Quantitative economic history : the good of counting
- Publication/Creation:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008
- Resource Type:
- Book
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- Quantitative economic history : the good of counting / edited by Joshua L. Rosenbloom
- Series Titles:
- Routledge explorations in economic history ; 40
Routledge explorations in economic history ; 40.
- Variant Titles:
- Good of counting
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- Rosenbloom, Joshua L.
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Economic history--Statistical methods
Economic history--Methodology
Social change--United States--History--Statistical methods
United States--Economic conditions--Statistical methods
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Editor's introduction: the good of counting / Joshua L. Rosenbloom -- An economic history of bastardy in England and Wales / John Ermisch -- Epidemics, demonstration effects, and investment in sanitation capital by U.S. cities in the early twentieth century / Louis Cain and Elyce Rotella -- Profitability, firm size, and business organization in nineteenth century U.S. manufacturing / Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman -- Railroads and local economic development: the United States in the 1850s / Michael R. Haines and Robert A. Margo -- Did refrigeration kill the hog-corn cycle? / Lee A. Craig and Matthew T. Holt -- Measuring the intensity of state labor regulation during the progressive era / Rebecca Holmes, Price Fishback, and Samuel Allen -- Reexamining the distribution of wealth in 1870 / Joshua L Rosenbloom and Gregory W. Stutes.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xvii, 176 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990022305220302486
- ISBN:
- 0415773490 (hb)
020392813X (eb)
9780415773492 (hb)
9780203928134 (eb) - OCLC Number:
- 176648915
- Barcode:
- 010001286279
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