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Titolo: | Research in economic history / / edited by Christopher Hanes, Susan Wolcott ; contributors, Jessica S. Bean [and seven others] |
Pubblicazione: | Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2015 |
©2015 | |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
Disciplina: | 339.31021 |
Soggetto topico: | Economic history |
Economic indicators | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Persona (resp. second.): | HanesChristopher |
WolcottSusan K. | |
BeanJessica S. | |
Note generali: | "Emerald Books"--Cover. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front Cover; Research in Economic History; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Editors' Introduction; Decline and Stagnation in the Arab World: Preliminary Real Wage Evidence Comparing Algeria, Egypt, Syria and Tunisia, 1847-1913; Introduction; Constructing Real Wages; Algerian Real Wages; Tunisian Real Wages; Robustness; Comparing Levels and Trends; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Appendix; Tunisian Real Wages - Sources and Adjustments; Algerian Real Wages - Sources and Adjustments; Syrian Real Wages - Sources and Adjustments |
New Deal Funding: Estimates of Federal Grants and Loans across States by Year, 1930-1940 Introduction; Prior New Deal Datasets; Federal Spending in the States before the New Deal; Agricultural Programs in the 1920's; Federal Spending under the New Deal; Checking and Extending the OGR Expenditures Data; Civilian Conservation Corps; Public Works Administration; Works Progress Administration; Federal Emergency Relief Administration; Social Security Administration Public Assistance; Farm Security Administration Loans; Public Building Administration; Public Works Administration Loans | |
Veterans' Bureau Spending U.S. Employment Service; Bureau of Reclamation; Rivers, Harbors, and Flood Control; Non-transfer Grants; Loans; Farm Credit Administration Loans; Values of Loans Prior to the FCA that Match the FCA Mission; Calendar Year Estimates of Farm Credit Administration Loans; Commodity Credit Corporation Loans Left Out; Splitting the RFC Loans between Fiscal 1932 and Fiscal 1933; Adding Programs; Loans on World War I Adjusted Service Certificates and the Veterans' Bonus; Tennessee Valley Authority Spending; Final Remarks; Notes; Acknowledgments; References | |
How Many Calories? Food Availability in England and Wales in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Introduction; Estimating Food Availability; Optimists and Pessimists; Land Under Cultivation; Yields Per Acre; Calories from Cereals and Pulses; Potatoes; An Eighteenth-Century Peak?; An Early-Nineteenth Century Peak?; Weights and Measures; A Mid-Nineteenth Century Peak?; Extraction Rates; Meat and Dairy Products; Imports and Exports; Irish Imports; Irish Grain Exports; Irish Meat and Dairy Exports; Irish Potatoes; Food Availability in a High-Wage Economy?; The Search for Compromise | |
Conclusions Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Appendix; "Not Much Use in Disliking it": The Work and Wages of Female Home Workers in London, 1897-1908; Introduction; Female Labor Supply in Theoretical and Historical Perspective; The Home Industries of Women in London Reports; The HIWL Data: Description and Analysis; 1897 Report; 1908 Report; Factory Work versus Home Work; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix A: Coding the Data Contained in the Home Industries of Women in London, 1897 and 1908 ; 1897 Report; 1908 Report | |
Appendix B: Classification of Trades IntoMore and Less Desirable Categories | |
Sommario/riassunto: | The latest volume in the series Research of Economic History contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.S. |
Titolo autorizzato: | RESEARCH In economic history |
ISBN: | 1-78441-781-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910460614603321 |
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