STUDENTS of industrial organization generally agree that there have been three distinct
merger movements in America's industrial period.'The first took place around the turn of the …

A number of writers have recently questioned whether labor productivity or per capita
incomes were ever higher in the United Kingdom than in the United States. This paper …

The trans-Atlantic slave trade was a critical factor in the growth of the American colonies.
Labor was the single most scarce factor of production in the New World and labor was for …

Despite the expanding role of services in the global economy, economic history has paid
little attention to their geographic localization. This paper provides a description of the …

In spite of the recognized difficulties of dividing the white population of the antebellum South
into two distinct classes—slaveowners and poor whites—historians have persisted in …

In nineteenth-century America, blacksmiths were a fixture in every village, town, and city,
producing a diverse range of products from axes to wheels and services from repairs to …

Gives permanence and context to Gallman's influential economic research on growth theory.
When we think about history, we often think about people, events, ideas, and revolutions, but …

Legal institutions are important. Their role in assigning re source ownership and in reducing
uncertainty has received increased emphasis by economic historians in explaining …

We provide new measures of relative UK and US GDP per capita and output per worker for
the crucial years between 1830 and 1870. Our estimates are current price comparisons that …

American economic historians have overlooked the inconsistency between two consensus
views regarding the relative productivity position of the agricultural sector during the …