Capital in manufacturing and mining : its formation and financing / by Daniel Creamer, Sergei P. Dobrovolsky and Israel Borenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Creamer, Daniel, author.

Dobrovolsky,Sergei P., author.

Borenstein, Israel, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manufactures--United States.

Manufactures.

Manufacturing industries--United States.

Manufacturing industries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1960.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this volume in the NBER series on capital formation and financing, the authors show, with supporting figures, two major trends in mining and manufacturing. The first is that this sector had a rate of growth significantly higher than that of the economy as a whole. The total capital assets of this sector increased fifteenfold from 1880 to 1948, while the total stock of all tangible wealth in the United States increased only about sixfold. The second trend is a marked diversity among industries in the rate of growth over the period and in the time pattern of that rate. The authors advance a number of explanatory hypotheses about the significance of their findings.Originally published in 1960.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments / Creamer, Daniel / Dobrovolsky, Sergei / Borenstein, Israel

Introduction / Kuznets, Simon

Part I. Capital and Output Trends in Manufacturing and Mining

Chapter I. The Measurement of Manufacturing and Mining Growth

Chapter II. Long-Term Growth of Capital in Manufacturing and Mining

Chapter III. Trends in Capital-Output Ratios

Chapter IV. Trends in Ratios of Fixed and Working Capital to Output

Chapter V. Some Relationships Bearing on Changes in the Capital-Output Ratios

Part II. Long-Term Trends in Capital Financing

Chapter VI. Internal and External Financing

Chapter VII. Debt and Equity Financing

Part III. Appendixes A, B, And C

A. Notes on Estimates of Capital, Output and Employment in Manufacturing, 1880-1953

B. Notes On Estimates of Capital, Output and Employment in Mining, 1870-1953

C. Financial Series: Notes and Supporting Tables

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 16, 2016).

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781400879717

140087971X

OCLC:

967531947