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Author
Davis, Lance E. (Lance Edwin)
Title
In pursuit of Leviathan : technology, institutions, productivity, and profits in American whaling, 1816-1906 / Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, and Karin Gleiter
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997
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Description
1 online resource (xii, 550 pages) : illustrations
Series
NBER series on long-term factors in economic development
NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
Contents
1. In Prospect -- 2. Whales and Whaling -- 3. Data Sets and Sources -- 4. Natural Resources -- 5. Labor -- 6. Capital -- 7. Technology -- 8. Productivity -- 9. Product Markets -- 10. Agents, Captains, and Owners -- 11. Profits -- 12. The Americans Replace the British -- 13. Modern Whaling -- 14. In Retrospect
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-538) and indexes
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Print version record
Subject
Whaling -- Economic aspects -- United States
Whaling -- United States -- History -- 19th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Whaling
Whaling -- Economic aspects
Walvisvangst.
Techniek.
Economische aspecten.
United States
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History
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Electronic book
Author
Gallman, Robert E.
Gleiter, Karin.
LC no.
96021263
ISBN
0226137902
9780226137902
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