04466nam 2200745 a 450 991077731440332120210617020544.01-281-12553-997866111255300-226-20931-810.7208/9780226209319(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 conditionswest indies, britain, england, colonialism, empire, colony, canada, united states, economics, mortality, health, fertility, wealth, capital stock, national product, economy, transaction, choice, rent, mobility, utah, frontier, inheritance, ohio, birth control, contraceptives, family size, nonfiction, nutrition, labor, gender, women, caribbean, race, class, industrialization, railway, finance, funds.BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.330Engerman Stanley L127171Gallman Robert E140609MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777314403321Long-term factors in American economic growth3728988UNINA