Research in Economic History

by Shawn Kantor (Editor), Carl T Kitchens (Editor)

Overview

In this new volume of Research in Economic History, editors Shawn Kantor and Carl T. Kitchens bring together a diverse range of expert contributors to vigorously interrogate and analyse historic economics questions. This includes examinations of inequality from North and South America, as well as Europe, in terms of health, land, and wealth. For researchers and students of economic history, this volume pulls together the latest research on a variety of unanswered questions from the 1860s until the present day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781836089292
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	01/30/2025
Series:	Research in Economic History , #38
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Shawn Kantor is the L. Charles Hilton Jr. Distinguished Professor of Economics, Florida State University. Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research.

Carl T. Kitchens is the Professor of Economics and Bernard Sliger Scholar, Florida State University. Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Provincial Health Inequalities in Spain since 1860; Gregori Galofré-Vilà and María Gómez León
Chapter 2. The Geography of Infectious Disease and the European Marriage Pattern;Kirsten de Beurs, Kyle Harper, and Le Wang
Chapter 3. Economic Bonanza and Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Tax Records for Lima, Peru ;Luis Felipe Zegarra
Chapter 4. Can Land Inequality Negatively Affect Human Capital? The American Case, 1950-1970; Bárbara Tundidor
Chapter 5. Federal Preemption of Local Government Telegraph Franchise Entry Barriers; Aaron M. Honsowetz
Chapter 6. The Anatomy of a Policy Failure: Nixon’s Attempt to Control Inflation; Burton A. Abrams and James L. Butkiewicz