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Title:

Human capital and institutions : a long run view / edited by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, Kenneth L. Sokoloff.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

ix, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Human capital
Economic development
Business and education.

Other Authors:

Eltis, David, 1940-
Lewis, Frank, 1947-
Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Biotechnology and the burden of age-related diseases / Robert W. Fogel -- Extending the reach of anthropometric history to the distant past / Richard H. Steckel -- Insecurity, safety nets, and self-help in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / George R. Boyer -- The evolution of schooling in the Americas, 1800-1925 / Stanley L. Engerman, Elisa V. Mariscal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Why the United States led in education : lessons from secondary school expansion, 1910 to 1940 / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- The production of engineers in New York colleges and universities, 1800-1950 : some new data / Michael Edelstein -- Young geniuses and old masters : the life cycles of great artists from Masaccio to Jasper Johns / David W. Galenson and Robert Jensen -- An elite minority : Jews among the richest 400 Americans / Peter Temin -- Suffrage and the terms of labor / Robert J. Steinfeld -- Prodigals and projectors : an economic history of usury laws in the United States from colonial times to 1900 / Hugh Rockoff.

ISBN:

0521769582 (hardback)
9780521769587 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)349248332

LCCN:

2009020208

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)