Standard of Living: Essays on Economics, History, and Religion in Honor of John E. Murray

Urbanization, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Progressive Era, 1899-1929 -- The Continuing Puzzle of Hypertension among African Americans: Developmental Origins and the Mid-century Socioeconomic Transformation -- Health and Safety vs. Freedom of Contract: The Tortured Path of Wage and Hours Limits Through the State Legislatures and the Courts -- Sickness Experience in England, 1870-1949 -- Friendly societies and sickness coverage in the absence of state provision in Spain (1870-1935) -- A difficult consensus: the making of the Spanish welfare state -- The Effect of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on U.S. Life Insurance Holdings -- ‘Theft of Oneself’: Runaway Servants in Early Maryland—Deterrence, Punishment, and Apprehension -- Adult Guardianship and Local Politics in Rhode Island, 1750-1800 -- Later-life realizations of Maryland’s mid-nineteenth-century pauper apprentices -- Family Allocation Strategy in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Child Labor and Industrialization in Early Republican Turkey -- Orphans, Widows, and the Economics of the Early Church -- An Economic Approach to Religious Communes: The Shakers -- Religion, Human Capital, and Economic Diversity in 19th Century Hesse-Cassel -- Productivity, Mortality, and Technology in European and US Coal Mining, 1800-1913 -- Breathing Apparatus for Mine Rescue in the UK, 1890s - 1920s -- Grain Market Integration in Late Colonial Mexico -- "William McKinley, Optimal Reneging, and the Spanish-American War" -- Capitalism and the Good Society: The Original Case for and against Commerce -- Situating Southern Influences in James M. Buchanan and Modern Public Choice Economics -- Index.