edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman
University of Chicago Press, 1986 eISBN: 978-0-226-20931-9 | Cloth: 978-0-226-20928-9 | Paper: 978-0-226-20929-6 Library of Congress Classification HC106.3.C714 vol. 51 Dewey Decimal Classification 330
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
These classic studies of the history of economic change in 19th- and 20th-century United States, Canada, and British West Indies examine national product; capital stock and wealth; and fertility, health, and mortality. "A 'must have' in the library of the serious economic historian."—Samuel Bostaph, Southern Economic Journal
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Stanley L. Engerman is John H. Munro Professor of Economics and professor of history at the University of Rochester. Robert E. Gallman is Kenan Professor of Economics and History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Prefatory Note
1.
Introduction
Engerman,
Stanley L.
Gallman,
Robert E.
I.
The National Product
2.
New Estimates of Gross National Product, Canada, 1870–1926: Some Implications for Canadian Development
Urquhart,
M. C.
3.
Measuring the Transaction Sector in the American Economy, 1870–1970
Joseph Wallis,
John
North,
Douglass C.
II.
Capital and Wealth
4.
The United States Capital Stock in the Nineteenth Century
Gallman,
Robert E.
5.
Choices, Rents, and Luck: Economic Mobility of Nineteenth-Century Utah Households
Kearl,
J. R.
Pope,
Clayne
6.
Inheritance on the Maturing Frontier: Butler County, Ohio, 1803–185
Newell,
William H.
III.
Population and Labor Force
7.
Rudimentary Contraceptive Methods and the American Transition to Marital Fertility Control, 1855–1915
David,
Paul A.
Sanderson,
Warren C.
8.
New Results on the Decline in Household Fertility in the United States from 1750 to 1900
Wahl,
Jenny Bourne
9.
Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings
William Fogel,
Robert
10.
The Female Labor Force and American Economic Growth, 1890–1980
Goldin,
Claudia
11.
Population and Labor in the British Caribbean in the Early Nineteenth Century
Higman,
B. W.
12.
Revised Estimates of the United States Workforce, 1800–1860
Weiss,
Thomas
IV.
Sectoral Studies
13.
Productivity Growth in Manufacturing during Early Industrialization: Evidence from the American Northeast, 1820–1860
Sokoloff,
Kenneth L.
14.
Output and Productivity in Canadian Agriculture, 1870–71 to 1926–27
Mclnnis,
R. M.
15.
Growth and Productivity Change in the Canadian Railway Sector, 1871–1926
Green,
Alan G.
16.
Long-Term Trends in State and Local Finance: Sources and Uses of Funds in North Carolina, 1800–1977
Sylla,
Richard
List of Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
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edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman
University of Chicago Press, 1986 eISBN: 978-0-226-20931-9 Cloth: 978-0-226-20928-9 Paper: 978-0-226-20929-6
These classic studies of the history of economic change in 19th- and 20th-century United States, Canada, and British West Indies examine national product; capital stock and wealth; and fertility, health, and mortality. "A 'must have' in the library of the serious economic historian."—Samuel Bostaph, Southern Economic Journal
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Stanley L. Engerman is John H. Munro Professor of Economics and professor of history at the University of Rochester. Robert E. Gallman is Kenan Professor of Economics and History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Prefatory Note
1.
Introduction
Engerman,
Stanley L.
Gallman,
Robert E.
I.
The National Product
2.
New Estimates of Gross National Product, Canada, 1870–1926: Some Implications for Canadian Development
Urquhart,
M. C.
3.
Measuring the Transaction Sector in the American Economy, 1870–1970
Joseph Wallis,
John
North,
Douglass C.
II.
Capital and Wealth
4.
The United States Capital Stock in the Nineteenth Century
Gallman,
Robert E.
5.
Choices, Rents, and Luck: Economic Mobility of Nineteenth-Century Utah Households
Kearl,
J. R.
Pope,
Clayne
6.
Inheritance on the Maturing Frontier: Butler County, Ohio, 1803–185
Newell,
William H.
III.
Population and Labor Force
7.
Rudimentary Contraceptive Methods and the American Transition to Marital Fertility Control, 1855–1915
David,
Paul A.
Sanderson,
Warren C.
8.
New Results on the Decline in Household Fertility in the United States from 1750 to 1900
Wahl,
Jenny Bourne
9.
Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings
William Fogel,
Robert
10.
The Female Labor Force and American Economic Growth, 1890–1980
Goldin,
Claudia
11.
Population and Labor in the British Caribbean in the Early Nineteenth Century
Higman,
B. W.
12.
Revised Estimates of the United States Workforce, 1800–1860
Weiss,
Thomas
IV.
Sectoral Studies
13.
Productivity Growth in Manufacturing during Early Industrialization: Evidence from the American Northeast, 1820–1860
Sokoloff,
Kenneth L.
14.
Output and Productivity in Canadian Agriculture, 1870–71 to 1926–27
Mclnnis,
R. M.
15.
Growth and Productivity Change in the Canadian Railway Sector, 1871–1926
Green,
Alan G.
16.
Long-Term Trends in State and Local Finance: Sources and Uses of Funds in North Carolina, 1800–1977
Sylla,
Richard
List of Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
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