Vol. 32 (2014): Essays in Economic & Business History

The Journal of the Economic & Business History Society

Published: 2014-06-30

Front Matter

• Title Page and Table of Contents

  Jason E. Taylor

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• Editorial Board, The EBHS Officers and Trustees 2013-2014

  Jason E. Taylor

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Articles

• Is This a Decisive Moment for the History of Business, Economic History, and the History of Capitalism?

  Lou Galambos

  1-18

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• The Evolution of Garnishment and Wage Assignment Law in Illinois

  Bradley A. Hansen, Mary Eschelbach Hansen

  19-46

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• The Michigan Free Bank Experience: Wild Cat Banking or Interference with Contract? Joint Winner of the James Soltow Award for Best Paper in Essays 2014

  John A. Dove, Gary M. Pecquet, Clifford F. Thies

  47-80

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• Discriminating Between Tariff Bill-Based Theories of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 Using Event Study Data

  Bernard C. Beaudreau

  80-99

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• The Origins of the Cashless Society: Cash Dispensers, Direct to Account Payments and the Development of On-Line Real-Time Networks, c.1965-1985 Joint Winner of the James Soltow Award for Best Paper in Essays 2014

  Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo, Tobias Karlsson, Björn Thodenius

  100-137

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Book Reviews

• Peskin, Lawrence A. and Edmund Wehrle. America and the World: Culture, Commerce, Conflict. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. 302 Pp.

  Erik Benson

  138-141

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• Millard, André. Beatlemania: Technology, Business, and Teen Culture in Cold War America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. 223 Pp.

  Douglas Karsner

  141-144

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• Broich, John. London: Water and the Making of the Modern City. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013. 214 Pp.

  Nicola Tynan

  145-148

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• Lepenies, Philipp. Die Macht der einen Zahl: Eine politische Geschichte des Bruttoinlandsprodukts. [The Power of One Number: A Political History of Gross Domestic Product.] Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2013. 186 Pp.

  Olli Turunen

  148-1`51

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• Roberts, Richard. Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 301 Pp.

  Mark Billings

  151-154

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• Traflet, Janice M. A Nation of Small Shareholders: Marketing Wall Street after World War II. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 2013. 242 Pp.

  Luis G. Dopico

  154-157

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Back Matter

• Editor's Notes and EBHS President's Report 2013

  Jason E. Taylor, Ranjit S. Dighe

  158-161

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