A Deaton - Journal of Economic Literature, 2006 - aeaweb.org
In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700– 2100, which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work …
R Floud, RW Fogel, B Harris, SC Hong - 2011 - books.google.com
Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists …
During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive …
A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the …
Slavery is not and has never been a" peculiar institution," but one that is deeply rooted in the history and economy of most countries. Although it has flourished in some periods and …
The modern secular decline in mortality in Western Europe did not begin until the 1780s and the first wave of improvement was over by 1840. The elimination of famines and of crisis …
" Slavery and American Economic Development is a small book with a big interpretative punch. It is one of those rare books about a familiar subject that manages to seem fresh and …
This edition of the economic history classic One Kind of Freedom reprints the entire text of the first edition together with an introduction by the authors and an extensive bibliography of …
MR Haines, LA Craig, T Weiss - The Journal of Economic History, 2003 - cambridge.org
Between 1830 and 1860 the United States experienced rapid economic growth but declining stature and rising mortality. Debate has centered on whether the American diet …