Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Economy of Ancient Greece and the Beginning of Economic Thought -- Chapter 3. The Economy in the Middle Ages -- Chapter 4. Reflections of the Economy in Scholastic Thought -- Chapter 5. The Age of Mercantilism -- Chapter 6. Physiocracy -- Chapter 7. The...

Rare books of political economy are eminently collectable. Using historical prices, I employ hedonic regressions to estimate financial returns to collecting the works of ten eminent political economists and develop a price index for this corpus of collectables. For the observation period...

Urbanization, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Progressive Era, 1899-1929 -- The Continuing Puzzle of Hypertension among African Americans: Developmental Origins and the Mid-century Socioeconomic Transformation -- Health and Safety vs. Freedom of Contract: The Tortured Path of Wage and Hours...