial classes for wage earners in Great Britain by the Workers' Educational Association; Description of the interwar period.

Examines the economic history of Malaysia during the period of British rule. Views of British writers on the rule; Growth of United States' interests in Malaysian historical studies; Topics of research into Malaysian economic history.

Examines the rise in agricultural productivity and economic growth in England in the period 1700-1760. Benefits of cheap bread; Consequence of lower grain prices; Factors which limited the effects of the tendency on high leisure preference.

Explores the old economic history in Great Britain, which was developed before World War I. Stages of the economic history of the country; Characteristics of the first stage of economic history.

Comments on several studies related to economic history. Challenges of summarizing theses in economic history; Suggestions for conducting a study on slave trade; Reason for not making generalizations about cultural factors.

Studies the expansion of the English trade between 1550 and 1650. Opinion of economic historian Henri Pirenne on the role of capitalists on economic developments; Factors affecting the expansion of trade.

Focuses on the challenges experienced by the Economic History Association. Responsibilities of economic historians; Information on the methods used by economic historians in measuring the efficiencies of economic performance.

Presents a historical analysis of railroads and canals by using simulation techniques. Problem faced by economic historians regarding the representativeness of their empirical answers.

Explores the proposition that economic equality in the United States was greater from 1776 to 1790 than in 1860. Factors contributing to the idea that the Revolutionary era was a period of economic equality.

Develops a theoretical explanation for the rise and fall of the manorial system in Europe. Reasons for the survival of the Marxian explanation of the European economic history.

Investigates the financial affairs of Great Britain's government during the tenure of the Duke of Newcastle as First Lord of the Treasury. Importance of the investigation to historical studies of the 18th century; Judgment of several authorities on the duke's handling of financial affairs.

Investigates the nature of long-term fluctuations in the general level of activity of the United States economy over the period between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Prevalence of a stable socio-economic structure of long-term economic change during the entire period; Importance of the findings to economic historians.

Proposes an agenda for early modern economic history from the traditional Middle Ages through the Early Modern period. Debates concerning early modern economic development; Issue on the periodization of economic history during the period.

Talks about the economic history of Latin America. Correlation between the degree and criticism of the nature and function of an economy and both the quantity and quality of economic historiography; Factors constituting the core of historiography in Latin America.