Vol. 38 No. 1 (2020): Essays in Economic & Business History

The Journal of the Economic & Business History Society

Published: 2020-11-09

Front Matter

• Front Matter 2020

  Mark Billings

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Articles

• Women’s Access to Credit Increases Women in Bankruptcy: Evidence From Maryland Since 1940

  Mary Eschelbach Hansen, Michelle McKinnon Miller

  1-37

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• Credit Union Capital Insolvency and Mergers Before and After Share Insurance

  Stephanie O. Crofton, Luis G. Dopico, James A. Wilcox

  38-69

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• Production Prices and Technology: A Historical Analysis of the United States Coal Industry

  Mike Matheis

  70-104

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• Tracing the Historic Roots of Generalized Trust

  Benjamin Kalischer Wellander, Tino Sanandaji

  105-141

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• Privately Preventing Malaria in the United States, 1900-1925

  Byron Carson

  142-192

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• The First Greek Modernizer: Just How Much of a Modernizer Was He? The Charilaos Trikoupis Case

  Ioannis Papanagiotou

  193-223

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• How Does Globalization Affect the Welfare State? Openness to Trade and Social Spending Patterns in 21 Countries, 1920-2000

  Henric Häggqvist

  224-270

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• Accepting the Inevitable: The Liberalization of the African Alcohol Industry in Salisbury, Rhodesia, 1960s to the Early 1980s

  Nathaniel Chimhete, Eric Makombe

  271-309

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• “The Grand Bargain”: Detroit’s Financial Fall to Bankruptcy and Rise to New Possibilities

  John Naglick, Martin Lavelle, John A. Moore

  310-334

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• Detroit: A Microcosm of Municipal Finance, Bankruptcy, and Recovery

  John A. Dove

  335-342

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Book Reviews

• Thai, Philip. China's War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842-1965. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.

  Mark Crowley

  343-346

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• Gorton, Gary B., and Ellis W. Tallman. Fighting Financial Crises: Learning from the Past. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

  Ranjit Dighe

  347-349

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• Hoffman, Philip T., Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. Dark Matter Credit: The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in France. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2019.

  Theresa Finley

  350-352

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• Wright, Robert, E. Financial Exclusion: How Competition Can Fix a Broken System. Great Barrington, MA: American Institute for Economic Research, 2019.

  Vincent Geloso

  352-355

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• Adelman, Joseph. Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.

  Jeremy Land

  355-357

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• Rosenthal, Caitlin. Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.

  John Moore

  358-361

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• Porterfield, Amanda. Corporate Spirit: Religion and the Rise of the Modern Corporation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

  Robert Wright

  361-364

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Back Matter

• 2020 Editors' and President's Report

  Mark Billings, Dan Giedeman, John Moore

  365-371

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• EBHS Officers and Trustees 2019-2020

  Dan Giedeman

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• 2020 Back Cover

  Dan Giedeman

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