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Thomas Weiss

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First Name:Thomas
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Last Name:Weiss
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RePEc Short-ID:pwe260
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Terminal Degree:1967 Department of Economics; University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

(60%) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
http://www.nber.org/
RePEc:edi:nberrus (more details at EDIRC)

(10%) CESifo

München, Germany
https://www.cesifo.org/
RePEc:edi:cesifde (more details at EDIRC)

(30%) Department of Economics
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas (United States)
http://economics.ku.edu/
RePEc:edi:deuksus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Lee A. Craig & Julianne Treme & Thomas J. Weiss, 2021. "Licence to Dine: 007 and the Real Exchange Rate," NBER Working Papers 29415, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Brandon Dupont & Drew Keeling & Thomas Weiss, 2016. "First Cabin Fares from New York to the British Isles, 1826-1914," NBER Working Papers 22426, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Joshua L. Rosenbloom & Thomas J. Weiss, 2011. "Economic Growth in the Mid Atlantic Region: Conjectural Estimates for 1720 to 1800," NBER Working Papers 17215, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Brandon Dupont & Alka Gandhi & Thomas Weiss, 2009. "Fluctuations in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820 to 2000," NBER Working Papers 14847, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  5. Brandon Dupont & Alka Gandhi & Thomas J. Weiss, 2008. "The American Invasion of Europe: The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000," NBER Working Papers 13977, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  6. Peter C. Mancall & Joshua L. Rosenbloom & Thomas Weiss, 2008. "The Role of Exports in the Economy of Colonial North America: New Estimates for the Middle Colonies," WORKING PAPERS SERIES IN THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS 200806, University of Kansas, Department of Economics, revised Sep 2008.
  7. Peter Mancall & Joshua Rosenbloom & Thomas J. Weiss, 2008. "Commodity Exports, Invisible Exports and Terms of Trade for the Middle Colonies, 1720 to 1775," NBER Working Papers 14334, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  8. Peter C. Mancall & Joshua Rosenbloom & Thomas Weiss, 2006. "Exports and Slow Economic Growth in the Lower South Region, 1720-1800," NBER Working Papers 12045, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  9. Peter C. Mancall & Joshua L. Rosenbloom & Thomas Weiss, 2001. "Agricultural Labor Productivity in the Lower South, 1720-1800," NBER Working Papers 8375, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  10. Peter C. Mancall & Joshua L. Rosenbloom & Thomas Weiss, 2000. "South Carolina Slave Prices, 1722-1809," NBER Historical Working Papers 0123, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  11. Peter C. Mancall & Joshua L. Rosenbloom & Thomas Weiss, 2000. "Slave Prices in the Lower South, 1722-1815," NBER Historical Working Papers 0120, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  12. Peter C. Mancall & Joshua L. Rosenbloom & Thomas Weiss, 2000. "Conjectural Estimates of Economic Growth in the Lower South, 1720 to 1800," NBER Historical Working Papers 0126, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  13. Michael R. Haines & Lee A. Craig & Thomas Weiss, 2000. "Development, Health, Nutrition, and Mortality: The Case of the 'Antebellum Puzzle' in the United States," NBER Historical Working Papers 0130, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  14. Lee A. Craig & Thomas Weiss, 1997. "Nutritional Status and Agricultural Surpluses in the Antebellum United States," NBER Historical Working Papers 0099, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  15. Thomas Weiss, 1991. "Long Term Changes in U.S. Agricultural Output per Worker, 1800 to 1900," NBER Historical Working Papers 0023, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  16. Thomas Weiss, 1989. "Economic Growth Before 1860: Revised Conjectures," NBER Historical Working Papers 0007, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  17. Thomas Weiss, 1987. "The Farm Labor Force by Region, 1820-1860: Revised Estimates and Implications for Growth," NBER Working Papers 2438, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  18. Raymond B. Palmquist & Lee Craig & Thomas Weiss, "undated". "Transportation Improvements and Land Values in the United States: A Hedonic Approach," Working Paper Series 11, North Carolina State University, Department of Economics.

Articles

  1. Weiss, Thomas, 2020. "Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776–1848. By Lindsay Schakenbach Regele. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. xi, 263. $59.95, cloth," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 80(1), pages 307-308, March.
  2. Weiß, Thomas, 2015. "Sachkapitalrenditen im historischen Vergleich – Deutschland im Abwärtstrend?," WSI-Mitteilungen, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 68(4), pages 280-289.
  3. Rosenbloom, Joshua L. & Weiss, Thomas, 2014. "Economic growth in the Mid-Atlantic region: Conjectural estimates for 1720 to 1800," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 41-59.
  4. Brandon Dupont & Thomas Weiss, 2013. "Variability in overseas travel by Americans, 1820–2000," Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, Association Française de Cliométrie (AFC), vol. 7(3), pages 319-339, September.
  5. Brandon Dupont & Alka Gandhi & Thomas Weiss, 2012. "The long‐term rise in overseas travel by Americans, 1820–2000," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 65(1), pages 144-167, February.
  6. Haines, Michael R. & Craig, Lee A. & Weiss, Thomas, 2011. "Did African Americans experience the [`]Antebellum Puzzle'? Evidence from the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 9(1), pages 45-55, January.
  7. Mancall, Peter C. & Rosenbloom, Joshua L. & Weiss, Thomas, 2006. "Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: A Reply," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 66(4), pages 1066-1071, December.
  8. Weiss, Thomas, 2004. "Tourism in America before World War II," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 64(2), pages 289-327, June.
  9. Haines, Michael R. & Craig, Lee A. & Weiss, Thomas, 2003. "The Short and the Dead: Nutrition, Mortality, and the “Antebellum Puzzle†in the United States," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 63(2), pages 382-413, June.
  10. Mancall, Peter C. & Rosenbloom, Joshua L. & Weiss, Thomas, 2002. "Agricultural labor productivity in the Lower South, 1720-1800," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 39(4), pages 390-424, October.
  11. Mancall, Peter C. & Rosenbloom, Joshua L. & Weiss, Thomas, 2001. "Slave Prices And The South Carolina Economy, 1722–1809," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 61(3), pages 616-639, September.
  12. Mancall, Peter C. & Weiss, Thomas, 1999. "Was Ecomomic Growth Likely in Colonial British North America?," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 59(1), pages 17-40, March.
  13. Craig, Lee A & Palmquist, Raymond B & Weiss, Thomas, 1998. "Transportation Improvements and Land Values in the Antebellum United States: A Hedonic Approach," The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Springer, vol. 16(2), pages 173-189, March.
  14. Weiss, Thomas, 1993. "United States and Canada - From Market-Places to a Market Economy: The Transformation of Rural Massachusetts, 1750–1850. By Winifred Barr Rothenberg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Pp. ," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 53(3), pages 679-680, September.
  15. Thomas Weiss, 1993. "Long-term changes in US agricultural output per worker, 1800-1800," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 46(2), pages 324-341, May.
  16. von Ende, Eleanor & Weiss, Thomas, 1993. "Consumption of Farm Output and Economic Growth in the Old Northwest, 1800–1860," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 53(2), pages 308-318, June.
  17. Craig, Lee A. & Weiss, Thomas, 1993. "Agricultural Productivity Growth During the Decade of the Civil War," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 53(3), pages 527-548, September.
  18. Weiss, Thomas, 1991. "Agriculture and National Development: Views on the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Lou Ferleger. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990. Pp. xxiii, 363. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 51(2), pages 509-511, June.
  19. Weiss, Thomas, 1985. "Labor Force, Employment and Productivity in Historical Perspective. By Michael Darby. Los Angeles: University of California at Los Angeles, Institute of Industrial Relations, 1984. Monograph and Resea," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 45(1), pages 175-176, March.
  20. Weiss, Thomas, 1981. "Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialism in America. By Thomas C. Cochran. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. 179. $15.00," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 41(4), pages 929-931, December.
  21. Atack, Jeremy & Bateman, Fred & Weiss, Thomas, 1980. "The Regional Diffusion and Adoption of the Steam Engine in American Manufacturing," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 40(2), pages 281-308, June.
  22. Weiss, Thomas, 1979. "Coal, Iron and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715–1865. By Ronald L. Lewis. Contributions in Labor History, No. 6. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979. Pp xii, 283. $22.95," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 39(4), pages 1071-1072, December.
  23. Weiss, Thomas, 1978. "The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. By Alfred D. ChandlerJr, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. xv, 608," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 38(3), pages 757-761, September.
  24. Bateman, Fred & Weiss, Thomas, 1975. "Comparative Regional Development in Antebellum Manufacturing," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 35(1), pages 182-208, March.
  25. Bateman, Fred & Weiss, Thomas, 1975. "Market Structure before the Age of Big Business: Concentration and Profit in Early Southern Manufacturing," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 49(3), pages 312-336, October.
  26. Bateman, Fred & Foust, James & Weiss, Thomas, 1975. "Profitability in southern manufacturing: Estimates for 1860," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 12(3), pages 211-231, July.
  27. Ermisch, John & Weiss, Thomas, 1974. "The impact of the rural market on the growth of the urban workforce: United States, 1870-1900," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 11(2), pages 137-153.
  28. Weiss, Thomas, 1972. "The Industrial Distribution of the Urban and Rural Workforces: Estimates for the United States, 1870–1910," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 32(4), pages 919-937, December.
  29. Bateman, Fred & Foust, James D. & Weiss, Thomas J., 1971. "Large-Scale Manufacturing in the South and West, 1850–1860," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 45(1), pages 1-17, April.
  30. Weiss, Thomas, 1971. "Urbanization and the growth of the service workforce," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 8(3), pages 241-258.
  31. Schaefer, Donald & Weiss, Thomas, 1971. "The Use of Simulation Techniques in Historical Analysis: Railroads versus Canals," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 31(4), pages 854-884, December.
  32. Weiss, Thomas, 1968. "United States Transport Advance and Externalities: A Comment," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 28(4), pages 631-634, December.
  33. Weiss, Thomas, 1967. "The Service Sector in the United States, 1839 to 1899," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 27(4), pages 625-628, December.

Chapters

  1. Brandon Dupont & Drew Keeling & Thomas Weiss, 2017. "First Cabin Fares from New York to the British Isles, 1826–1914," Research in Economic History, in: Research in Economic History, volume 33, pages 19-63, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
  2. Peter C. Mancall & Joshua L. Rosenbloom & Thomas Weiss, 2013. "Exports from the Colonies and States of the Middle Atlantic Region 1720–1800," Research in Economic History, in: Research in Economic History, pages 257-305, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
  3. Peter C. Mancall & Joshua L. Rosenbloom & Thomas Weiss, 2007. "Exports and the economy of the Lower South region, 1720–1770," Research in Economic History, in: Research in Economic History, pages 1-68, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
  4. Thomas J. Weiss, 1992. "U. S. Labor Force Estimates and Economic Growth, 1800-1860," NBER Chapters, in: American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War, pages 19-78, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  5. Thomas J. Weiss, 1986. "Revised Estimates of the United States Workforce, 1800-1860," NBER Chapters, in: Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth, pages 641-676, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  6. Robert E. Gallman & Thomas J. Weiss, 1969. "The Service Industries in the Nineteenth Century," NBER Chapters, in: Production and Productivity in the Service Industries, pages 287-381, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 10 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (8) 2000-03-06 2006-02-26 2008-05-17 2008-09-20 2009-04-05 2011-07-27 2016-08-14 2021-11-22. Author is listed
  2. NEP-TUR: Tourism Economics (2) 2008-05-17 2009-04-05
  3. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (1) 2001-10-16
  4. NEP-DEV: Development (1) 2006-02-26
  5. NEP-EEC: European Economics (1) 2021-11-22
  6. NEP-EFF: Efficiency and Productivity (1) 2001-10-22
  7. NEP-INT: International Trade (1) 2008-09-20
  8. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2008-10-07
  9. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (1) 2021-11-22
  10. NEP-MON: Monetary Economics (1) 2021-11-22
  11. NEP-OPM: Open Economy Macroeconomics (1) 2021-11-22
  12. NEP-TRE: Transport Economics (1) 2016-08-14

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