Research in Economic History

In this new volume of Research in Economic History, editors Shawn Kantor and Carl T. Kitchens bring together a diverse range of expert contributors to vigorously interrogate and analyse historic economics questions. This includes examinations of inequality from North and South America, as well as Europe, in terms of health, land, and wealth. For researchers and students of economic history, this volume pulls together the latest research on a variety of unanswered questions from the 1860s until the present day.

Shawn Kantor is the L. Charles Hilton Jr. Distinguished Professor of Economics, Florida State University. Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research.

Carl T. Kitchens is the Professor of Economics and Bernard Sliger Scholar, Florida State University. Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research.