Historical Perspectives on the American Economy: Selected Readings
(Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Table of Contents
Introductions by Robert Whaples and Dianne C. Betts
- "Does the Past Have Useful Economics" by Donald N. McCloskey.
- "An Economic Interpretation of the American Revolution" by Marc Egnal and Joseph A. Ernst.
- "The Market and Massachusetts Farmers, 1750-1855" by Winifred Rothenberg.
- "The Rise and Fall of Indentured Servitude in the Americas: An Economic Analysis" by David W. Galenson.
- "The Anatomy of Exploitation" from Time on the Cross by Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.
- "Slavery: The Progressive Institution?" by Paul A. David and Peter Temin.
- "Explaining the Relative Efficiency of Slave Agriculture in the Antebellum South," by Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.
- "The Trap of Debt Peonage" from One Kind of Freedom by Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch.
- "The Economic Revolution in the American South" by Gavin Wright.
- "The Railroads: The First Modern Business Enterprises, 1850s-1860s" from The Visible Hand by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
- "Notes on the Social Savings Controversy" by Robert Fogel.
- "Industrial Structure and the Emergence of the Modern Industrial Corporation" by Jeremy Atack.
- "The Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1913" by Gavin Wright.
- "Federal Policy, Banking Market Structure, and Capital Mobilization in the United States, 1863-1913," Richard Sylla.
- "A Reappraisal of the Causes of Farm Protest in the United States, 1870-1900" by Anne Mayhew.
- "The Wizard of Oz as a Monetary Allegory" by Hugh Rockoff.
- "The Changing Economic Role of Women: A Quantitative Approach" by Claudia Goldin.
- "Factors Accounting for Changes in the Stock of Money" from A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz.
- "The Fall in the Demand for Money" from Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? by Peter Temin
Appendix: Basics of Regression