Vol. 21 (2003): Essays in Economic & Business History

The Journal of the Economic & Business Historical Society

Published: 2003-06-30

Front Matter

• Title Page and Table of Contents

  Michael V. Namorato (ed.)

  i-vii

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Articles

• An Impecunious Pilot: British Business Culture and the Case of Lowell Yerex, 1933-1946

  Erik Benson

  1-15

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• Naples, 1629: Bureaucracy, War Finance and the “Renaissance State”

  Antonio Calabria

  17-31

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• Can Politicians Speed Up Long-Term Technological Change? Some Thoughts from a Comparison of the German and US-American Synthetic Rubber Programs Before, During and After World War II

  Jochen Streb

  33-49

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• The Voluntary Export Restraint (VER) Agreement with Japan on Automobiles in the 1980s

  Carl H. Tong, Allen L. Bures

  51-59

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• Paz, Pri, and Progress: Octavio Paz’s Political, Economic, and Literary Struggle to Inspire Reform in Twentieth-Century Mexico

  D. Gene Pace

  61-70

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• Efficiency Wages, Insiders and Outsiders, and the Great Depression

  Ranjit S. Dighe

  71-88

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• Pay Ball: Estimating the Profitability of the New York Yankees 1915-1937

  Michael Haupert, Kenneth Winter

  89-101

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• The Case of the “Vacillating Jurist”: Pittsburgh's George Shiras, Jr. and the Income Tax Case of 1895

  Harvey Gresham Hudspeth

  103-113

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• The Hidden Economy of Slavery: Commercial and Industrial Hiring in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, 1728-1800

  Michael V. Kennedy

  115-125

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• The Trans-Missouri Case: Does the Sherman Act Apply to Railroads?

  Michael Landry, Richard D. Stone

  127-139

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• Innovation, Imitation, and Entrepreneurship: The Introduction and Diffusion of the Homeowners Policy, 1944-1960

  John Paul Rossi

  141-150

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• The Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval: From Innovative Consumer Protection to Popular Badge of Quality

  Lauren Strach, Malcolm Russell

  151-166

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• With an Eye to Better Outcomes: The Opening of the Trans-Mississippi Grain Belt Might Have Been Tempered and More Gradual

  Thomas R. Winpenny

  167-174

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• Portuguese Investments in Brazil: The Contribution of Historical and Cultural Proximity (ABSTRACT)

  Carla Guapo Costa

  175

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• “A String of Bubbles: Tulips, the South Seas and the 1990s Internet Frenzy” (ABSTRACT)

  James M. O'Donnell

  177

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