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Estimation of Economies of Scale in Nineteenth Century United States Manufacturing

Author: Jeremy Atack

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-01-12

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1351342096

On economies of scale during the nineteenth century, much is assumed, but little is known. This study, first published in 1985, seeks to close this gap in our knowledge by providing comprehensive empirical evidence on the status of economies of scale in mid-nineteenth century manufacturing industry. This evidence is in the form of production function estimates made using data from the manuscripts of the federal censuses of manufacturing for 1850, 1860 and 1870.

Enterprising America

Author: William J. Collins

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-09-22

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 022626162X

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Papers of the conference "Enterprising America: businesses, banks, and credit markets in historical perspective", held at Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, on December 14, 2013.

The International Handbook of Competition

Author: Manfred Neumann

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1849806063

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ÔThis comprehensive Handbook demonstrates that academic thinking, new and old, has a role to play in shaping modern competition policy.Õ Ð Gunnar Niels, Oxera This indispensable Handbook examines the interface of competition policy, competition law and industrial economics. The book aims to further our understanding of how economic reasoning and legal expertise complement each other in defining the fundamental issues and principles in competition policy. In specially commissioned chapters the book provides a scholarly review of economic theory, empirical evidence and standards of legal evaluation with respect to monopolization of markets, exploitation of market power and mergers, among other issues. The International Handbook of Competition Ð Second Edition will be accessible to a wide audience including students of economics and law, public administrators, lawyers, consultants, and business executives.

A Deplorable Scarcity

Author: Fred Bateman

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 146963998X

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In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in high-risk enterprises and worried that industrialization would undermine their authority. Underpinning this study is a massive data collection from census reports, which permits an economic analysis that was previously not feasible.

American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War

Author: Robert E. Gallman

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 0226279472

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This benchmark volume addresses the debate over the effects of early industrialization on standards of living during the decades before the Civil War. Its contributors demonstrate that the aggregate antebellum economy was growing faster than any other large economy had grown before. Despite the dramatic economic growth and rise in income levels, questions remain as to the general quality of life during this era. Was the improvement in income widely shared? How did economic growth affect the nature of work? Did higher levels of income lead to improved health and longevity? The authors address these questions by analyzing new estimates of labor force participation, real wages, and productivity, as well as of the distribution of income, height, and nutrition.

A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980

Author: Deirdre N. McCloskey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9780521403276

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Historians and economists will find here what their fields have in common - the movement since the 1950s known variously as 'cliometrics', 'economic history', or 'historical economics'. A leading figure in the movement, Donald McCloskey, has compiled, with the help of George Hersh and a panel of distinguished advisors, a highly comprehensive bibliography of historical economics covering the period up until 1980. The book will be useful to all economic historians, as well as quantitative historians, applied economists, historical demographers, business historians, national income accountants, and social historians.

Quantitative Economic History

Author: Joshua L. Rosenbloom

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-03-26

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1135977852

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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.

Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America

Author: Stephen Haber

Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0817996664

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Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America offers a new contribution to the literature on institutions and growth through the analysis of historical cases of institutional change and economic growth in Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.