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The Economic Historian
15.03.2024
The Great Inflation of the 1970s was a period of high inflation, slow growth, and economic pain in the US.
The Land Act of 1820 helped stimulate the settlement of the Northwest Territory, the Missouri Territory, and Ohio following the War of 1812.
Discover the history of the telegraph, from its invention by Samuel Morse to its widespread impact on business, journalism, and society.
Discover the history of the steam engine, from its early beginnings to its role in powering the Industrial Revolution.
The British Industrial Revolution, spanning from the 1760s to 1850, reshaped everyday life through mechanization and factory production
The factory system is an approach to manufacturing that arose during the Industrial Revolution to replace more inefficient forms of production
A new wave of child labor laws in the UK began in parallel with the antislavery movement of the 1820s and 1830s.
14.01.2023
The Economic Historian publishes articles on economic history, capitalism, financial crises, monetary history, and the history of economic thought.
30.11.2022
Jim Crow was fundamentally an economic system that influenced what type of jobs were available, wages, and living standards available.
The United States initiated the 1944 Bretton Woods conference intending to eliminate the beggar-thy-neighbor policies of the 1930s.
Though several innovations are responsible for the Industrial Revolution, the one that sits at the helm is the steam engine.
Reagan era neoliberalism viewed support for entrepreneurs primarily in negative terms as the removal of government tax and regulatory burdens
How was the Chinese and the Polish economic miracle possible? And what these two seemingly unrelated economies have in common?
John Jacob Astor established the American Fur Company in 1808, building a fur trade with private trappers and Native Americans.
The Industrial Revolution is too often packaged and served as a kind of a technological myth in global economic history
The spinning jenny was one of the crucial inventions in the textile industry during the Industrial Revolution.
Q&A with R. Bin Wong on the rise of China and the challenge of transforming global governance to meet the demands for global climate change.