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Unequal gains : American growth and inequality since 1700 /
"Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today. While other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth, Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Will...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Persistent debate, a new approach, more data, rich findings
- Colonial incomes on the eve of the revolution
- When did colonial America get rich?
- Losing the lead: the cost of revolution and independence
- Unequal economic growth, 1800-1860
- The civil war: growth lost, freedom gained, inequality maintained
- Contending forces: American incomes across the late nineteenth century
- The greatest leveling of all time
- Rising inequality once more, since the 1970s
- Inequality and growth: history lessons for the future
- Appendix A: A guide to the 1774 and 1800 income estimates
- Appendix B: Salaries, payment in kind, and workdays
- Appendix C: Estimating slaves' retained earnings, colonial times to 1860
- Appendix D: American versus British prices, 1640-1875
- Appendix E: A guide to the 1860 income estimates, and some modifications for 1850
- Appendix F: A guide to the 1870 income estimates
- Appendix G: Farm operators' incomes in 1870
- Appendix H: Sources and notes to tables and figures in main text.