Vol. 17 (1999): Essays in Economic & Business History

Articles

• Market Tours, Peddler Receipts and the Shopkeeper Grape Vine: An Import Wholesaler's Attempts to Gauge Rural, African Consumer Demand in Early Colonial Northwestern Tanzania

  Laird Jones

  17-35

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• Peasant Economic Calculation and the Household Economy in Imperial Germany

  John Abbot

  37-47

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• Product Innovation and the Growth of the Large Firm: The Case of Air Liquide, 1902-1930

  Michael S. Smith

  49-61

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• Between Coercion and Cooperation: The Flick Concern in Nazi Germany Before the War

  L. M. Stallbaumer

  63-74

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• Institutional Competition: A New Theoretical Concept for Economic History

  Oliver Volckart

  75-87

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• The Economics of the Union Draft: Institutional Failure and Manipulation of the Labor Market During the Civil War

  Cady Alpert, Kyle D. Kauffman

  89-108

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• Product Design Choices in American Capital Goods Industries, 1850-1925

  John K. Brown

  109-124

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• “Catholicity and Civilization”: Catholics and the Capitalist Ethic in Nineteenth-Century America

  Martin J. Burke

  125-135

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• The Business of Wellness: The Health Industry's Response to Public Health Campaigns, 1960-1990

  Christiane Diehl-Taylor, George Green

  137-147

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• “Canaries in the Coal Mine”: The Deindustrialization of New England and the Rise of the Global Economy, 1923-1975

  Maura Doherty

  149-162

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• Losing Battles and Winning Wars: Franklin Roosevelt and the Fight to Transform the Supreme Court, 1937 - 1941

  Harvey G. Hudspeth

  163-179

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• “Now Hawaii is Only Hours Away!”: The Airlines Alter Tourism

  Douglas Karsner

  181-194

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• Transatlantic Shipping Cartels and Migration Between Europe and America, 1880-1914

  Drew Keeling

  195-213

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• Cartels or Fair Competition? The Economics of the National Industrial Recovery Act

  Jason Taylor

  215-228

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• Downsizing to Corporate Anorexia While Dismantling the Middle Class: Are We in Danger of Recreating the 1920s?

  Thomas R. Winpenny

  245-252

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• Development of the Accounting Profession in Maryland (ABSTRACT)

  Jerome DeRidder, H. Reed Muller

  253

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• New Evidence for an Infrastructural Investment Cycle (ABSTRACT)

  Laurence J. Malone

  254

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• Direct Worker Ownership: The Russian Formula for Economic Reform (1984-1994) (ABSTRACT)

  Peter J. Piveronus, Jr.

  255

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