Growth & Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History |
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THEORY STATISTICS AND HISTORY HISTORY | 1 |
GOVERNMENT AND THE Growth of tHE ECONOMY | 96 |
SHIPS RAILROADS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH | 105 |
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Adam Smith agricultural American economy banking system became benefits British Canal capita income capital market Chapter colonial colonists commodities costs cotton countries demand Douglass economic activity economic growth Economic History effects efficient Eli Whitney employment England expansion exports farm farmer growing Higgs Hist historians Homestead Act human capital hypothetical alternative important improving increase industry issue J. P. Morgan Journal of Economic labor force land grants major manufacturing market economy ment mercantilist million monopoly mortgage Navigation Navigation Acts nineteenth century nomic North organization output pattern percent period political population Princeton private rate production property rights protection railroad rate of return redistribution relative result Robert Higgs role settlement significant social rate society Source South southern speculators Statistics Washington substantial theory tion trade transportation U.S. Census Bureau United Univ wages Wealth West western wheat workers