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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Engerman, Stanley L., Gallman, Robert E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Edición:Pbk. ed.
Colección:Studies in income and wealth ; v. 51.
Temas:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > General.
Economic history
North America > Economic conditions.
United States > Economic conditions.
Amérique du Nord > Conditions économiques.
États-Unis > Conditions économiques.
North America
United States
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).

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