Using data from samples of probate inventories we construct a series of slave prices for Low Country South Carolina and Georgia covering the period 1722-1815. Using these data we examine variations in slave prices by age and sex, as well as geographic variations between and within the two...

Economic growth before 1860 : revised conjectures / Thomas Weiss -- U.S. financial markets and long-term economic growth, 1790-1989 / Richard Sylla, Jack W. Wilson, and Charles P. Jones -- U.S. migration, 1850-59 / Donald Schaefer -- Economic history and economic development : an American...

Using data from samples of probate inventories we construct a series of slave prices for Low Country South Carolina and Georgia covering the period 1722-1815. Using these data we examine variations in slave prices by age and sex, as well as geographic variations between and within the two...

Combining theoretical work with careful historical description and analysis of new data sources, History Matters makes a strong case for a more historical approach to economics, both by argument and by example. Seventeen original essays, written by distinguished economists and economic...