Does the past have useful economics? / Donald N. McCloskey -- An economic interpretation of the American Revolution / Marc Egnal and Joseph A. Ernst -- The market and Massachusetts farmers, 1750-1855 / Winifred B. Rothenberg -- The rise and fall of indentured servitude in the Americas : an economic analysis / David W. Galenson -- The anatomy of exploitation / Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman -- Slavery : the progressive institution / Paul A. David and Peter Temin -- Explaining the relative efficiency of slave agriculture in the antebellum South / Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman -- The trap of debt peonage / Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch -- The economic revolution in the American South / Gavin Wright -- The railroads : the first modern business enterprises, 1850s-1860s / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. -- Notes on the social saving controversy / Robert W. Fogel -- Industrial structure and the emergence of the modern industrial corporation / Jeremy Atack -- The origins of American industrial success, 1879-1940 / Gavin Wright -- Federal policy, banking market structure, and capital mobilization in the United States, 1863-1913 / Richard Sylla -- A reappraisal of the causes of farm protest in the United States, 1870-1900 / Anne Mayhew -- The 'Wizard of Oz' as a monetary allegory / Hugh Rockoff -- The changing economic role of women : a quantitative approach / Claudia Goldin -- Factors accounting for changes in the stock of money / Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz -- The fall in the demand for money / Peter Temin