Quantitative economic history

Collection of articles previously published in Oxford economic papers inDec. 1987 and Dec. 1988.

Unemployment in Interwar Britain : dole or doldrums? / by Barry Eichengreen -- Intercounty labour mobility during the industrial revolution : evidence from Australian transportation records / by Stephen Nicholas and Peter R. Shergold -- Did English factor markets fail during the industrial revolution? / by Jeffrey G. Williamson -- Sliding scales and conciliation boards : risk-sharing in the late 19th century British coal industry / by John G. Treble -- Natural monopoly and railway policy in the nineteenth century / by J.S. Foreman-Peck -- The costs of public and private gas enterprises in late 19th century Britain / by Robert Millward and Robert Ward -- Technology, productivity, and profits : British-American whaling competition in the North Atlantic, 1816-1842 / by L.E. Davis, R.E. Gallman, and T.D. Hutchins -- Female labour force participation in Interwar Britain / by T.J. Hatton and R.E. Bailey -- Price and exchange rate determination during the Greenback suspension / by Charles W. Calomiris -- Banking pan