Format:
Online-Ressource (504 p.)
ISBN:
9780226301129
Series Statement:
NBER-Conference Report
Content:
Offering new research on strategic factors in the development of the nineteenth century American economy-labor, capital, and political structure-the contributors to this volume employ a methodology innovated by Robert W. Fogel, one of the leading pioneers of the "new economic history." Fogel's work is distinguished by the application of economic theory and large-scale quantitative evidence to long-standing historical questions. These sixteen essays reveal, by example, the continuing vitality of Fogel's approach. The authors use an astonishing variety of data, including genealogies, the U.S. fe
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Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History; Contents; Introduction; Two Appreciations; I. Labor Markets in Manufacturing and Agriculture; II. Markets in Capital and Credit; III. The Demography of Free and Slave Populations; IV. Political Economy; Dissertations Supervised by Robert W. Fogel; The Writings of Robert W. Fogel; Biographies; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226301358
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226301129
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History : A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel
Language:
English
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