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. Most of his research has been in American macroeconomic history. His publications have appeared in journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Economic History, and Explorations in Economic History. He was graduated at Yale University and received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. Associate Professor Susan Wolcott 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 2008.

• Chapter 1. Prices, Wages and the Cost of Living in Old Republic São Paulo: 1891-1930; Molly C. Ball Chapter 2. The forgotten half of finance: working-class saving in late nineteenth-century New Jersey; Howard Bodenhorn Chapter 3. Heights across the last 2000 years in England; Gregori Galofré-Vilà; Andrew Hinde; Aravinda Guntupalli Chapter 4. Monetary Policy and the Copper Price Bust: A Reassessment of the Causes of the 1907 Panic; Mary T. Rodgers; James E. Payne  Chapter 5. Multiple Core Regions: Regional Inequality in Switzerland, 1860 to 2008; Christian Stohr

This volume brings together five articles on the economic history of Europe, North America, and South America, by economics and other researchers from Europe and the US. They discuss prices, wages, and the cost of living in São Paulo, Brazil, from 1891 to 1930; working-class saving in late 19th-century New Jersey; body heights across the last 2,000 years in England and associations with real wages, inequality, food supply, climate change, and expectation of life; the causes of the financial Panic of 1907 in the US; and regional inequality in Switzerland from 1860 to 2008.