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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Conference on Research in Income and Wealth. Output, employment, and productivity in the United States after 1800. New York, National Bureau of Economic Research; distributed by Columbia University Press, 1966 (OCoLC)610205232 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: | Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.; National Bureau of Economic Research.; Economic History Association (U.S.) |
| OCLC Number: | 236498 |
| Notes: | "Contains most of the papers presented at the joint sessions of the Economic History Association and the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, held at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in September 1963." |
| Credits: | Papers from joint sessions of the Economic History Association and the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, held Chapel Hill, N.C. in Sept. 1963. |
| Description: | xiv, 660 p. illus. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | [1.] Consumption, investment, and employment: Gross national product in the United States, 1834-1909 / Robert E. Gallman -- Price deflators for final product estimates / Dorothy S. Brady -- Labor force and employment, 1800-1960 / Stanley Lebergott -- [2.] Output of final products: The New England textile industry, 1825-60: trends and fluctuations / Lance E. Davis and H. Louis Stettler, III -- Building in Ohio between 1837 and 1914 / Manuel Gottlieb -- [3.] Minerals and fuels: Development of the major metal mining industries in the United States from 1839 to 1909 / Orris C. Herfindahl -- The American petroleum industry / Harold F. Williamson -- Some aspects of development in the coal mining industry, 1839-1918 / Vera F. Eliasberg -- [4.] Power and machines: Growth and diffusion of power in manufacturing, 1838-1919 / Allen H. Fenichel -- Changing production of metalworking machinery, 1860-1920 / Ross M. Robertson -- Machine tool output, 1861-1910 / Duncan McDougall -- [5.] Sources of productivity change: Productivity growth in grain production in the United States, 1840-60 and 1900-10 / William N. Parker and Judith L.V. Klein -- Productivity and technological change in the railroad sector, 1840-1910 / Albert Fishlow. |
| Series Title: | Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.; Studies in income and wealth |
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