Wages, Prices, and Labor Markets before the Civil War

Claudia Goldin & Robert A. Margo
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Copyright 1992
ISBN 0-226-30112-5
Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History
Book: Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel
Book editors: Claudia Goldin & Hugh Rockoff
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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