Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth /

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These classic studies of the history of economic change in 19th- and 20th-century United States, Canada, and British West Indies examine national product; capital stock and wealth; and fertility, health, and mortality. "A 'must have' in the library of the serious economic historian.&q...

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Otros Autores: Bourne Wahl, Jenny (Contribuidor), Carter, Susan B. (Contribuidor), Dales, J. H. (Contribuidor), David, Paul A. (Contribuidor), Davis, Lance E. (Contribuidor), Engerman, Stanley L. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Fishlow, Albert (Contribuidor), Fogel, Robert William (Contribuidor), Friedman, Gerald (Contribuidor), Gallman, Robert E. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Goldin, Claudia (Contribuidor), Goldsmith, Raymond W. (Contribuidor), Green, Alan G. (Contribuidor), Haines, Michael R. (Contribuidor), Higman, B. W. (Contribuidor), Kearl, J. R. (Contribuidor), Lebergott, Stanley (Contribuidor), Lindert, Peter H. (Contribuidor), McInnis, R. M. (Contribuidor), Newell, William H. (Contribuidor), North, Douglass C. (Contribuidor), Pope, Clayne (Contribuidor), Sanderson, Warren C. (Contribuidor), Sokoloff, Kenneth L. (Contribuidor), Soltow, Lee (Contribuidor), Sylla, Richard (Contribuidor), Urquhart, M. C. (Contribuidor), Wallis, John Joseph (Contribuidor), Weiss, Thomas (Contribuidor), Williamson, Jeffrey G. (Contribuidor), Wright, Gavin (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2007]
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth ; 51
Temas:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
west indies, britain, england, colonialism, empire, colony, canada, united states, economics, mortality, health, fertility, wealth, capital stock, national product, economy, transaction, choice, rent, mobility, utah, frontier, inheritance, ohio, birth control, contraceptives, family size, nonfiction, nutrition, labor, gender, women, caribbean, race, class, industrialization, railway, finance, funds.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prefatory Note
  • 1. Introduction
  • I. The National Product
  • 2. New Estimates of Gross National Product, Canada, 1870-1926: Some Implications for Canadian Development
  • 3. Measuring the Transaction Sector in the American Economy, 1870-1970
  • II. Capital and Wealth
  • 4. The United States Capital Stock in the Nineteenth Century
  • 5. Choices, Rents, and Luck: Economic Mobility of Nineteenth-Century Utah Households
  • 6. Inheritance on the Maturing Frontier: Butler County, Ohio, 1803-1865
  • III. Population and Labor Force
  • 7. Rudimentary Contraceptive Methods and the American Transition to Marital Fertility Control, 1855-1915
  • 8. New Results on the Decline in Household Fertility in the United States from 1750 to 1900
  • 9. Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings
  • 10. The Female Labor Force and American Economic Growth, 1890-1980
  • 11. Population and Labor in the British Caribbean in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • 12. Revised Estimates of the United States Workforce, 1800-1860
  • IV. Sectoral Studies
  • 13. Productivity Growth in Manufacturing during Early Industrialization: Evidence from the American Northeast, 1820-1860
  • 14. Output and Productivity in Canadian Agriculture, 1870-71 to 1926-27
  • 15. Growth and Productivity Change in the Canadian Railway Sector, 1871-1926
  • 16. Long-Term Trends in State and Local Finance: Sources and Uses of Funds in North Carolina, 1800-1977
  • Contributors
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index

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