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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Higgs |
ISBN: | 0471390038 9780471390039 |
OCLC Number: | 209513 |
Description: | xv, 143 pages illustrations 24 cm. |
Contents: | Progress and poverty -- I. Making sense of the facts -- History and theory -- Market organization -- The economics of information -- Investment and economic growth -- Transformation -- II. Economic growth and transformation -- Output and price trends -- Population growth -- The sources of greater productivity -- A digression: how growth began -- III. The rise of cities -- The urban transformation -- The economics of improving urban health -- Urbanization and invention -- City versus country: the nature of the choice -- IV. The ups and downs of the farmer -- Agricultural [sic] development -- The farmer's complaints -- The learning process in argiculture [sic] -- V. Growth and inequality -- Regional disparities in development -- Immigrants and "exploitation" -- Inequalities between whites and blacks -- Was progress worth its price? -- The sources of economic growth. |
Series Title: | Wiley series in American economic history. |
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