Standard of Living

Chapter 1 Urbanization, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Progressive Era, 1899–1929

Chapter 2 The Continuing Puzzle of Hypertension Among African Americans: Developmental Origins and the Mid-century Socioeconomic Transformation

Chapter 3 Health and Safety vs. Freedom of Contract: The Tortured Path of Wage and Hours Limits Through the State Legislatures and the Courts

Chapter 4 Sickness Experience in England, 1870–1949

Chapter 5 Friendly Societies and Sickness Coverage in the Absence of State Provision in Spain (1870–1935)

Chapter 6 A Difficult Consensus: The Making of the Spanish Welfare State

Chapter 7 The Effect of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on US Life Insurance Holdings

Chapter 8 “Theft of Oneself”: Runaway Servants in Early Maryland: Deterrence, Punishment, and Apprehension

Chapter 9 Adult Guardianship and Local Politics in Rhode Island, 1750–1800

Chapter 10 Later-Life Realizations of Maryland’s Mid-Nineteenth-Century Pauper Apprentices

Chapter 11 Family Allocation Strategy in the Late Nineteenth Century

Chapter 12 Child Labor and Industrialization in Early Republican Turkey

Chapter 13 Orphans, Widows, and the Economics of the Early Church

Chapter 14 An Economic Approach to Religious Communes: The Shakers

Chapter 15 Religion, Human Capital, and Economic Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Hesse-Cassel

Chapter 16 Productivity, Mortality, and Technology in European and US Coal Mining, 1800–1913

Chapter 17 Breathing Apparatus for Mine Rescue in the UK, 1890s–1920s

Chapter 18 Grain Market Integration in Late Colonial Mexico

Chapter 19 William McKinley, Optimal Reneging, and the Spanish-American War

Chapter 20 Capitalism and the Good Society: The Original Case for and Against Commerce

Chapter 21 Situating Southern Influences in James M. Buchanan and Modern Public Choice Economics

Chapter 22 John Murray: A Teacher, a Mentor, and a Friend