"This research report makes the following claims: 1] There was not an unambiguous economic advantage of hybrid corn over the open-pollinated varieties in 1936. 2] The early adoption of hybrid corn before 1937 can be better explained by a sustained propaganda campaign conducted by the U.S....

This working paper explores the significant contributions to the history of African-American slavery made by the application of the tools of cliometrics. As used here "cliometrics" is defined as a method of scientific analysis marked by the explicit use of economic theory and quantitative...