Long-term factors in American economic growth [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman

• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1992, c1986
• Edizione: Pbk. ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (899 p.)
• Disciplina: 330
• Soggetto topico: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General
• Soggetto geografico: North America Economic conditions; United States Economic conditions
• Soggetto non controllato: west 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
• Altri autori: EngermanStanley L GallmanRobert E
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Index
• Sommario/riassunto: These 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 Journal
• Titolo autorizzato: Long-term factors in American economic growth
• ISBN: 1-281-12553-9; 9786611125530; 0-226-20931-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777314403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in income and wealth ; ; v. 51.