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Economic evolution and revolution in historical time /

Examining the connections between gradual, evolutionary change & more dramatic, revolutionary shifts this volume explores economic changes that have affected the United States & the whole world.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Otros Autores: Rhode, Paul Webb (Editor ), Rosenbloom, Joshua L. (Editor ), Weiman, David F. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Economics and Finance, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Stanford tradition in economic history / Gavin Wright
  • Natural resources and economic outcomes / Karen Clay
  • The institutionalization of science in Europe, 1650-1850 / George Grantham
  • The fundamental impact of the slave trade on African economies / Warren C. Whatley and Rob Gillezeau
  • Similar societies, different solutions: U.S. Indian policy in light of Australian policy toward aboriginal peoples / Leonard A. Carlson
  • Financial market and industry structure: a comparison of the banking and textile industries in Boston and Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century / Ta-Chen Wang
  • Railroads and the rise of the factory: evidence for the United States, 1850-1870 / Jeremy Atack, Michael Haines, and Robert A. Margo
  • Productivity growth and the regional dynamics of antebellum southern development / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode
  • Banking on the periphery: the Cotton South, systemic seasonality, and the limits of national banking reform / Scott A. Redenius and David F. Weiman
  • Rural credit and mobility in India / Susan Wolcott
  • Labor-market regimes in U.S. economic history / Joshua L. Rosenbloom and William A. Sundstrom
  • The political economy of progress: lessons from the causes and consequences of the New Deal / Robert K. Fleck
  • Teachers and tipping points: historical origins of the teacher quality crisis / Stacey M. Jones
  • Inequality and institutions in twentieth-century America / Frank Levy and Peter Temin
  • The unexpected long-run impact of the minimum wage: an educational cascade / Richard Sutch
  • America's first culinary revolution, or how a girl from Gopher Prairie came to dine on eggs foo yong / Susan B. Carter.