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Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1986

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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

Author / Editor information

Stanley L. Engerman is John H. Munro Professor of Economics and professor of history at the University of Rochester. Robert E. Gallman is Kenan Professor of Economics and History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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Business and Economics Political Economics Political Economics, other

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Prefatory Note
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1. Introduction
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Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman

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I. The National Product
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2. New Estimates of Gross National Product, Canada, 1870-1926: Some Implications for Canadian Development
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M. C. Urquhart and J. H. Dales

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3. Measuring the Transaction Sector in the American Economy, 1870-1970
95
John Joseph Wallis, Douglass C. North and Lance E. Davis

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II. Capital and Wealth
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4. The United States Capital Stock in the Nineteenth Century
165
Robert E. Gallman and Raymond W. Goldsmith

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5. Choices, Rents, and Luck: Economic Mobility of Nineteenth-Century Utah Households
215
J. R. Kearl, Clayne Pope and Lee Soltow

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6. Inheritance on the Maturing Frontier: Butler County, Ohio, 1803-1865
261
William H. Newell and Lee Soltow

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III. Population and Labor Force
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7. Rudimentary Contraceptive Methods and the American Transition to Marital Fertility Control, 1855-1915
307
Paul A. David, Warren C. Sanderson and Michael R. Haines

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8. New Results on the Decline in Household Fertility in the United States from 1750 to 1900
391
Jenny Bourne Wahl and Michael R. Haines

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9. Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings
439
Robert William Fogel and Peter H. Lindert

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10. The Female Labor Force and American Economic Growth, 1890-1980
557
Claudia Goldin and Susan B. Carter

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11. Population and Labor in the British Caribbean in the Early Nineteenth Century
605
B. W. Higman, Stanley L. Engerman and Gerald Friedman

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12. Revised Estimates of the United States Workforce, 1800-1860
641
Thomas Weiss and Stanley Lebergott

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IV. Sectoral Studies
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13. Productivity Growth in Manufacturing during Early Industrialization: Evidence from the American Northeast, 1820-1860
679
Kenneth L. Sokoloff and Jeffrey G. Williamson

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14. Output and Productivity in Canadian Agriculture, 1870-71 to 1926-27
737
R. M. McInnis and Gavin Wright

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15. Growth and Productivity Change in the Canadian Railway Sector, 1871-1926
779
Alan G. Green and Albert Fishlow

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16. Long-Term Trends in State and Local Finance: Sources and Uses of Funds in North Carolina, 1800-1977
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Richard Sylla and Lance E. Davis

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Contributors
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Author Index
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Subject Index
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November 1, 2007

eBook ISBN:

9780226209319

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Main content:

900

Other:

203 tables, 23 figures.

This book is in the series

Volume 51 | National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth

https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226209319

eBook ISBN: 9780226209319

Keywords for this book

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

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Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

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

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