Human capital and institutions
Subtitle: a long run view
By: edited by David Eltis, Frank Lewis, Kenneth L. Sokoloff.
Contributors: Eltis, David, 1940-; Lewis, Frank, 1947-; Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780521769587
Subjects: Human capital; Economic development; Business and education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Biotechnology and the burden of age-related diseases / Robert W. Fogel; title: Extending the reach of anthropometric history to the distant past / Richard H. Steckel; title: Insecurity, safety nets, and self-help in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / George R. Boyer; title: The evolution of schooling institutions in the Americas, 1800; title: 1925 / Stanley L. Engerman, Elisa V. Mariscal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff; title: Why the United States led in education : lessons from secondary school expansion, 1910 to 1940 / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz; title: The production of engineers in New York colleges and universities, 1800; title: 1950 : some new data / Michael Edelstein; title: Young geniuses and old masters : the life cycles of great artists from Masaccio to Jasper Johns / David W. Galenson and Robert Jensen; title: An elite minority : Jews among the richest 400 Americans / Peter Temin; title: Suffrage and the terms of labor / Robert J. Steinfeld; title: Prodigals and projectors : an economic history of usury laws in the United States from colonial times to 1900 / Hugh Rockoff.