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Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time.
This book challenges the static, ahistorical models on which Economics continues to rely. These models presume that markets operate on a "frictionless" plane where abstract forces play out independent of their institutional and spatial contexts, and of the influences of the past. In realit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; Editors' Introduction; 1. The Stanford Tradition in Economic History; Part One. Evolutionary Processes in Economics; 2. Natural Resources and Economic Outcomes; 3. The Institutionalization of Science in Europe, 1650- 1850; 4. The Fundamental Impact of the Slave Trade on African Economies; 5. Similar Societies, Different Solutions: U.S. Indian Policy in Light of Australian Policy toward Aboriginal Peoples; Part Two. Spatial Processes and Comparative Development.
- 6. Financial Market and Industry Structure: A Comparison of the Banking and Textile Industries in Boston and Philadelphia in the Early Nineteenth Century7. Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850- 1870; 8. Productivity Growth and the Regional Dynamics of Antebellum Southern Development; 9. Banking on the Periphery: The Cotton South, Systemic Seasonality, and the Limits of National Banking Reform; 10. Rural Credit and Mobility in India; Part Three. Revolution in Labor Markets; 11. Labor-Market Regimes in U.S. Economic History.
- 12. The Political Economy of Progress: Lessons from the Causes and Consequences of the New Deal13. Teachers and Tipping Points: Historical Origins of the Teacher Quality Crisis; 14. Inequality and Institutions in Twentieth-Century America; 15. The Unexpected Long-Run Impact of the Minimum Wage: An Educational Cascade; 16. America's First Culinary Revolution, or How a Girl from Gopher Prairie Came to Dine on Eggs Fooyung; Appendix: Selected Publications of Gavin Wright; Index.