The essay considers the claim that slavery played a leading role in the acceleration of US
economic growth in the nineteenth century. Although popular among pro-slavery apologists …

Adopting a new approach to historical data, Peter H Lindert and Jeffrey G Williamson have
charted the history of American incomes‐and income inequality‐since colonial times. Here …

This paper reviews the growth experience of US agriculture over the past two centuries in
consonance with the view that growth is determined by the economic environment, which …

A declining agricultural employment share is a key feature of economic development. Its
main drivers are: improvements in agricultural technology combined with Engel's law …

Howard Bodenhorn's State Banking in Early America studies the financial experimentation
that took place in the United States between 1790 and 1860. Dr. Bodenhorn's book explores …

Most US historians assume that capitalism either came in the first ships or was the inevitable
result of the expansion of the market. Unable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of …

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid i hubiera que definir por algún rasgo el libro de James
Simpson, sin duda el elegido sería la madurez. Las 415 páginas en las que este autor …

Between 1830 and 1860 the United States experienced rapid economic growth but
declining stature and rising mortality. Debate has centered on whether the American diet …

Traditional economic models of land‐use change have focused on factors such as distance
to population centers, available labor supply, population density, and patterns of existing …

In the last two centuries, the reallocation of labor out of agriculture has been a dominant
feature of structural change and economic growth in the United States. This paper uses an …