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Title:

Quantitative economic history : the good of counting / edited by Joshua L. Rosenbloom.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xvii, 176 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Economic history--Statistical methods.
Economic history--Methodology.
United States--Statistical methods.--Statistical methods.
Social change--United States--Statistical methods.--Statistical methods.

Other Authors:

Rosenbloom, Joshua L.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index. "The publications of Thomas J. Weiss": p. [170]-172.

Contents:

Editor's introduction: the good of counting / Joshua L. Rosenbloom -- An economic history of bastardy in England and Wales / John Ermisch -- Epidemics, demonstration effects, and investment in sanitation capital by U.S. cities in the early twentieth century / Louis Cain and Elyce Rotella -- Profitability, firm size, and business organization in nineteenth century U.S. manufacturing / Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman -- Railroads and local economic development: the United States in the 1850s / Michael R. Haines and Robert A. Margo -- Did refrigeration kill the hog-corn cycle? / Lee A. Craig and Matthew T. Holt -- Measuring the intensity of state labor regulation during the progressive era / Rebecca Holmes, Price Fishback, and Samuel Allen -- Reexamining the distribution of wealth in 1870 / Joshua L Rosenbloom and Gregory W. Stutes.

Series:

Routledge explorations in economic history 40

ISBN:

020392813X (eb)
9780203928134 (eb)
0415773490 (hb)
9780415773492 (hb)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)176648915

LCCN:

2007043218

Locations:

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