This collection of twelve essays is based on the premise that a better understanding of the economic development process can be gained by studying the history of those countries that have experienced long-term economic success, in this case the United States during the nineteenth century - that...

This article provides a consistent monthly stock price index from January 1871 through 1999. The broadly defined S&P Weekly Index is reconstructed from 1918 and carried forward as the S&P 500 Composite Index to the present. Cowles's monthly index is improved in order to provide month-end...