American Economic Development In Historical Perspective

Author : Thomas Weiss,Donald Schaefer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0804720843

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American Economic Development in Historical Perspective by Thomas Weiss,Donald Schaefer Pdf

This collection of twelve essays is based on the premise that a better understanding of the economic development process can be gained by studying the history of those countries that have experienced long-term economic success, in this case the United States during the nineteenth century - that period of U.S. history most pertinent to less developed countries. Two of its contributors, Robert W. Fogel and Douglass North, received the 1993 Nobel Prize for Economics. The essays explore in great detail how the U.S. economy persisted on its upward trajectory in spite of perilous times and events and occasional political crises. They show how complex the experience was, how fluid and fragile the process can be. While the specifics of the American case will not be found everywhere, the complexity and fragility are common to all developing countries. The book is in three parts. The first set of essays deals with the meaning and measurement of economic growth and development: economic growth during the antebellum period; the long-term behavior of such financial variables as stock and bond yields and the savings rate; immigration to the United States during the 1850's; and the juxtaposition of economic history and development. The second group of essays examines the influence of institutional changes on American economic growth: the importance of ideas, ideologies, and institutions in sustaining growth; seasonality in labor markets; risk sharing, crew quality, labor shares, and wages in the whaling industry; and capital formation in midwest farms and industries. The essays of the third section analyze events in the political economy of U.S. development: the role of economic issues in the political realignment that led to the election of Abraham Lincoln; the effect of the Civil War on the economic fortunes of Philadelphia's entrepreneurs; the effect of the silver movement on price stability; and the growth and triumph of oligopoly

Author : José Luís Cardoso,Maria Cristina Marcuzzo,María Eugenia Romero Sotelo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136735608

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Economic Development and Global Crisis by José Luís Cardoso,Maria Cristina Marcuzzo,María Eugenia Romero Sotelo Pdf

This edited collection uses a history of economic thought perspective to explore the evolving role of Latin America within the context of globalization. In particular, it examines the region’s resilience in the face of the global financial crisis. Economic Development and Global Crisis explains that Latin America is a region with distinct characteristics and peculiarities which have been shaped from the colonial era up to the present day. The contributions suggest that several features which were perceived as economic backwardness have turned out to be advantageous, and this may explain why Latin America is withstanding the crisis much better than Europe, Japan and the USA. This book will be of interest to scholars working in the areas of economic development, economic history, the history of economic thought and Latin American studies.

Author : Walther L. Bernecker,Hans W. Tobler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110872859

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Development and Underdevelopment in America by Walther L. Bernecker,Hans W. Tobler Pdf

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Author : William M. Gorman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792470940

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American Economic Development from Historical and Contemporary Perspectives by William M. Gorman Pdf

Author : Richard K. Vedder
Publisher : Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39076002405459

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The American Economy in Historical Perspective by Richard K. Vedder Pdf

Author : Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid,Jaime Ros
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0199707855

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Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy by Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid,Jaime Ros Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive and systematic English-language treatment of Mexico's economic history to appear in nearly forty years. Drawing on several years of in-depth research, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Jaime Ros, two of the foremost experts on the Mexican economy, examine Mexico's current development policies and problems from a historical perspective. They review long-term trends in the Mexican economy and analyze past episodes of radical shifts in development strategy and in the role of markets and the state. This book provides an overview of Mexico's economic development since Independence that compares the successive periods of stagnation and growth that alternately have characterized Mexico's economic history. It gives special attention to developments since 1940, and it presents a re-evaluation of Mexico's development policies during the State-led industrialization period from 1940 to 1982 as well as during the more recent market reform process. This reevaluation is critical of the dominant trend in economic literature and is revisionist in arguing that, in particular, the market reforms undertaken by successive Mexican governments since 1983 have not addressed the fundamental obstacles to economic growth. Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy also details the country's pioneering role in launching NAFTA, its membership in the OECD, and its radical macroeconomic reforms. Carefully argued and meticulously researched, the book presents a wide-ranging, authoritative study that not only pinpoints problems, but also suggests solutions for removing obstacles to economic stability and pointing the Mexican economy toward the road to recovery.

Author : Cathy D. Matson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0271027118

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The Economy of Early America by Cathy D. Matson Pdf

In recent years, scholars in a number of disciplines have focused their attention on understanding the early American economy. This text enters the resurgent discussion by showcasing the work of leading scholars who represent a spectrum of historiographical and methodological viewpoints.

Author : André A. Hofman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025111738

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The Economic Development of Latin America in the Twentieth Century by André A. Hofman Pdf

Hofman, a researcher with the Chile-based Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, uses growth accounting methods and previously unavailable long-term series data to assess the economic performance of the region during the century from a comparative and historical perspective. In particular he compares Latin American economies to those of advanced capitalist economies, to newly industrialized economies, and to Spain and Portugal because of the historical ties. He looks at the reasons for the poor or negative growth during the 1980s and the apparent recovery in the 1990s and at such problems as debt, income inequality, high inflation, cyclical instability, and political and policy instability. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Lance Edwin Davis,Jonathan R. T. Hughes,Duncan M. McDougall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258296675

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American Economic History by Lance Edwin Davis,Jonathan R. T. Hughes,Duncan M. McDougall Pdf

Edited By Lloyd G. Reynolds. The Irwin Series In Economics.

Author : Emmanuel Akyeampong,Robert H. Bates,Nathan Nunn,James Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107041158

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Africa's Development in Historical Perspective by Emmanuel Akyeampong,Robert H. Bates,Nathan Nunn,James Robinson Pdf

Why has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we explain its origins? This volume takes a necessary interdisciplinary approach to these questions by bringing together perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science, and economics. Several contributors note that Africa's development was at par with many areas of Europe in the first millennium of the Common Era. Why Africa fell behind is a key theme in this volume, with insights that should inform Africa's developmental strategies.

Author : Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4970695

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Modern Economic Problems in Historical Perspective by Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd Pdf

Author : Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat,Marc Badia-Miró,Henry Willebald
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030475536

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Time and Space by Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat,Marc Badia-Miró,Henry Willebald Pdf

This edited collection examines the evolution of regional inequality in Latin America in the long run. The authors support the hypothesis that the current regional disparities are principally the result of a long and complex process in which historical, geographical, economic, institutional, and political factors have all worked together. Lessons from the past can aid current debates on regional inequalities, territorial cohesion, and public policies in developing and also developed countries. In contrast with European countries, Latin American economies largely specialized in commodity exports, showed high levels of urbanization and high transports costs (both domestic and international). This new research provides a new perspective on the economic history of Latin American regions and offers new insights on how such forces interact in peripheral countries. In that sense, natural resources, differences in climatic conditions, industrial backwardness and low population density areas leads us to a new set of questions and tentative answers. This book brings together a group of leading American and European economic historians in order to build a new set of data on historical regional GDPs for nine Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. This transnational perspective on Latin American economic development process is of interest to researchers, students and policy makers.

Author : Marc Badia-Miró,Vicente Pinilla,Henry Willebald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317669197

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Natural Resources and Economic Growth by Marc Badia-Miró,Vicente Pinilla,Henry Willebald Pdf

The relationship between natural capital and economic growth is an open debate in the field of economic development. Is an abundance of natural resources a blessing or a curse for economic performance? The field of Economic History offers an excellent vantage to explore the relevance of institutions, technical progress and supply-demand drivers. Natural Resources and Economic Growth contains theoretical and empirical articles by leading scholars who have studied this subject in different historical periods from the 19th century to the present day and in different parts of the world. Part I presents the theoretical issues and discusses the meaning of the "curse" and the relevance of the historical perspective. Part II captures the diversity of experiences, presenting thirteen independent case studies based on historical results from North and South America, Africa, Asia, Oceania and Europe. This book emphasizes that an abundance of natural resources is not a fixed situation. It is a process that reacts to changes in the structure of commodity prices and factor endowments, and progress requires capital, labour, technical change and appropriate institutional arrangements. This abundance is not a given, but is part of the evolution of the economic system. History shows that institutional quality is the key factor to deal with abundant natural resources and, especially, with the rents derived from their use and exploitation. This wide ranging volume will be of great relevance to all those with an interest in economic history, development, economic growth, natural resources, world history and institutional economics.

Author : Gavin Wright
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807131831

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Slavery and American Economic Development by Gavin Wright Pdf

"Slavery and American Economic Development is a small book with a big interpretative punch. It is one of those rare books about a familiar subject that manages to seem fresh and new." -- Charles B. Dew, Journal of Interdisciplinary History "A stunning reinterpretation of southern economic history and what is perhaps the most important book in the field since Time on the Cross.... I frequently found myself forced to rethink long-held positions." -- Russell R. Menard, Civil War History Through an analysis of slavery as an economic institution, Gavin Wright presents an innovative look at the economic divergence between North and South in the antebellum era. He draws a distinction between slavery as a form of work organization -- the aspect that has dominated historical debates -- and slavery as a set of property rights. Slave-based commerce remained central to the eighteenth-century rise of the Atlantic economy, not because slave plantations were superior as a method of organizing production, but because slaves could be put to work on sugar plantations that could not have attracted free labor on economically viable terms. Gavin Wright is William Robertson Coe Professor in American Economic History at Stanford University and the author of The Political Economy of the Cotton South and Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War, winner of the Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award of the Southern Historical Association. He has served as president of the Economic History Association and the Agricultural History Society.

Author : Ha-Joon Chang
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857287618

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Kicking Away the Ladder by Ha-Joon Chang Pdf

How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are attempting to 'kick away the ladder' with which they have climbed to the top, thereby preventing developing countries from adopting policies and institutions that they themselves have used.