Geography

Articles directly discussed in lecture

Crafts, Nicholas and Abay Mulatu, “What explains the location of industry in Britain, 1871–1931?” Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 5 (2005), pp. 499-518.

Davis, Donald and David Weinstein, "Bones, Bombs, and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity," American Economic Review, vol. 92, no. 5 (Dec. 2002), pp. 1269-89.

Martinez-Galarraga, Julio, "The determinants of industrial location in Spain, 1856Ð1929," Explorations in Economic History, vol. 49 (2012), pp. 255-75.

Wolf, Nikolaus, “Was Germany Ever United? Evidence from Intra- and International Trade, 1885-1933,” Journal of Economic History, vol. 69 no. 3 (2009), pp. 846-81.


Additional sources used in preparing the lecture

Breinlich, Holger, Gianmarco Ottaviano, and Jonathan Temple, “Regional Growth and Regional Decline,” Ch. 4 in Handbook of Economic Growth, vol. 2, Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf, eds. (Oxford: North Holland / Elsevier, 2014), pp. 683-779.

Crafts, Nicholas, “Market potential in British regions, 1871-1931,” Regional Studies, vol. 39 no. 9 (2005), pp. 1159-66.

Crafts, Nicholas and Abay Mulatu, “How Did the Location of Industry Respond to Falling Transport Costs in Britain Before World War I?” Journal of Economic History, vol. 66 no. 3 (2006), pp. 575-607.

de Vries, Jan. European Urbanization 1500-1800. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Geary, Frank, and Tom Stark, “Regional GDP in the UK, 1861-1911: new estimates,” Economic History Review, vol. 68 no. 1 (2015), pp. 123-44.

Geary, Frank, and Tom Stark, “What happened to regional inequality in Britain in the twentieth century?” Economic History Review, vol. 69 no. 1 (2016), pp. 215-28.

Gutberlet, Teresa, “Mechanization and the spatial distribution of industries in the German Empire, 1875 to 1907,” Economic History Review, vol. 67 no. 2 (2014), pp. 463-91.

Hornung, Erik,”Railroads and Growth in Prussia,” Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 13 no. 4 (2015), pp. 699-736.

Kim, Sukkoo, and Robert Margo, “Historical Perspectives on U.S. Economic Geography,” Ch. 66 in Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, vol. 4, J. Vernon Henderson and Jacques-Francois Thisse, eds. (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004), pp. 2981-3019.

Martínez Galarraga, Julio, Joan Roses, and Daniel Tirado, “The Long-Term Patterns of Regional Income Inequality in Spain, 1860–2000,” Regional Studies, vol. 49 no. 4 (2015), pp. 502-17.

Mitchener, Kris, and Ian McLean, “U.S. Regional Growth and Convergence, 1880-1980,” Journal of Economic History, vol. 59 no. 4 (1999), pp. 1016-42.

Mitchener, Kris, and Ian McLean, “The Productivity of US States since 1880,” Journal of Economic Growth, vol. 8 (2003), pp. 73-114.

Roses, Joan, Julio Martínez Galarraga, and Daniel Tirado, “The upswing of regional inequality in Spain,” Explorations in Economic History, vol. 47 (2010), pp. 244-57.

Roses, Joan, M. Teresa Sanchis Llopis, and Alfonso Díez Minguela, “Regional Inequality in France: the Dynamic Role of Structural Change, 1860-2010,” unpublished ms.

Roses, J. and N. Wolf, "Regional Economic Development in Europe, 1900-2010: A Description of the Patterns," CEPR Discussion Paper 12749, Feb. 2018. (A chapter from their 2018 book with Routledge, available online via computers physically in the Bodleian.)
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