Sometimes a book appears at just the right moment to have an impact and find a readership
well beyond its particular academic specialism. A decade after they published The age of …

This article argues that to understand the behavior of productivity statistics, it is necessary to
reexamine the basic assumptions underlying growth accounting. In particular, it offers …

Divided Mastery explores a curiously neglected aspect of the history of American slavery:
the rental of slaves. Though few slaves escaped being rented out at some point in their lives …

The 1965 Canada-United States Automotive Trade agreement fundamentally reshaped
relations between the automotive business and the state in both countries and represented …

This study explores how agricultural technology affects the endogenous takeoff of an
economy in the Schumpeterian growth model. Due to the subsistence requirement for …

A number of writers have recently questioned whether labor productivity or per capita
incomes were ever higher in the United Kingdom than in the United States. This paper …

Women engaged primarily in the provision of domestic services for family members make
important contributions to total output. This article provides estimates of the size and sectoral …

We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists
are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a …

This article evaluates the high-profile claim that enslaved African-Americans produced over
50 percent of US national product in the pre-Civil War period. The accounting exercise …

This paper discusses the interactions between politics and economic ideas leading to the
adoption of inflation targeting in the United States. In the gold standard era, farmers' …