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Economic evolution and revolution in historical time

Rhode, Paul Webb, (editor.). Rosenbloom, Joshua L., (editor.). Weiman, David F., (editor.). Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. (Added Author).

Summary: Examining the connections between gradual, evolutionary change & more dramatic, revolutionary shifts this volume explores economic changes that have affected the United States & the whole world.

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ISBN: 0804771855
ISBN: 9780804771856
ISBN: 0804777624
ISBN: 9780804777629
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 461 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Economics and Finance, ©2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The Stanford tradition in economic history / Gavin Wright -- Natural resources and economic outcomes / Karen Clay -- The institutionalization of science in Europe, 1650-1850 / George Grantham -- The fundamental impact of the slave trade on African economies / Warren C. Whatley and Rob Gillezeau -- Similar societies, different solutions: U.S. Indian policy in light of Australian policy toward aboriginal peoples / Leonard A. Carlson -- Financial market and industry structure: a comparison of the banking and textile industries in Boston and Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century / Ta-Chen Wang -- Railroads and the rise of the factory: evidence for the United States, 1850-1870 / Jeremy Atack, Michael Haines, and Robert A. Margo -- Productivity growth and the regional dynamics of antebellum southern development / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode -- Banking on the periphery: the Cotton South, systemic seasonality, and the limits of national banking reform / Scott A. Redenius and David F. Weiman -- Rural credit and mobility in India / Susan Wolcott -- Labor-market regimes in U.S. economic history / Joshua L. Rosenbloom and William A. Sundstrom -- The political economy of progress: lessons from the causes and consequences of the New Deal / Robert K. Fleck -- Teachers and tipping points: historical origins of the teacher quality crisis / Stacey M. Jones -- Inequality and institutions in twentieth-century America / Frank Levy and Peter Temin -- The unexpected long-run impact of the minimum wage: an educational cascade / Richard Sutch -- America's first culinary revolution, or how a girl from Gopher Prairie came to dine on eggs foo yong / Susan B. Carter.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.