Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction: The economies of historical economics Theodore W. Schultz; 1. The open fields of England: rent, risk and the rate of interest, 1300–1815 Donald N. McCloskey; 2. Labour market behaviour in colonial America: servitude, slavery and free labour David W. Galenson; 3. Productivity in American whaling: the New Bedford fleet in the nineteenth century Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman and Teresa D. Hutchins; 4. Households on the American frontier: the distribution of income and wealth in Utah, 1850–1900 Clayne L. Pope; 5. Businessmen, the Raj and the pattern of government expenditure: the British Empire, 1860–1912 Lance E. Davis and Robert A. Huttenback; 6. The impact of the economy and the state on the economic status of blacks: a study of South Carolina Richard J. Butler, James J. Heckman and Brook Payner; Contributors; Index.

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In Markets in History leading economic historians present the results of their research on the scope of markets in economies past and present.