| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 461 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The Stanford tradition in economic history / Gavin Wright -- Natural resources and economic outcomes / Karen Clay -- The institutionalization of science in Europe, 1650-1850 / George Grantham -- The fundamental impact of the slave trade on African economies / Warren C. Whatley and Rob Gillezeau -- Similar societies, different solutions: U.S. Indian policy in light of Australian policy toward aboriginal peoples / Leonard A. Carlson -- Financial market and industry structure: a comparison of the banking and textile industries in Boston and Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century / Ta-Chen Wang -- Railroads and the rise of the factory: evidence for the United States, 1850-1870 / Jeremy Atack, Michael Haines, and Robert A. Margo -- Productivity growth and the regional dynamics of antebellum southern development / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode -- Banking on the periphery: the Cotton South, systemic seasonality, and the limits of national banking reform / Scott A. Redenius and David F. Weiman -- Rural credit and mobility in India / Susan Wolcott -- Labor-market regimes in U.S. economic history / Joshua L. Rosenbloom and William A. Sundstrom -- The political economy of progress: lessons from the causes and consequences of the New Deal / Robert K. Fleck -- Teachers and tipping points: historical origins of the teacher quality crisis / Stacey M. Jones -- Inequality and institutions in twentieth-century America / Frank Levy and Peter Temin -- The unexpected long-run impact of the minimum wage: an educational cascade / Richard Sutch -- America's first culinary revolution, or how a girl from Gopher Prairie came to dine on eggs foo yong / Susan B. Carter |
| Summary |
Examining the connections between gradual, evolutionary change & more dramatic, revolutionary shifts this volume explores economic changes that have affected the United States & the whole world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Economic history -- Congresses
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
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Economic history
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Economische verandering.
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Economische geschiedenis.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century -- Congresses
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United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century -- Congresses
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Congressen (vorm)
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rhode, Paul Webb, editor.
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Rosenbloom, Joshua L., editor.
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Weiman, David F., editor.
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Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
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| ISBN |
9780804777629 |
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0804777624 |
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