Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth

ed. by Robert E. Gallman, Stanley L. Engerman

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

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Year of publication:	[1986]
Other Persons:	Bourne Wahl, Jenny (contributor) ; Carter, Susan B. (contributor) ; Dales, J. H. (contributor) ; David, Paul A. (contributor) ; Davis, Lance E. (contributor) ; Engerman, Stanley L. (contributor) ; Engerman, Stanley L. (ed.) ; Gallman, Robert E. (ed.)
Publisher:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Subject:	Wirtschaftswachstum \| Economic growth \| Kanada \| Canada \| Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung \| National accounts \| Arbeitskräftepotenzial \| Labour force
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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (900 p.) 203 tables, 23 figures
Series:	National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth ; 51
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Frontmatter Contents Prefatory Note 1. Introduction I. The National Product 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 II. Capital and Wealth 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 III. Population and Labor Force 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 IV. Sectoral Studies 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 In English
ISBN:	978-0-226-20931-9
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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