NBER Books in the Long Term Factors in Economic DevelopmentNBER Book Series
These monographs are part of an NBER series edited by Claudia Goldin, Director of the NBER Program in the Development of the American Economy and a Professor at Harvard University.
Co-Winner of the Alice Hanson Jones Prize, awarded every two years by the Economic History Association for the best book in American Economic History. Table of Contents Ordering information
Water, Race, and Disease, Werner Troesken, The MIT Press, 2004
Straining at the Anchor: The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880-1935, Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor, The University of Chicago Press, 2001
A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation, Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor, The University of Chicago Press, 2000
Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860, Robert A. Margo, The University of Chicago Press, 2000
Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum U.S., 1840-1860, Joseph R. Ferrie, Oxford University Press, 1999
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990, Dora L. Costa, The University of Chicago Press, 1998
In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906, Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, and Karin Gleiter, The University of Chicago Press, 1997
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