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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)

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