Long-term factors in American economic growth / edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Engerman, Stanley L.

Gallman, Robert E.

Series:

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 51.

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North America--Economic conditions.

North America.

United States--Economic conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (899 p.)

Edition:

Pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992, c1986.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Prefatory Note

1. Introduction

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

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611125530

9781281125538

1281125539

9780226209319

0226209318

OCLC:

261580089