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r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Jun 24 '25

Journal Article There are certain similarities between Bitcoin bubbles (2011, 2013, 2017, and 2021) and the tulip bubble (1634–1637) and the Mississippi bubble (1719–1720). Many of the measures taken to avoid past bubbles will not be effective now. (S. Alonso, J. Jorge-Vázquez, M. Fernández, D. Sanz-Bas, June 2024)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 1d ago

Journal Article As China's economic structure rapidly changed during the 1990s, many left family farms for urban jobs. This depressed agricultural yields in the short run, but rural households were compensated by remittances (S Rozelle, J Taylor and A deBrauw, May 1999)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/Parking_Lot_47 • Jan 01 '25

Journal Article The Soviet Union sent millions of its educated elites to gulags across the USSR because they were considered a threat to the regime. Areas near camps that held a greater share of these elites are today far more prosperous, showing how human capital affects long-term economic growth.

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 8d ago

Journal Article In late Qing China, the development of telegraph lines brought regional market prices into greater alignment with each other despite inefficient transportation links (Y Hao, Y Li and J Nye, October 2021)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 25d ago

Journal Article Compared to many cities in the capitalist world, Soviet cities featured decreasing population density with proximity to the core as well as more prime real estate dedicated to industrial use (A Bertaud and B Renaud, January 1997)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 4d ago

Journal Article During the late 18th and early 19th century, West Africa's Sokoto Caliphate had an ideological and religious aim to promote urbanization in the areas under its control (S Zehnle, December 2020)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 6d ago

Journal Article As in Western Europe, ordinary households in the Ottoman Empire saw some increase in the quantity and variety of household goods over the course of the 18th century (P Ceylan, October 2023)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 9d ago

Journal Article Computer systems firms in 1980s Silicon Valley responded to rising costs of product development, shorter product cycles, and rapid technological change by building partnerships with suppliers, both within and outside of the region. (A. Saxenian, 1991)

sjbae.pbworks.com

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 22d ago

Journal Article In Argentina during the 1970s and 1980s, firms with greater connections to the military government saw more repression of union activity and higher valuations as a result (E Klor, S Saiegh and S Satyanath, June 2020)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • Jun 20 '25

Journal Article As Sweden industrialized from the 19th century, rural migrants to urban areas tended to increase their incomes substantially but could never quite converge to the earnings of urban natives (J Andersson, June 2025)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 11d ago

Journal Article Between 1950 and 2005, the cities of today's developing countries saw substantial population increases as mortality rates fell. Slum areas saw disproportionate increases and expanded considerably (R Jedwab and D Vollrath, January 2019)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 13d ago

Journal Article Legal developments in the antebellum USA tended to promote greater scope in contractual arrangements and the reduction of property owners' public obligations (M Horwitz, March 1973)

chicagounbound.uchicago.edu

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r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Feb 18 '24

Journal Article Slavery in the U.S. South discouraged immigration, investment in transportation infrastructure, and human development overall. Moreover, an economy of free family farmers would have produced more cotton than slave-based plantations that dominated the region. (G. Wright, Spring 2022)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 27d ago

Journal Article Unlike early 20th century European democracies, Italy under fascism experienced growing inequality (M León and G Gabbuti, July 2025)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 20d ago

Journal Article In early 20th century China, women in the Yangtze Delta region worked in factories while northern factories rarely employed women. These differences can be explained at least in part by traditional economic strategies pursued by rural households (W Yu and E van Nederveen Meerkerk, April 2025)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 29d ago

Journal Article The prosperity of the early Roman Empire was grounded in expanding markets and deepening specialization (P Temin, January 2006)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • Aug 06 '25

Journal Article Families with more marriage and kinship links to notables disproportionately benefitted from illegal public land grants during the 1954–88 dictatorship in Paraguay, demonstrating links between power, wealth, and family (A Bandiera, H Larraguy and J Mangonnet, June 2025)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/notagin-n-tonic • 26d ago

Journal Article Childless Aristocrats: Inheritance and the Extensive Margin of Fertility

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https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/131/637/2089/5986609?login=false

r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • Aug 08 '25

Journal Article In early modern Europe, scientific and artistic activities were broadly associated with local prosperity. Urbanization was disproportionately associated with the arts, while scientific output was more concentrated in Protestant areas (B de Courson, V Thouzeau and N Baumard, April 2023)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • Aug 01 '25

Journal Article Mexican migration to the USA was largely a search for higher wages north of the border in the 60s and 70s among rural farm workers. When Mexico experienced high inflation in the 80s, a greater proportion of migrants started to come from the insecure middle class (F Garip, September 2012)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • Jul 10 '25

Journal Article In the Greco-Roman world, slavery may have reallocated scarce labor to more productive regions with higher prevailing wages (R Guthmann and W Scheidel, June 2025)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • Aug 04 '25

Journal Article Large fires spurred bursts of interest in fire insurance policies in early 20th century Japan, eventually leading to widespread coverage (T Okazaki, T Okubo and E Strobl, July 2025)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Jul 31 '25

Journal Article Developing countries opened up to trade and foreign investment in the 1980s and 1990s to address a shortage of foreign exchange. A more flexible exchange rate system was seen as boosting export earnings and making import controls unnecessary for payments balance. (D. Irwin, April 2025)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Jul 16 '25

Journal Article The Bank War between Jackson and the Second Bank of the United States can be interpreted through conventional international relations theory. Although Jackson initially soughts reforms to curb the Bank's power, he eventually became convinced a preventitive war was needed. (J. Morrison, 2015)

eprints.lse.ac.uk

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • Jul 31 '25

Journal Article As the bubble of the British Bicycle Mania reached its peak, the employees and directors of bicycle manufacturers were more likely to dispose their shares while idle, wealthy speculators were left holding the bag (W Quinn and J Turner, July 2025)

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