American economic growth and standards of living before the Civil War [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Robert E. Gallman and John Joseph Wallis |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (410 p.) |
Disciplina |
338.973
339.4/7/0973 339.470973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GallmanRobert E
WallisJohn Joseph |
Collana | National Bureau of Economic Research conference report |
Soggetto topico | Cost and standard of living - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-22349-2
9786611223496 0-226-27947-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. U. S. Labor Force Estimates and Economic Growth, 1800-1860 -- 2. American Economic Growth before the Civil War: The Testimony of the Capital Stock Estimates -- 3. Inequalities in the Standard of Living in the United States, 1798-1875 -- 4. Wages and Prices during the Antebellum Period: A Survey and New Evidence -- 5. Consumer Behavior, Diet , and the Standard of Living in Late Colonial and Early Antebellum America, 1770-1840 -- 6. Stature and Living Standards in the United States -- 7. The Productivity Consequences of Market Integration: Agriculture in Massachusetts, 177 1-1 801 -- 8. Invention, Innovation, and Manufacturing Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Northeast -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458349203321 |
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1992 | ||
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American economic growth and standards of living before the Civil War [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Robert E. Gallman and John Joseph Wallis |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (410 p.) |
Disciplina |
338.973
339.4/7/0973 339.470973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GallmanRobert E
WallisJohn Joseph |
Collana | National Bureau of Economic Research conference report |
Soggetto topico | Cost and standard of living - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato | industrialization, standards of living, antebellum, economy, growth, income, quality life, work, health, longevity, history, economics, nutrition, height, wealth distribution, productivity, real wages, labor force participation, capital stock, inequality, prices, class, manufacturing, innovation, invention, technology, agriculture, northeast, massachusetts, market integration, colonial, consumer behavior, nonfiction |
ISBN |
1-281-22349-2
9786611223496 0-226-27947-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. U. S. Labor Force Estimates and Economic Growth, 1800-1860 -- 2. American Economic Growth before the Civil War: The Testimony of the Capital Stock Estimates -- 3. Inequalities in the Standard of Living in the United States, 1798-1875 -- 4. Wages and Prices during the Antebellum Period: A Survey and New Evidence -- 5. Consumer Behavior, Diet , and the Standard of Living in Late Colonial and Early Antebellum America, 1770-1840 -- 6. Stature and Living Standards in the United States -- 7. The Productivity Consequences of Market Integration: Agriculture in Massachusetts, 177 1-1 801 -- 8. Invention, Innovation, and Manufacturing Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Northeast -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784852403321 |
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1992 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American economic growth and standards of living before the Civil War / / edited by Robert E. Gallman and John Joseph Wallis |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (410 p.) |
Disciplina |
338.973
339.4/7/0973 339.470973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GallmanRobert E
WallisJohn Joseph |
Collana | National Bureau of Economic Research conference report |
Soggetto topico | Cost and standard of living - United States - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-281-22349-2
9786611223496 0-226-27947-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. U. S. Labor Force Estimates and Economic Growth, 1800-1860 -- 2. American Economic Growth before the Civil War: The Testimony of the Capital Stock Estimates -- 3. Inequalities in the Standard of Living in the United States, 1798-1875 -- 4. Wages and Prices during the Antebellum Period: A Survey and New Evidence -- 5. Consumer Behavior, Diet , and the Standard of Living in Late Colonial and Early Antebellum America, 1770-1840 -- 6. Stature and Living Standards in the United States -- 7. The Productivity Consequences of Market Integration: Agriculture in Massachusetts, 177 1-1 801 -- 8. Invention, Innovation, and Manufacturing Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Northeast -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818184203321 |
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1992 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Evolving financial markets and international capital flows : Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1865-1914 / / Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman |
Autore | Davis Lance Edwin |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, UK ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 986 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 332/.042 |
Altri autori (Persone) | GallmanRobert E |
Collana | Japan-U.S. Center UFJ Bank monographs on international financial markets |
Soggetto topico |
Investments, British - History
Capital movements - History |
ISBN |
1-107-11281-8
1-280-15990-1 1-139-14556-8 0-511-11630-6 0-511-06565-5 0-511-05934-5 0-511-32770-6 0-511-51087-X 0-511-06778-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; 1. Institutional invention and innovation: Foreign capital transfers and the evolution of the domestic capital markets in four frontier countries: Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States, 1865-1914 -- ; App. The role of financial intermediaries in decisions to save and invest -- ; 2. The United Kingdom -- ; 3. International capital movements, domestic capital markets, and American economic growth, 1865-1914 -- ; App. U.S. estimates of national product -- ; 4. Domestic savings, international capital flows, and the evolution of domestic capital markets: The Canadian experience -- ; 5. Domestic saving, international capital flows, and the evolution of domestic capital markets: The Australian experience. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825430203321 |
Davis Lance Edwin | ||
Cambridge, UK ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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In pursuit of Leviathan [[electronic resource] ] : technology, institutions, productivity, and profits in American whaling, 1816-1906 / / Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, and Karin Gleiter |
Autore | Davis Lance Edwin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (566 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.3/7295/097309034 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GallmanRobert E
GleiterKarin |
Collana | NBER series on long-term factors in economic development |
Soggetto topico |
Whaling - Economic aspects - United States
Whaling - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-22328-X
9786611223281 0-226-13790-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. In Prospect -- 2. Whales and Whaling -- 3. Data Sets and Sources -- 4. Natural Resources -- 5. Labor -- 6. Capital -- 7. Technology -- 8. Productivity -- 9. Product Markets -- 10. Agents, Captains, and Owners -- 11. Profits -- 12. The Americans Replace the British -- 13. Modern Whaling -- 14. In Retrospect -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451242903321 |
Davis Lance Edwin | ||
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1997 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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In pursuit of Leviathan : technology, institutions, productivity, and profits in American whaling, 1816-1906 / / Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, Karin Gleiter |
Autore | Davis Lance Edwin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (566 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 338.3/7295/097309034 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GallmanRobert E
GleiterKarin |
Collana | NBER series on long-term factors in economic development |
Soggetto topico |
Whaling - Economic aspects - United States
Whaling - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato | whaling, history, economics, voyages, new bedford, massachusetts, ports, labor, products, commerce, innovation, whale biology, productivity, technology, clippers, harpoons, darting guns, nonfiction, profits, blubber, ambergris, market forces, crew, sailors, fleet, 19th century, antebellum, eastern seaboard, natural resources, capital |
ISBN |
1-281-22328-X
9786611223281 0-226-13790-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. In Prospect -- 2. Whales and Whaling -- 3. Data Sets and Sources -- 4. Natural Resources -- 5. Labor -- 6. Capital -- 7. Technology -- 8. Productivity -- 9. Product Markets -- 10. Agents, Captains, and Owners -- 11. Profits -- 12. The Americans Replace the British -- 13. Modern Whaling -- 14. In Retrospect -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784740103321 |
Davis Lance Edwin | ||
Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 1997 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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In pursuit of Leviathan : technology, institutions, productivity, and profits in American whaling, 1816-1906 / / Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, and Karin Gleiter |
Autore | Davis Lance Edwin |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (566 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 338.3/7295/097309034 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GallmanRobert E
GleiterKarin |
Collana | NBER series on long-term factors in economic development |
Soggetto topico |
Whaling - Economic aspects - United States
Whaling - United States - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-281-22328-X
9786611223281 0-226-13790-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. In Prospect -- 2. Whales and Whaling -- 3. Data Sets and Sources -- 4. Natural Resources -- 5. Labor -- 6. Capital -- 7. Technology -- 8. Productivity -- 9. Product Markets -- 10. Agents, Captains, and Owners -- 11. Profits -- 12. The Americans Replace the British -- 13. Modern Whaling -- 14. In Retrospect -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807388303321 |
Davis Lance Edwin | ||
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1997 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Long-term factors in American economic growth [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman |
Edizione | [Pbk. ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1992, c1986 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (899 p.) |
Disciplina | 330 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
EngermanStanley L
GallmanRobert E |
Collana | Studies in income and wealth |
Soggetto topico | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-12553-9
9786611125530 0-226-20931-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451154203321 |
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1992, c1986 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Long-term factors in American economic growth [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman |
Edizione | [Pbk. ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1992, c1986 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (899 p.) |
Disciplina | 330 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
EngermanStanley L
GallmanRobert E |
Collana | Studies in income and wealth |
Soggetto topico | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General |
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 |
ISBN |
1-281-12553-9
9786611125530 0-226-20931-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777314403321 |
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1992, c1986 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Long-term factors in American economic growth / / edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman |
Edizione | [Pbk. ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1992, c1986 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (899 p.) |
Disciplina | 330 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
EngermanStanley L
GallmanRobert E |
Collana | Studies in income and wealth |
ISBN |
1-281-12553-9
9786611125530 0-226-20931-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810549603321 |
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1992, c1986 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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