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Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth
Stanley L. Engerman
&
Robert E. Gallman
, editors
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Published Date
January 1986
Copyright
1986
ISBN
0-226-20928-8
PUBLISHER
:
University of Chicago Press
Series
: Studies in Income and Wealth
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Table of Contents
Front matter, Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth
Author(s):
Stanley L. Engerman
&
Robert E. Gallman
Chapter 1:
Introduction to "Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth"
Author(s):
Stanley L. Engerman
&
Robert E. Gallman
(p. 1-6)
Chapter 2:
New Estimates of Gross National Product, Canada, 1870-1926: Some Implications for Canadian Development
Author(s):
M C. Urquhart
(p. 9-94)
Chapter 3:
Measuring the Transaction Sector in the American Economy, 1870-1970
Author(s):
John J. Wallis
&
Douglass North
(p. 95-162)
Chapter 4:
The United States Capital Stock in the Nineteenth Century
Author(s):
Robert E. Gallman
(p. 165-214)
Chapter 5:
Choices, Rents, and Luck: Economic Mobility of Nineteenth-Century Utah Households
Author(s):
J. R. Kearl
&
Clayne L. Pope
(p. 215-260)
Chapter 6:
Inheritance on the Maturing Frontier: Butler County, Ohio, 1803-1865
Author(s):
William Newell
(p. 261-304)
Chapter 7:
Rudimentary Contraceptive Methods and the American Transition to Marital Fertility Control, 1855-1915
Author(s):
Paul David
&
Warren Sanderson
(p. 307-390)
Chapter 8:
New Results on the Decline in Household Fertility in the United States from 1750 to 1900
Author(s):
Jenny Wahl
(p. 391-438)
Chapter 9:
Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings
Author(s):
Robert W. Fogel
(p. 439-556)
Chapter 10:
The Female Labor Force and American Economic Growth,1890-1980
Author(s):
Claudia Goldin
(p. 557-604)
Chapter 11:
Population and Labor in the British Caribbean in the Early Nineteenth Century
Author(s):
B. W. Higman
(p. 605-640)
Chapter 12:
Revised Estimates of the United States Workforce, 1800-1860
Author(s):
Thomas J. Weiss
(p. 641-676)
Chapter 13:
Productivity Growth in Manufacturing during Early Industrialization: Evidence from the American Northeast, 1820-1860
Author(s):
Kenneth L. Sokoloff
(p. 679-736)
Chapter 14:
Output and Productivity in Canadian Agriculture, 1870-71 to 1926-27
Author(s):
R. M. McInnis
(p. 737-778)
Chapter 15:
Growth and Productivity Change in the Canadian Railway Sector, 1871-1926
Author(s):
Alan Green
(p. 779-818)
Chapter 16:
Long-Term Trends in State and Local Finance: Sources and Uses of Funds in North Carolina, 1800-1977
Author(s):
Richard Sylla
(p. 819-868)
Contributors
Author(s):
(p. 869-872)
Author Index
Author(s):
(p. 873-878)
Subject Index
Author(s):
(p. 879-884)
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