Vol. 26 (2008): Essays in Economic & Business History

The Journal of the Economic & Business Historical Society

Published: 2008-06-30

Front Matter

• Title Page and Table of Contents

  Lynne Pierson Doti (ed.)

  1-3

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Articles

• Victor Berger's Dangerous Ideas: Censoring The Mail To Preserve National Security During World War I

  Philip M. Glende

  5-20

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• Forty Plus Clubs and White-Collar Manhood During the Great Depression Winner of the James Soltow Award for 2008

  Gregory Wood

  21-32

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• The Worth of Wives: 1950s Corporate America “Discovers” Spousal Social Capital

  Christiane Diehl Taylor

  33-46

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• Local Money in the United States During the Great Depression

  Loren Gatch

  47-62

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• The Railroad Capacity Crisis: After Cutting to the Bone and More, Trains Are Back

  Richard D. Stone, Michael Landry

  63-72

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• Beyond Guns and Butter: Finnish Central Government Spending Patterns the in Twentieth Century

  Jari Eloranta, Jari Kauppila

  73-88

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• Baltimore's M.S. Levy and Sons: Straw Hat Makers to the World, 1870-1960

  Jessica I. Elfenbein

  89-102

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• Rivals of a Kind: The Anglo-American Commercial Aviation Rivalry, 1939-45

  Erik Benson

  103-116

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• "A War of Machinery”: the British Machine Tool Industry and Arming the Western Front, 1914-1916

  Roger Lloyd-Jones, Myrddin John Lewis

  117-132

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• When the Pill Peddlers Met the Scientists: The Antecedents and Implications of Early Collaborations between US Pharmaceutical Firms and Universities

  Jeffrey L. Furman, Megan MacGarvie

  133-146

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• Indian Railways and Famine 1875-1914: Magic Wheels and Empty Stomachs

  Stuart Sweeney

  147-158

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• Public Capital and the State-Level Variation of New Deal Expenditures

  Fred Bateman, Jason E. Taylor

  159-172

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• Technology and Knowledge Transfer in the Machine Tool Industry - The United States and Germany, 1870-1930

  Ralf Richter

  173-188

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• Gendered Dollars: Pin Money, Mad Money, and Changing Notions of a Woman’s Proper Place

  Janice Traflet

  189-202

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