Research in economic history / edited by Christopher Hanes and Susan Wolcott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanes, Christopher, editor.

Wolcott, Susan, editor.

Series:

Research in economic history (Series) ; Volume 36.

Research in economic history (Series) ; Volume 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

Research in Economic Historyis a well-established publication presenting influential work by leading researchers in the field of economic history, including economists, historians, and demographers.

Contents:

Cover

RESEARCH IN ECONOMIC HISTORY

RESEARCH IN ECONOMICHISTORY: VOLUME 36

Copyright

CONTENTS

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

INTRODUCTION

1 - Specializations in Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century: Evolution of Trade Patterns and Growth Model

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Specialization in Switzerland: an Historical and Institutional Overview

2.1 Geographical Context: Openness to the World

2.2 On the Importance of Human Capital

2.3 Traditional Protectionism vs Protection of Infant Industries

3. Data and Methodology

4. Nature and Dynamics of Export Specializations

4.1 Nature of Specialization

4.2 Export Concentration

5. Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

2 - Trends and Institutional Sources of Financing Russia's Human Capital Formation (Late Nineteenth-Early Twenty-first Centuries)

2. Financial Data on Basic Fields of Human Capital Formation

2.1 General Considerations

2.2 Education

2.3 Scientific Research and Development

2.4 Health Care

3. Contributions of the Institutional Sectors of the National Economy to Its Human Capital Formation

3.1 The Government Budget Composition and Its Role in the National Economy

3.2 Education

3.3 Scientific Research and Development

3.4 Health care

4. Human Development Financing and Catch-up Growth

Appendix

3 - The Past's Long Shadow: A Systematic Review and Network Analysis of Economic History

2. Data Extraction Procedure

3. Network Analysis in Economic History

4. Geography of Knowledge

5. Conclusions

4 - Improving Deflators for Estimating Canadian Economic Growth, 1870-1900

1. Introduction.

2. Canadian National Accounts and Price Indexes, 1870 to 1900

2.1 The Urquhart GNP Series

3. Price Indexes

4. Revised Price Index

4.1 New Data

5. Weighting the Basket

6. Are the New Price Data Reliable?

7. Revised GNP and Economic Growth

8. Conclusion

5 - The Political Economy of State-chartered Banks in Early Twentieth-century Texas

2. Previous Research

3. How Texas Gained State-chartered Banking

4. Empirical Model and Evidence on the Determinants of the Vote

6 - The Antebellum Slave Trade: Numbers and Impact on the Balance of Payments

1 Introduction

2 The Issues

3 The Databases

3.1 Transatlantic: Voyages Website

3.2 Caribbean to North America: O'Malley Database

3.3 Caribbean to Havana: Klein Database

4 Numbers of Slaves

4.1 Imports

4.1.1 Total

4.1.2 By Ship Nationality

4.1.3 Smuggled from Caribbean

4.1.4 Revenue Generating

4.2 Carrying Trade

5 Price of Slaves

6 Slave-trade Balance of Payments

6.1 Purchase and Sale of Slaves

6.1.1 Carrying Trade

6.1.2 Imports

6.1.3 Foreign-Exchange Implication

6.2 Outfitting and Provisioning Slave Ships

6.3 Slave-Ship Sales

6.4 Income Account

6.5 Net Balance

7 Integration into Standard Balance of Payments

8 Conclusions

Notes

A1.1 Embarkations

A1.2 Imports from Africa

A1.3 African Carrying Trade

A1.4 Slave Losses

A2.1 Price of Slave-Ship Delivered Slaves

A2.1.1 Non-Spanish Caribbean, Spanish America, and Brazil

A2.1.2 United States

A2.2 Slave-Ship Purchase Price of Slaves

A2.2.1 Africa

A2.2.2 Caribbean, for US Imports

A2.2.3 Caribbean, for US-Ship Carrying Trade.

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ISBN:

1-83909-179-7

OCLC:

1202463464