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r/EconomicHistory • u/darrenjyc • Feb 20 '25
Announcement American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by H.W. Brands — An online discussion group on March 4 and April 29, all are welcome
r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 2h ago
Blog Oliver Kim: The potential end of USAID is an unfolding public health and humanitarian disaster, but it does not permanently doom the task of growth—in large part because these aid flows were far too small to begin with. (February 2025)
global-developments.orgr/EconomicHistory • u/Then_Estimate_1219 • 1d ago
Book/Book Chapter Japanese Economic History - lost decade
Can someone please recommend some books on Japanese economic history post-war with a focus on the boom and bust of 80/90's. I am interested in listening on audible. Thanks!
r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 1d ago
Blog Tirthankar Roy, K Ravi Raman: Kerala’s reintegration with the global economy, remittances from the Persian Gulf, strong welfare policies from a legacy of leftist government, and private investments led to Kerala turning from the poorest to richest state in India (Aeon, March 2025).
aeon.cor/EconomicHistory • u/Great_Country_6398 • 1d ago
Journal Article Limits to the power of economic elites?: Wealth, authority, and inequality in eastern English villages, c. 1350–c. 1550
onlinelibrary.wiley.comr/EconomicHistory • u/Great_Country_6398 • 2d ago
Journal Article The Price and Welfare Consequences of the British Sugar Act of 1846 | The Journal of Economic History
cambridge.orgr/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 1d ago
Journal Article Areas prioritized for rail station construction in British Malay enjoyed an enduring economic edge driven by agglomeration (Y Liew, M Rahman and A Siah, March 2025)
doi.orgr/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 2d ago
Blog Hidetaka Hirota: In the U.S., dichotomous categorization of regular immigrants and illegal immigrants is partly rooted in 19th century discourse on foreign-born workers, which divided them into “natural” and “unnatural” immigrants. (Time, March 2025)
time.comr/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 2d ago
study resources/datasets Industrial production during the Great Depression in the USA and Europe
r/EconomicHistory • u/NeatUsed • 2d ago
Question Historic house price/land price chart?
Is there any chart i can find where it states the history of an average real estate/house price in the world market or something like the uk or us average house price if possible. Any help would pe appreciated. Thanks :)
r/EconomicHistory • u/Sea-Juice1266 • 3d ago
Journal Article A comparison of income inequality in the Roman (ca. 165 CE) and Chinese Han (ca. 2 CE) empires. Nature Communications, 2025. Guido Alfani, Michele Bolla & Walter Scheidel
nature.comr/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 3d ago
Working Paper From 1890 to 1920, 4 million Italians moved to America. Coordination within the Italian community through the church and native backlash reduced the social assimilation of immigrants, lowering intermarriage, residential integration, and naturalization rates. (S. Gagliarducci, M. Tabell, April 2022)
nber.orgr/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 4d ago
Blog The US Republic Party pursued high tariffs in the late 19th century. The resulting 1890 tariffs reduced government income, increased public expenditure, and undercut foreign investors’ confidence in US reliability, leading to catastrophic effects for ordinary Americans. (Bulwark, October 2024)
thebulwark.comr/EconomicHistory • u/Standard_Scientist12 • 2d ago
Question Are Trump's Tariffs Comparable to the War of 1812 and the Opium Wars?
Historians note that some conflicts, like the War of 1812 and the Opium Wars of the mid-19th century, were rooted in trade disputes. Were the lead-ups to those wars similar enough to Trump's tariffs that there is a fair comparison? Who can offer a solid argument that supports or counters this?
r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 3d ago
Book/Book Chapter "In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan" by James Lin
ucpress.edur/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 5d ago
Video In counties where the Chinese Exclusion Act caused a large reduction in the number of workers who had emigrated from China, the number of non-Chinese male workers also declined. (Columbia Business School, November 2022)
youtu.ber/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 4d ago
Journal Article Japan saw a steady increase in patenting and innovative activity from the Meiji era onwards, suggesting the importance of domestic inventive capability over mere diffusion from Western sources of technology (T Nicholas, April 2011)
doi.orgr/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 6d ago
EH in the News Douglas Irwin: The McKinley Tariff of 1890 placed a 70% tax on imported tinplate, jumpstarting the domestic tinplate industry. But the cost incurred by domestic consumers of tinplate (like canned food) in the first 10-year period after the 1890 tariffs exceeded the gains. (NPR, February 2025)
npr.orgr/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 5d ago
Working Paper Three centuries of data on sanctions and economic warfare suggest that sanctions tend to spur adaptations, create numerous unintended consequences, and achieve stated objectives when complemented with conventional military strength (S Broadberry and M Harrison, February 2025)
warwick.ac.ukr/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 6d ago
Journal Article Based on human stature data, Ireland's mid 19th century Great Famine likely eliminated the most vulnerable rural populations while leaving an urban population scarred by stunting (M Blum, C Colvin and E McLaughlin, March 2025)
doi.orgr/EconomicHistory • u/JamesepicYT • 6d ago
Discussion Despite popular belief, Thomas Jefferson had the full approval of the Congress before buying Louisiana for $11 million from France, as shown by this 1803 letter
thomasjefferson.comr/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 7d ago
Editorial Marc-William Palen: The administration of Benjamin Harrison attempted to coerce Canada into joining the United States by imposing high tariffs in 1890. In response, Canada established closer commercial ties with Britain and some U.S. manufacturers moved operations to Canada. (Time, February 2025)
time.comr/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 7d ago
Working Paper Anatolian refugees resettled in Greece after WW1 initially lagged in educational attainment, but refugee families tended to outperform locals in the long run (S Michalopoulos, E Murard, E Papaioannou and S Sakalli, March 2025)
nber.orgr/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 8d ago
Journal Article In comparison to Britain, increased competition was not associated with the same degree of productivity improvement driven by 'creative destruction' in the post-socialist economies of the former Eastern Bloc in the 1990s (W Carlin, J Haskel and P Seabright, January 2001)
discovery.ucl.ac.ukr/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 8d ago