Quantitative economic history
Subtitle: the good of counting
By: Joshua L. Rosenbloom [editor].
Series: Routledge explorations in economic history
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Abingdon [England]; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415773492; 9780203928134
Subjects: Economic history -- Statistical methods; Economic history -- Methodology; Social change -- United States -- History -- Statistical methods; United States -- Economic conditions -- Statistical methods
Other titles: Good of counting
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Editor's introduction: the good of counting / Joshua L. Rosenbloom; title: An economic history of bastardy in England and Wales / John Ermisch; title: Epidemics, demonstration effects, and municipal investment in sanitation capital / Louis P. Cain and Elyce J. Rotella; title: Profitability, firm size, and business organization in nineteenth century U.S. manufacturing / Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman; title: Railroads and local economic development: the United States in the 1850s / Michael R. Haines and Robert A. Margo; title: Did refrigeration kill the hog-corn cycle? / Lee A. Craig and Matthew T. Holt; title: Measuring the intensity of state labor regulation during the progressive era / Rebecca Holmes, Price Fishback, and Samuel  Allen; title: Reexamining the distribution of wealth in 1870 / Joshua L Rosenbloom and Gregory W. Stutes.