UC Davis Department of Economics



Working Papers

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “Biological Innovation and Productivity
Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy
.”


Fabian Lange, Alan L. Olmstead, and Paul W. Rhode, "The Impact of the Boll Weevil, 1892-1932."


Recent Publications


Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, "Conceptual Issues for the Comparative Study of Agricultural Development," in Pedro Lains and Vicente Pinilla, (eds.), Agriculture and Economic Developement in Europe Since 1870 (London: Rouledge, 2009), pp. 27-51.

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “
Not on My Farm!: Resistance to Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication in the United States,” Journal of Economic History, Sept. 2007, pp. 768-809.

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, "Biological Globalization: The Other Grain Invasion," in Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin O'Rourke, and Alan M. Taylor, (eds.), The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), pp. 115-140.

Alan L. Olmstead (ed.), “Agriculture,” in Susan B. Carter, et al., Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present, Millennial Edition (Cambridge University Press, vol. 4, 2006), pp. 7-273. (also available in an electronic edition)

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “Farms and Farm Structure,” in Susan B. Carter, et al., Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present, Millennial Edition (Cambridge University Press, vol. 4, 2006), pp. 10-15 and 39-88. (also available in an electronic edition)

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “Crops and Livestock,” in Susan B. Carter, et al., Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present, Millennial Edition (Cambridge University Press, vol. 4, 2006), pp. 15-19 and 89-191. (also available in an electronic edition)

Alan L. Olmstead and Daniel A. Sumner, “Farm Policy,” in Susan B. Carter, et al., Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present, Millennial Edition (Cambridge University Press, vol. 4, 2006), pp. 31-38. (also available in an electronic edition)

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “The ‘Tuberculous Cattle Trust’: Disease Contagion in an Era of Regulatory Uncertainty,” Journal of Economic History, Dec. 2004, pp. 929-963.

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “An Impossible Undertaking: The Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis in the United States,” Journal of Economic History, Sept. 2004, pp. 734-772.

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “Biological Innovation in American Wheat Production: Science, Policy, and Environmental Adaptation,” in Susan R. Schrepfer and Philip Scranton (eds.), Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History (Routledge, 2004), pp. 43-84.

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “The Evolution of California Agriculture, 1850-2000,” in Jerome B. Siebert (ed.), California Agriculture: Dimensions and Issues (University of California Press, 2004), pp.1-28.

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “Hog-Round Marketing, Seed Quality, and Government Policy: Institutional Change in U.S. Cotton Production,” 1920–1960,” Journal of Economic History, June 2003, pp. 447-488.

Susana Iranzo, Alan L. Olmstead, and Paul W. Rhode, “Historical Perspectives on Exotic Pests and Diseases in California,” in Daniel A. Sumner (ed.), Exotic Pests and Diseases: Biology and Economics for Biosecurity (Ames, IA: Iowa State Press, 2003), pp. 55-67.

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “The Red Queen and the Hard Reds: Productivity Growth in American Wheat, 1800–1940,” Journal of Economic History, Dec. 2002, pp. 929-966.

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “Reshaping the Landscape: The Impact and Diffusion of the Tractor in American Agriculture,” 1910–1960,” Journal of Economic History, Sept. 2001, pp. 663-698.

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “The Transformation of Northern Agriculture from 1910 to 1990,” in Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman (eds.), Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume III, The Twentieth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 693-742.

José Morilla Critz, Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “International Competition and the Development of the Dried Fruit Industry, 1880-1930,” in Jeffrey G. Williamson and Sevket Pamuk (eds.), The Mediterranean Response to Globalization Before 1950 (Routledge Press, 2000), pp. 199-232.

José Morilla Critz, Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “Horn of Plenty: The Globalization of Mediterranean Horticulture and the Economic Development of Southern Europe, 1880-1930,” Journal of Economic History, June 1999, pp. 316-352.

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “Beyond the Threshold: An Analysis of the Characteristics and Behavior of Early Reaper Adopters," Journal of Economic History, March 1995, pp. 27-57.