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Long-term factors in American economic growth /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1992.
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| Edición: | Pbk. ed. |
| Colección: | Studies in income and wealth ;
v. 51. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. The National Product
- New estimates of gross national product, Canada, 1870-1926 : some implications for Canadian development / M.C. Urguhart (Comment / J.H. Dales)
- Measuring the transaction sector in the American economy, 1870-1970 / John Joseph Wallis, Douglass C. North (Comment / Lance E. Davis)
- II. Capital and Wealth
- The United States capital stock in the nineteenth century / Robert E. Gallman (Comment / Raymond W. Goldsmith)
- Choices, rents, and luck : economic mobility of nineteenth-century Utah households / J.R. Kearl, Clayne Pope (Comment / Lee Soltow)
- Inheritance on the maturing frontier : Butler County, Ohio, 1803-1865 / William H. Newell (Comment / Lee Soltow) (Reply / William H. Newell)
- III. Population and Labor Force
- Rudimentary contraceptive methods and the American transition to marital fertility control, 1855-1915 / Paul A. David, Warren C. Sanderson (Comment / Michael R. Harris)
- New results on the decline in household fertility in the United States from 1750 to 1900 / Jenny Bourne Wahl (Comment / Michael R. Haines)
- Nutrition and the decline in mortality since 1700 : some preliminary findings / Robert William Fogel (Comment / Peter H. Lindert)
- The female labor force and American economic growth, 1890-1980 / Claudia Goldin (Comment / Susan B. Carter)
- Population and labor in the British Caribbean in the early nineteenth century / B.W. Higman (Comment / Stanley L. Engerman) (Comment / Gerald Friedman)
- Revised estimates of the United States workforce, 1800-1860 / Thomas Weiss (Comment / Stanley Lebergott) (Reply / Thomas Weiss)
- IV. Sectoral Studies
- Productivity growth in manufacturing during early industrialization : evidence from the American Northeast, 1820-1860 / Kenneth L. Sokoloff (Comment / Jeffrey G. Williamson)
- Output and productivity in Canadian agriculture, 1870-71 to 1926-27 / R.M. McInnis (Comment / Gavin Wright)
- Growth and productivity change in the Canadian railway sector, 1871-1926 / Alan G. Green (Comment / Albert Fishlow)
- Long-term trends in state and local finance : sources and uses of funds in North Carolina, 1800-1977 / Richard Sylla (Comment / Lance E. Davis).