Quantitative Economic History. The Good Of Counting.

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ISBN:9780415773492
Editorial: Routledge
Fecha de la edición:2008
Encuadernación:Tapa dura
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Nº Pág.:176
Idiomas:Ingles,Inglés

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The essays in this book use the analytical tools and theoretical framework of economics to interpret quantitative historical evidence, offering new ways to approach historical issues and suggesting entirely new types of evidence outside conventional archives. Rosenbloom has gathered together seven essays from leading quantitative economic historians, illustrating the breadth of scope and continued importance of quantitative economic history. All of the chapters explore in one way or another the economic and social transformations associated with the emergence of an industrial and post-industrial economy, with most focusing on the transformations of the US economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the technological innovations that factored into this transformation and the relationship between industrialization and rising wealth inequality.

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1 Editor's introduction: the good of counting by Joshua L. Rosenbloom 1
2 An economic history of bastardy in England and Wales by John Ermisch 8
3 Epidemics, demonstration effects, and investment in sanitation capital by U.S. cities in the early twentieth century by Louis Cain and Elyce Rotella 34
4 Profitability, firm size, and business organization in nineteenth-century U.S. manufacturing by Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman 54
5 Railroads and local economic development: the United States in the 1850s by Michael R. Haines and Robert A. Margo 78
6 Did refrigeration kill the hog-corn cycle? by Lee A. Craig and Matthew T. Holt 100
7 Measuring the intensity of state labor regulation during the Progressive Era by Rebecca Holmes and Price Fishback and Samuel Allen 119
8 Reexamining the distribution of wealth in 1870 by Joshua L. Rosenbloom and Gregory W. Stutes 146
Publications of Thomas J. Weiss 170
Index 173