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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition -- Conceptual Preface -- Part I: Household, Clan, Village and Manor (The Agrarian Organisation) -- 1 Agrarian Organisation and the Problem of Agrarian Communism -- 2 Appropriation and Verband - The Clan -- 3 The Economic Development of Seignoral Property -- 4 Internal Development of Manorial Rule -- 5 The Situation of the Peasantry in Various Occidental Countries before the Penetration of Capitalism -- 6 The Capitalistic Development of the Manor -- Part II: Industry and Mining before the Development of Capitalism -- 7 Principal Forms of Industrial Organization -- 8 Developmental Stages of Industry and Mining -- 9 Craft Guilds -- 10 The Emergence of Occidental Guilds -- 11 The Disintegration of the Guilds and the Development of the Domestic System -- 12 Workshop Production. The Factory and its Forerunners -- 13 Mining Prior to Capitalist Development -- Part III: Commerce in Goods and Money in the Precapitalist Era -- 14 The Origins and Development of Trade -- 15 Technical Preconditions for the Carriage of Goods -- 16 The Organizational Forms of Trade and Transport -- 17 Trading and Forms of Economic Enterprise -- 18 Merchant Guilds -- 19 Money and Monetary History -- 20 Money and Banking in the Precapitalist Era -- 21 Interest in the Precapitalist Period -- Part IV: The Emergence of Modern Capitalism -- 22 The Concept and Presuppositions of Capitalism -- 23 The External Features of Capitalist Development -- 24 The First Major Speculative Crises -- 25 Free Wholesale Trade -- 26 Colonial Policy from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century -- 27 The Development of Industrial Technology -- 28 Citizenship -- 29 The Rational State -- 30 The Conditions for Capitalist Development.

In this paper, I will discuss three classic problems in economic history. I label them "classic" because they are problems of general interest that share the central characteristic of classic problems: an extensive literature has not led to general agreement. They are taken from the literature on the history of the United States because of the wealth of data and secondary material on this country's history, but they all have their analogues or reflections in European history. They are the problems of labor scarcity in America, the depression of the 1930's (which Americans call the Great Depression), and the deflation of the late nineteenth century (which the British call the Great Depression).