04081nam 2200745 a 450 991045115420332120210617020544.01-281-12553-997866111255300-226-20931-810.7208/9780226209319(CKB)1000000000413289(EBL)408356(OCoLC)261580089(SSID)ssj0000194134(PQKBManifestationID)12024506(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194134(PQKBWorkID)10232078(PQKB)11395631(SSID)ssj0000362642(PQKBManifestationID)11295088(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000362642(PQKBWorkID)10380099(PQKB)11575437(MiAaPQ)EBC408356(DE-B1597)535535(OCoLC)824142070(DE-B1597)9780226209319(Au-PeEL)EBL408356(CaPaEBR)ebr10209947(CaONFJC)MIL112553(EXLCZ)99100000000041328920081216h19921986 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrLong-term factors in American economic growth[electronic resource] /edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. GallmanPbk. ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press1992, c19861 online resource (899 p.)Studies in income and wealth ;v. 51Description based upon print version of record.0-226-20929-6 0-226-20928-8 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Front matter --Contents --Prefatory Note --1. Introduction --2. New Estimates of Gross National Product, Canada, 1870-1926: Some Implications for Canadian Development --3. Measuring the Transaction Sector in the American Economy, 1870-1970 --4. The United States Capital Stock in the Nineteenth Century --5. Choices, Rents, and Luck: Economic Mobility of Nineteenth-Century Utah Households --6. Inheritance on the Maturing Frontier: Butler County, Ohio, 1803-1865 --7. Rudimentary Contraceptive Methods and the American Transition to Marital Fertility Control, 1855-1915 --8. New Results on the Decline in Household Fertility in the United States from 1750 to 1900 --9. Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings --10. The Female Labor Force and American Economic Growth, 1890-1980 --11. Population and Labor in the British Caribbean in the Early Nineteenth Century --12. Revised Estimates of the United States Workforce, 1800-1860 --13. Productivity Growth in Manufacturing during Early Industrialization: Evidence from the American Northeast, 1820-1860 --14. Output and Productivity in Canadian Agriculture, 1870-71 to 1926-27 --15. Growth and Productivity Change in the Canadian Railway Sector, 1871-1926 --16. Long-Term Trends in State and Local Finance: Sources and Uses of Funds in North Carolina, 1800-1977 --Contributors --Author Index --Subject IndexThese 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."-Samuel Bostaph, Southern Economic JournalStudies in income and wealth ;v. 51.BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / GeneralbisacshNorth AmericaEconomic conditionsUnited StatesEconomic conditionsElectronic books.BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.330Engerman Stanley L127171Gallman Robert E140609MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451154203321Long-term factors in American economic growth2122924UNINA