edited by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, Kenneth L. Sokoloff.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
1 online resource (ix, 342 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Biotechnology and the burden of age-related diseases / Robert W. Fogel -- Extending the reach of anthropometric history to the distant past / Richard H. Steckel -- Insecurity, safety nets, and self-help in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / George R. Boyer -- The evolution of schooling in the Americas, 1800-1925 / Stanley L. Engerman, Elisa V. Mariscal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Why the United States led in education : lessons from secondary school expansion, 1910 to 1940 / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- The production of engineers in New York colleges and universities, 1800-1950 : some new data / Michael Edelstein -- Young geniuses and old masters : the life cycles of great artists from Masaccio to Jasper Johns / David W. Galenson and Robert Jensen -- An elite minority : Jews among the richest 400 Americans / Peter Temin -- Suffrage and the terms of labor / Robert J. Steinfeld -- Prodigals and projectors : an economic history of usury laws in the United States from colonial times to 1900 / Hugh Rockoff.
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MIL
231793
Human capital and institutions.
9780521769587
Business and education.
Economic development.
Human capital.
Business and education.
Economic development.
Human capital.
Humankapital
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.