| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Oxford handbooks online |
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Oxford handbooks online.
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| Contents |
Health, Disease, and Sanitation in American Economic History / Hoyt Bleakley, Louis P. Cain, Sok Chul Hong -- Executive Compensation in American Economic History / Carola Frydman -- The Labor Force in American Economic History / Robert A. Margo -- Labor Market Institutions in the Gilded Age of American Economic History / Suresh Naidu, Noam Yuchtman -- Demography in American Economic History / Michael Haines -- Business Organization in American Economic History / Eric D. Hilt -- US Fertility Rates and Childbearing, 1800 to 2010 / Martha J. Bailey, Brad J. Hershbein -- Health Policy in American Economic History / Melissa Thomasson -- Natural Resources and American Economic History / Gavin Wright -- Retirement and Pensions in American Economic History / Robert Clark, Lee A. Craig -- Education and Human Capital in American Economic History / John Parman -- Services in American Economic History / Stephen N. Broadberry, Louis P. Cain, Thomas Weiss -- Growth and Structural Change in American Manufacturing / Changkeun Lee, Paul W. Rhode -- Immigration in American Economic History / Joseph P. Ferrie -- Introduction / Louis P. Cain, Price V. Fishback, Paul W. Rhode -- Anthropometric History in American Economic History / Richard H. Steckel -- Income, Capital, and American Growth / Paul W. Rhode -- Agriculture in American Economic History / Alan Olmstead, Paul W. Rhode -- Manufacturing Productivity Growth and American Economic History / Alexander J. Field |
| Summary |
Capturing the main research areas in the field of American Economic History, this handbook consists of 37 chapters divided into five sections. Topics covered include: population and health, demographic research including disease and sanitation, immigration, and health policy research; production and structural change, agriculture, manufacturing, and services, how business has been organized over time and how executives have been compensated; factors of production, questions of labor (and retirement), capital, and natural resources; technology and urbanization, innovation and patenting, technology, and energy, urbanization, housing, and professional team sports; government and economic policy, macroeconomic policy (monetary, fiscal, and trade) and microeconomic policy (property rights, antitrust and regulation, and welfare) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital cover (viewed on February 22, 2019) |
| Subject |
Economic history
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140020
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cain, Louis P., editor
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Fishback, Price Van Meter, editor
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Rhode, Paul Webb, editor
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| ISBN |
9780197575994 |
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0197575994 |
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9780199983148 |
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0199983143 |
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