The United States became the world's preeminent manufacturing nation at the turn of the
twentieth century. This study considers the bases for this success by examining the factor …

Many economic historians, like most economists, depend on standard growth accounts to
provide some quantitative description of the proximate sources of growth, but this is …

Page 1 SERIES MODERNIZING A SLAVE ECONOMY the Economic Vision of the Confederate
Nation W. & ARR D WEBAP 3 JOHN MAJEWSKI Page 2 SERIES MODERNIZING A SLAVE …

Manufacturing contributed almost all—83 percent—of the growth of total factor productivity in
the US private nonfarm economy between 1919 and 1929. During the depression …

In this paper, the course of technical progress in the well known case of the cotton industry
during the English Industrial Revolution is reinterpreted as being directed by time-saving …

In the last decade one of the most successful memes in economic history has been the
concept of a general purpose technology. The rapid multiplication of technologies accorded …

At the beginning of the twentieth century, US tobacco manufacturers were not forging ahead
of their leading European counterparts in technology, productivity, or managerial …

The Cliometrics revolution is dead. By this I mean that the banners under which new
economic historians organized and made common cause with technically oriented theorists …

Richard Cobden (1804-65) rose from humble beginnings to become the leading advocate of
nineteenth-century free-trade and liberalism. As a fierce opponent of the Corn Laws and …

The modern multiunit enterprise has been touted by historians and economic historians as a
major and important phase of organizational change and a significant source of growth …