Long-term factors in American economic growth / / 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 geografico: North America Economic conditions; United States Economic conditions
• 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.: 9910810549603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in income and wealth ; ; v. 51.