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American Economic Growth and Standards of Living Before the Civil War.
This benchmark volume addresses the debate over the effects of early industrialization on standards of living during the decades before the Civil War. Its contributors demonstrate that the aggregate antebellum economy was growing faster than any other large economy had grown before. Despite the dram...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1992.
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| Colección: | National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. U.S. Labor Force Estimates and Economic Growth, 1800-1860; 2. American Economic Growth before the Civil War: The Testimony of the Capital Stock Estimates; 3. Inequalities in the Standard of Living in the United States, 1798-1875; 4. Wages and Prices during the Antebellum Period: A Survey and New Evidence; 5. Consumer Behavior, Diet, and the Standard of Living in Late Colonial and Early Antebellum America, 1770-1840; 6. Stature and Living Standards in the United States.
- 7. The Productivity Consequences of Market Integration: Agriculture in Massachusetts, 1771-18018. Invention, Innovation, and Manufacturing Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Northeast; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index.