THE GREAT ESCAPE is a movie about men escaping from a prisoner-ofwar camp in World
War II. The Great Escape of this book is the story of mankind's escaping from deprivation and …

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 …

All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This
book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical …

Предисловие-зации социальными порядками. Наша цель заключается в том, чтобы
понять, каким образом социальные порядки структурируют общественные …

This article proposes explanations for the transformation of American families over the past
two centuries. I describe the impact on families of the rise of male wage labor beginning in …

NUMEROUS GENERATIONS of economists and other social scientists have studied the
conceptual foundations and measurement of living standards. Attempts to define and …

We present a model of nonbalanced growth based on differences in factor proportions and
capital deepening. Capital deepening increases the relative output of the more capital …

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 …

The interest generated by the anthropometric research program since the pioneering
publications of the late 1970s has been predicated to a considerable degree on the …

This paper reviews the main developments in US trade and the balance of payments from
the first years of the 19th century to the first decade of the 20th. American export trade was …