Roger L Ransom
Biographic Data
| ID | 971342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger L Ransom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger L |
| FAMILY NAME | Ransom |
| SIGNATURE | RANSOM R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Imperial Wars in the Modern Era: The Struggling for Territory
The East India Company and the British Empire
Closing
Confidence, Fear, and a Propensity to Gamble: The Puzzle of War and Economics in an Age of Catastrophe 1914–45
This paper uses the notion of animal spirits introduced by John Maynard Keynes in the General Theory, and more recently employed by George Akerloff and Robert Shiller in their book Animal Spirits, to explain the speculative bubbles and decisions for war from 1914 to 1945. Animal spirits are a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction that produces decisions that are not bounded by rational calculations. My analysis shows how confidence, fea…
One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
War and Cliometrics: Adventures in Economic History
The theme of the 2005 annual meetings of the Economic History Association has beenWar and Economic History: Causes, Costs and Consequences. In this essay I will address this theme by briefly examining the ways in which cliometricians have viewed one particular conflict-The American Civil War-over the past four decades. The first part of my essay deals with the attack, which began at the end of the 1950s, mounted by a group of "New Economic Histor…
One Kind of Freedom: Reconsidered (and Turbo Charged)
Economics
Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation, and the American Civil War
The Historical Labor Statistics Project at the University of California
Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation, and the American Civil War
No series of events has had a more dramatic impact on the course of American history than the Civil War and the emancipation of four million black slaves. In this book Professor Roger Ransom examines the economic and political factors that led to the attempt by Southerners to dissolve the Union in 1860, and the equally determined effort of Northerners to preserve it. Drawing on recent research in economic, political, and social history, Ransom ar…
Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation, and the American Civil War
Conflict and Compromise: The Political Ecomomy of Slavery, Emancipation, and the American Civil War
The Trend in the Rate of Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1870–1930: A Reply to Moen
In the 1986 volume of this JOURNAL we discussed the frequency of retirement and downward occupational mobility (on-the-job retirement) of older men in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. 1 As we noted, study of retirement in the years before World War II is hampered by the lack of data on the labor force status of individuals. Indeed, until the concept of “gainful employment” was replaced by that of the “labor force” in 1940, …
Tontine Insurance and the Armstrong Investigation: A Case of Stifled Innovation, 1868–1905
Tontine insurance, introduced in 1868, combined the features of life insurance with an unusual old-age saving plan. A portion of the annual premium was accumulated in a fund that was divided among the surviving policyholders after twenty years. By 1905, two-thirds of all life insurance in force was of this type. Despite consumer appeal, sales of tontine policies were prohibited in 1906 after the Armstrong Investigation charged the tontine busines…
The Labor of Older Americans: Retirement of Men On and Off the Job, 1870–1937
Labor force participation rates for American men sixty and over are estimated for the period 1870 through 1937. They suggest a higher frequency of retirement and quite different trends in the incidence of retirement than have usually been supposed. Evidence is also presented to establish that many older industrial workers changed to less renumerative and less demanding occupations late in their working life. This “on-the-job retirement” may have …
Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy
Journal Article Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy. By Eric Foner. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. xiii + 142 pp. Maps, notes, and index. $14.95.) Get access Roger Ransom Roger Ransom University of California, Riverside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 1, June 1984, Pages 137–138, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899875 Published: 01 …
Class and Inequality: Measuring the Impact of Industrial Capitalism in North America
Explorations in the New Economic History: Essays in Honor of Douglass C. North
A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industralization in the Slave Economy
After Slavery: Black Labour and the Postwar Southern Economy
The Uncommon Market: Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Race, Class, and Poverty in the Post-Civil War South
One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
The Labor of Older Americans: Retirement of Men On and Off the Job, 1870–1937
Labor force participation rates for American men sixty and over are estimated for the period 1870 through 1937. They suggest a higher frequency of retirement and quite different trends in the incidence of retirement than have usually been supposed. Evidence is also presented to establish that many older industrial workers changed to less renumerative and less demanding occupations late in their working life. This “on-the-job retirement” may have …
Debt Peonage in the Cotton South After the Civil War
This condition of affairs in the South introduced a vast credit system whose tremendous evils and exorbitant exactions have brought poverty and bankruptcy to thousands of families. As a policy, it is vindictive in its subtle sophistry; as a system, it has crushed out all independence and reduced its victims to a coarse species of servile slavery
The impact of the Civil War and of emancipation on Southern agriculture
Tontine Insurance and the Armstrong Investigation: A Case of Stifled Innovation, 1868–1905
Tontine insurance, introduced in 1868, combined the features of life insurance with an unusual old-age saving plan. A portion of the annual premium was accumulated in a fund that was divided among the surviving policyholders after twenty years. By 1905, two-thirds of all life insurance in force was of this type. Despite consumer appeal, sales of tontine policies were prohibited in 1906 after the Armstrong Investigation charged the tontine busines…
Credit merchandising in the post-emancipation south: Structure, conduct, and performance
The Trend in the Rate of Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1870–1930: A Reply to Moen
In the 1986 volume of this JOURNAL we discussed the frequency of retirement and downward occupational mobility (on-the-job retirement) of older men in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. 1 As we noted, study of retirement in the years before World War II is hampered by the lack of data on the labor force status of individuals. Indeed, until the concept of “gainful employment” was replaced by that of the “labor force” in 1940, …
The Ex-Slave in the Post-Bellum South: A Study of the Economic Impact of Racism in a Market Environment
Immediately after the Civil War, southern landowners attempted to preserve the plantation system by offering to hire the newly freed ex-slaves on an annual contract for wages. However, serious problems soon developed. Foremost among these were difficulties engendered by views of white landlords and white overseers regarding the performance of the free black labor. Because they insisted that blacks were incapable of working productively without st…
British Policy and Colonial Growth: Some Implications of the Burden from the Navigation Acts
Very few issues in American economic history have stirred as many contrasting views as the debate regarding the effects of the British Navigation Acts on the Thirteen American Colonies. The most recent entry in the long argument is Robert Thomas' analysis of the problem. Thomas constructs quantitative estimates of the impact of the Acts which are designed “... to measure, relative to some hypothetical alternative, the extent of the burdens and be…
One Kind of Freedom: Reconsidered (and Turbo Charged)
Growth and welfare in the American South of the nineteenth century
A closer look at canals and western manufacturing
War and Cliometrics: Adventures in Economic History
The theme of the 2005 annual meetings of the Economic History Association has beenWar and Economic History: Causes, Costs and Consequences. In this essay I will address this theme by briefly examining the ways in which cliometricians have viewed one particular conflict-The American Civil War-over the past four decades. The first part of my essay deals with the attack, which began at the end of the 1950s, mounted by a group of "New Economic Histor…
The Historical Labor Statistics Project at the University of California
A rebuttal
Social Returns from Public Transport Investment: A Case Study of the Ohio Canal
British Policy and Colonial Growth: Some Implications of the Burden from the Navigation Acts
Very few issues in American economic history have stirred as many contrasting views as the debate regarding the effects of the British Navigation Acts on the Thirteen American Colonies. The most recent entry in the long argument is Robert Thomas' analysis of the problem. Thomas constructs quantitative estimates of the impact of the Acts which are designed “... to measure, relative to some hypothetical alternative, the extent of the burdens and be…
Social Returns from Public Transport Investment: A Case Study of the Ohio Canal
The National Waterway
A rebuttal
A closer look at canals and western manufacturing
Debt Peonage in the Cotton South After the Civil War
This condition of affairs in the South introduced a vast credit system whose tremendous evils and exorbitant exactions have brought poverty and bankruptcy to thousands of families. As a policy, it is vindictive in its subtle sophistry; as a system, it has crushed out all independence and reduced its victims to a coarse species of servile slavery
The Ex-Slave in the Post-Bellum South: A Study of the Economic Impact of Racism in a Market Environment
Immediately after the Civil War, southern landowners attempted to preserve the plantation system by offering to hire the newly freed ex-slaves on an annual contract for wages. However, serious problems soon developed. Foremost among these were difficulties engendered by views of white landlords and white overseers regarding the performance of the free black labor. Because they insisted that blacks were incapable of working productively without st…
The impact of the Civil War and of emancipation on Southern agriculture
Race, Class, and Poverty in the Post-Civil War South
One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
Growth and welfare in the American South of the nineteenth century
Credit merchandising in the post-emancipation south: Structure, conduct, and performance
One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
The Uncommon Market: Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic Slave Trade
After Slavery: Black Labour and the Postwar Southern Economy
A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industralization in the Slave Economy
Class and Inequality: Measuring the Impact of Industrial Capitalism in North America
Explorations in the New Economic History: Essays in Honor of Douglass C. North
Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy
Journal Article Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy. By Eric Foner. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. xiii + 142 pp. Maps, notes, and index. $14.95.) Get access Roger Ransom Roger Ransom University of California, Riverside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 1, June 1984, Pages 137–138, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899875 Published: 01 …
The Labor of Older Americans: Retirement of Men On and Off the Job, 1870–1937
Labor force participation rates for American men sixty and over are estimated for the period 1870 through 1937. They suggest a higher frequency of retirement and quite different trends in the incidence of retirement than have usually been supposed. Evidence is also presented to establish that many older industrial workers changed to less renumerative and less demanding occupations late in their working life. This “on-the-job retirement” may have …
Tontine Insurance and the Armstrong Investigation: A Case of Stifled Innovation, 1868–1905
Tontine insurance, introduced in 1868, combined the features of life insurance with an unusual old-age saving plan. A portion of the annual premium was accumulated in a fund that was divided among the surviving policyholders after twenty years. By 1905, two-thirds of all life insurance in force was of this type. Despite consumer appeal, sales of tontine policies were prohibited in 1906 after the Armstrong Investigation charged the tontine busines…
The Trend in the Rate of Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1870–1930: A Reply to Moen
In the 1986 volume of this JOURNAL we discussed the frequency of retirement and downward occupational mobility (on-the-job retirement) of older men in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. 1 As we noted, study of retirement in the years before World War II is hampered by the lack of data on the labor force status of individuals. Indeed, until the concept of “gainful employment” was replaced by that of the “labor force” in 1940, …
Conflict and Compromise: The Political Ecomomy of Slavery, Emancipation, and the American Civil War
The Historical Labor Statistics Project at the University of California
Political science (26 works) · Economics (24 works) · Law (21 works) · Politics (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Emancipation (11 works) · Spanish Civil War (11 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (8 works) · Political economy (8 works)