Author: Kilby, Peter, editor:
Title: Quantity & Quiddity . Essays in U.S. Economic History
Description: Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, (1987). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xxiii, 423 pp. Textual graphs & tables. Slight binding corner bumps, minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ This is a festschrift dedicated to Stanley Lebergott. Contains 10 papers including: William N. Parker "New England's Early Industrialization"; Paul A. David "Industrial Labor Market Adjustments in a Region of Recent Settlement: Chicago, 1848 - 1868"; Gavin Wright "Postbellum Southern Labor Markets"; Claudia Goldin "The Gender Gap in Historical Perspective"; Thomas Weiss "Demographic Aspects of the Urban Population, 1800 - 1840"; Robert E. Gallman "Investment Flows & Capital Stocks: U.S. Experience in the Nineteenth Century"; John A. James & Jonathan S. Skinner "Sources of Savings in the Nineteenth Century United States"; Jeremy Atack "Economies of Scale & Efficiency Gains in the Rise of the Factory in America, 1820 - 1900"; Lance E. Davis, et al "The Structure of the Capital Sotck in Economic Growth & Decline: The New Bedford Whaling Fleet in the Nineteenth Century", etc

Keywords: Economic history, Labor economics, Demography, United States, Industrialization, Development, Population, ,