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
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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.
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The present volume differs from its recent Income and Wealth predecessors in two respects. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
net reproduction cost, genealogical sample, commodity flow estimates, peerage paradox, rural nonfarm workers, final agricultural product, new sugar colonies, net income originating, marital fertility schedule, nonfield occupations, testator characteristics, national cdr, old sugar colonies, transaction occupations, transaction sector, rural testators, free colored females, occupational allocation, total marital fertility rate, labor productivity estimates, low coital frequencies, agricultural land improvements, rudimentary contraceptive methods, county tax revenues, period total fertility rate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, North Carolina, National Bureau of Economic Research, Civil War, Government Printing Office, Princeton University Press, World War, Butler County, New England, Cambridge University Press, British Caribbean, Great Britain, Paul David, Firms Agg, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Harvard University Press, Academic Press, Grand Trunk, Population Studies, Salt Lake County, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Journal of Political Economy, Clelia Mosher, Stanford University New!
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The present volume differs from its recent Income and Wealth predecessors in two respects. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
net reproduction cost, genealogical sample, commodity flow estimates, peerage paradox, rural nonfarm workers, final agricultural product, new sugar colonies, net income originating, marital fertility schedule, nonfield occupations, testator characteristics, national cdr, old sugar colonies, transaction occupations, transaction sector, rural testators, free colored females, occupational allocation, total marital fertility rate, labor productivity estimates, low coital frequencies, agricultural land improvements, rudimentary contraceptive methods, county tax revenues, period total fertility rate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, North Carolina, National Bureau of Economic Research, Civil War, Government Printing Office, Princeton University Press, World War, Butler County, New England, Cambridge University Press, British Caribbean, Great Britain, Paul David, Firms Agg, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Harvard University Press, Academic Press, Grand Trunk, Population Studies, Salt Lake County, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Journal of Political Economy, Clelia Mosher, Stanford University New!
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