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Title Long-term factors in American economic growth / edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman
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Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 884 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in income and wealth ; v. 51
Studies in income and wealth ; v. 51.
Contents I. The National Product -- -- New estimates of gross national product, Canada, 1870-1926 : some implications for Canadian development / M.C. Urguhart (Comment / J.H. Dales) -- Measuring the transaction sector in the American economy, 1870-1970 / John Joseph Wallis, Douglass C. North (Comment / Lance E. Davis) -- -- II. Capital and Wealth -- -- The United States capital stock in the nineteenth century / Robert E. Gallman (Comment / Raymond W. Goldsmith) -- Choices, rents, and luck : economic mobility of nineteenth-century Utah households / J.R. Kearl, Clayne Pope (Comment / Lee Soltow) -- Inheritance on the maturing frontier : Butler County, Ohio, 1803-1865 / William H. Newell (Comment / Lee Soltow) (Reply / William H. Newell) -- -- III. Population and Labor Force -- -- Rudimentary contraceptive methods and the American transition to marital fertility control, 1855-1915 / Paul A. David, Warren C. Sanderson (Comment / Michael R. Harris) -- New results on the decline in household fertility in the United States from 1750 to 1900 / Jenny Bourne Wahl (Comment / Michael R. Haines) -- Nutrition and the decline in mortality since 1700 : some preliminary findings / Robert William Fogel (Comment / Peter H. Lindert) -- The female labor force and American economic growth, 1890-1980 / Claudia Goldin (Comment / Susan B. Carter) -- Population and labor in the British Caribbean in the early nineteenth century / B.W. Higman (Comment / Stanley L. Engerman) (Comment / Gerald Friedman) -- Revised estimates of the United States workforce, 1800-1860 / Thomas Weiss (Comment / Stanley Lebergott) (Reply / Thomas Weiss) -- -- IV. Sectoral Studies -- -- Productivity growth in manufacturing during early industrialization : evidence from the American Northeast, 1820-1860 / Kenneth L. Sokoloff (Comment / Jeffrey G. Williamson) -- Output and productivity in Canadian agriculture, 1870-71 to 1926-27 / R.M. McInnis (Comment / Gavin Wright) -- Growth and productivity change in the Canadian railway sector, 1871-1926 / Alan G. Green (Comment / Albert Fishlow) -- Long-term trends in state and local finance : sources and uses of funds in North Carolina, 1800-1977 / Richard Sylla (Comment / Lance E. Davis)
Summary 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
Notes Reprint. Originally published: 1986
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General.
Economic history
SUBJECT North America -- Economic conditions
United States -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140020
Subject North America
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Engerman, Stanley L
Gallman, Robert E
ISBN 0226209318
9780226209319
9780226209289
0226209288