Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND -- CHAPTER 2 AGRICULTURE -- CHAPTER 3 CRAFTS AND INDUSTRY -- CHAPTER 4 TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION -- CHAPTER 5 TRADE -- CHAPTER 6 THE GENERAL ECONOMIC SITUATION AND STANDARD OF LIVING -- APPENDIX 1: WARS,...

David Ricardo initially believed machinery would help workers but revised his opinion, likely based on the impact of automation in the textile industry. Despite cotton textiles becoming one of the largest sectors in the British economy, real wages for cotton weavers did not rise for decades. As...

Part I. Cost Efficiency and the Hospital System in the United States -- Chapter 1. Fuzzy Numbers: U.S. Hospital Accounting since the 1930s (Christy F. Chapin) -- Chapter 2. Resisting The Dream of Markets: Maryland’s All-Payer Hospital Rate-Setting System and the Persistence of Regulation in...