American economic growth and standards of living before the Civil War /
[Book]
edited by Robert E. Gallman and John Joseph Wallis.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1992.
1 online resource (ix, 396 pages) :
illustrations.
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The productivity consequences of market integration : agriculture in Massachusetts, 1771-1801 / Winifred B. Rothenberg. Comment / Jeremy Atack -- Invention, innovation, and manufacturing productivity growth in the antebellum Northeast / Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Comment / Jeremy Atack.
U.S. labor force estimates and economic growth, 1800-1860 / Thomas Weiss. Comment / Claudia Goldin -- American economic growth before the Civil War : the testimony of the capital stock estimates / Robert E. Gallman. Comment / Stanley L. Engerman -- Inequalities in the standard of living in the United States, 1798-1875 / Lee Soltow. Comment / Clayne L. Pope -- Wages and prices during the antebellum period : a survey and new evidence / Robert A. Margo. Comment / Jeffrey G. Williamson -- Consumer behavior, diet, and the standard of living in late colonial and early antebellum America, 1770-1840 / Lorena S. Walsh. Comment / Gloria L. Main -- Stature and living standards in the United States / Richard H. Steckel. Comment / Carole Shammas.
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American economic growth and standards of living before the Civil War.
Cost and standard of living-- United States-- History-- 19th century, Congresses.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Economics-- Macroeconomics.
Cost and standard of living.
Economic history.
Economische groei.
Levensstandaard.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Economic Conditions.
United States, Economic conditions, To 1865, Congresses.