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Discusses paper money issues in the American colonies from 1720 to 1774. Misinterpretation of the colonial monetary policies; Overview of the political background of British monetary policies in the colonies; Controversy over colonial practices during the period.

Comments on an article about technology diffusion. Concept of technology diffusion; Political and economic relevance of technology; Perspective on Asian agricultural development.

Comments on an article about slavery and technological change. Classes of technical progress; Response of slaves to technological innovations.

Comments on several articles related to the influence of legal institutions on economic practice. Information on a mathematical model developed by authors William Landes and Lewis Solomon; Lack of historical research of the articles written by John McManus and Donald McCloskey.

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 articles of Daniel Scott Smith and Maris Vinovskis which deal with mortality. Significance of the articles to demographic historians; Inaccuracy of Vinovski's data; Importance of showing the relation between living condition and mortality.

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 articles published in the March 1971 issue of the `Journal of Economic History,' which deal with economic development. Differences of Olmstead's papers from Davis and Payne; Role of New York City's mutual banks as investors.

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 an article about the diffusion of technological changes in agricultural techniques. Economic and political significance of technology; Ways in which techniques are diffused to individual farmers; Classification of technology relevant to agriculture.

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 the mechanisms for discrimination in a market economy and the economic basis for sharecropping. Relationship between market incentives and racism; Economic and racial structure of public policies.

Comments on several articles related to trade and imperialism. Criticisms on the quantitative losses computed by author Scott Eddie for Hungary.

Comments on several articles about the evolution and diffusion of technological devices. Analogy between the evolution of a technological device and Darwinian evolution; Factors that affect technology and Darwin's natural environment.

Comments on several articles about the economic development of the United States. Factors that changed income distribution in the country; Arguments on the growth of demand from capital-intensive subsectors.

Comments on an article about the diffusion paths of early steam power. Factors that influence diffusion; Aspects of technological monopolization.

Comments on several articles about determining and measuring the viability of slave systems. Issues concerning slave systems; Relationship between the ratio of the price of slaves and reproduction costs.

Comments on several articles dealing with industrialization. Criticisms on a research of author Franklin Mendels on the textile industry.

Comments on articles about diffusion of technology. Information on the economic transformation of Manchuria, China; Economic and non-economic factors in technology diffusion.

Comments on an article about the process of spatial diffusion of agrarian techniques. Characteristics of crop diffusion; Role of Romans in anticipating the Islamic green revolution.

Comments on an article about the social problems associated with the scarcity of resources. Application of the concept of property rights in the analysis of the problems; Economic importance of property rights assignments over resources.

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.

Examines the factors that influenced the international diffusion of the Gramme dynamo, Edison dynamo, revolving-field alternator and Alexanderson alternator. Information on the Gramme dynamo electric power generator; Diffusion of the Gramme dynamo into England.

Provides a reply to David R. Felix's criticisms on W.W. Rostow's paper on the stages of economic growth. Reasons for the persistence of the modernization efforts in the developing countries; Discussion on industrialization in Africa, Asia and Latin America; Coordination of incomes policies among industrial nations.

Discusses the involvement of the business sector in agrarian movement in the United States from 1879 to 1920. Issue on monopoly and unregulated power of the railroads in the 19th century.

Comments on the role of the government in economic development. Government activities of the Habsburg monarchy; Intention of the government in carrying out intervention.

Comments on articles about the relationship of spatial distribution of governmental budgetary actions to rates of economic growth in various regions. Problems with regional economy analysis; What the government of a unitary state must do; Concept of an economic theory.

Comments on several articles about economic development and urbanization, published in the December 1965 issue of the `Journal of Economic History.' Information on an article by George Dalton which analyzed Liberian development; Comment on the paper by Jeffrey Williamson which noted a historical association between industrialization and urbanization; Use of the ratio of urban to total population as the measure of urbanization for a state or region by Williamson.

Discusses the factors which contributed to the demand for money in small denominations in the United States during the nineteenth century. Types of money in small denominations; Relation between inflation and the appearance of small notes; Argument against small notes which was presented by Adam Smith in his book `Wealth of Nations'; Public policy with respect to issues of small notes.

Introduces the papers presented in the March 1969 issue of `The Journal of Economic History' adapted from the 1968 Congress of the International Economic History Association.

Investigates the relationship between the increase in average productivity and the accelerated application of scientific information in the manufacturing industry in the United States in the 1920s. Increase efficiency of production facilities; Transformation in industrial investment; Opportunities for mass-production innovations.

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.

Discusses how the Program Committee of the Economic History Association prepared for their annual meeting in 1972. Theme of the meeting; Plan of the association to publish several essays.

Compares the monthly interest rate series established by economists Erastus Bigelow and Lance E. Davis in the United States during the 19th century. Description of Bigelow's series; Significance of the series created by Davis.

Analyzes the policies of the Bank of Sweden in the middle 18th century Sweden. Examination of the economic theories of two political parties in the representative body; Experiment with paper money mercantilism; Description of the political environment.

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.

Offers a look at the work of the Crown Agents for Colonies, an office in London, England responsible for the business affairs of British overseas territories in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Reorganization made to the office in 1858; Advantages and commissions given to Crown Agents; Number of loans issued since 1858; Other business interests.