Wages and Prices during the Antebellum Period: A Survey and New Evidence

Robert A. Margo
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Copyright 1992
ISBN 0226279456
American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War
Book: American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War
Book editors: Robert E. Gallman & John Joseph Wallis
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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  • Robert A. Margo, American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War (University of Chicago Press, 1992), chap. 4, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/american-economic-growth-and-standards-living-civil-war/wages-and-prices-during-antebellum-period-survey-and-new-evidence.

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