John Singleton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 87825 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Singleton |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Singleton |
| FIRMA | SINGLETON J |
| AFILIACIONES | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9286-5559 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 78 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1967 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Education Governance and Race
Media accounts suggest that American school board meetings have transformed from bureaucratic affairs into arenas of conflict, particularly around race. Yet systematic evidence remains limited. Analyzing over 40,000 meeting minutes from 2018 to 2022, we examine the prevalence and predictors of race-related discourse. Using large language models and natural language processing, we find that race-related content appears in 24% of meetings, predomin…
Economics Is Not a Man's Field
This article examines the first gender reckoning in economics, focusing on the establishment and early activities of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP). Drawing on materials in the hitherto closed archives of the AEA, we explore how CSWEP's mission to improve the representation and status of women in economics was linked to how economists understood women's role in the economy. The article concludes by reflec…
Dancing in the halls of the rich’? Fatal mine explosions and pro-employer bias in the UK mining inspectorate, 1870-1900
Did government mines inspectors in late Victorian Britain display overt bias towards employers when assigning blame for fatal underground explosions? Inspectors were closer to managers and coal owners than they were to miners or mine supervisors in terms of status, background, and engineering experience. That inspectors had more in common with management could have led to favouritism or regulatory capture, as was suggested at the time by miners a…
Going Up in Smoke
This article examines the Attlee government's performance as a crisis manager in relation to tobacco policy in the years prior to the publication in 1950 of research linking smoking and cancer. Health concerns played no role in tobacco policy before 1950, and the government hoped more teenagers would take up smoking and pay tobacco duty. Tobacco took on added significance as an economic issue because policy-makers had so little room for manoeuvre…
Origins of disaster management
Disaster management is a neglected area of British business history. Industrial disasters led to significant loss of life and imposed considerable costs on firms involved. This article examines the emergence of a network of mine rescue stations across UK coalfields in the early twentieth century, making use of previously overlooked records of mine rescue station boards. Pioneering mine rescue stations were established in Yorkshire at coalowners’ …
Women and Economics
This essay is the introduction to the 2022 supplemental issue of History of Political Economy, titled Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives. We first reflect on the historiography of economics and the relative absence of women and gender in the mainstream of the field. Three approaches to the history of women and economics are delineated: making visible women economists, outlining the impact of including women in a broader narrative ab…
Mimesis, Scapegoating and Financial Crises
René Girard's pathbreaking work, especially on mimetic (imitative) thought and behavior, can be used to reinforce Marxist explanations of financial crisis. Yet Girard's concept of the scapegoat mechanism is less applicable to the modern world, and failure to recognize this can lead to confusion. A prime example is the contribution of the neo-Marxist scholar Henri Guénin-Paracini and his co-authors, who hold that the same mechanism Girard identifi…
Inflation and the Making of Australian Macroeconomic Policy, 1945–85
Inflation and the Making of Australian Macroeconomic Policy, 1945–85." Australian Historical Studies, 48(1), pp. 144–145
The Empirical Economist's Toolkit
While historians of economics have noted the transition toward empirical work in economics since the 1970s, less understood is the shift toward "quasi-experimental" methods in applied microeconomics. Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke trumpet the wide application of these methods as a "credibility revolution" in econometrics that has finally provided persuasive answers to a diverse set of questions. Particularly influential in the applied…
Labour, Industrial Revitalization, and the Financial Sector, 1970–79
Financialization is a process often viewed askance, not least on the left of British politics. Yet in the 1970s elements of the left wing of the Labour Party developed the idea that financialization, in the form of growing middle- and working-class contributions to life insurance and occupational pensions, also offered an opportunity. With deindustrialization setting in, the Labour Left argued for the nationalization of banks and insurance compan…
Sorting Charles Tiebout
A substantial and diverse literature in economics traces its intellectual roots to Charles Tiebout's 1956 article, "The Pure Theory of Local Expenditure." Its present recognition-frequently attributed to originating the idea of "voting with your feet"-contrasts sharply with its obscurity during Tiebout's academic career, which was tragically cut short by his passing in 1968. Penned as a qualification to Paul Samuelson's "pure theory," the article…
The shift from sterling to the dollar, 1965-76
The management of foreign exchange reserves has recently attracted attention from both policy-makers and historians. Historical research has focussed on the nineteenth century and the interwar period, with less attention to the strategies of smaller countries in the final transition from sterling to the dollar in the post-1945 period. This article examines the evolution of reserve currency policy from the perspective ofAustralia andNewZealand in …
Clearing the Cupboard
This essay conceptualizes and historically documents a negle cted trade association function: legitimacy-seeking. It uses the Committee of London Clearing Bankers case to show how an association can, by using manipulative public relations techniques, fulfil that function for its members. To the circumstances that prevent rent-seeking associations from becoming industry level efficiency enhancers, the essay adds a new factor—a political legitimacy…
Re-storying bankers
Whittle and Mueller's discursive psychological analysis of banker storying during the recent British Treasury Select Committee hearings is the latest twist in the financial crisis storytelling genre. Although Whittle and Mueller focus on storytellers' use of classically derived story tropes, they otherwise pay scant attention to how history enters into stories in which bankers are blamed for economic turmoil. The current paper moves beyond their …
Unsettled Account
The United States and the Malaysian Economy - By Shakila Yacob
Basket Pegs and Exchange Rate Regime Change
The adoption of a basket peg by China in July 2005 raised interest in this form of exchange rate regime. This paper explores the emergence of the basket peg in the early 1970s, using New Zealand and Australia as case studies to examine why it was adopted, how it operated, and their policy-makers' use of it to influence various goals. We highlight the complexity of regime choice following the collapse of Bretton Woods. For Australia and New Zealan…
Money Is a Sterile Thing
In the history of economic thought, Martin Luther is frequently identified with medieval Scholastic doctrine. His belief that "money is sterile" is offered in support of this assessment. However, this obscures the fact that Luther rarely invokes this line of reasoning in his writings on usury and that his argument for its immorality is not dependent upon the proposition. These facts, which differentiate Luther from the Scholastic writers, are con…
Buffett
Roger Lowenstein , Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist . Melbourne : Scribe , 2008 . 432 pp. ISBN : 9781921372490 . Paperback A$35 . It was disappointing to discover that this is a reprint of a book first published in 1995 and that its contents have not been updated to include Warren Buffett's career over the last (almost) two decades. Not having read this book when it first came out, however, I did find much in it to interest me. Lowen…
The spinning world
The spinning world: a global history of cotton textiles, 1200–1850, edited by Giorgio Riello and Prasannan Parthasarathi, Oxford, Oxford University Press for Pasold Research Fund, 2009, xiii + 489
Regulation, deregulation, and internationalisation in South African and New Zealand banking
The banking industries of New Zealand and South Africa were among the most tightly regulated in the western world in the early 1980s. Restrictions on foreign banks were particularly acute, especially in South Africa. From a position of considerable isolation, first New Zealand then South Africa implemented programmes of financial liberalisation. We show that the outcome of liberalisation was different in these two countries. South African banks w…
Fiscal Policy and Management in East Asia
The Euromarkets and the New Zealand Government in the 1960s
The rapid development of the Euromarkets and the more gradual opening of the West German and other capital markets to external borrowers were significant events in the reglobalisation of financial markets beginning in the 1960s. Finding it increasingly difficult to borrow in the domestic British and US capital markets, the New Zealand government sought to take advantage of the Euromarkets. As well as providing an antipodean perspective on the ear…
Centres and Peripheries in Banking
Architectural space and the imagination
In recent years, social, cultural, and literary questions of “space” have been the focus of a great deal of critical attention. Architectural Space and the Imagination: Houses in Literature and Art
The Empirical Economist's Toolkit
While historians of economics have noted the transition toward empirical work in economics since the 1970s, less understood is the shift toward "quasi-experimental" methods in applied microeconomics. Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke trumpet the wide application of these methods as a "credibility revolution" in econometrics that has finally provided persuasive answers to a diverse set of questions. Particularly influential in the applied…
Regulation, deregulation, and internationalisation in South African and New Zealand banking
The banking industries of New Zealand and South Africa were among the most tightly regulated in the western world in the early 1980s. Restrictions on foreign banks were particularly acute, especially in South Africa. From a position of considerable isolation, first New Zealand then South Africa implemented programmes of financial liberalisation. We show that the outcome of liberalisation was different in these two countries. South African banks w…
Lancashire's Last Stand
After a brief respite during the 1940s the secular decline of the British cotton industry resumed its course. This article seeks, by the application of an accounting procedure, to estimate the relative contributions of falling exports, rising imports, dwindling home demand, and increasing labour productivity to the decline in employment in cotton between 1950 and 1970. It concludes that the significance of each of these factors, as an immediate c…
Women and Economics
This essay is the introduction to the 2022 supplemental issue of History of Political Economy, titled Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives. We first reflect on the historiography of economics and the relative absence of women and gender in the mainstream of the field. Three approaches to the history of women and economics are delineated: making visible women economists, outlining the impact of including women in a broader narrative ab…
Clearing the Cupboard
This essay conceptualizes and historically documents a negle cted trade association function: legitimacy-seeking. It uses the Committee of London Clearing Bankers case to show how an association can, by using manipulative public relations techniques, fulfil that function for its members. To the circumstances that prevent rent-seeking associations from becoming industry level efficiency enhancers, the essay adds a new factor—a political legitimacy…
Britain's Military Use of Horses 1914-1918
Between 1914 and 1918 the success of the British war effort was heavily dependent on the horse. Warfare in the early twentieth century employed horses at least as intensively as did the economy in peacetime. As war became more capital-intensive, an increasing burden was placed on the military transport services. Motorized transport was somewhat more reliable than it had been at the start of the century, but there was still an urgent demand for la…
Showing the White Flag
Women Workers in the Second World War
Origins of the AEQ
Sorting Charles Tiebout
A substantial and diverse literature in economics traces its intellectual roots to Charles Tiebout's 1956 article, "The Pure Theory of Local Expenditure." Its present recognition-frequently attributed to originating the idea of "voting with your feet"-contrasts sharply with its obscurity during Tiebout's academic career, which was tragically cut short by his passing in 1968. Penned as a qualification to Paul Samuelson's "pure theory," the article…
The shift from sterling to the dollar, 1965-76
The management of foreign exchange reserves has recently attracted attention from both policy-makers and historians. Historical research has focussed on the nineteenth century and the interwar period, with less attention to the strategies of smaller countries in the final transition from sterling to the dollar in the post-1945 period. This article examines the evolution of reserve currency policy from the perspective ofAustralia andNewZealand in …
Learning in Likely Places
Britain, Butter, and European Integration, 1957–1964
Access to the British butter market was an important issue during British negotiations with continental Europe in the early 1960s. Commonwealth producers enjoyed preferential treatment under the terms of the Ottawa Agreement, and butter exports were of particular importance to New Zealand. This article explains how Britain attempted to safeguard New Zealand's trade while conforming to Europe's agricultural policy. When British/European negotiatio…
Money Is a Sterile Thing
In the history of economic thought, Martin Luther is frequently identified with medieval Scholastic doctrine. His belief that "money is sterile" is offered in support of this assessment. However, this obscures the fact that Luther rarely invokes this line of reasoning in his writings on usury and that his argument for its immorality is not dependent upon the proposition. These facts, which differentiate Luther from the Scholastic writers, are con…
The Political Economy of Nationalisation in Britain, 1920-1950
Planning for cotton 1945-19511
Dancing in the halls of the rich’? Fatal mine explosions and pro-employer bias in the UK mining inspectorate, 1870-1900
Did government mines inspectors in late Victorian Britain display overt bias towards employers when assigning blame for fatal underground explosions? Inspectors were closer to managers and coal owners than they were to miners or mine supervisors in terms of status, background, and engineering experience. That inspectors had more in common with management could have led to favouritism or regulatory capture, as was suggested at the time by miners a…
Re-storying bankers
Whittle and Mueller's discursive psychological analysis of banker storying during the recent British Treasury Select Committee hearings is the latest twist in the financial crisis storytelling genre. Although Whittle and Mueller focus on storytellers' use of classically derived story tropes, they otherwise pay scant attention to how history enters into stories in which bankers are blamed for economic turmoil. The current paper moves beyond their …
Reflecting on the Reflections
Planning for Cotton, 1945-1951
This paper examines the relationship between the government and the cotton industry in Britain during the 1940s. It argues that governmental attempts to change the structure of the industry and stimulate investment failed because Lancashire had no confidence in its ability to face low wage competition under any circumstances. This did not imply that the industry's leaders were incompetent - on the contrary they had formed the correct interpretati…
Urban-rural comparisons in Japanese education
Cae and the Aaa
President's Report
Cae
Other
Linguistic Institute to Deal With Time, Space
Sturtevant, Smithsonian Institution, is chairman of the program which will bring anthropologists from institutions throughout the country to speak on such topics as methodology in the study of potsherds, historical change in design elements, structural analysis of architecture and women's dress among Indians of the southern Plains
Education as a cultural process
John Collier, Jr. Alaskan Eskimo Education: A Film Analysis of Cultural Confrontation in the Schools. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. v + 130 pp. Illustrations, index and bibliography. $2.75 (paper). Nancy Modiano. Indian Education in the Chiapas Highlands. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. 128 pp. Illustrations and index. $2.75 (paper). Harry F. Wolcott. The Man in the Principal's Office: An Ethnography. New York: Holt, Rin…
Ethnology
Education and Equality in Japan
In Memoriam
Teaching Fieldwork to Educational Researchers
On Editorial Succession and Academic Orthodoxy
Applied
Origins of the AEQ
Lancashire's Last Stand
After a brief respite during the 1940s the secular decline of the British cotton industry resumed its course. This article seeks, by the application of an accounting procedure, to estimate the relative contributions of falling exports, rising imports, dwindling home demand, and increasing labour productivity to the decline in employment in cotton between 1950 and 1970. It concludes that the significance of each of these factors, as an immediate c…
A Time of Gathering
Journal Article “A Time of Gathering: Native Heritage in Washington State.” Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington, Seventeenth Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98195 Get access John Singleton John Singleton University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 943–949, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078993 Published: 0…
Showing the White Flag
Planning for Cotton, 1945-1951
This paper examines the relationship between the government and the cotton industry in Britain during the 1940s. It argues that governmental attempts to change the structure of the industry and stimulate investment failed because Lancashire had no confidence in its ability to face low wage competition under any circumstances. This did not imply that the industry's leaders were incompetent - on the contrary they had formed the correct interpretati…
Planning for cotton 1945-19511
Women Workers in the Second World War
The crisis in postwar Lancashire
am grateful to Jim Tomlinson for his thoughtful criticism of my work on the postwar cotton textile industry. His main contention is that the decline of the British cotton industry during the I950s and i96os would not have been so calamitous if the employers had been sensible enough to reequip their mills in the late I940s, when profits were high and government investment grants were available. Tomlinson argues that other west European cotton indu…
The Virgin Mary and Religious Conflict in Victorian Britain
The Virgin Mary was a powerful and evocative figure around whom the competing religious parties of Victorian Britain arrayed their forces. She was at the forefront of controversy whenever Scottish and English Protestants clashed with Irish Catholics, and whenever evangelicals attempted to purge the Church of England of ritualism. Roman Catholic leaders placed the cult of the Virgin at the centre of their campaign to evangelise Britain after 1840.…
The Power to Manage
The Passing of Barchester
The struggle for market power
The struggle for market power: Industrial relations in the British coal industry, 1800–1840." History of European Ideas, 17(2-3), p. 383
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