[PDF] American Economic Development In Historical Perspective eBook

Author : Thomas Weiss
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 1994-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804720847

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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 : Walther L. Bernecker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3110872854

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No detailed description available for "Development and Underdevelopment in America".

Author : Cathy D. Matson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780271027111

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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 : Robert Whaples
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 1995-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521466486

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This book is a student reader of the key topics in American economic history.

Author : Paul A. David
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780197263471

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In this volume, leading modern economic historians show how analysis of past experiences contributes to a better understanding of present-day economic conditions; they offer important insights into major challenges that will occupy the attention of policy makers in the coming decades. The seventeen essays are organised around three major themes, the first of which is the changing constellation of forces sustaining long-run economic growth in market economies. The second major theme concerns the contemporary challenges posed by transitions in economic and political regimes, and by ideologies that represent legacies from past economic conditions that still affect policy responses to new 'crises'. The third theme is modern economic growth's diverse implications for human economic welfare - in terms of economic security, nutritional and health status, and old age support - and the institutional mechanisms communities have developed to cope with the risks that individuals are exposed to by the concomitants of rising prosperity.

Author : Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 2009-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199707855

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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 : Lance Edwin Davis
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 2012-04-01
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ISBN : 9781258296674

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

Author : Ha-Joon Chang
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 2002-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0857287613

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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.

Author : Emmanuel Akyeampong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 45,66 MB
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107041155

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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.