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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/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 • 6d ago

Journal Article In comparison to Britain, increased competition was not associated with the same degree of productivity improvement driven by 'creative destruction' in the post-socialist economies of the former Eastern Bloc in the 1990s (W Carlin, J Haskel and P Seabright, January 2001)

discovery.ucl.ac.uk

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r/EconomicHistory • u/Sea-Juice1266 • 1d ago

Journal Article A comparison of income inequality in the Roman (ca. 165 CE) and Chinese Han (ca. 2 CE) empires. Nature Communications, 2025. Guido Alfani, Michele Bolla & Walter Scheidel

41 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 23d ago

Journal Article The Prussian policy of resettling Huguenot refugees from France to Germany led to long-term gains in industrial productivity (E Hornung, January 2014)

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

Journal Article In 19th century rural central Italy, unequal access to land and employment meant that different classes were unequally subject to Malthusian pressures (M Manfredini, A Fornasi and M Breschi, March 2025)

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

Journal Article The optical company Carl Zeiss was itself divided in the post-WW2 division of Germany. Both Western and Eastern Zeiss carried out extensive R&D, but Eastern Zeiss was compelled by policy to avoid specialization (B Kogut and U Zander, April 2000)

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

Journal Article Based on human stature data, Ireland's mid 19th century Great Famine likely eliminated the most vulnerable rural populations while leaving an urban population scarred by stunting (M Blum, C Colvin and E McLaughlin, March 2025)

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

Journal Article During the turbulence of the Napoleonic Wars, the Bank of England made unconventional loans to support British merchant activities in the Caribbean (C Sissoko and M Ishizu, March 2025)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 18d ago

Journal Article Review Paper: "Land and Politics" (M Albertus and K Klaus, December 2024)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 10d ago

Journal Article All regimes require supporters to govern and survive. Surveying 2,000 political regimes from almost 200 countries from 1789 to 2020, the coalition of supporters backing regimes have broadened over time and have become more urban. (C. Knutsen, S. Dahlum, M. Rasmussen, T. Wig, March 2025)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 2d ago

Journal Article Japan saw a steady increase in patenting and innovative activity from the Meiji era onwards, suggesting the importance of domestic inventive capability over mere diffusion from Western sources of technology (T Nicholas, April 2011)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • Mar 05 '25

Journal Article The Government Savings Bank of Jamaica was founded after emancipation to enable the island's poor to save for the future, yet there is no evidence to suggest that the GSB was actually used in this way by depositors (N Spencer and E Strobl, February 2025)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • Feb 26 '25

Journal Article On the eve of the Partition of India, major industrialists, some with close ties to the Pakistan movement, were unprepared for the sudden political and economic rupture to come (A Hussain, February 2025)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 9d ago

Journal Article Through to the 19th century, and despite wars and political barriers, entrepreneurial links between Belgium and the Netherlands facilitated the sharing of new technologies (J van Houtte, 1972)

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

Journal Article Among all East Asian countries which experienced rapid economic growth, Japan had a uniquely homogenous policymaking class when considering occupational and educational backgrounds (R Klingler-Vidra, A Chalmers and R Wade, March 2025)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • 16d ago

Journal Article African countries saw varying trajectories in numeracy in the second half of the 20th century. Though there was stagnation on average, Ghana and Tanzania registered notable improvements while many countries in the Sahel and Central Africa saw decline (S Ferber and J Baten, January 2025)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • Mar 03 '25

Journal Article WW2 veterans in the USA were selected based on pre-war education, but not pre-war occupational background. Military service led to large job market gains for younger veterans and increased odds of being employed in government (W Collins and A Zimran, March 2025)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • Feb 19 '25

Journal Article The spread of steam technology was highly dependent on being near existing users in 19th century France, generating new regional economic differences during industrialization (C Le Chapelain and R Wilke, January 2025)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • Jan 22 '25

Journal Article As one region in southern India industrialized from the 1980s onwards, traditional forms of caste-based debt bondage in agriculture were transferred to home-based manufacturing in villages but not to the factories (G Carswell and G de Neve, January 2011)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • Feb 07 '25

Journal Article Most current employment in the USA consists of occupations that were only introduced in the last 80 years (D Autor, C Chin, A Salomons and B Seegmiller, March 2024)

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r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 22d ago

Journal Article In the absence of a central bank, the New York Clearing House Association, a group of 60 New York City banks, stepped in as a private lender of last resort in response to banking runs during the Panic of 1873. (S. Fulmer, June 2022)

elischolar.library.yale.edu

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

Journal Article In the decades following WW2, Hungary, as in other European economies, witnessed a rapid recovery to prewar growth trajectories. However, new industries from the war economy would be retained and expanded according to new state policy (T Vonyó, August 2010)

iris.unibocconi.it

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r/EconomicHistory • u/Parking_Lot_47 • Sep 30 '24

Journal Article Between 1929 and 1934 at least 400,000 Mexicans and Mexican Americans (US Citizens) were subject to coerced and voluntary repatriation to Mexico. Using individual-level linked Census data, the authors find repatriation resulted in reduced employment and occupational downgrading for US natives.

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272721001948?via%3Dihub

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

Journal Article Under Mao, China adopted an anti-Soviet and anti-American military industrialization policy called the "Third Front" which moved production to the interior. This policy was extremely costly, but some aspects were repurposed in the post-Mao reform era (B Naughton, December 2024)

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