Christopher Hanes has been Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University) since 2003, after teaching at the University of Mississippi and the University of Pennsylvania, and serving as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board. His research primarily focuses on American macroeconomic history. His publications have appeared in journals including American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Economic History, and Explorations in Economic History. He graduated from Yale University and received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.Susan Wolcott, Associate Professor of the Economics Department at Binghamton University, primarily works on issues related to the colonial development of India.  Her publications include “Why Nations Fail,” from the Journal of Economic History, 1999, and “Strikes in Colonial India,” published in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review in 2008.

• Chapter 1. Specializations in Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century: Evolution of Trade Patterns and Growth Model; Léo CharlesChapter 2. Trends and Institutional Sources of Financing Russia’s Human Capital Formation (Late 19th – Early 21st centuries); Dmitry V. DidenkoChapter 3. The Past’s Long Shadow: A Systematic Review and Network Analysis of Economic History; Gregori Galofré-Vilà  Chapter 4. Improving Deflators for Estimating Canadian Economic Growth, 1870–1900; Vincent Geloso and Michael HintonChapter 5. The Political Economy of State-Chartered Banks in Early 20th Century Texas; Linda M. HooksChapter 6. The Antebellum Slave Trade: Numbers and Impact on the Balance of Payments; Lawrence H. Officer and Samuel H. Williamson

Christopher Hanes has been Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University) since 2003, after teaching at the University of Mississippi and the University of Pennsylvania, and serving as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board. His research primarily focuses on American macroeconomic history. His publications have appeared in journals including American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Economic History, and Explorations in Economic History. He graduated from Yale University and received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.Susan Wolcott, Associate Professor of the Economics Department at Binghamton University, primarily works on issues related to the colonial development of India.  Her publications include “Why Nations Fail,” from the Journal of Economic History, 1999, and “Strikes in Colonial India,” published in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review in 2008.

• Chapter 1. Specializations in Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century: Evolution of Trade Patterns and Growth Model; Léo CharlesChapter 2. Trends and Institutional Sources of Financing Russia’s Human Capital Formation (Late 19th – Early 21st centuries); Dmitry V. DidenkoChapter 3. The Past’s Long Shadow: A Systematic Review and Network Analysis of Economic History; Gregori Galofré-Vilà  Chapter 4. Improving Deflators for Estimating Canadian Economic Growth, 1870–1900; Vincent Geloso and Michael HintonChapter 5. The Political Economy of State-Chartered Banks in Early 20th Century Texas; Linda M. HooksChapter 6. The Antebellum Slave Trade: Numbers and Impact on the Balance of Payments; Lawrence H. Officer and Samuel H. Williamson

Christopher Hanes has been Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University) since 2003, after teaching at the University of Mississippi and the University of Pennsylvania, and serving as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board. His research primarily focuses on American macroeconomic history. His publications have appeared in journals including American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Economic History, and Explorations in Economic History. He graduated from Yale University and received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.Susan Wolcott, Associate Professor of the Economics Department at Binghamton University, primarily works on issues related to the colonial development of India.  Her publications include “Why Nations Fail,” from the Journal of Economic History, 1999, and “Strikes in Colonial India,” published in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review in 2008.

• Chapter 1. Specializations in Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century: Evolution of Trade Patterns and Growth Model; Léo CharlesChapter 2. Trends and Institutional Sources of Financing Russia’s Human Capital Formation (Late 19th – Early 21st centuries); Dmitry V. DidenkoChapter 3. The Past’s Long Shadow: A Systematic Review and Network Analysis of Economic History; Gregori Galofré-Vilà  Chapter 4. Improving Deflators for Estimating Canadian Economic Growth, 1870–1900; Vincent Geloso and Michael HintonChapter 5. The Political Economy of State-Chartered Banks in Early 20th Century Texas; Linda M. HooksChapter 6. The Antebellum Slave Trade: Numbers and Impact on the Balance of Payments; Lawrence H. Officer and Samuel H. Williamson