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Examines the rhythms of production in the Montgolfier paper mill, one of the largest in eighteenth-century France. View of historians on early industrial work; What Montgolfier output registers reveal.

Chronicles technological changes in the pulp and paper industry in the United States between 1915 and 1940. Patterns of changes that have been identified; Presentation of a theoretical framework for induced innovation.

Discusses the relationship between state-issued currency and the ratification of the United States Constitution. Significance of paper money on the economic policies of the colonial legislatures; Role of the constitution on the regulation of money; Importance of state paper money on the money supply of the colonies in the 1700s.

Modern currency originates in the inconvertible, legal tender paper money that Massachusetts devised in 1690. The circumstances that led to its creation are more complex than the typical story of wartime specie shortage. Due to temporary political constraints of that turbulent period, the currency could be neither backed by land nor imposed on anyone, as was then standard. Instead, it had to be disguised from England as a simple, private-seeming IOU. By pleasing both its pay-demanding troops and England, the government maximized its probability of survival subject to the constraints. “Monetary innovation, the development of new forms of money, has not received much systematic study from economic historians.”1 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Lists several abstracts of papers presented at the 1998 annual meeting of the Economic History Association. Papers on the Black death and the medieval economy; Papers on property rights and the distribution of wealth and welfare; Papers on economic history and the consumer; Papers on institutions of governance and economic growth; Abstracts of papers on the financial prehistory of the United States.

Presents a summary of papers which where presented to the annual general meeting of the Economic History Association. Development of the nineteenth-century water law; Identification of the cultivation practices and cropping patterns in Gujarat's Kaira district during the nineteenth century; Explanation of high crop yields during the late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century in Ireland.

The article discusses the exact amount of the money issued by the United States Congress for the financing of the American Revolution. During the revolution, Congress released paper money otherwise called Continental dollars to finance its expenditures. Past literatures have claimed the exact amount spent but they left behind unclear and conflicting estimates. The article traces back the transactions that took place from the enactment to disbursement of the dollars. The article presents supporting tables on estimates and cumulative total net emissions of the continental dollars.

Abstracts are presented for multiple papers presented at the 2011 annual meeting of the Economic History Association including "Why Didn't Canada Have a Banking Crisis in 2008?" by Michael Bordo, Angela Redish and Hugh Rockoff, "When, Where, and Why? Early Industrialization in the Poor Periphery, 1870-1940," by Jeffrey G. Williamson, and "God and Risk: The Role of Religiosity in Rural Banking in Early-Twentieth-Century Netherlands," by Christopher L. Colvin.

A series of abstracts are given from papers presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the Economic History Association, including "Biological Welfare Change and Variation in Mid- to Late-Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania: Evidence From the Stature of the Pennsylvania National Guard," by Timothy Cuff, "Land Abundance and Economic Institutions: Egba Land and Slavery, 1830-1914," by James Fenske, and "The Emergence of Wage Discrimination in U.S. Manufacturing," by Joyce Burnette.

This article presents several research papers related to banks and asset markets during war and depression. "The Great Banks' Depression: Deposit Withdrawals in the German Crisis of 1931," uses monthly balance-sheet data of all major German credit banks, and further analyze deposit withdrawals and bank failures in the German banking and currency crisis of 1931. "International Financial Crisis Contagion in the Interwar Period," examines international financial markets and the links between them using a newly hand-collected data set for more than 300 company stocks, encompassing weekly equity-market observations for 13 countries.

Presents abstracts of the papers presented at the 2000 Economic History Association meeting. `Sources of African-American Economic Progress in the Labor Market in the Twentieth Century,' by James Heckman and Petra Todd; `Race and Home Ownership: A Century's View,' by William Collins and Robert Margo; `The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation,' by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson.

Presents abstracts of papers presented at the Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association. Information on the topics discussed at the meeting; Methodology used to research information found in these papers.

This article focuses on the abstracts of the articles published in this issue of the journal. Some of them are: "How Silicon Valley's Skilled Immigrants are Transforming the Geography of Innovation," focuses on Silicon Valley's high technology economy that was created in the 1960s and 1970s by engineers from the east and Midwest of the United States. Another abstract is "The Geography of Invention in High-and Low-Technology Industries: Evidence from the Second Industrial Revolution," focuses on the production in "technologically-mature" manufacturing industries has in recent years increasingly relocated from more-developed to less-developed countries with lower costs of labor.

The article presents abstracts of research related to economic history. These include "Ecological Frontiers on the Grasslands of Kansas: Changes in Farm Scale and Crop Diversity," "Institutional Innovation and the Creation of Liquid Financial Markets: The Case of the American Over-the-Counter Market," and "Geographic and Regulatory Frontiers in Commercial Banking: Private Banking in the United States, Scotland and Germany in Early Industrialization."

The article presents abstracts of research in economic history, including "Original Sin, Good Housekeeping and Empire: The Relation Between Currency Risk and Default Risk," "Clio and the Economics of International Currencies" and "How Much Did the U.S. Government Value its Troops' Lives in World War II?: Evidence From Dollar-Fatality Tradeoffs in Land Battles."

Explores how the banks chartered by states in the United States (U.S.) provide a source of flexibility in state public finance following the decision of the U.S. Constitution to remove the states' power to issue paper money. Role of investment earnings and tax revenues derived from banks in state public finance; Importance of state-bank relationships to public finance.

Comments on an article about the condition of British money market during 1700s. Effect of political situation on economy; Details of interest rates; Discussion on taxation.

Comments on articles about the British economic history. Discussion on money market; Details of capital investments; Status of financial integration in the country.

Comments on articles about economic and business history in the United States. Details of private banking; Views on capital accumulation.

Comments on an article about private banking in the United States. Discussion on the work of economist Herman Kross; Details of economic history; Perception on the role of private bankers.

Comments on an article by about the factors involved in the analysis of land inheritance system in Canada in 19th century. Discussion on land transfers; Details of family size and social structure; Significance of the system of inheritance to analyses of social, economic and demographic changes.

Comments on an article about the agricultural productivity of Pennsylvania in 18th century. Discussion on economic development; Details of income distribution; Performance of the agriculture sector in the state.

Comments on an article about the pattern of population growth in farm areas of northern United States. Discussion on population history; Application of cross-sectional analysis; Details of farm settlements.

The article presents abstracts on various topics during the annual meeting including corporate entrepreneurship and economic development in the U.S., 1790-1860, commercial revolution in Medieval Europe, and the market for patents in Germany.

Presents a comparison of the colonial monetary policy during the Seven Years' War. Effect of the standards used by states to finance the war; Factors to be attributed to the success of war finance in Pennsylvania, New York and South Carolina.

Focuses on a study which interpreted the expansion of newsprint production and exports in Canada after World War I. Roles of Canada and the United States in the expansion; Policies that affected the industry; Analysis of the results.

Presents an abstract of a research paper entitled `Stasis Amid Change: Regional Income Inequality in Canada, 1870-1890,' by Kris Inwood, presented at the annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Comments on an article about wealth inequality in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries. Discussion on income distribution; Intergenerational wealth rankings in the country; Criteria on the aggregate wealth of rich families.

Comments on essays about ethnic discrimination and immigrant mobility in the United States. Wage discrimination in the case of Japanese immigrants; Impact of community characteristics on occupational mobility of immigrants; Mobility of Jewish immigrants.

Comments on an essay written by Donald McCloskey about the achievements of economic history. Role of economic history in the development of quantitative facts in history; Difference of cliometrics with other schools of economic history.

Presents an abstract of a research paper entitled `Secrecy, Firm-Specific Human Capital, and Enforceable Debt Contracts in Ancien Regime Taxation,' by Gregory La Blanc, presented at the annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Establishing a Monetary Union: The United States's Experience,' by Arthur J. Rolnick, Bruce D. Smith and Warren E. Weber, presented at the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `The Company Town, the Union, and the Mine Wars: The Role of Institution and Conflict in West Virginia's Early Mine-Labor Market,' by Lawrence W. Boyd, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Domestic Integration and the Impact on Foreign Markets: The European Coal and Steel Community and the Entente de Bruxelles,' by Daniel Barbezat, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of a research paper entitled `The Debasement Puzzle: An Essay on Medieval Monetary History,' by Arthur J. Rolnick, Francois R. Velde and Warren E. Weber, presented at the annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of a research paper entitled `Careers North and South: Railway Workers in Australia and Canada, 1885-1940,' by Mary MacKinnon, presented at the annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of a research paper entitled `Kartell or Cartel? Evidence From Turn of the Century German Coal, Iron, and Steel Industries,' by Janice Kinghorn, presented at the annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of a research paper entitled `Plot Scattering, Risk Aversion, and Labor Spreading: Some Evidence From Nineteenth-Century Northern France,' by Michael Foley, presented at the annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `No Experiments, Monumental Disasters: Why It Took a Thousand Years to Develop a Specialized Fishing Industry in Iceland,' by Thrainn Eggertsson, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Tracing the Beginning of the Kuznets Curve: The Inequality of Income and Wealth in Western Europe During the Early Modern Period,' by Jan L. van Zanden, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Post-World War II Technological Change: Mechanization of the Cotton Harvest,' by Wayne A. Grove, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Why Chamberlin Failed and Bismarck Succeeded: The Political Economy of Tariffs in British and German Elections,' by Douglas A. Irwin, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

The article focuses on the developments related to Economic History Association (EHA). An announcement is being made by Gary Libecap, 2005/06 EHA President, that the sixty-sixth annual meeting of the EHA will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 15-17, 2006, at the Omni William Penn Hotel. Nominations are being invited by the Committee on Education of the EHA for the Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History. It also highlights the prizes that were awarded at the sixty-fifth annual meeting of the EHA, held in Toronto, Ontario, September 16-18, 2005.

Explores the concepts associated with manufacturing strategies in the eighteenth century, among papermakers of Ambert (Auvergne, France), with reference to a study investigating strategies available to eighteenth-century manufacturers. Significance of the Industrial Revolution to these strategies; Principles of papermaking in the Auvergne; Details on Ambert papermakers and the transformations of their industry.