Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel

by Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff

Offering new research on strategic factors in the development of the nineteenth century American economy--labor, capital, and political structure--the contributors to this volume employ a methodology innovated by Robert W. Fogel, one of the leading pioneers of the "new economic history." Fogel's work is distinguished by the application of economic theory and large-scale quantitative evidence to long-standing historical questions.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226301125
• ISBN13: 9780226301129
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"