Using records of individual depositors' accounts, this article provides a detailed microeconomic analysis of two banking panics. The panics of 1854 and 1857 were not characterized by an immediate mass ...

Economica, New Series, Vol. 62, No. 246 (May, 1995), pp. 235-246 (12 pages) This is an economic analysis of the determinants of the crime rate in England and Wales during 1857-92. In this period the ...